Oral Presentations

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Commercial Disclosure information

Due to EACCME regulations, authors are requested to disclose possible conflicts of interest on the first slide. A sample slide can be found here

A conflict of interest is any situation in which a speaker or immediate family members have interests, and those may cause a conflict with the current presentation. Conflicts of interest do not preclude the delivery of the talk, but should be explicitly declared. These may include financial interests (e.g. owning stocks of a related company, having received honoraria, consultancy fees), research interests (research support by grants or otherwise), organisational interests and gifts.
If you have nothing to disclose, please state “I have no commercial disclosure” instead of the table.

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Speaking Time
The chairpersons of your session will be strict in allowing no more than the time allotted to your presentation.
Remember to allow some time for the changeover of speakers and chairperson’s introduction, and for questions and discussion.
Make yourself known to the chairpersons and/or the technician in your session room before the beginning of the session.

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Projection and Technical Setting
All rooms are equipped with Apple MacBooks and data projector for Power Point presentation only.

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Handing in Your Presentation:
It must then be handed over to the technician of the according lecture room in a break at least 1 hour before your talk either via USB-Memory Stick or CD-Rom (30 minutes for talks in the first morning sessions).

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Presentation Format - Technical Issues:
The lecture rooms are exclusively equipped with Apple MacBooks.
Please bring a CD-ROM, or USB drive. You may want to carry a second disk or a USB-memory stick as a back-up in case there is any technical problem.
File Format: Microsoft® Power Point™.

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General hints and tips
Like all of us, you will have sat through many conference talks, some good and some bad. We have all been to talks which failed to communicate their message because the speaker spoke impossibly fast, perhaps in a very indistinct way, or flashed through large numbers of slides so crammed with detail that nobody could follow them.
So please:

• Make yourself known to the chairpersons and/or the room assistant in your session room before the beginning of the session.

• Remember that the vast majority of the audience are not native English speakers - speak clearly (whether or not English is your native tongue) and not too fast  

• Plan an average of no more than 1 slide per minute, in most cases  

• Keep your Powerpoints simple. In text slides, use no more than seven lines per slide, with ample space between the lines, and no more than seven words per line in suitably large lettering  

• Leave sufficient space between the text and the edge of the slide/screen. Some data projectors may not display the very border of the slide/presentation.