Pitching For Life With Walid O. El Cheikh

Join us on the 5th of July at Flat6Labs Beirut for the Pitching for Life workshop with Walid O. El Cheikh.

Pitching is a crucial skill for every game developer. At any point in time, you will have to pitch your game idea, tool or technology to investors, publishers and even your own teammates. Now we've brought an expert who's taught people how to pitch, including those in the game industry, for years now!

Make sure to join us and sign up on Eventbrite now:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pitching-for-life-walid-o-el-cheikh-tickets-64242635452?aff=efbeventtix

• Schedule:

• Introduction to Pitching
  What is Pitching?
  The Components of a Pitch
  For Whom? When? Where?
  The Wheel of Pitching

• How to Design a Pitch?
  Why-Do-We-Exist/Pitch Framework
  Persuasion Techniques
  Your Role as a Presenter
  Variables Affecting Your Pitch

• The Different Pitching Variations:
  One Sentence Pitch
  8 Seconds Pitch
  30 Seconds Pitch
  60 Seconds Pitch
  1-10 Minutes Pitch
  10-30 Minutes Pitch
  30+ Minutes Pitch

About the Speaker

Walid has coached pitching to thousands of participants including students, startup founders, managers, executives and government officials (e.g. Ambassadors). His approach focuses on helping people to find their own style, practice at their own pace, gain confidence and self-improve. He combines notions from entrepreneurship, design thinking, storytelling, networking, acting, improvisation, public speaking, and psychology. Walid believes that pitching is similar to riding a bike or swimming, everyone can learn it. Walid has designed and delivered public talks (15-60 minutes), workshops (2-9 hours), executive training (1-2 days) and semester-long courses in schools and universities (6-8 weeks). His content is flexible and straight-forward. He is used to coach on the spot to various audiences from diverse backgrounds and age groups (from 7 to 70 years old).

For more info about the speaker check out pitchingforlife.com

This event is organized by LebGameDev, the community initiative that aims assist and stand by any game developer and enthusiast in Lebanon.