The Presentation Guild

We’re closing out our 2025 Presentations & AI series with something special:

Derek Johnson, General Manager for PowerPoint, and his great team are joining our host Camille Holden for an interactive deep dive into Copilot for presentations. They’ll demo powerful features, share tips for everyday workflows, and answer our burning Copilot questions—including a peek at what’s coming next.

✨ We have 40+ presentation related events already lined up for 2026 to go live on our schedule next week, including more Presentations & AI sessions. If you're not a member yet - now’s a great time to join!

Some organizations are built from the top down. Ours? Built from the inside out.

Every event, community interaction, and member experience is powered by volunteers who care about making this space better for everyone.

Peek behind the scenes in our on-demand Volunteer Info Session (https://loom.ly/-kzuIzk), and visit our volunteer page (https://loom.ly/OZrWVnE) to learn more.

🎉 Today—September 27, 2025—the Presentation Guild turns 10!

Ten years ago, a bold idea took shape: to unite presentation professionals, elevate our craft, and build a community where presentation design mastery meets excellence. Today, the Presentation Guild has become the profession’s home base—offering certifications, professional standards, and a thriving community of experts and enthusiasts.

This unique community for presentation professionals has been sharing playbooks, publishing research on the state of our profession, and giving members a place to learn, connect, and be seen.

❤️ Huge thanks to the members, volunteers, former and current board members and original founders who’ve poured heart and craft into the last decade.

If the Presentation Guild has inspired or helped you in the last decade, drop your favorite memory or takeaway below 👇

📖 Want to learn more details on how it all got started? The Presentation Guild story begins with a small, annoying moment—one that carried a much bigger message: https://www.presentationguild.org/articles/the-presentation-guild-turning-10-how-it-all-began

💬 Here's to a decade of collaboration, innovation, and impact — and to the next ten years of shaping the future of presentations professionals!

AI isn’t just a trend — it’s transforming how we create, deliver, and even imagine presentations, and the pace of change is only accelerating. That’s why the Presentation Guild hosts our quarterly Presentations & AI series — a space to stay ahead of the latest tools, explore real-world applications, and have candid conversations with peers about the opportunities, challenges, and ethical questions AI brings to our work. Our Presentations & AI series is hosted by the amazing Camille Holden, CEO & Co-Founder or Nuts & Bolts Speed Training.

Last quarter, we dove into the art of crafting powerful prompts to generate presentation content and unleashed our creativity with visuals in Midjourney. Members can watch the recording with the live demo in our events-on-demand library. ➡️Read our summary here: https://loom.ly/VCavlHk

This quarter, we're getting ready for the ultimate showdown: the Presentation AI Prompt-off! Four tools — Copilot, Gamma, Canva, and a ChatGPT Agent — will go head-to-head with the same presentation-focused prompt. We’ll put their output side by side, call out the wins and the fails, and dig into what these tools can (and can’t) deliver for presentation creators.

Our Presentation AI Prompt-off is coming up on Thursday, September 11, at 12:00 pm ET.

🔗 Presentation Guild members can log in and register here: https://loom.ly/r16zLCo