Celebrating it’s 20-year anniversary, PechaKucha — an informal fast-paced presentation format created in 2003 by two architects in Japan — has exploded into a global phenomenon now being used at 1,300 ...

“Students, please remember to monotonously read every slide word-for-word when you present to the class.” Said no teacher ever. As I prepare for my presentation this week at the Florida Educational ...

Pecha Kucha, Japanese for “chit chat,” is the new communication style of telling a story using exactly 20 slides, for exactly 20 seconds each, for exactly 6 minutes, 40 seconds of presentation time.

A PechaKucha presentation at Tokyo Design Week. After death and taxes, the next unavoidable thing in life may be lousy Powerpoint presentations. And for anyone who’s ever struggled to simultaneously ...

On an outdoor patio in Kampala, observers lounge in the near-darkness, watching as an image is projected on a bare white sheet slung between two trees. In Reykjavik, a spellbound audience fills a ...

Howard Mall had exactly 6 minutes and 40 seconds to talk. With 50 people looking on, Mall zipped through his PowerPoint presentation called “20 Ideas You Can Steal,” which included crude drawings of ...

A couple of years ago, I found myself teaching a section of a class that mandated a PowerPoint presentation. (That is, to keep my section aligned with the others, I had to require such a presentation.

Meetings, and the presentations that drive them, are boring, slow and rarely effective. Walk the halls of any Fortune 500 corporation right now and you'll find many rooms occupied by people with ...

A presentation in the true style of Pecha Kucha is 20×20: 20 images displayed for 20 seconds each. The presentation is timed so that it advances on its own, and the speaker talks along with it, making ...