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October 15, 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 presentaid’s new Dynamic Grid 2.
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 8, 2026
Troy Chollar is co-founder and a Sr. Designer of TLC Creative Services and awarded by Microsoft as an MVP for PowerPoint for 24 consecutive years. For more than two decades, Troy has helped organizations create presentations ranging from executive briefings and sales decks to large-scale live event experiences. A regular presenter at The Presentation Summit (he was an attendee at the very first conference!), host of The Presentation Podcast, and the voice of ThePowerPointBlog, Troy is passionate about sharing practical PowerPoint techniques, animation strategies, and workflow improvements that presentation professionals can immediately apply to their own projects. In this conversation, Troy 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
October 14, 2026
Ramgopal M. S. is the founder of Presentation Process and author of Clear Slides. Over the past 20 years, he has helped millions of professionals communicate complex ideas through clear, engaging presentations. His YouTube channel has over 560,000 subscribers, where he shares practical PowerPoint and presentation design techniques. In this conversation, Ramgopal discusses his new book, Clear Slides.
October 13, 2026
This issue is about what happens when you stop leaving things to chance. The guides tutorial shows how a line on a slide is never just a line: it snaps, it inherits, it governs, and it will quietly run your layout if you let it. Understanding that is the difference between slides that look deliberate and slides that look lucky. Avinash Panneerselvam's AECharts interview takes the same idea into charting: polished, animated, design-first charts that drop cleanly into any deck without negotiating with PowerPoint's own chart engine. And Matteo Cassese's Founder Journey conversation goes further still, asking what it means to move from telling stories to building myths, and whether your presentations belong to a bigger narrative you haven't named yet.
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October 12, 2026
Picture this. You’re in a meeting, and someone says, “Can you just pull up the warehouse layout real quick?” Suddenly, everyone’s staring at you like you’re supposed to conjure a blueprint out of thin air. Here’s the dirty little secret: CAD software (the professional tool for this exact job) is basically a Formula 1 race car. Powerful, precise, and completely useless if you don’t know how to drive it. Most people outside the engineering department have never been seated in the driver’s seat. Half the time, they can’t even get the car out of the garage, because CAD files are notoriously fussy about how they are opened. This is where SimpleDim strolls in, hands in pockets, looking suspiciously relaxed.
October 5, 2026
Avinash (Avi) Panneerselvam graduated in Computational Engineering from IIT Madras in 2020 and spent the next five years as a data scientist, building prediction models, mostly at early-stage AI startups. As AI began reshaping software engineering, he left my job to build something of his own. He started working on AECharts in January 2026, and launched it in February, when it also got its first customer. In this conversation, Avi talks about AECharts.
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