GUIDELINES FOR CONFERENCE SPEAKERS AND WORKSHOP PRESENTERS

Speakers should seek out their session chairperson in good time and make themselves known. They may need to get some further background information about you.

Open discussion and the opportunity for others to share their own experiences are an important elements of IUISC, and so you are asked to keep within your allotted times

Please inform Nicola Meenan, the Conference organiser Nmeenan@conferencepartners.ie as soon as possible of your AV requirements. There is a microphone in the main auditorium for large audiences. Workshop sessions are held in smaller rooms which have no microphones. Laptops and projectors are available in all lecture rooms, as are flip charts and transparency OHPs.

There are no live video or data communications links within the conference area, nor 35mm slide projectors.

Technical support will be available

If your presentation uses PowerPoint slides, you may optionally email slides to Nicola Meenan about a week before the conference. If you are bringing your own laptop, make sure you have an extra copy of the slides on floppy disk in case of incompatibility of equipment at the conference venue.

· Remember to make the fonts as big as possible on the slides and try not to put more than about 8 lines of text per slide.

· Try out your presentation beforehand in the room that you have been assigned, and walk round the room to see how it looks from different angles. All presentations should be installed on the relevant PC well in advance of the session involved and should be verified by quickly running through the presentation

· Do not have too many slides, a rough guide would be one slide per minute at the most.

It is generally expected that the majority of speakers and workshop presenters will be drawn from delegates who are attending the whole of the conference.
Presentations, subject to speaker's permission, may be put on the conference website within a few weeks of the close of the conference for the benefit of those who did not have the opportunity to attend.

Workshop presenters may wish to retain flip-chart notes taken down during discussion in order to provide the organising committee with a short summary and conclusion to be put on the conference website after the close of the conference.