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Presentation Guidebook

After approval from the event analyst, your presentation is loaded on a Network World computer for presentation at each event city, and featured on the IT Roadmap Exchange. Please reference the Network World PowerPoint presentation template and instructions that must be used. Each presentation runs for 15 minutes, which means presenters should plan to speak to about 12 slides. These slides should focus on technology trends and issues and provide detailed case studies of your solution at work in actual customer locations (the customers can of course remain anonymous). Presenters can also include 2-3 "non speaking slides" that include details on your product, solution, and company.

Please Note: The Presentation Guidebook includes a content vision description, the technical presentation guidelines and important steps. The analyst will also contact you to coordinate your presentation content, set up a conference call, and advise you of the final presentation due date.

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Powerpoint Template

Download Template (Washington, DC)

To Apply the NW Template to an Existing Presentation:

1. Open your existing presentation.
2. Click on VIEW, MASTER, SLIDE MASTER.
3. Click on FORMAT, APPLY DESIGN.
4. You will then get a pop-up box asking you to locate the NW Template file. Click on the file name and click APPLY.
5. You will get a message saying that charts are being updates with new color scheme.
6. Click on VIEW, SLIDE to exit the Master Slide.
7. You should now go through each slide and re-apply each clide format in order to follow the new template. To do this, click on FORMAT, SLIDE LAYOUT. The existing slide layout box will b e highlighted, click REAPPLY. This will update your slide and apply the attributes of the new template. Items may shift somewhat on your side so you may need to move things around a little to get the look you want.
8. Please Note: If you do not have your slides set up in SLIDE LAYOUT format, then the template will not apply the new attributes to your presentation.

All platinum presentations must be applied to this template.