Green Collar Technologies

View last year’s presenters and panelists.

The Opportunity
Share your efforts and connect with your neighbors, peers, colleagues from around the island. Present facts and figures as an expert in your field to a large audience. Each presenter receives four tickets to the event and a presenters pass. The presenters pass gives access to backstage ready room. Presenters are invited to connect with our social media partners.

Fill out the short form to apply to present.

Format of the Event
Overview - Ten presenters each giving a single 10 minute presentation. All presenters are invited to assemble back on stage for a moderated question and answer session from the audience.

Presentations
Presentations should contain facts related to our island’s sustainability or facts to help folks live more self-sufficiently. Key indicators, metrics and information residents need to know to make informed decisions. Presentations should help attendees understand our island’s key self-sufficiency concerns in your field. This important opportunity can serve many by illuminating information which helps us live self-sufficiently.

This event and its assets, ie; your presentation are all being released under a creative commons, share-alike license. Attribution is required, more details here. This means we’re putting all the presentations on the web for folks to download later.

Schedule (Updated!)

• 4:00pm – Presenter orientation. Presenters (guest ticket holders invited) will gather inside the Palace Theater for a short walk-through of the event. We’ll meet in the theater lobby.
• 4:30pm – Doors open to public.
• 5:00pm – Event timeline begins Opening Pule, playing including music and videos. Attendees begin taking seats.
• 5:15 – Opening presentation introduced, begins, ends and first short video plays. Presentations are then delivered between alternating video shorts.
• 7:00 – Intermission announced. Attendees asked to share manao, eat food, grab a drink and return in 15-20 minutes.
• 7:15 –  Mahalos to presenters and brief recap of presentations and panelist are introduced.
• 7:30 – Second half of presentations are given.
• 8:45 – Panel Discussion. Presenters assemble on stage for questions from the audience. A microphone will be available near the front (stage left) to collect questions from attendees. This is a moderated discussion with GCT Volunteers managing the clock and the microphone.
• 9:45-10:00 – Event timeline ends Closing.

Critical Dates

• March 18th. Noon. Complete multimedia slide presentations delivered by 8pm. You may want to consider getting your presentation in a day early. There will be no opportunity to change your slides later.

Format of Your Presentation
Presentations are accepted in any standard format such as;

• Slides should be sized at 1024 x 768 (Important!)
• Images (bmp, jpg, gif, png, etc. at 1024 x 768)
• Slide presentation software (powerpoint, google presentations, etc.)
• Audio (mp3, wav, wmv)
• Video (We can use your video if it’s posted on Google Video or YouTube. Send url.)
• No more than twenty slides should be submitted. 10-15 slides would be ideal.
• Here’s a link to a slideshow that contains thousands of photos found via creative commons license search.
• Here’s a sample slide presentation in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) and PowerPoint (PPT) formats.
• Courier, Georgia, Trebuchet, Verdana, Arial, Times fonts will work as you use them. No promises on using any other fonts. If you’re creating your presentation on a Mac, let us know now.

Since your presentation source file is being built into a single event timeline some modifications may need to be made. There will be no opportunity to change you slides later. So keep them simple and based on existing facts that you can aggregate before the deadline. Your presentation will also be seen before and after a video. If you are aware of a video we can use on stage that will compliment your presentation, send us the file or url or both.

Call Brent with any questions – 896-7656