Guidelines for Speakers

• Find out who is your session chairman in good time and make yourself known to them. They may want to get some background information about you.

• Prepare your slides using PowerPoint, email the slides in to the organising committee at least a week before the conference. Remember to keep the fonts big on the slides and do not put more than 8 lines of text per slide.

• Try out your presentation in the room that you have been assigned, go down the room and see how they look!

• Don't have too many slides, a good guide would be one slide per minute at the most.

• It is generally expected that speakers will attend the whole conference to understand the context.

In each session room there will be an overhead projector as well as a Windows-98 PC attached to a data projector.
This PC will run PowerPoint. It is expected that presentations will be mostly in PowerPoint and speakers are requested to send a copy of their PowerPoint presentation to Michael.Nowlan@tcd.ie and kate.cotter@ucc.ie ahead of the conference. These presentations will eventually be put up on the conference website.
It should be possible to use the presenter's own PC by plugging it into the data projector. All presentations should be installed on the relevant PC well in advance of the session involved and should be tested by running right through the presentation.
35mm slide projectors and internet connections will not be available for presentation purposes.