Duncan Yellowlees 🎓💬Opening your talk?
Skip the waffle. No one cares where you work or how many awards you've worked on.
Grab attention with a hook like, a question, or a bold statement, then get straight to the good stuff.
Remeber - useful AND Interesting
David JONES@d_yellowlees i believe a brief intro is polite. One sentence along the lines of "Hi, my name is David Jones and i make fonts. i'm excited to be here today to ask..."
Talks by "famous" people where they don't bother to introduce themselves because they seem to assume that i'll know who they are. And often i just don't. pfft.