Instructions for speakers

Locate your session room as soon as possible. You should arrive in your session room 10 minutes before the beginning of the session.

Please note that:

• The conference room must be cleared exactly in accordance with the schedule
• It is your responsibility to ensure that times allocated to speakers and for discussion must be strictly complied with
• Discussants should clearly state their name, institution and country
• Participants should not speak without permission from the chairperson

Time allocated to presentations includes discussion.

Locate your session room in due time. You should be in your session room 10 minutes before the beginning of the session and meet with the chairperson.

Speakers are requested to hand in their slides at the Preview Room 2 hours before the beginning of their session (or the previous day for early morning sessions).

Please comply strictly with the instructions given by the chairperson, especially with regard to your time allowance.

Disclosure of potential conflicts of interest

All speakers of EUROGIN are required to disclose their potential conflicts of interest. Consequently, a conflict of interest statement should be included on your first slide. There is no need to read it out in detail. The technicians in the preview room have a slide ready to be completed and to be inserted if you haven’t prepared this before.

>> Preview Room (Slide Center)

All presentations will be transferred automatically to the correct meeting room.

You will easily find your presentation on the lectern in the conference room, according to the scheduled session, date, hour and speaker name. With the laptop on the lectern, you will be able to control your presentation.

1. Videos and pictures must be integrated in the PowerPoint presentation.
   The videos included in the presentation shall have the following extensions: .avi, .mov, .wmv.
2. JPG, GIF, BMP compressed images are the preferred file format for inserted images (other types of extensions will be accepted as well, provided that they are recognized by MS Powerpoint 2019).
3. For Microsoft-Users: Use Windows 10 default system fonts. Otherwise please provide font package for later install.
4. For MacOs-Users: Export your Keynote presentation to: PowerPoint for Mac, or Movie (iMovie, QuickTime video with “Playback Uses” settings), or PDF.
   Be aware of the need to edit/reformat the presentation - fonts, images and charts – especially when exporting to PowerPoint for Mac. For embedded movies please use the possibility of “Quicktime” to save the movie in “*.mpeg 1(2)”, or “*.avi” format. Please try out the proper functionality of your presentation as soon as possible in the Preview Room (Slide Center).
5. Please use Microsoft Powerpoint 2019 or later, to guarantee your presentation will open successfully on an on-site PC.Save your presentation with the extension “.pptx”.
6. Presentations must be designed in 16:9 format.
7. Presentations using Prezi have to be delivered at least 3 hours before the session and should be delivered in portable format. For more details, please follow the link www.prezi.com.
8. Supported data media for downloading presentations are: HDD and USB-Memory (Stick).
9. Adherence to guidelines: all speakers whose presentations do not comply with these guidelines are kindly requested to contact the Preview Room (Slide Center) as soon as possible.

The Preview Room is fully equipped.

Qualified personnel is available for receiving your slides/files which will be checked before being forwarded to the room at the appropriate time.

Speakers must hand in their slides in the Preview Room 90 minutes before the beginning of their session at the latest. Slides for early morning sessions must be handed in on the previous day.

Speakers will be able to check their presentations and, if needed, to make slight modifications.

The following mass storage devices are accepted:

• USB memory stick
• External hard drive
• Laptop

Every speaker needs to declare his/her potential conflicts of interest.

Speakers who have not yet submitted their potential conflict of interest on the dedicated form which was sent to them prior to the conference must complete and sign this form in the preview room before handing in their files.

The equipment in the conference room is exactly the same as in the preview room.

The files downloaded in the preview room are automatically backed up and transferred without any modification to the conference room. You will find your presentation, classified on your session:

In the conference room, the following equipment is available:

• 1 video projector
• Laptop on the lectern

You can open your presentation and move slides on your own using the mouse of the laptop (keyboard). This system is the same as in the preview room. Speakers with presentations which might not comply with these guidelines are kindly requested to contact the preview room as soon as possible.

We do not keep or transfer files to third parties unless requested and authorised by the author or a member of the organization committee.