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Oral presentation guidelines

Timing: Oral presentations are 12 min + 2 min for discussion. The maximum time slot for each presenter is 14 min. Music will indicate the beginning of sessions and the 1 min transition between talks.

Uploading presentation: PowerPoint and pdf are accepted. All presentations must be uploaded in advance in the speaker room, in which you can also check the functionality of your presentation. To avoid queues, bring your presentation on a USB flash drive/memory stick. Do not use cloud or other internet sources. Computers at the venue have Windows 10 and Office 365. Each computer has a VLC media player to play video/sound clips.

IMPORTANT! The maximum number of slides is 12-15, unless you replace animations with slides or have many photographs. The number of slide will be controlled during presentation upload and clearly oversized presentations are not accepted (this is for your own benefit; see below).

Common mistakes in oral presentations:

  • Too many slides. A good rule of thumb is 1 min per slide on average.
  • Select your key point(s). Even if you can fit many ideas, analyses and results in your presentation, the audience cannot digest them. Remember that the audience has already listened to tens of talks - they are tired.
  • Poor graphics. Copy pasting graphics from publications is a poor strategy.
  • Too much text and too small font (24 is minimum).
  • Wasting time reading aloud information on collaborators and funders – the audience can read.

For further tips, see: