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20x20 what is it?

PechaKucha Night was devised in Tokyo in February 2003 as an event for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public.
It has turned into a massive celebration, with events happening in hundreds of cities around the world, inspiring creatives worldwide. Drawing its name from the Japanese term for the sound of "chit chat", it rests on a presentation format that is based on a simple idea: 20 images x 20 seconds. It's a format that makes presentations concise, and keeps things moving at a rapid pace.

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PechaKucha Quoted!

PechaKucha is the democratic form of the TED conference. It brings the best ideas out into the public. PechaKucha is “by design” set up to multiply, proliferate, inspire, in short, change the planet long term more than any other current idea. It brings us back together, out of our air-conditioned isolation, alone with our fancy smart phone, back into the community where change can happen - Chris Stutzki

Failure | PechaKucha Presentations

If the book club scones are dry and you’re sick of Nancy droning on about Jane Eyre, it might be time to get your fix somewhere else. Like Pecha Kucha Night.

An informal evening for the book-obsessed - Entertainment - NZ Herald News

It’s about connecting, presenting your idea. It’s a place to gather and share,

Laughing, sharing and applause at newly resurrected Pecha Kucha Night at Jacksonville’s Five Points | Jacksonville.com

The organizers are saying that the “WaveCast” may be “the world’s biggest single-day globally-distributed conference.

Metropolis POV  » Pecha Kucha for Haiti

The idea is simple: 20 images, 20 seconds, 200 cities, 2,000 presentations, 200,000 people

Pecha Kucha 20x20: Global Day for Haiti - GOOD Blog - GOOD

As we all know, give a microphone to a designer and you might be trapped for hours! The key to Pecha Kucha is its patented system for avoiding this fate.

Pecha Kucha at Design Indaba Expo

Artists, engineers, architects, manufacturers and animators — designers of all kinds and backgrounds — participate in PechaKucha Night,” said Carl Bass, Autodesk president and CEO. “PechaKucha is a wonderful forum to communicate design ideas, and by sponsoring PechaKucha Night, Autodesk is reaching a global audience.

Autodesk Sponsors ‘PechaKucha’ Events Worldwide

The result is a high-energy showcase. Pecha Kucha Night started in Japan in 2003 and now occurs in over 110 locations globally. Pecha Kucha Toronto was the first in Canada.

canadianarchitect.com - Canadian Architect - 4/30/2008

The dullest topics can be enhanced by this method. For instance, I watched a presentation on signage, and not only was it NOT boring, I actually learned how to create signage that will make people stand up and listen.

Click on CLiC: Long Live PowerPoint!

And its appeal is spreading. Some Georgia Tech professors are already beginning to require students to deliver their lectures in the six-minute, 40-second Pecha Kucha format.

Creative Loafing Atlanta | Arts | Pecha Kucha: Here stylists

What is meant by “urban design”? Why is it important? And what the hell is Pecha Kucha? Edmonton will get the answers at an upcoming night at the Winspear Centre, in what is billed as Western Canada’s first Pecha Kucha.

Pecha Kucha showcases creative urban design

Great to see so many people out from behind their computer screens and mixing in the world with one another. Over all it was one of the best design events i’ve been to, certainly the best d&ad event i’ve been to. Loads of really passionate people with lot’s of funny and heart warming revelations.

jugglingwithwater: D&AD Pecha Kucha night

Pecha Kucha is Japanese for chit-chat and is a new way to present using PowerPoint. Presenters are allowed to use 20 slides, which are shown on screen for 20 seconds each. It equals a 6 minute, 40 second presentation. It was great! If you’ve ever sat through a boring presentation with the presenter rambling on and on and on or reading to you EXACTLY what is already on the screen, this is definitely for you.

Networking is the Name of the Game

From Amsterdam to Washington, architects are holding official Pecha Kucha nights. Autodesk adopted Pecha Kucha at its annual sales meeting in March and CEO Carl Bass is a fan.

What New Innovation Tools and Trends are Worth Trying? - BusinessWeek

Few things—except, perhaps, Apple computer products and Moleskine notebooks—have been embraced by designers of all stripes so quickly and universally as Pecha Kucha Night has.

20 Presenters, 20 Slides, 20 Seconds

Which would be more difficult for a student and a better indication of their knowledge: a 45 minute recycled and typical PowerPoint presentation, or a tight 6:40 presentation followed by 30 minutes of probing questions and discussion?

Presentation Zen: Pecha Kucha and the art of liberating constraints

Lectures make architect Scott Rappe think about being executed. “It’s like the difference between being hung and being shot,” Rappe says, explaining how listening to normal, long-winded lectures compares to experiencing the lightning-fast lectures that typify Pecha Kucha events.

Time Out Chicago: The eclectic slide

I know I had some fabulous experiences right after the Pecha Kucha event such as a delightful and long conversation with David Montesino, the three time Pulitzer Prize winner and who had such a wonderful gift with words, and then an evening out with JT Tomlinson who was the head of automation for Cirque de Soleil and took several of us all through the production of KA and then were his guests for that evenings performance. And conversations that are still taking place with others who were in the audience.

Off Course-On Target: Fast, Fresh, and Furious: “Pecha Kucha”…the New Karaoke?

I wonder if the business world will ever experiment with the Pecha Kucha form for meetings. IMAGINE PEOPLE - concise, well-rehearsed presentations in under ten minutes, with plenty of time left for questions. Think its possible to end Death-By-PowerPoint in such a hip way?

The Not-So-Ancient Art of Pecha Kucha

The beauty of Pecha Kucha Night lies in the tension between the chaos of a full-blown party and the politeness of an art school crit, with the snappy pace holding it all together.

Pecha Kucha Nights and Beer: a Sober Guide to Better Presentations

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