Oral presentations
- All presentations should be brought to the IT Room Dischma and uploaded into the central system at least 24 hours prior to the day of your presentation.
- There is no specific template provided or required in reference to the conference.
- Your PowerPoint file should be named as follows: Day_Time_Title_PresenterName.pptx (example: Thursday_1050_The presentation title_Name.pptx)
- To ensure the smooth running of the presentations, speakers are requested to be in their session room 10 minutes before the start of the session.
- No personal computers will be allowed. All presentations must be in PowerPoint format 16:9 or PDF format. There is no template.
- Please plan an oral presentation of 8 minutes and with at least 2 minutes for discussion. Discussion is an essential element of the scientific work and makes a conference lively and constructive. Chairpersons will cut presenters off who try to use the discussion time for their presentation.
Mac users: please make sure your presentation has the proper format layout and fonts when opened in Microsoft PowerPoint.
When you are preparing your presentation, please be sure to include information noting the point below; disclosure of content, relevant to your presentation for each bullet point listed below.
- Received royalties for any pharmaceutical, biomaterial, cell based products, medical products or devices
- Within the past 12 months served on a speakers bureau/paid honorarium to present by any pharmaceutical, biomaterial, cell based products, medical products or device company
- Paid employee for any pharmaceutical, biomaterial, cell based products, medical products or device or equipment company, or supplier
- Paid consultant for any pharmaceutical, biomaterial, cell based products, medical products or device or equipment, company, or supplier
- Unpaid consultant for any pharmaceutical, biomaterial, cell based products, medical products or device or equipment company, or supplier
- Own stock or stock options in any pharmaceutical, biomaterial, cell based products, medical products or device or equipment company, or supplier (excluding mutual funds)
- Receive research or institutional support as a principal investigator from any pharmaceutical, biomaterial, cell based products, medical products or device or equipment company, or supplier
- Receive any other financial material support from any pharmaceutical, biomaterial, cell based products, medical products or device or equipment company, or supplier
- Receive any royalties, financial material support from any medical and/or scientific publisher
Poster presentations
- Poster sizes- A0 Portrait style (no landscape allowed) – max 841 mm wide by 1189 mm tall.
- Please bring along your printed poster as the congress does not provide printing services.
- Please check the program for your poster number. Your poster location will be identified by that number.
- Posters will be arranged numerically and organized by topic. A poster map will be displayed next to the poster area and be available at the registration desk.
- We encourage presenters to set up their poster on Sunday, June 15, between 17:00 and 19:00. Your poster MUST be mounted before the poster room officially opens at 10:00 on Monday, June 16.
- It will be the presenter responsibility to hang the respective posters on the space assigned according to the given number.
- Thumbtacks will be provided for you to fix your poster.
- Posters must be removed by Thursday 13:00. Posters which are not taken down by this time will be removed by the conference organizers and destroyed.
Moderators
- The moderator should arrive in the room at least 15 minutes before the session.
- Please have the names of the speakers, notes for introductions, a list of housekeeping items, and a list of potential questions.
- Remind the audience that cell phones should be turned off or placed into silent mode.
- Make sure to keep the schedule of your session.
- At the end of your session, please prompt the audience to visit poster sessions, sponsors’ displays, and keynote talks.
- Chairs are requested to be present for the entire duration of the session and to moderate the live Q&A. Try to foster healthy scientific debate and constructive criticism. Questions and answers should be straight to the point.
- Discussion is essential to scientific progress. Each keynote lecture is 25 minutes long; 20 minutes of presentation and 5 minutes of Q/A.
- Each short presentation is 10 minutes long; 8 minutes, followed by 2 minutes of Q/A. There will be a few minutes calculated in for the change of speaker on the podium.