Presenting Conference Talks

You've written a conference paper and now need slides for your talk. This generates both Beamer LaTeX PDFs and editable PPTX files from your compiled paper, complete with speaker notes and optional talk scripts. It handles the different formats you'll encounter: poster talks (5-8 slides for 3-5 minutes), spotlights (8-12 slides), oral presentations (15-22 slides), and invited talks (25-40 slides). The templates follow systems conference conventions with architecture walkthroughs, demo slides, and evaluation highlights. Built by Orchestra Research with structure inspired by the ARIS paper-slides tooling. If you're staring at your accepted paper wondering how to turn it into a 20-minute talk for SOSP or a 5-minute spotlight for NeurIPS, this does the structural work.

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$ npx -y skills add orchestra-research/ai-research-skills --skill presenting-conference-talks --agent claude-code

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Presenting Conference Talks: From Paper to Slides

Generate conference presentation slides from a compiled research paper. Produces both Beamer LaTeX PDF (for polished typesetting) and editable PPTX (for last-minute adjustments), with speaker notes and an optional talk script.

When to Use This Skill

Scenario	Use This Skill	Use Other Skills Instead
Preparing oral/spotlight/poster-talk slides	✅
Generating Beamer PDF + PPTX from paper	✅
Speaker notes and talk script	✅
Writing the paper itself		ml-paper-writing
Structuring a systems paper		systems-paper-writing
Creating publication-quality plots		academic-plotting

Attribution: This skill's structure draws inspiration from the ARIS paper-slides skill (570 lines, supporting poster/spotlight/oral/invited with Beamer+PPTX). This is an independent implementation for the AI-Research-SKILLs ecosystem.