Last week saw another set of Cogapp employees return to the world’s best (and quite possibly only) synergy of baking and oration. The rules are simple: Talk about any topic, using twenty slides, each of which last for exactly twenty seconds. Also eat cake. 

I’m sure that the success of this format in recent years must be indirectly related to other rapidly delivered, bite-sized forms of communication. Economy of information is not a new fad – think of the telegraph, the text message, or the famous Spartan response – but with the amount of information overload we are now exposed to, the appeal of a succinct message only seems to be increasing. 

To facilitate our presentations, we also got our tech team to develop a bespoke Pecha Kucha software engine, which takes the medium to places that PowerPoint could only dream of.

Continuing this tradition, and in true Pecha Kucha style, I think it only fair to report on people’s presentations in the most minimal literary form possible; Twitter’s noble ancestor – the haiku.

Pete spoke of Cody / He crossed the sea using kites / Cracking moustache, too.

Denmark is awesome / So rich in design and bikes / (Or so says Helle)

Gavin was grumpy: / “Look at all this stuff I hate” / It made us laugh though.

The semantic web, / Through the life and times of Greg: / Where will it all end?

Andy loves cool books - / Genuinely inspiring. / Such typography!

Here are my two favorite slides: