Xiamen | China 2008

Platform Guidelines

The specifications for Platform Presentation are as follows:
1) You should plan your presentation carefully and co-ordinate each phase of your lecture with your PowerPoint Presentation.
2) Presentations must be given in English, the official language of the Congress. No translation will be available.
3) The assigned time for each platform presentation is 15 minutes. Please be certain that the length of your oral presentation stays within the allotted time. Session chairs will be instructed to terminate lectures, which exceed their time allotment.
4) Remember, the three rules of effective presentation are:
I. Introduce your topic and inform your audience what you intend to speak about.
II. Deliver your talk, including the methods, results and conclusions.
III. Summarise the most important points of your lecture for your audience.
5) Data projectors for PowerPoint presentations will be used in each session room.
6) Please make sure that you arrive in the session room at least 10 minutes before the start of the session to meet the chair(s).
7) On arrival at the Conference Centre, please go to the Speaker’s Ready Room to upload your presentation. We recommend that you go to the Speaker’s Ready Room the day before your presentation. Please note that all presentations must be placed on the network at least 2 hours before the session.
8) Format and saving method for PowerPoint documents
• The accepted formats are: PowerPoint 2000, XP and 2003. We do not recommend the use of earlier versions anymore. Please do not use Macintosh software to create your presentation.
• Please, verify that the size of your slides is adapted to an on-screen-show.
• Please, save fonts used in your document
• If your presentation uses digital video files check that they are saved in the same directory that your PowerPoint file and adapt the link if necessary. The recommended video format is MPEG.
9) Media to use to provide your presentation (to the Preview hostesses).
• Please bring your presentation in an USB memory stick when possible.
• If you wish to compress your files, use Winzip.
• We strongly recommend that you bring a spare copy of your presentation on CD-rom, diskette, or USB memory stick even if your presentation exists in your laptop PC.
10) What about the use of your files?
• Your original documents used in the preview room are immediately returned to you.
• A single file with your presentation is created on the server; no copy is made other than a technical back-up
• At the end of day or at the end of the Congress these files are destroyed.