TREND: Pecha Kucha Night

Wish you could shorten your lengthy (and boring) PowerPoint presentations? Try the Pecha Kucha (or, in Japanese, “the sound of conversation”) method. It’s a hip, four-year-old technique for delivering speeches devised and patented by Tokyo-based Klein Dytham architecture. People are taught to compose compelling 20-second slides—it takes less than 7 minutes to deliver a 20-slide show. From Amsterdam to Washington, architects are holding official Pecha Kucha nights. Autodesk adopted Pecha Kucha at its annual sales meeting in March and ceo Carl Bass is a fan. Klein Dytham also endorses corporate Pecha Kucha nights. www.pecha-kucha.org