#VisualizeIT: From Tech Documentation to Public Speaking

#Visualize IT: Sketch The Docs and Chalk the Talk - Visual Storytelling for Better Communication

If you work in tech, chances are you’ve “written documentation” or given a “technical talk” to a diverse audience. Visual Storytelling skills can help you improve written or delivered content in a way that improves your audience’s comprehension and recall. In this workshop we’ll explore this space in four segments:

Visual Storytelling Toolkit = practicing basic drawing concepts
Chalk The Talk = visualizing your talk before you even begin creating the first slide
Sketch The Docs = distilling technical information into visual cheatsheets for easier review or recall
Practice Makes Perfect = choose your own adventure and apply what you learned to your own project

All you need is paper, pens, color pencils or markers and a sense of adventure.

Speaker Bio:

Nitya Narasimhan
Nitya is a community & technology advocate with 20+ years of experience across industry, academia, startups and consultancy. She has a PhD in Computer Engineering with software research & development expertise spanning distributed systems, ubiquitous & social computing, mobile web, cloud & ML/AI.

She's passionate about building inclusive communities and pragmatic software solutions that address real-world needs. Her mission is to help developers translate awareness of emerging technologies & platforms like Microsoft Azure into actionable impact on products, careers and communities.

She is also a Google Developer Expert in Flutter, the founding organizer for the Google Developer Group NYC (community) and DevFest NYC (conference), and a frequent public speaker and educator focused on technology development, personal & professional growth topics.

Learn more at https://nityan.me or connect with @nitya on Twitter.