Another change I made to my presentation was asking everyone in the room to introduce themselves to the person next to them, because a conference is about meeting new people so why not start off with that. It was amazing how the room erupted with conversations and I the energy of the room even pumped me up. However, there was one thing I did not think through, and that was how to stop everyone from talking. I didn’t want to shout and the buzzer on my phone wasn’t loud enough. After some loud clapping and telling people to end the conversations, we were back to the presentation. Then came the moment everyone had eagerly been waiting for, the sketching activities. These activities are designed with specific goals. They address different parts of sketching such as sketching under time constraints, sketching with a pen, sketching to come up with many ideas for a specific problem. My focus is not on what you sketch or the quality of your sketches but how you sketch so that you can harness the power of sketching to become a sketching machine.

One of the best parts of presenting is the conversations that happen afterwards with the attendees. Making deeper connections with attendees brings a lot of satisfaction and seeing people inspired to make change by taking action, is an amazing feeling.

I loved seeing people’s sketches on Twitter and it was clear they had fun sketching.



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