Invited Speaker Registration

Your congress badge can be collected from 15:00 on Thursday 22 September at the Invited Speaker Desk located in the main entrance hall.

Opening Hours:

Your official participant name badge is required for admission to the Congress Centre and to all Congress events. For security reasons, participants are requested to wear their badge at all times. Your congress material can be collected at the Bag Distribution Centre.

Speaker Preview Room

This room has been designed to allow speakers a place to prepare their presentation. Speakers are be able to update presentations up to 4 hours before their session starts using computers located in the Speaker Preview Room. Please bring any revisions for your presentation to the Speaker Preview Room.

We kindly ask that all speakers come to the Speaker Preview Room and sign in. This will serve as an indication to the relevant session Chairs and/or moderators as to whether or not you are in the building.

The Speaker Preview Room is located in the VIP Lounge on the ground floor of the Congress Centre.

All presentations will be delivered at a resolution of 1024 by 768 pixels on a HP PC with Windows XP SP3 and PowerPoint 2007.

• If your presentation is in the morning please come the day before. Your presentation will be placed on a server.

Opening Hours Speaker Preview Room:

In order to prepare your PowerPoint presentation, please find below the seating capacity of each room where sessions are being held:

Responsibilities

• Meeting with your Session Chair / Moderator


Speakers should plan to meet with the Session Chair close to the room in which the session is to be held 10 minutes before the session is due to start. The purpose of this meeting is to discuss general session arrangements. Your session Chair has been encouraged to contact you prior to the meeting to request a copy of your presentation and a short bio with which to introduce you.

You are not required to stay in the room for the entire session; however, you will need to be present 10 minutes before your presentation.


• Introduce yourself to the session Chair. He/she will instruct you to seat yourself either on the podium or in the front row of the audience.
  
  
• After the session Chair introduces you, position yourself at the podium and place the microphone approximately six inches from your mouth. A laser pointer will be available for use at the podium.
  
  
• Please explain any acronyms used in your oral presentation as well as your visuals for the benefit of all attendees.
  
  
• All presentations must be in English.
  
  
• Length of Presentation

The length of time allotted for each presentation depends on the overall length of the session and the number of speakers in the session. Please consider your timing as each session has a time limit assigned. Structure your presentation so that you present the main points and allow sufficient time for questions and discussions. There may not be enough time to go into all of the details, so please communicate only the most important points.