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Death by PowerPoint — IDA webinar, 22 October 2026
IDA webinar · online · Thursday 22 October 2026, 15:00–16:00 CEST

Death by PowerPoint

Don’t ask an AI to make you a PowerPoint. Ask it to generate the medium your audience actually receives — a web page. Then give it a written design system and a linter so it stays honest.

Full Presentation

Open the presenter

All 13 decks in order · 50 min · ←→ slides, ↑↓ decks, D for the take-home notes

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Who’s talking shared

Cornwall to Copenhagen — the reusable intro slide every talk borrows

1 slide
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Death by PowerPoint

A 25-year-old complaint aimed at the presenter, never at the tool — and the constraint that has now quietly disappeared

4 slides
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Generate the medium, not the file

Count the lossy conversions between your idea and someone’s phone. Then an honest ledger of what HTML costs you

4 slides
02

Teaching the agent taste

A design system written in English, and a linter for the half that needs enforcing. The most transferable part of the talk

5 slides
03

The live build

Prompt → read the rules → write → lint → fix. Wrapped around a screen share of the real repo

3 slides
04

Beyond slide software

Three things a slide couldn’t do — and the reveal that a talk is just a JavaScript array

2 slides
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Exhibit A — interactive borrowed

A live D3 decision-space explorer, running unmodified from the May 2026 IDA Driving AI talk

interactive
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Exhibit B — animated borrowed

The development loop, moving — and the same loop that built the slide before it

animated
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Exhibit C — real data borrowed

Benchmarks the deck draws itself, rather than a picture of a chart pasted in nine months ago

5 slides
05

One deck, three audiences

The room, the stranger opening the link in six weeks, and the person who emails asking for the slides

4 slides
06

What’s next — the speech annotator

The talk log is already listening. Where that goes: a transcript that writes the slide’s take-home prose — and an honest list of what stands in the way

3 slides
07

Steal this

Four small steps to do it yourself, plus the honest caveat about when it isn’t worth the afternoon

3 slides
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Contact shared

Reusable contact slide — LinkedIn, email, AILANG, workshops, Multivac

1 slide