187: Huge Auditorium Presentations Are Complex

<p>Owning the room is doable with an audience of one hundred people but much more challenging when there are five thousand people in an auditorium.  Today we look at how to own the huge room.</p> <p> </p> <p>This is what caught my attention lately: Japan’s disease control center has been hit by cyberattacks amid virus</p> <p> </p> <p>A key disease control center in Japan in the fight against the virus experienced a huge surge in cyberattacks in 2020 with the figure quadrupling to around five point three million from around one point two million.  Many of the attacks originated from Russia and China.  The monthly average in 2019 of one hundred thousand leapt to four hundred and forty thousand  in 2020.</p> <p> </p> <p>Most of the attacks were phising emails. Lately an increasing number have been EMOTET malware which steals the content of past emails and attempts to dupe email readers into thinking they have received replies from people and organisations they know.</p> <p> </p> <p>The chances of this happening and happening regularly are remote for most of us.  The happening regularly part is the key, because when you are dealing at this scale, you need to get practice to really master the big stage.  Nevertheless, in case you find yourself in front of a very large audience, here are a few hints on how to adjust to the increased size of the event.</p> <p> </p> <p>Get there early and go and sit in some of the most far flung locations.  It might be the last row at the back or the rear seats on the elevated third tier of the venue.  What you will notice, is that anyone on stage is quite small at that distance.  You realize you will seem like a peanut to audience members seated at the far extremes and so you need to “big up” your presentation to suit the tyranny of distance.</p> <p> </p> <p>The stage area is usually quite long and wide in big venues, but you need to be investigating the front of the stage.  Often there is an orchestra pit or a defined space between the front row of seats and the stage itself.  You will