Bill G delivers a “buzzing” presentation

Following on from Phil’s post on presentations, I was interested to read this recent review of Bill Gate’s presentation at the TED conference.

It’s got some great pointers on making presentations memorable (keeping your ideas – and slides -- simple is top of the list) – but you don’t get much more memorable than releasing mosquitoes into the audience…

“Malaria, of course, is transmitted by mosquitoes. I brought some here so you can experience this. I'll let these roam around the auditorium. There's no reason why only poor people should have the experience!”

You can watch the presentation on the TED website, and the mosquito moment is around 5:05.

Watch from 4:15 to see another top tip (use of humour) in action, where Bill compares malaria funding to research into baldness…