Speakers and Oral Abstract Presenters Information

DISCLOSURE OF CONFLICT OF INTEREST

The Congress Programme Committee requests speakers and chairpersons to disclose potential conflict of interest regarding the topics of the presentations during the first slide of the session for Chairpersons or the first slide of the presentation for Speakers. This will allow the audience to take potential conflicts of interest into account when assessing the objectivity of the presentation. A potential conflict of interest may arise from various relationships, past or present, such as employment, consultancy, investments and stock ownership, funding for research, family relationship, etc.
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Speaker Guidelines

All speakers giving a presentation in scientific sessions are requested to upload and validate their presentation in the Speaker Service Centre (SSC) at least 3 hours prior to the scheduled presentation time.
We strongly recommend that all speakers upload their presentations in advance.

All PCs in the SSC and the lecture rooms will run Windows XP and Office 2003

If you have technical questions regarding your presentation before the congress, you may contact our audiovisual department by clicking here.

For general scientific questions, please contact us.

RESTRICTIONS:  Personal laptop computers cannot be connected to the projectors in lecture rooms & presentation cannot be loaded directly onto the computer in the lecture rooms.

To the attention of MAC users! 
If your presentation is on a Mac computer, we kindly urge you to meet with a dedicated Mac technician in the SSC to either make sure that your presentation will run properly on the PC’s or to anticipate a backup solution.
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Abstract Presenter Guidelines

 Oral Abstract Session

Your abstract will be presented during an oral abstract session.
6 presentations will take place in the session. Each presenter has 15 minutes to present his work. 10 minutes powerpoint presentation + 5 minutes question-and-answer period.

All speakers giving a presentation in scientific sessions are requested to upload and validate their presentation in the Speaker Service Centre (SSC).

All PCs in the SSC and the lecture rooms will run Windows XP and Office 2003

If you have technical questions regarding your presentation before the congress, you may contact our audiovisual department by clicking here.

For general scientific questions, please contact us.

RESTRICTIONS:  Personal laptop computers cannot be connected to the projectors in lecture rooms & presentation cannot be loaded directly onto the computer in the lecture rooms.

To the attention of MAC users! 
If your presentation is on a Mac computer, we kindly urge you to meet with a dedicated Mac technician in the SSC to either make sure that your presentation will run properly on the PC’s or to anticipate a backup solution.

 Poster Presentation Format

Your abstract will be presented during a Poster session or a moderated poster session.

A) Set up:

If your presentation is in the morning your poster must be set up between 08:00 and 08:30, removed between 12.00 and 12:30- to be on display from 08:30 until 12:00. You or one of your co-authors must be present throughout the coffee break (10:00-10:30) in order to discuss the poster.

If your presentation is in the afternoon your poster must be set up between 13:30 and 14:00, removed between 17:30 and 18:00 - to be on display between 14:00 and 18:00. You or one of your co-authors should be present throughout the coffee break (15:45-16:30) in order to discuss the poster.

B) Technical information:

Maximum dimensions for the poster: landscape 100cm (height) x 145cm (width)

Please note these dimensions and keep for when you prepare your poster.
Suggestion: Design your poster layout in the following sections:

1. Title, author(s), address (at upper edge, across the width of whole poster)

2. Purpose

3. Methods

4. Results

5. Conclusions

The title should be emphasized by the use of bold-face type. When displayed the letters used should not be smaller than 15mm.
The subtitle should be printed in the same kind of lettering, but semi-bold and not less than 10mm high when displayed.
This guarantees clear reading even from a distance of 2-3 meters.
      
The text should be broken up by the inclusion of drawings and/or photos.
The use of colour makes the poster more attractive and effective.
Material for mounting your poster to the poster board will be supplied by the organizers. Please refer to the ESC staff in the poster area for further assistance.