I’ve tried it all.

What Is a PechaKucha?

So the total length of a PechaKucha is only 400 seconds.

Editing a screenshot in Shottr’s editor on a Mac.

Perhaps most importantly, I personally prefer to give most of my presentation slot time to questions and answers.

The tricky part is the 20-seconds bit, because there are different approaches to it.

Which means building that timer into your presentation.

Female Motivational Speaker on Stage

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InPowerPoint, you simply select all 20 of your slides.

Now, when you present, the slides should advance automatically after 20 seconds.

If you like usingGoogle Slidesinstead, then unfortunately you’re able to’t set slides to 20-second intervals.

All PowerPoint slides selected.

Any presentation that requires the audience to process lots of information can’t work, for example.

If you absolutely need a bunch of graphs and tables, then do a traditional presentation.

Make each slide an illustration, and let you spoken script fill in the blanks for the audience.

Powerpoint interval selection.

Google slide export timer options