Vendor-Tech

Operational Excellence with Technology

Remote Presentations

I'm sitting at Drupal Camp Colorado waiting while they work out a few technical details for the next presentation.

What makes the presentation interesting is:

  1. It is being presented remotely
  2. The speaker appears to be 14 (actually he's 12 and been using Drupal for 3 years)
  3. He's sitting in Poland
  4. His picture is being projected on one side of the screen via Skype on one computer
  5. He's controlling a second computer via VNC to show his presentation on a second projector

All in all the concept of being able to have someone do a very technical presentation (I'm looking at the presenter doing command line access to the presentation Mac) at virtually no cost is amazing.

I've got to play with this....

As a postscript, it was amazing to see someone so young do such a great job talking to a room full of adults. The depth of knowledge for someone that young was also totally impressive.