The State of Making Presentation Slides with AI in 2026

There are more AI tools promising to fix your presentations than ever. Most of them work, to a point. The problem is nobody tells you where that point is until you've already built something you can't edit, can't share cleanly, or can't hand off without explaining why it looks weird in PowerPoint.

This workshop gives you a clear-eyed tour of what's out there, how to think about the tradeoffs, and how to build a workflow that ends with something useful.

We'll also spend serious time on the part most people skip: using AI before you touch any slide tool at all. The research, the outline, the structure, the visual thinking. Get that right and every tool works better.

You'll walk away with:

• A working map of the top AI slide tools and workflows, what each one is genuinely good for, and where each one will let you down.
• A clear framework for choosing your tools based on one question: what do you need to walk away with at the end?
• A pre-build workflow you can use immediately, so AI is doing the heavy lifting before you open your first slide.

Who this is for:
You make presentations. You've poked at a few AI tools and gotten mixed results. You want a clear, honest framework so you stop guessing.