Speaker Guidance
Thank you for expressing your interest
This page contains some information for preparing and submitting your talk.
Preparing
To create a more consistent experience for the workshop, a powerpoint template title page and icons/logos are provided in a shared google folder (read only). Feel free to copy the title page contents into your presentation and modify as you see fit. It might be necessary to replicate the overall idea if your background or splash is substantively different (e.g., changing the spatial layout or the color scheme). The intent here is to have a common starting visual that still permits you to customize the background with your own favorite presentation theme, be that a personal one or from your place of work/affiliation..
The intent behind your talk is to get people thinking, as opposed to being a more traditional keynote speech. It is OK to be speculative, light-hearted, etc. What we believe is an effective formula would be to cover what is known (best practice, findings, things to avoid, etc.), what are current opportunities and challenges or open questions, followed by what are candidate ideas or innovations to contemplate as candidate directions for convergent acceleration. In a sense, the sequence looks back, reviews what the current directions are, and poses future directions to pivot towards. In addition to providing these thoughts, weaving your own background and experiences into the presentation would be really nice. If you'd like more information about scoping, please review this scoping tips page or reach out to the workshop organizers.
Recording
It is fine to record the talk using whichever program or interface is most comfortable or intuitive. Several options are listed below:
BlueJeans (w/download instructions)
Powerpoint (w/export instructions)
GoTo Meeting (w/download instructions)
with links going to recording or export instructions. Some of the teleconference options permit automatic closed captioning (like GoTo Meeting). If that is possible, then please upload the caption document since we might be able to import it when uploaded to YouTube, as part of our accessibility efforts.
If you are more comfortable that we take care of the recording by joining you in a Zoom session, please let one of the organizers know and we'll schedule a recording time.
Submitting
The final recording should be uploaded in mp4 format to the Dropbox file request link provided via e-mail. Feel free to contact any of the organizers if you have lost that e-mail or link.
Post-Submission
The videos will be reviewed and then uploaded to the Liberate 2021 YouTube channel. An effort will be made to correct the automated closed-captioning provided by YouTube or externally provided captioning. Participants will be asked to view videos of their choice and comment on them. Some of the salient comments of questions may be sent back to you for written or video responses (much like a Q&A session). There may be a slack channel dedicated to the discussion thread (link to be posted here if so). Follow through on the response is voluntary.