PowerPoint Karaoke

UPDATE

Thanks to the awesome folks at Microsoft Office Canada ( @MSOfficeCanada on twitter)  and to Crumpler.ca for donating the grand prizes for tonight's event.

Here is the presenter lineup. Doors open at 8, presentations at 8:30pm sharp:

Heat 1
Bretton    MacLean
Rachael    Segal
Satish    Kanwar
Alain    Lepofsky
   
Heat 2
Liz    Radzick
Misha     Glouberman
JonathanLaba
Saul     Colt

Finals:
?? vs ??

PowerPoint Karaoke @ Social Media Week Toronto (PPTKTO)

To close out Social Media Week Toronto, we are going to be hosting a rocking session of PowerPoint Karaoke.

The rules of Powerpoint Karaoke are simple. A set of presenters and local social media luminaries will be asked to play the role of an earnest expert speaker on topics such as "How to succeed at social media without really trying",  or "What to do when someone on the internet is wrong", or "My sensational life as a japanese tentacle porn star" etc.*

Each presenter will be given exactly 5 minutes to present and a set of slides they have never seen before. Each presentation deck will be stuffed with facinating imagery, emphatic infographics and genuine business-speak bullet points drawn from real powerpoint decks we've found on the internet. Naturaly, in the hands of a less-skilled presenter, some of this totally random content might seem somewhat "tangential" to the topic at hand. But as you will see, these challenges will be no problem to our powerpoint rockstars.

At the end of the evening. The audience or jury will be asked to vote for the winning presentations based on humour, style points, or general awesomeness.

There may be fabulous prizes.**

Proceeds from this event will are being donated to the Sick Kids Hospital CCU Project More info: http://casecamp.org/sickkids-project/

Event music to be provided by DJ Mike Mizzi

Other info:

Twitter hashtag: #PPTKTO

Let us know if you are interested in speaking at, volunteering or sponsoring PowerPoint Karaoke.

Note: Final speaker selection will occur through some official like selection process we haven't entirely figured out yet. PROTIP: try tweeting something with the hashtag #PPTKO to tell us why you'd be a great presenter :)

Your PPTK Organizers:
Tom Purves
twitter: @tpurves
email: tom[at]thomaspurves.com or

Jay Goldman
twitter: @jaygoldman
email: me[at]jaygoldman.com

More info on Social Media Week Toronto: http://smw-toronto.sched.org/

* Attendees, if you have topic suggestions or awesome slideware to suggest, send it in!

**Would you like to donate one?

Adam Bullied
writethatdown.com

Aerin Guy
www.gospacerace.com

Ahmad Nassri
ahmadnassri.com

Alan Sukonnik

alex crookes
eatsleepride.com

Alex Hodgson
www.biohub.ca

Amy Swenson

Andrea Miller

Andre Gaulin
fuzzz.gaulin.ca

Andrew Lane
nitch.ca

Ann Poochareon

Antonios Antonopoulos

Ava Wellman

Barbara Tassa

Binnu Jeyakumar

Breanna Hughes
www.unbrelievable.com

Bretton MacLean
ezilly.com

Cara Tsang

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