Introduction: PowerPoint Is Powerful — But It Has Limits Most people use PowerPoint every day. Most people also find it frustrating in the same predictable ways: tracking down the right image, keeping slides on brand, reformatting the same table for the fifth time this week. The tools are familiar. The pain points are familiar too. Lucy Wyatt has spent her career helping people get more from PowerPoint, and her fix is simple: add-ins. Small, mostly free plugins that slot dire

Introduction: From Hating Hybrid to Mastering It Ask most presenters how they feel about hybrid presentations and the answer won't be flattering. Orsolya Nemes was no different — she genuinely hated them. Divided attention, technology she didn't understand, and an online audience she kept losing. But then she had a realisation: the problem wasn't hybrid. It was her mindset. Once she started treating hybrid as simply a platform — the same as any other — everything changed. In

Introduction: Still Building Slides Like It's 2004? Over a billion people use PowerPoint. Thirty million presentations are given every day. And a Harvard study found that people in corporate environments spend more than 25% of their working time on presentations — preparing them, attending them, following up on them. That's roughly 10 hours a week. And for most people, a significant chunk of that is wasted. Robin Dohmen has spent over a decade helping startups, scale-ups, and

Introduction: Meet The Panel A conversation with Svetoslav Spasov (KPMG IT Services), Doroteya Mincheva (Flutter International) and Sinisha Djukic (Bosch Digital Bulgaria). Moderated by Boris Hristov, Founder of 356labs & Present to Succeed. Hybrid — are big organisations actually getting better at it? Svetoslav: We've come a long way. But getting better isn't the same as mastering it. There's still a lot of room to grow, especially when it comes to keeping remote particip

Introduction: Meet The Panel A conversation with Jason Paul (Slido) and Luca Bruschi (The LEGO Group) Moderated by Iva Nachkova, 356 Labs — Present to Succeed Conference Let's start with the honest question. Hybrid meetings — are companies getting better at them? Jason: Not enough, honestly. Remote audiences still feel disengaged, and only a small percentage of companies have introduced any real hybrid etiquette. The awareness is there. The action, less so. Luca: It hit us

Introduction: Serious vs. Fun Is a False Choice A supervisor walks in. Two colleagues are laughing. I don't pay you to have fun. If that sounds familiar, you've already encountered the outdated belief that professionalism and humour are opposites. In his Present to Succeed session, Peter Hajdu dismantles that assumption. Humour isn't the enemy of good communication — used well, it's one of its most powerful tools. Why Humour Works: The Science When you make people laugh, thre

Introduction: When a Map Ended an Epidemic In 1854, London was in the grip of a cholera outbreak. The scientific consensus said it spread through the air. One doctor disagreed — and instead of arguing in words, he argued in data. John Snow plotted every death on a map, traced the pattern to a single water pump, and convinced the government to act. The epidemic ended almost immediately. That's how Olena Zubova opens her Present to Succeed session — not with a slide tip, but wi

Introduction: 3,013 Days of PowerPoint Before Florian Mueck became one of Europe's leading public speaking coaches, he spent 3,013 days — he counted — working at a Big Four consultancy in Munich, Amsterdam, and Barcelona, communicating almost exclusively in PowerPoints stuffed with bullet points and phrases like leveraging efficiencies for sustainable growth. His verdict? It was a slow death by data. In his Present to Succeed session, Florian shares everything he learned from

Introduction: The Font Nobody Noticed — Until It Wasn't Right Picture the safety card in a plane. Clear, organised, quietly reassuring. Now put a chaotic, unprofessional font on it. Suddenly it doesn't feel safe anymore. That's how Ihor Hulyahrodskyy opens his Present to Succeed session — and the point is immediate. Typography isn't decoration. It's communication. And in most business presentations, it's almost entirely ignored. Fonts Have Personality. Use It. Typography gi

Introduction: When Your Best Ideas Go Nowhere You know your subject. You've done the research. You've built the slides. And yet, somewhere between your mouth and your audience's brain, the message gets lost. Sales don't close. People don't engage. Nothing changes. In his Present to Succeed session, Francisco Mahfuz — storytelling coach and communication consultant — argues that this isn't a knowledge problem. It's a storytelling problem. And it's entirely fixable. Why Compl