2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing

Abstract: Are you nervous about your ICASSP ‘25 conference presentation? Do you think you could improve the content, structure or visuals for your talk? Or are you just looking for tips to better deliver your presentation? This workshop will give you the opportunity to feel more confident about and apply key communication principles to your upcoming presentation. In this workshop, Prof. Kira Dreher (Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar), previous Board Member of the IEEE Professional Communication Society, will lead you through several key strategies for improving your ICASSP ‘25 presentation (and all future oral presentations).

We will:

1. Introduce elements that will help effectively frame your content, starting by developing an understanding of the audience’s needs, creating and reinforcing a simple core message, and adding intentional structural cues throughout the talk to help your listeners focus throughout the talk.
2. Apply several simple but powerful concepts for refining your visuals to help them reinforce your talk’s key messages.
3. Work on your vocal and physical delivery, building an awareness of the key metrics for success and identifying important strategies to help build your confidence in your presentation content, and public speaking in general.

Bring your slides, your notes, and your willingness to participate in an active workshop that will allow you to immediately apply simple yet important communication principles to your upcoming conference presentation, and develop key skills for your professional development.