This week is quite tough for me because I am preparing a presentation (practising and digging up more information) to ensure the smooth of it. What is this presentation for? Not my MSc VIVA yet, if you guess it so. :) I will be attending a conference soon, and hopefully it will be the last one for my MSc, in shaa Allah. Please pray for me, ya.
Talking about presentation, so what does actually you need to deliver (as a presenter)? Everything I share here may not apply to everyone of you, because this is totally my experience and from those I've seen and asked.
1. The important point is, you should attract the audience with your presentation. The first minute is crucial to make the audience stay with you throughout the presentation. It's more like, "love at the first sight". Even when the audience are in a quite similar field, but you can't expect them to stay when they don't understand what you're talking about from the start. So, it's important to have a clear title with a brief introduction.
2. Express the words one by one. This could be one of the challenges because you have too many information to be delivered. Your mind works faster than your lips, so you tend to speak faster. Please be calm. You have enough time to speak everything. You have to remember, there would be international audience with different accent. So, speaking clearly will help everyone to understand your work.
3. Speak confidently. When you go confidently, this doesn't mean over-confident. You should identify the difference. As if you will be convinced when someone talks appropriately/confidently, the same goes to the audience. You're presenting your work, the thing that you know overall. So you shouldn't feel discouraged in explaining/describing it.
Presenting in a conference is completely different to debating. So, you don't have to worry. Just deliver what you have prepared carefully and clearly.
After your presentation, there would be allocated time around 5 minutes for Questions and Answers. Please don't be panic. If you receive any question from the floor, make sure you listens and understands the question. Then you can answer. But, if let say you can't answer, it's okay. (We can't expect the presenter knows everything, after all.) Respond appropriately.
"Good idea. I don't realize about it. Maybe I can study further about this after this."
Lastly, enjoy the moment. Attending a conference is not about presentation only, you could learn a lot of other things as well. Be friendly and meet those experts in your field. You will gain beneficial experience/knowledge definitely.
All the best to everyone who will be attending conference.
And please, pray for me too. :)
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