Rehearse three times:
- First alone
- Second with supportive audience (partner, friends, colleagues)
- Finally, a smaller local meetup
By the conference you'll know your timings & punchlines by heart and have ironed out any kinks, so you can focus on having fun
Only three times? I'd rehearse alone more than that. Use presenter notes extensively during rehearsals but as you learn it trim it to key points as reminders in large type but with no scrolling needed to see all notes per slide.
Only three. I do it for weeks before hand. I don’t stop until I know the next slide before I click.i have had to do a talk once where equipment messed up and I couldn’t see screen or laptop and did it blind.