Please find below some important and useful information for your presentation.

PRESENTATION SLIDES

FIRST SLIDE: CONFLICT OF INTEREST DISCLOSURE

In compliance with CME requirements all speakers are requested to display a slide disclosing financial conflicts of interest at the beginning of their presentation for at least 30 seconds to allow enough time for the audience to review and digest the information.. If you have nothing to disclose, this slide must be included indicating “nothing to disclose”. Please disclose verbally (including if nothing to disclose) at start of your presentation.
Please click here to read and review the presentation criteria.

Instructions for Transparency and Disclosure
Please disclose all relevant financial relationships, including the company name, the nature of the relationship (i.e., your role), and what was received (e.g., “honorarium”) by you, an immediate family member, spouse or partner within the past three (3) years, and the corresponding amounts in US Dollars. Where the value is potential, the percentage of the total stock options should be declared.
e.g. Scientific Advisory Board: GSK – $20,000; Pfizer – $500
Any off-label use of products or therapies must also be disclosed.

Please click here to download a template of the disclosure slide.

SECOND SLIDE: TITLE SLIDE

Prepare your presentation with a title slide which includes the following information:

• Title of your presentation
• Your name and credentials (for example: MD, PhD, MBBS, RN)
• Your professional title
• Your institution or company
• Your city and country

Please click here to download a template of the title slide.

ORAL COMMUNICATIONS

Oral communications are 10 minutes long: 8 minutes for presentation and 2 minutes Q&A. 

PRESENTATION SLIDES UPLOAD

• Please upload your presentation slides, at least four hours before the scheduled start of your lecture(s) via the link you will receive about 1 week prior to the Congress.
  
• Presentations can be uploaded either online using the link, or at the Speakers’ Ready Room onsite. You can bring your slides to the Speakers’ Ready Room on a USB key or an external hard disk.
• You are asked to only use the Congress computers in the session halls for presentation purposes. The Congress will not be able to support lecture slides presented on personal computers.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

1. Ratio: Aspect ratio of your presentation should be 16:9.
2. File name: The name of the presentation file should include the presenter’s name and the presentation title. To avoid any compatibility problems, please do not use special characters (e.g. «, Ö, Ø, ñ, ε, ®, ý, }, { etc.) to name your presentation.
3. Format: Presentation files will be accepted in Microsoft Office PowerPoint format only. Macintosh presentations (i.e. Keynote) cannot be accommodated. It is strongly recommended to test all files created with Microsoft Office (for Mac) in the Speakers’ Ready Room several hours before your presentation starts.
4. MS Office Version: Your presentation needs to be prepared in MS PowerPoint 2010, 2013 or 2016. At the Speakers’ Ready Room onsite MS PowerPoint 2016/2019 is used.
5. File size: The size of one presentation should not exceed 500 MB, if uploaded online prior to the Meeting. There is no size limit for presentations uploaded onsite at the Speakers’ Ready Room. However, we recommend you keep to a limit of 500 MB.
6. Saving files: For onsite upload at the Speakers’ Ready Room the presentation has to be saved on a USB flash drive or an external hard-disk. Please note there is no facility to use your own computer for delivering a presentation. 
7. Font: Do not use special fonts which are not part of the standard PowerPoint package, as this will cause problems while uploading your file. Please note: Such presentations cannot be edited in the Speakers’ Ready Room.
8. Presenter mode will not be available during your presentation. Please print your notes in advance or come to the Speaker ready room and we will print them for you.
9. Please note that macros should not be used, and flash-animations and Prezi Presentations are not supported. All presentations will be saved on a central server connected to the lecture rooms, which are equipped with computers, beamers, microphones and lecterns.

MAKING CHANGES TO YOUR PRESENTATION

Should you need to make any changes in your presentation after upload online via the link we provided, you may bring the updated slides to the Speakers’ Ready Room onsite. Onsite staff will be there to assist you.

ADDING VIDEO TO YOUR PRESENTATION

If you wish to include video films in your PowerPoint presentation, this can only be set up by the technicians in the Speakers’ Ready Room onsite at the congress. Please do not add to your PowerPoint presentation by yourself. Please go the Speakers’ Ready Room with the video at least 4 hours before your lecture and ask the technicians to assist you. Please make sure to check it in the session hall where your lecture is taking place during a coffee or a lunch break prior to your session, at least 30 minutes before the start of the session – even after checking it in the Speakers’ Ready Room.

Please check the Mobile App or Interactive Online Program for any updates to your presentation date, time, and location.