negotimer

Short pitches almost always run long. You asked for three minutes each. Five minutes in, the next speaker is getting nervous, the Q&A gets cut, and the last few presenters end up rushing. Meanwhile the host keeps resetting a phone stopwatch and trying to catch someone's eye. negotimer takes that job off your hands. ■ Pitch, questions, and changeover — as one flow Set the appeal time, the question time, and the gaps you want between speakers and between questioners once, then just press start. negotimer moves through the phases on its own and repeats them for everyone in the room. A beep at ten seconds left, a 3-2-1 countdown, an end alarm. The background colour shifts as time runs down, so a speaker only has to glance at the screen. No one has to interrupt to announce the time. Question time works three ways: Individual, giving each questioner their own slot; Shared, one block of time…