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- If it's a short time slot, keep corporate introductions to a minimum. Get to the meat of the topic.
- Present the technical challenge in question (and if the talk abstract already presents it, this too can be short, but you might prefer to highlight a particular aspect)
- Then present solutions. Do not be afraid to be opinionated here, since RoE sessions are for "several companies unique view on a subject".
- We have a technical audience and this is not a "business track". Some tips:
- You can use the opportunity to describe several possible approaches
- Include criteria for choosing one method over another, whether based on practical tryouts, or on theoretical reasoning,
- ... try to include hard data, which is useful to guide a technically minded audience: Measurements, statistics, memory footprint, size, lines of code, performance benchmarks, and so on.
- Finally, including negative experiences, mistakes, or reasons why an alternative did not work out, is also extremely useful for everyone. Please remember that these sessions are about sharing of real-world experience!
- When possible RoE focuses on production experience. If applicable, mention experiences from putting the solution into production cars.
- Finally your company is of course free to take this opportunity to mention a solution you may have in your portfolio (i.e. a solution to the presented challenge, not other irrelevant products). As you can see, the presentation is not expected to be a plain "sales pitch" – it ought to explain technical rationale for the offered product, and the rest of the presentation material should overall add to the shared body of technical knowledge.
- There is often a single shared abstract, but while considering that description and the above tips, you may still interpret the topic quite freely.
- If the shared abstract totally does not match your speaking intentions, let us know and we should discuss it.
- There might not be time for Q&A, but for some topics we have related workshop time, where we can follow up on what was presented with audience interaction (note there is a schedule for each workshop, so make sure there is time planned for this).
To unify the presenters' approach, let's use this guideline for speaker slot length:
=< 20 minutes –> no Q&A
>20 minutes** -> optional Q&A, speaker decides (but stay within allotted time)
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