Pecha Kucha

Meanings

1. A rigid presentation format in which the speaker has exactly 20 slides to speak about, with exactly 20 seconds allocated for each slide (20×20).
2. A presentation given using this format.
3. A set of Pecha Kucha talks all given together in one sitting, typically staged as an evening entertainment.

1. Alternative letter-case form of Pecha Kucha.

Etymology

Coined by British architect and author Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein in 2003 from onomatopoeic Japanese ぺちゃくちゃ (pechakucha, “continuously and in a lively fashion [of speech]”, adverb).