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title: "Giving a presentation on Dapr"
linkTitle: "Presentations"
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description: How to give a presentation on Dapr and examples
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We welcome community members giving presentations on Dapr and spreading the word about all the awesome Dapr features! We offer a template PowerPoint file to get started.

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## Giving a Dapr presentation

- Begin by downloading the [Dapr Presentation Deck](/presentations/dapr-slidedeck.zip). This contains slides and diagrams needed to give a Dapr presentation.
- Next, review the docs to make sure you understand the [concepts]({{< ref concepts >}}).
- Use the Dapr [quickstarts](https://github.com/dapr/quickstarts) repo and [samples](https://github.com/dapr/samples) repo to show demos of how to use Dapr.

## Previous Dapr presentations

| Presentation | Recording | Deck |
|--------------|-----------|------|
| Ignite 2019: Mark Russinovich Presents the Future of Cloud Native Applications | [Link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAUDVk8PaCY) | [Link](/presentations/2019IgniteCloudNativeApps.pdf)
| Azure Community Live: Build microservice applications using DAPR with Mark Fussell | [Link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgqI7nen-Ng) | N/A
| Ready 2020: Mark Russinovich Presents Cloud Native Applications | [Link](https://youtu.be/eJCu6a-x9uo?t=1614) | [Link](/presentations/2020ReadyCloudNativeApps.pdf)
| Ignite 2021: Mark Russinovich Presents Dapr v1.0 Release | [Link](https://youtu.be/69PrhWQorEM?t=3789) | N/A

## Additional resources

There are other Dapr resources on the [community](https://github.com/dapr/community) repo.