Take every opportunity to chat casually with some of the audience members or fellow panelists before your presentation. Put a good deal of physical energy into your presentation. You are in the spotlight, so use vocal inflection and timing that fits the ideas and stories you are relating. Speak loudly enough to be heard by people in the last row. Inaudibility is the single greatest vocal sin.
Nothing is more irritating to participants than having to strain to hear speakers.
Use pauses to let points sink in. A strong well-modulated, enthusiastic voice is one of an accounting professionals' best practice development tools. Most importantly, say what you truly believe Whatever your subject or audience, your presentation conveys as much about you as it does about your practice, your theories, your proposal or your platform. You are ultimately selling yourself, so make yourself come alive and share with your audience. They will be grateful you did.