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

@d_yellowlees Saw a 25-minute talk at FOSDEM where the first 10 minutes were an introduction of the speaker (and the rest was worse).