Effective Presentations Week 7

Agenda 5:30 – Team Stand Up 5:40 – Pitch Event details 6:00 – Draft Presentation 6:25 – Mentor Careers 7:25 – Ongoing Offsite Activities

Objectives Pitch Event Details The elements of a presentation Judging criteria for Pitch How to create a good presentation deck Draft the first revision of team deck Learn about mentors’ careers

Pitch Event Bay Area Regional Pitch Event – April 28 National Pitch Night – May 3 Poster Presentation & App Demo – small groups during reception hour Pitch Presentations – formal, in front of an audience using slides– sell your business plan & your app idea Questions from judges Keynote speech Announcement of winner

Pitch Video

Poster Presentation Content Poster is a visual representation of business plan Introduce the team Elevator talk to distinguish your product in 30 seconds Demo your app prototype on a phone

Pitch Poster

Pitch Content Make sure everyone speaks Convincing argument in FOUR MINUTES Do NOT demo during the pitch – can include screen shots of app prototype when describing product

Deadlines Week 8 - a 100-word app description to instructor Symple App is a mobile app designed for chronically ill patients to track symptoms and triggers to assure a correct diagnosis and refine treatment plans. Symple is easy and elegant and is customizable to track only the symptoms that are unique to your illness. Symple allows you to share reliable and relevant information with your doctor to get the very best treatment designed just for YOU! Week pitch presentation, business plan and app source code to instructor

Why Do We Do Presentations? To persuade people To communicate an idea To teach someone something

Presentation is... The Deck – the series of slides that support your presentation The Pitch – the verbal part of the presentation

To win a competition you must know what you are being judged on! Technovation Challenge

Judging Criteria Find a copy of the judging criteria in your Technovation Workspace on Google Docs

Judging Criteria Is the problem being solved clearly articulated? Does the team understand the customer and/or end user?  How well thought out is the solution?  Does the team understand the market size and opportunity?  If there competition, is the solution differentiated?  If so, how?

Judging Criteria Does the solution leverage the capabilities of mobile technology? Is there vision for extending the capabilities of the app beyond the prototype?

Judging Criteria Does the prototype reflect the product vision? Does the prototype have functionality? Does the Deck convey the message? Is the Pitch clear and concise?

The Deck Know your audience Simple design One idea per slide Use of images to support ideas – don’t use a lot of text Be organized – beginning, middle, end

Assemble a Draft Presentation

Create a Draft Presentation Version control is important in everything you do Name your presentation file TEAMNAMEv1 After any major update or change add +1 so v2, v3 etc. Do not just delete or discard the versions of your presentations Start with a white presentation and black lettering Use pre-set fonts and be pre-set point size etc. You will customize by adding graphics etc. once you have the information firmed up

Create a Draft Presentation Do not get caught up in anything up in anything BUT the information for first version Themes, images, colors etc will come after the information is set...this is so you don’t waste time perfecting something that is not relevant.

The Deck Title The problem The solution Competition Market Value Future plans

Mentor Career Exploration Gather with your partner group in front of the table with your mentor. Hear about the mentors’ careers Every 10 minutes switch tables

Reminder: Weekly Reflections What did your team like about this week? What challenges did your team have this week? Anything else your team would like to share?

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Ongoing Offsite Activities Customer Development Business Model Updates Usability Testing Evaluate Data Work on Poster Send app description to instructor Continue to draft “deck”