Pecha kucha-- pronounced pet-shah coot-shah-- is an onomatopoeic Japanese phrase meaning "the sound of casual chatter." But for a small but growing band of international designers, artists and ...

Pecha Kucha, Japanese for “chit chat,” is the new communication style of telling a story using exactly 20 slides, for exactly 20 seconds each, for exactly 6 minutes, 40 seconds of presentation time.

Jeana Pecha likes a good challenge. And at 26, the executive chef at Spokane's Vieux Carré restaurant has sought out and conquered many of them in the past 10 years, chasing a dream to continuously ...

During a pecha kucha presentation (also referred to as 20x20), the speaker shows the audience 20 auto-advancing PowerPoint slides and discusses each one for 20 seconds. The purpose is to swiftly cover ...

On an outdoor patio in Kampala, observers lounge in the near-darkness, watching as an image is projected on a bare white sheet slung between two trees. In Reykjavik, a spellbound audience fills a ...

Howard Mall had exactly 6 minutes and 40 seconds to talk. With 50 people looking on, Mall zipped through his PowerPoint presentation called “20 Ideas You Can Steal,” which included crude drawings of ...

We've all been there. You're trapped at a mildly interesting yet endlessly droning conference or presentation and the only thing keeping you semi conscious is your constant battle with gravity to keep ...

The concept for Pecha Kucha is simple: Speakers share ideas using 20 slideshow images that automatically change every 20 seconds. There's no stopping and no do-overs, so every presentation is exactly ...

MaryBeth Pecha is an Amazon finance manager who moonlights as a game creator. During nearly a decade working in finance and accounting, MaryBeth Pecha experienced the challenges that come from gender ...