pecha kucha

Noun capitalized: Pecha Kucha

Pecha Kucha (countable and uncountable, plural Pecha Kuchas)

1. (uncountable) A rigid presentation format in which the speaker has exactly 20 slides to speak about, with exactly 20 seconds allocated for each slide (20×20).
   • Pecha Kucha is based on a simple idea: that by limiting the number of slides in a presentation, and limiting the amount of time a presenter can spend on each slide, presentations will convey information concisely and at a rapid pace.2010, Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, James Macanufo, Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers, →ISBN, page 111
   • Everyone should try Pecha Kucha—it's a good exercise for getting your story down even if you do not use this exact method for your own live talk.2011, Garr Reynolds, Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery, →ISBN
2. (countable) A presentation given using this format.
   • After they present their Pecha Kuchas, and the class discusses them, we ask the students to go back to the page to reconstruct their arguments in light of the discussion.2011, Laurie E. Gries, Collin Gifford Brooke, “An Inconvenient Tool: Rethinking the Role of Slideware in the Writing Classroom”, in Steve Parks, Linda Adler-Kassner, editors, The Best of the...
   • Each team will have 30 minutes (or some fixed about of time) to plan and create a Pecha Kucha on [name a particular topic]2012, John Chen, 50 Digital Team-Building Games, →ISBN, page 48
3. A set of Pecha Kucha talks all given together in one sitting, typically staged as an evening entertainment.
   • Editioned on the occasion of the 2007 Pecha Kucha of the North American Cartographic Information Society.2011, John Krygier, Denis Wood, Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS, →ISBN, page 13
   • Pecha Kucha nights are now an established format for presentations in the creative industries.2012, Andrew Hugill, The Digital Musician, →ISBN, page 252