Workshop on Professional Skills

Background

Communicate Your Ideas with Impact

Great research deserves to be clearly understood. The Workshop on Professional Skills at IEEE ICIP 2026 will help you turn complex technical content into clear, confident, and engaging communication.

Designed for students, PhD candidates, postdocs, early-career professionals, researchers, and engineers, this workshop focuses on one of the most valuable skills in any technical career: presenting ideas effectively. From conference talks and research seminars to team meetings, interviews, and industry pitches, the ability to communicate with clarity and impact can shape how your work is perceived, remembered, and used.

Through practical guidance on oral presentations, storytelling, slide design, audience adaptation, timing, delivery, and Q&A, participants will gain tools they can immediately apply to their next presentation.

Come ready to learn, reflect, and improve. Leave with practical strategies to present your work more clearly, confidently, and professionally.

Join us at ICIP 2026 and give your ideas the presentation they deserve.


Speaker


Biography: Dr. Ïo Valls-Ratés is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Southern Denmark. She specializes in the field of oral communication and the use of technology to enhance engineers’ abilities to speak in front of audiences and disseminate their research and projects.