Sustainable Ships Presentation Guide
Guidelines for presenting - primarily for Lunch and Learn
Congratulations! You have been asked to do a presentation for Sustainable Ships, most likely a lunch and learn webinar. We are honoured to host you and hope to learn a lot. Below are the “commandments” when presenting on the Sustainable Ships platform, inspired by the TED Commandments. These rules should be seen as a guideline for presenting, not as an absolute truth. We also added the videos of previous lunch and learn sessions in order to provide some references. Feel free to contact us anytime by asking the chatbox or commenting below.
Commandments
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Strive for a presentation length of 18 minutes, followed by a round of questions. That will make it easier to be followed by future audience, and adheres to TED rules of presentation length.
Remember to keep it simple and less is more.
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Our values - courage, curiosity and collaboration - are born from an intrinsic motivation to to good. We try to imbue this positivity in everything that we do, and refrain from negative thinking, doing and saying. This mindset is to be used throughout your presentation as follows.
Make a minimum of 2 jokes.
Use positive adjectives and be enthusiastic to everyone, including your enemies.
Never just state problems. State challenges along with solutions.
Use affirmations instead of negations (“it is good” is preferred over “it is not bad”).
Instead of saying something can, or cannot be done, focus on how it can be done.
Assume ignorance over malevolence. Some people may come across as haters, but this is usually because they do not understand. Almost no one actively tries to be evil!
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Keep in mind that presentations, webinars and other content on the Sustainable Ships platform is almost always publicly available. This principle is in-line with our value of collaboration, as we believe that information on maritime sustainability needs to be shared in order to create a better world.
Remember this when giving your presentation and when you are giving answers to the audience.
Of course you are always free to revoke content if you do not agree with it anymore - you are the owner. It would be really sad if it were ever come to that however, so it is easier to simply keep in mind the public aspect of what we aim to achieve here.
Examples
On behalf of the Province of South-Holland, Sustainable Ships has been project leader of 'Project BOEI’, a techno-economic feasibility study on the electrification of tankers off the coast of Scheveningen, Netherlands. The study was performed with consortium members InnovationQuarter, Bluewater, Knutsen, EOPSA, Rijkswaterstaat, Campus@Sea, Port of Rotterdam, KVNR and Cavotec. This lunch and learn is the recording of the close-out session in which main findings were presented.