The talk will be followed by 20 minutes of discussion. This document contains guidelines to help prepare your talk for the Doctoral Consortium. The first part lists topics that should be covered, the second lists some pitfalls to avoid, and the third gives some advice about preparing the overheads. Your talk should cover the following topics. For example, it is easy to spend too much time on background and related work.
Judicious summary is needed, which is often more difficult than giving full detail.
Don't include too many slides. Racing through lots of slides, especially if you're running out of time towards the end of the talk, does not generally make a good impression on the audience. If you do find that you're running out of time, it's better to skip some sections and move on to your conclusions than rush through everything. Think in advance about how you can adjust your talk if you run out of time. It's always a good idea to give a dry run of your talk in advance.