Joining Instructions: Oral Presentations

Please prepare your presentation according to the talk type you have been allocated.

Plenary Speakers: 45 mins (35 mins talk + 10 mins Q&A)
Invited Speakers (and Keynote for the BBS sessions): 30 mins (25 mins talk + 5 mins Q&A)
Invited Speakers for the Ethics and Innovation Forum: 45 mins (35 mins talk + 10 mins Q&A)
The Physics of Microorganisms (Satellite Session): 30 mins (25 mins talk + 5 mins Q&A)
Contributed Oral Speakers (including ECR and Invited Speakers for the BBS sessions): 15 mins (10 mins talk + 5 mins Q&A)

Preparing your presentation

Please prepare your presentation in either Windows PowerPoint or PDF format. Keynote is not supported.
The aspect ratio should be 16:9
You, as the presenting author, are responsible for ensuring that you have the necessary copyright / permissions for all material included within your presentation.
Please ensure that you keep within your allocated time slot as these will be strictly enforced by the Session Chairs.

Uploading your presentation and the on the day management

Bring your presentation on a memory stick and up-load it at the Speaker Preview Desk the day before your session. If you are presenting on Monday, please upload your presentation first thing in the morning. Direct connection of your personal laptop in any of the presentation rooms is not permitted.
The Speaker Preview Desk is in the Etive Room located on the ground floor off the concourse.
The speaker preview desk opening times are:

To rehearse your talk, book a time at the Speaker Preview Desk. We recommend that you check for correct presentation of your files - in particular if they contain videos or other animated items.
If you are presenting in the Clyde or the Lomond, the room technician will make your presentation live at the time you are scheduled to speak.
If you are presenting in Alsh, Boisdale or Carron, please click on the relevant folder on the desktop of the room laptop to access your presentation. Please note: the Speaker Preview Desk technician will upload your presentation to the room laptop in which you are presenting.
There will be an AV technician in the room or nearby if help is required.
Please sit near the front of the room to allow for a quick changeover between speakers.
The chair of the session will introduce each talk and then moderate all questions from the attendees.
All presentations will be deleted from the AV tech servers at the end of the conference.
If you are presenting in Sunday’s ECR sessions, please upload your presentation directly to the relevant folder on the room laptop; the Speaker Preview Desk is unavailable on the Sunday.

The session rooms are equipped with the following audio-visual equipment/support