PechaKucha™ Origins

(Left, Astrid Klein. Right, Mark Dytham.)

PechaKucha™ began because, well, because people talk too much!

In 2003, yearning for “More show. Less tell,” architects Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Tokyo’s Klein Dytham architecture invented PechaKucha™. The initial purpose: to streamline long design presentations. Sessions soon morphed into happenings: PechaKucha Nights -- first in Tokyo, then around the world. Today, more than 50,000 people present at 1,200+ global PechaKucha Nights every year. And the number keeps exploding. Today, schools and businesses use PechaKucha™ to creatively and effectively engage students and employees on a range of subject matters.