Sessions add presentation guidelines

Oral Presentation Guidelines

Timing of Oral Presentations

  • 12 minutes to present
  • 3 minutes for Q&A

Speaker Ready Room:

All speakers must check in at the Speaker Ready Room preferably the day before your session to preview your presentation. If you are checking in on the day of your session, please come by at least 4 hours prior to the start of your session. Technicians will assist with the upload of your files and provide the opportunity to preview and/or edit the presentation as necessary. If you are unavoidably delayed, you must still go directly to the Speaker Ready Room. Do not bring a laptop or other media device directly to the session room.

When reviewing your presentation in the Speaker Ready Room, make sure all fonts, images, and animations appear as expected and that all audio or video clips are working properly. The computers in the meeting rooms are identical in configuration to the computers in the Speaker Ready Room.

Apple Mac computers will not be provided in any of the RSD50th session rooms. Please come to the Speaker Ready Room if your presentation is created in Apple’s “Keynote” presentation software. There will be a Mac computer in Speaker Ready available for presenters to use in Speaker Ready only. Depending on the requirements of your presentation we may allow an exception for use of your laptop in the room for a Keynote presentation. This must be arranged in advance!

All electronic files must be submitted in the Speaker Ready room using one of the formats listed below:

  • PowerPoint 2010 or earlier version
  • Video Playback: Windows Media Player; QuickTime
  • PDF Reader: Adobe Acrobat
  • Unix Users: Bring HTML Files or Adobe Acrobat
  • PowerPoint 2010 or earlier version: For best results, PowerPoint 2007/2008 users should save their presentations in those versions’ native .pptx format, and not in the PowerPoint ’97-2003 format.

 

Poster Guidelines

  1. The poster board should measure approx.   100 cm high x   80 cm  wide and be made of material that will accept double-sided tape.
  2. Posters must be prepared and printed in advance by the authors and should be large enough to be viewed from a distance of 1 meter.
  3. Use a Times Roman, Times New Roman font type size between 14 – 20 pt. that can be read easily from a considerable distance. The title should be larger than the rest of the text.
  4. Posters should have a label at the top showing the title of the paper, the name(s) of the author(s) and their affiliation(s). The size of the characters f or the title should be at least 2.5 cm high. The posters should be in English only.
  5. The abstract should clearly indicate the aim of the poster, its objectives and messages, a brief discussion and a conclusion.
  6. The total number of words in the body of the abstract, including references, should not exceed 450.
  7. Illustrations, tables and charts should be clear and simple.
  8. Authors will be asked to mount their poster in the afternoon of January 20, 2015 and remove it after the last session of the Conference.