Fast, Fresh, and Furious: “Pecha Kucha”...the New Karaoke?

WOW!  Did I ever have a fun evening last night with my first ever Pecha Kucha Night experience. Pecha Kucha, pronounced “peh-chak-cha”  or “pet-shah coot-shah” depending on who you talk to, is a relatively new presentation format that is seeing quite an underground surge of interest. It’s happening in over 50 major cities around the world. Heck, even Tasmania has one now! My company, Autodesk Inc., set up this event at our annual worldwide sales conference for all our thousands of resellers. It’s taking place in Las Vegas, so perhaps that part makes sense. Thanks to Maurice Conti (who came up with the idea) and his talented staff of helpers, it was a huge success. Here was a packed room full of several hundred curious sales people wondering just what this thing that they couldn’t pronounce was all about.

So what is it? As I mentioned earlier, it’s simply an interesting format for “presentations” but it would be better characterized by the Japanese term Pecha Kucha, which it is derived from and reflects the sound of casual conversation ("chit-chat").

As a Pecha Kucha presenter, you come up with 20 different images (photos usually), put them in an order you decide upon, and provide these to the organizers who then put them into a sequenced roll or “slide show”. They set this up with an automated timer to change to the next image every 20 seconds. The timing is automatic and the speaker has NO control over timing of the slide change. As a Pecha Kucha presenter you take the stage, tell the projectionist to “hit it” and you’re off.  Six minutes and 40 seconds later, you’re done! Time for the next person.

Pecha Kucha Nights were started in 2003 by two architects living in Japan: Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham od Klein Dytham Architecture as a venue for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. They were looking for a way to get people who are typically shy or at least busy working behind computer screens or in studios out in public to tell their stories and join in the conversation.  As Moma put it in his Wired article about his Pecha Kucha experience in Wired magazine “The solution: Give them a format, a structure, a parlor game, a chance to talk about their current interests and listen to others doing the same.”

As a forum for designers, it was perfect for myself and for Autodesk since we are both very focused on design. Last night I was honored to be invited to join seven other creative thinkers with VERY different backgrounds.

The roster included:

Carl Bass – CEO of Autodesk Inc.
Ken Bado – Senior VP of WW Sales & Marketing, Autodesk
Bruce Beasley – Internationally renowned sculptor
David Montesino – Visual Journalist, art director and 3-time Pulitzer Prize winner
Johnathan Pickus – Manager, Las Vegas Valley Water District
Sylvain Plourde –  Co-founder of graphics company 3Vis in Montreal Canada
JT Tomlinson –  Head of Automation, Cirque du Soleil

Now THAT is diversity…not only from their job titles and organizations but even more so by the Pecha Kucha “conversations” they provided!

And what did they Pecha Kucha about? Couldn’t really do it justice with just words, but what was common about each of these otherwise wildly different presentations was that each of us talked about a mixture of things we care about and what makes us who we are. So it was a wonderful blend of personal interests and projects and professional pursuits. The commonality that came through loud and clear to me was passion—connections to family, personal interests such as some amazing fine woodwork projects, pursuit of meaning, life and work experiences and an overall exploration of what motivates us.  It was truly an example of “experiential learning” and you really had to be there to understand it and to appreciate one or more of the apparently tasty PechaKutinis that were being served to one and all!
(The sessions may have been videotaped so I am working on being able to upload some for you to look at and I’ll post them here if I’m able to locate them.)

What did I learn and enjoy from the experience that you might find of value and interest? As per the title of this posting,  it was wonderfully and frighteningly fast, fresh, and furious. The tight and simple 20 image/20 second format flipped the tired lecture, PowerPoint presentation on its head and stimulated diversity, connectivity, and cross-discipline conversation and collaboration not only in the presentations themselves, but in the great conversations in between and afterwards. People I’ve run into here since then are still buzzing and talking about it.

I also appreciated how this standard format acted as a great equalizer of presenters and every one of their images since they each got exactly the same time up on the screen. Is this the new way to do all presentations? Absolutely NOT!  As I’ve said many times here at Off Course – On Target, a truly new innovation rarely eliminates or replaces what went before. Instead, it adds to our choices for powerful ways to capture, express and share ideas. I’d recommend it highly for your consideration if you are organizing or participating in events where you or others are trying to share ideas with others. Or you may just want to experience a Pecha K

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I love this idea and can see the potential for transfer to informal online learning nuggets. Thanks for sharing!

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Hi Jill, thanks for the comment. It really is a fascinating model and one that I think is well worth adding to our list of choices. Like most things, it isn't the "be all and end all" just a great new addition that is a "just right" choice for a range of situations and context.
As I noted I think it is particulary successful at getting at topics and details which would otherwise largely go missed and in getting at people who might otherwise be silent or hidden from view.

It is also very stiumlating and successful at initiating great follow on conversations and starting up new relationships amongst presenters and audiences alike. I know I had some fabulous experiences right after the Pechu Kucha event such as a delightful and long conversation with David Montesino, the three time Pulitzer Prize winner and who had such a wonderful gift with words, and then an evening out with JT Tomlinson who was the head of automation for Cirque de Soleil and took several of us all through the production of KA and then were his guests for that evenings performance. And conversations that are still taking place with others who were in the audience.

As you put it a fascinating new dimension for us all to consider as part of the "informal learning" equation.
Hope you get to try it out and be sure to let me know what you learn from this when you do.

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