Speaker information

DISCLOSURE OF CONFLICT OF INTEREST

The Congress Programme Committee requests speakers and chairs to disclose potential conflict of interest regarding the topics of the presentations during the first slide of the session for Chairs 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.

Speakers must upload their presentation(s) in advance:

EITHER online from 19 August to 1 September (midnight GMT). All speakers were sent an email with their personal link on 19 August (except FOCUS speakers who must upload in the FOCUS lounge).

OR in the Speakers Service Centre (SSC) in Zone 4 a minimum of 3 hours before the session starts or the day before if the session is at 8:30! Presentations received after this deadline cannot be guaranteed audiovisual support.

For ALL other presentations (Chairpersons introductions, satellites sessions, etc…), bring them on a CD-Rom, DVD-Rom, Memory Stick or Laptop to the SSC.

THE SPEAKERS SERVICE CENTRE (SSC)

Please note that the SSC is located on the 1st floor above Zone 4.

When to visit

Peak hours of operation in the SSC are during coffee breaks and lunch breaks.
In order to maximise your time in the SSC, and the attention that we are able to give you, we highly recommend visiting early in the morning or during the sessions.

Inside the SSC

The SSC hostesses will be happy to welcome you in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.
Highly experienced and skilled technicians will assist you to transfer and to confirm your presentation(s).
Once uploaded to the respective lecture room, presentations will be played locally.

Rehearsal: In the SSC, a demonstration computer will be representative of what is supplied in the lecture room.
We strongly recommend that all speakers should familiarise themselves with the mouse control.

All PCs in the SSC and the lecture rooms will run Windows XP and Office 2007.
If you have technical questions regarding your presentation before the congress, you may contact: helpdesk@m-events.eu
For general scientific programme questions, please contact ESC Scientific Department 
                    *Caution, please do NOT attach any presentation to e-mails

For 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 PCs or to anticipate a backup solution.

In the lecture room   

From the lectern, you will be the one to launch your presentation using the friendly interface and control it directly with a mouse.
We strongly recommend the use of the mouse pointer, instead of any laser pointer (not provided).
Chairpersons will easily follow the presentations on a dedicated monitor.

RESTRICTION
Personal laptop computers cannot be connected to the projectors in lecture rooms.
Presentations cannot be loaded directly on the computer in the lecture rooms.
         
FOCUS SPEAKERS        
Focus Speakers must use the dedicated Focus Lounge (Zone 3) for the validation of their Focus Presentations.

POSTER and MODERATED POSTER PRESENTERS
Visit your dedicated web page