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ペチャクチャ The Art of Concise Presentations

PechaKucha, the sound of chit-chat in Japanese, is a presentation style where 20 slides are shown for 20 seconds each and a presenter talks as the slides go on without prompt.

This style of presenting, which keeps presentations fast-paced and concise, is a good way to empower speakers with the tools to drive their message to the audience with effectiveness.

First developed in Tokyo, Japan by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham, architects of Klein-Dytham Architecture, it has grown since to feature in PechaKucha Nights (PKN) across 900 cities around the world.

Pecha Kucha = Chatter

It started in 2003, here is a description, thanks to Daniel H. Pink of Wired Magazine.

Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein, two Tokyo-based architects who have turned PowerPoint, that fixture of cubicle life, into both art form and competitive sport. Their innovation, dubbed pecha-kucha (Japanese for "chatter"), applies a simple set of rules to presentations: exactly 20 slides displayed for 20 seconds each. That's it. Say what you need to say in six minutes and 40 seconds of exquisitely matched words and images and then sit the hell down. The result, in the hands of masters of the form, combines business meeting and poetry slam to transform corporate cliché into surprisingly compelling beat-the-clock performance art.

Here is a Pecha Kucha talk about algorithms, robots, and humans. Computers that learn, computer controlled stock market, how to beat facial recognition software. He presents new technology and also how to beat it, take a look. More Human Than Human 

The official site/ what it's about

Power Point in the US Military (thanks wikipedia authors)

Compare pecha kucha to power point in your mind. I never remember power point being this bad.

A “PowerPoint Ranger” is a military member who relies heavily on presentation software to the point of excess. Some junior officers spend the majority of their time preparing PowerPoint slides. Because of its usefulness for presenting mission briefings, it has become part of the culture of the military, but is regarded as a poor decision-making tool. As a result some generals, such as Brigadier-General Herman McMaster, have banned the use of PowerPoint in their operations. In September 2010, Colonel Lawrence Sellin was fired from his post at the ISAF for publishing a piece critical of the over-dependence of military staff on the presentation method and bloated bureaucracy.

According to Jim Nelson, who served as a civilian translator with the Russian and American peacekeepers in Bosnia in 1996, one of the Russians said, “If we ever had a war, while you are working on your PowerPoint, we would be killing you.”

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PechaKucha 20x20 is a simple presentation format where you show 20 images, each for 20 seconds. The images forward automatically and you talk along to the images.

The format was devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Klein Dytham architecture, and the first PechaKucha Night was held in Tokyo in 2003.

Klein and Dytham invented the format to counter architects’ (and others’) tendency to talk too much.

The format caught on and PechaKucha Nights are run around the world. They are informal gatherings where creative people get together and share their ideas, works, thoughts, holiday snaps - just about anything really, in the PechaKucha 20x20 format.