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
Roger LipscombeI was once talking to a female presenter about this, and she said that -- as a woman -- she had to put some bonafides up first, otherwise a large proportion of men in the audience wouldn't take her talk seriously.
So, yeah, sexism sucks.