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A Pecha Kucha presentation utilizes imagery and efficient use of spoken word to create a seamless, memorable, meaningful and concise presentation.

What Is PechaKucha? PechaKucha—also written as “Pecha Kucha”—is a presentation format that requires a speaker to deliver twenty seconds of commentary per slide for twenty consecutive, automatically advancing slides. The total presentation time for a PechaKucha presentation is six minutes and forty seconds.

The rules for a Pecha Kucha presentation are simple: The presentation must contain exactly 20 slides that are displayed for precisely 20 seconds each, making the total presentation time six minutes and 40 seconds. That's why Pecha Kucha presentations are also frequently called 20×20 presentations.

PowerPoint and Pecha Kucha are both tools for slideshow-based presentation, but they present information in drastically different ways. The key difference between their formats is in the timing of the resulting slideshow. This time difference gives each program its benefits and disadvantages.

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PechaKucha, which means "the sound of conversation" in Japanese, was first conceived by Tokyo architects Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham, who were seeking a way to encourage student presenters to use PowerPoint in a more organized and succinct manner.