When giving talks, I generally try to avoid plain slide decks. I usually build my presentations using impress.js, which means they're 3D. If you've heard of Prezzi, you'll have an idea of what to expect.
Below are some example talks I've given in this style. When you open them, you can use the spacebar to move to the next slide, or the left and right arrow keys to move back and forth.
Keep in mind that the elasicon presentation will be more formal than these examples. The nature of the talks and the target audience allowed them to be very fun and filled with memes, but an elasticon talk would naturally be more stoic and professional.
https://smartprocure.github.io/dc-talk
This is an older, very informal talk covering some of the contexture-client design. Back then, contexture leaf nodes were referred to as DataContexts, and non leaf nodes were called ContextGroups.
It's also worth pointing out that early on in the presentation, there's a part that seems a bit incoherent and hard to follow, which is intentional. It's an attempt to narrate how a design without our solution devolves into unmanageable complexity and should in fact be hard to follow.
https://app.smartprocure.us/docs/presentations/sails11
This begins as a "normal" slide show but quickly transforms into something else entirely. This was one of my first talks in this style.
We use sailsjs for some projects at SmartProcure, and there were a lot of changes when we upgraded from 0.9 to 0.11 in 2015. Instead of a boring list, this presentation was built to show everything people would notice that was different after the upgrade.