* Think on your feet: Describe the visuals, use story telling techniques and encourage audience participation. * Draw diagrams or illustrations if there’s a whiteboard available. * Show videos or animations on a mobile device. * Focus on the presentation key messages and takeaways.

In order to keep your audience engaged while your slides are failing to load, you can always bring humour into that, such as: "Well, it seems my slides are on a coffee break!" Don’t wait for the slides to load – just carry on for the time being if you can.

If your slides don’t load, stay calm and don’t panic. Acknowledge the glitch and let the audience know you have things under control. Work on your storytelling and narrate the examples in your slides like a story to capture the audiences attention. Use simple, clear words to explain your points and keep it relatable. Paint a visual picture with your words to help them imagine what you’re saying. If a whiteboard is available you could jot down key concepts. Incorporate Q&A and audience polls to build engagement and involvement. Most importantly - as a habit work on rehearsing your content both with and without slides and internalise your flow completely - so such glitches do not throw you off.

Slides failing is not a presentation failing. YOU are the presentation. If you're not prepared to deliver without your deck, are you really prepared? Know your material cold. Live it. Breathe it. Got a product to showcase? Paint that picture with words. Make them feel the problem, yearn for YOUR solution. Better yet - bring the actual product. Let them touch it, try it, experience it. Your audience didn't come for a PowerPoint show - they came for insight, knowledge, solutions. Give them that, and they won't even remember there were supposed to be slides. Next time? Have backup plans for your backup plans. But right now? Own that room. Get it? The best speakers don't hide behind slides - they connect with their audience.

If your presentation slides fail to load, stay calm and focus on keeping the audience engaged through your delivery. Instead of relying on visuals, explain key points clearly and confidently, using storytelling or relevant anecdotes to illustrate your message. Encourage interaction by asking questions or inviting feedback from the audience, turning the situation into a collaborative discussion. If necessary, share handouts or direct them to online resources for reference. By maintaining a positive attitude and focusing on effective communication, you can ensure the audience remains informed and engaged despite the technical issue.

1. Try to excuse yourself and apologise for the tech-flop. 2. If not possible to excuse yourself, try to keep the conversation going with a good set of Q&A which can engage the audience and land your point. 3. Visually try to explain the concept 4. If you're not presenting numbers on a report, or presenting a concept, then get a YouTube video or Image from google and try to explain as much as you can about that topic. 5. If you are presenting numbers, make sure you have them in a screenshot written down on pen paper/printed out somewhere in case there is a techflop.