- Alert the event host of dietry and any special facility requirements
- Practice practice practice, record the practices in case you have good ideas or bad ideas
- Ensure all demos are working
- Ensure transport is all good to go
- Pack microphone, laptop, charger, business cards, pen and notebook
- Leave to arrive 1-2 hours earlier than you're meant to
- Have food and water supplies
- Ensure all demos are running in the background
- Ensure all tabs you will need are open
- Prepare business cards
- Use a light coloured theme for your text editor (thanks @nkbt)
- Turn off F.lux
- When co-presenting, have a seat setup on the other side of the projector, not behind the person
- Inform the event host of an intro they can use to introduce you
- Ensure laptop and microphone are plugged in
- Ensure microphone is working and selected for recoding
- Check that the projector is displaying ALL of the window, not just some of it
- Start Recording with Screenflow
- Signal to the event host to introduce you once you're all setup
- Qualify YOURSELF, YOUR PRESENTATION, and YOUR PROJECT properly right at the start, as otherwise people won't care as much about your words
- If you notice something that could be improved, it's acceptable to divert for a moment and make the correction, the sooner the better
- Repeat people's questions for the microphone (when not using surround microphone mode)
- When co-presenting, when your laptop is not in use, don't put your laptop on the floor to film people's feet, get it recording at a good angle
- Don't follow up with "good" after polling the audience for statistics, it pre-supposes there is also a bad, which isn't the case
- Make eye contact with group leaders, or everyone if a small group. Remember to make eye contact
- Say thank you
- Ask for questions, with follow up questions in person totally okay
- Say thank you
- Mention business cards, follow up channels
- Stress importance of receiving their feedback, big or trivial, it all matters
- Thank them for being a great audience, and that's all, have a good night
- Stop recording
- Hang around the stage for people to approach you
- Always do impressive demos, if there isn't a "wow" moment in the demo, there's no point doing it
- Make presentations way more personal... lively - like a play, plays are way more exciting than computers