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.

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Talk Types and Slide Counts

Talk Type	Duration	Slides	Content Depth
poster-talk	3, 5 min	5, 8	Problem + key result only
spotlight	5, 8 min	8, 12	Problem + approach + key results
oral	15, 20 min	15, 22	Full story with evaluation highlights
invited	30, 45 min	25, 40	Deep dive with context and demos

Rule of thumb: ~1 slide per minute for oral, ~1.5 slides per minute for spotlight.

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Slide Structure Templates

Poster-Talk (5, 8 slides)

Slide 1: Title + Authors + Affiliation
Slide 2: Problem, Why this matters (1 motivating figure)
Slide 3: Key Insight, One-sentence thesis
Slide 4: Approach Overview, Architecture diagram
Slide 5: Main Result, Headline numbers (1 figure)
Slide 6: Takeaway + QR code to paper/code

Spotlight (8, 12 slides)