Club Verification
Verisity Users' Group Meeting

ClubV Overview
Speaker's Guidelines
Creating Your Presentation
At the Meeting
Proceedings
The Presentation
ClubV Schedules

Speaker's Guidelines

Verisity's users group is an exciting opportunity to establish an annual meeting for verification engineers to come together and share ideas and methodologies for verifying your complex designs.

This also represents an opportunity for you to share your experiences with Verisity products in front of a group of your peers. In general, the best presentations begin by describing the problem, how you and your team chose to solve that problem, discuss whether that solution worked, how well it worked (or didn't work), what you would do next time in a similar situation, and summarize with your conclusions.

Remember that attendees are Verisity customers and therefore are well versed on verification. Therefore your presentation can be highly technical. Also, they are attending because they are interested in finding out what you know that they don't, or how they can learn from your experiences. Concentrate on the points that would be of most interest to your peers.

Creating Your Presentation

The emphasis on creating your paper should be on the content and organization of the paper. Don't worry about formatting, or the look of the presentation. Verisity can supply a PowerPoint template for your use and can also provide formatting, graphics and animation services. Contact Jennifer Bilsey at 650-934-6823 or jen@verisity.com if you need assistance in preparing your presentation.

Also, to minimize your work, you are free to create your presentation in either a paper format or a slide format (e.g., using PowerPoint), or both. We're not requiring you to create papers in both formats. Remember though, that you will be presenting your paper in front of an audience, so you may choose to create the entire paper in PowerPoint. We will publish the paper in the proceedings in the format you prefer.

If your presentation will go in the proceedings booklet in PowerPoint, try to include speakers' notes with your slides. These will help give more explanation behind each slide, especially slides with a lot of graphics and not a lot of text. Remember that a picture is worth a thousand words. Use graphs, illustrations or drawings whenever possible and include an explanation of the illustration in the speakers notes.

Please email them to rchope@verisity.com. These will be reproduced for the hard copy proceedings.

At the Meeting

We will run the presentations from a laptop PC connected to an infocus machine. The PC supports Microsoft Office 2000, and Internet Explorer 5. Verisity will supply the laptop computer. If your presentation requires additional software, please contact Ric Chope at 650-934-6820 or rchope@verisity.com.

There will be a moderator at each of the sessions to introduce speakers, preside over the questions and answers session, keep an eye on the clock and troubleshoot any technical problems.

Proceedings

By giving a presentation at the users' group, you are also agreeing to have the presentation/paper reprinted in the hardcopy proceedings and posted on the Verification Vault. The proceedings will be distributed to Verisity customers and prospects, employees and contractors.

The Presentation

In giving your presentation, use it as a chance to discuss your experience rather than read your slides to the audience. The slides will be printed in the proceedings, so attendees can read them later. The slides should remind you of the points you want to get across. Feel free to skip over points in the slides that are self-explanatory. Your speech does not have to be formal — let your personality come through.