Presenters and moderators guidelines

Oral presentations

Please save your presentation data on a USB flash drive and bring it to the PC registration desk on the 5th-floor foyer at least 30 minutes before your presentation.
To ensure the smooth running of the presentations, speakers are requested to be in their session room 10 minutes before the start of the session.
No personal computers will be allowed. All presentations must be in PowerPoint format 16:9 or PDF format. There is no template.
Please plan an oral presentation of 8 minutes and with at least 2 minutes for discussion. Discussion is an essential element of the scientific work and makes a conference lively and constructive. Chairpersons will cut presenters off who try to use the discussion time for their presentation.

Poster presentations

Poster sizes- A0 Portrait style (no landscape allowed) – max 841 mm wide by 1189 mm tall.
Please bring along your printed poster as the congress does not provide printing services.
Please check the program for your poster number. Your poster location will be identified by that number.

Posters will be arranged in numerical order. A poster map will be displayed next to the poster area and will be available at the registration desk.
We encourage presenters to set up their poster on Wednesday, June 10, between 17:00 and 19:00. Your poster MUST be mounted before the poster room officially opens at 10:00 on Thursday, June 11.
It will be the presenter responsibility to hang the respective posters on the space assigned according to the given number.
Thumbtacks will be provided for you to fix your poster.
Posters must be removed by Saturday 15:00. Posters which are not taken down by this time will be removed by the conference organizers and destroyed.
Poster presentations will be held in a free discussion format from 17:10 to 18:00 on June 11. Presenters are kindly requested to come to their poster boards at the scheduled time.
The poster session will be held in an open discussion format. Presenters are kindly requested to be at their assigned posters and available for discussion when the session starts.

COI disclosure for oral and poster presentations

When you are preparing your presentation, please be sure to include information noting the point below; disclosure of content, relevant to your presentation for each bullet point listed below.

• Received royalties for any pharmaceutical, biomaterial, cell based products, medical products or devices
• Within the past 12 months served on a speakers bureau/paid honorarium to present by any pharmaceutical, biomaterial, cell based products, medical products or device company
• Paid employee for any pharmaceutical, biomaterial, cell based products, medical products or device or equipment company, or supplier
• Paid consultant for any pharmaceutical, biomaterial, cell based products, medical products or device or equipment, company, or supplier
• Unpaid consultant for any pharmaceutical, biomaterial, cell based products, medical products or device or equipment company, or supplier
• Own stock or stock options in any pharmaceutical, biomaterial, cell based products, medical products or device or equipment company, or supplier (excluding mutual funds)
• Receive research or institutional support as a principal investigator from any pharmaceutical, biomaterial, cell based products, medical products or device or equipment company, or supplier
• Receive any other financial material support from any pharmaceutical, biomaterial, cell based products, medical products or device or equipment company, or supplier
• Receive any royalties, financial material support from any medical and/or scientific publisher

Moderators

The moderator should arrive in the room at least 15 minutes before the session.
Please have the names of the speakers, notes for introductions, a list of housekeeping items, and a list of potential questions.
Remind the audience that cell phones should be turned off or placed into silent mode.
Make sure to keep the schedule of your session.
At the end of your session, please prompt the audience to visit poster sessions, sponsors’ displays sponsored seminars and workshops.
Chairs are requested to be present for the entire duration of the session and to moderate the live Q&A. Try to foster healthy scientific debate and constructive criticism. Questions and answers should be straight to the point.
Each oral presentation is 10 minutes long; 8 minutes, followed by 2 minutes of Q&A.
Each special poster teasers session consists of five short talks, each lasting 3 minutes, followed by a 5 minutes Q&A session.