Information for Speakers

Disclosure of Conflict of Interest

The Congress Programme Committee requests speakers, chairs and poster presenters to disclose potential conflict of interest. Speakers are requested to disclose potential conflicts of interest regarding their current presentation in the first slide of their presentation. Chairs are requested to disclose potential conflicts of interest regarding the topics of the presentations during their session in the first slide of the session. Poster presenters are requested to disclose potential conflicts of interest regarding their current poster presentation at the bottom of their poster. 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.


- For Poster information, please click here

- Focus Speakers must use the dedicated Focus Lounge (Zone 6) for the validation of their Focus Presentations.

- All other speakers giving a presentation in scientific sessions are requested to validate their presentation in the Speakers’ Service Centre (SSC) 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.

Please note that the SSC is located in Zone 1, on the ground floor, at the left of the main Entrance.

Speakers’ Service Centre Opening Hours *:

 * Subject to change

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.

How to upload your presentation?

• IN ADVANCE, from 16 August to 4 September: Upload your presentation via My ESC exclusively, (myESC.escardio.org), with your usual username & password.
  
  
  
• ON SITE: For ALL other presentations (Chairpersons introductions, satellites sessions, etc…), bring them on a CD-Rom, DVD-Rom, Memory Stick or Laptop to the 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 esc@m-congress.com

For general scientific questions, please contact scientific@escardio.org

(Caution, please do NOT attach any presentation to e-mails).

RESTRICTION

· Personal laptop computers cannot be connected to the projectors in lecture rooms.
· Presentations cannot be loaded directly on the computer of the lecture rooms.

In the Speakers’ Service Centre

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.

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 PCs or to anticipate a backup solution.

In the lecture room

From the lectern, you will launch yourself your presentation by the use of a 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 by dedicated monitor.