As someone who speaks at a lot of conferences: Don’t use Google Slides.
99.99% of the time it will be better to use Keynote or PowerPoint.
It’s nuts the amount of times I’ve seen Google Slides fail, not load video, and flashbang the audience with a completely white frame after every slide.
Often Google Slides does not cache the next slide even if you are in offline mode.
Yet whenever I see a conference speaker use it, and then it doesn’t work well because of the conference WiFi, they act surprised.
Why?
You’re ‘relying’ on ‘conference WiFi’. Anyone who has visited a conference is able to spot the naivety in that thought process.
So, download your presentation to PDF, or if you have gifs and videos download it to PowerPoint and have all your files on disk.
Please, do everyone else and yourself a favor: Stop presenting with Google Slides.
@badsector I think it depends. I try to never share my slides, as on their own they do not have enough context for what is on the slide. It’s the age old problem of not having too much text in each slide, because it’s boring to an live audience, but better for slide sharing.
Instead, I share the recording of my talk, and a blog version of the talk. That way I have more control over how the content is displayed
Robin-Yann Storm
Bad Sector