Thank you for considering a presentation to the Seattle Robotics Society. This information should give you an idea of what presenting to the SRS looks like. We hope you find us an inviting audience. We want this to be a fun and enjoyable experience for you.

Our members love to hear about robots, interesting applications of technology in robotics, development tools, and interesting technology in general as it may relate to robotics (or not). We allocate the second hour or so of our meetings to an invited technical presenter, who starts right after a short (5-10 min) mid-meeting break. Before the meeting or during the break we’ll get you set up by sharing your opening presentation slide. After the break, you will be introduced and handed the ball to start your presentation. Plan on 45 to 60 minutes total, including questions and answers with the goal of wrapping up around noon PT. After the meeting, we also would like, if possible, to post your presentation slides on our website. If we can, please send them as a PDF file (preferred; or a link to cloud storage) to SeattleRoboticsSociety@gmail.com at your earliest convenience. If the slides have embedded videos, please remove them since they will already have been recorded during the meeting. All content of the presentation should be publically shareable (nothing proprietary) since our meetings are recorded on Zoom and posted later on our YouTube channel. 

The presentation content should be mostly technical in nature, though if you have other ideas, contact us to discuss them in detail. For example, we have had presenters talk about their research around how people interact with robots, so though not strictly technical in nature, this was still an interesting and engaging presentation. The audience consists mostly of adults, but can have children with their parents, so keep that in mind. We avoid overt sales pitches about a technical product or service, however, sharing technical product information, capabilities, applications, and doing demonstrations is perfectly fine as long as the audience doesn’t feel pressure to buy something. The goal should be to share information and experiences. To see what has been presented to us in the past, access videos on this list of past presentations.

At this time our meetings are only online using Zoom. We might resume in-person meetings some time in a hybrid format (online+in-person) but there are currently no plans for this. We have only been recording and posting our meetings on YT since May 2021. 

A week or two before our meeting and your presentation, you will receive reminder emails from us confirming the date and time details, and containing the meeting Zoom link. During your presentation, we encourage the use Zoom’s Chat Window for audience questions, comments, and links along with your talk. This makes gathering this information easy and accurate, and allows you to field questions at your convenience. Keep the Chat Window open and visible so you can see things as the audience responds. We also suggest attending the entire meeting to get a feel for your audience and so we can test your setup. This will gives us a chance to meet beforehand, make sure your presentation looks the way you want it to in Zoom, and address any last-minute details and questions.

The Zoom meeting will be up and running 15-20 minutes before the SRS meeting starts.  The Zoom link below will take you straight into the meeting.

(Zoom Meeting ID: 896 0393 7141 — Meeting Passcode: 1982)

The Seattle Robotics Society is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation and so does not have funds to pay presenters. However, we greatly appreciate your willingness to share your knowledge and experiences with us and always give full credit to presenters and your technical content. Submit any questions you have about our club to: SeattleRoboticsSociety(at)gmail.com

SRS Code of Conduct

Page was last updated on 11/20/25