Andrew Kun have already made a post with the description of SIGdial 2007. Here I would like to mention my experience as a presenter. I had a presentation on the second day of the workshops (the event was two days long). On the first day I checked if I can use their computer for my presentation. That computer did not have PowerPoint 2007, hence I decided to use Andrew’s laptop. I hooked the laptop and checked if it works. I repeated this procedure a few times to make sure that everything did work. When the time of my presentation came I hooked up the laptop and… everything worked just fine. I started my talk and at the middle of the presentation I realized that my slides were not the latest slides that I had. They were good slides but I already had an improved version… Well, I finished the talk with what I had and I doubt people realized what had happened. In the feature though I will put a version number of my slides on the first slide. The first half of the presentation was not changed and when I was testing the laptop I did not pay enough attention to the last slides and hence I did not notice what they actually contained. In retrospect I realize that I’ve heard a lot of stories about having troubles with hardware, but I did not hear any stories about using improper versions of presetnations. Now I know better.

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