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September 4, 2026
ScriptAssist takes speaker notes already sitting in your PowerPoint file and builds a full presenting toolkit around them: a script you can read while looking at your camera, a review workflow that your legal, medical, or other teams can actually use, and an AI assist for when you’re staring at a blank slide. It comes from SlideSource, a team that has spent decades preparing presentations for high-stakes settings, and it goes after a problem most presenters know well: staying on script without losing eye contact.
You get 8 shape types plus lines as part of this Organic Shapes collection. Each of these 8 shape types have 10 variants. So you end up with 80 hand-drawn shape options! Again each of these 80 shapes have 12 brush stroke styles! Plus you get the lines and arrows in 12 brush stroke styles too. Combine all variations to end up with more than 3000 possibilities.
September 4, 2026
John Polk is the coauthor of Presentation Pitfalls. He is President of John Polk & Associates and a former Data Visualization Professor at the University of Richmond’s Robins School of Business. John designed the “Creating Effective Presentations” workshop for Capital One, which over 10,000 associates have attended. John now teaches workshops and coaches leaders to design and deliver presentations that engage, influence, and drive action. In this conversation, John talks about the upcoming Presentation Summit 2026, being held virtually from September 13 to 16, 2026.
Inserting a New Slide with Copilot in PowerPoint 365 for Windows
September 4, 2026
John Polk is the coauthor of Presentation Pitfalls. He is President of John Polk & Associates and a former Data Visualization Professor at the University of Richmond’s Robins School of Business. John designed the “Creating Effective Presentations” workshop for Capital One, which over 10,000 associates have attended. John now teaches workshops and coaches leaders to design and deliver presentations that engage, influence, and drive action. In this conversation, John talks about the upcoming Presentation Summit 2026, being held virtually from September 13 to 16, 2026.
September 3, 2026
Laszlo Diewald has been working as a consultant for more than 10 years now. He started his career as an employee right after his study at the Technical University of Munich. Shortly after, he decided to become self-employed as a freelance consultant. In 2017, he founded his own consultancy, with a focus on large scale projects in the financial sector. In parallel, he started working on presentaid, which was finally launched in April 2022. In this conversation, Laszlo talks about the new presentaid Charts feature.
September 3, 2026
Sally Zimney is an award-winning keynote speaker, communication coach, and author of the #1 bestseller Speaking Story. Ranked in the top 3% of women business speakers, she’s spent 20+ years helping big-hearted leaders and entrepreneurs trade polish for presence — and self-doubt for bold, authentic action. She hosts the top-2% podcast This Moved Me, and her whole obsession is a single question: how do we truly move people? Her answer, especially in an AI world — show up real, imperfections and all. In this conversation, Sally talks about the upcoming Presentation Summit 2026, being held virtually from September 13 to 16, 2026.
September 2, 2026
Kurt Dupont is a solution provider who would go out of his way just to ensure he brings out the best when it comes to issues that have to deal with data-driven presentations, data visualization, and digital signage software. He started by working at airports worldwide to set up airport databases and flight information screens. This evolved to become the basis for his several add-ins. In this conversation, Kurt talks about INSYNCR.
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