75th EAAP Annual Meeting

1/5 September 2024 - Florence, Italy

Guidelines for oral communication authors and speakers

The Organising Committee of the 75th EAAP Annual Meeting will do its utmost to help authors for their presentations and to facilitate their arrival and stay at the congress.

Please take a few minutes to read the following guidelines regarding the on-site organisation of the congress for the smooth running of the sessions.

Audiovisual guidelines for oral presentation

All presentations must be prepared in PowerPoint (file extension .pptx). 
They will be displayed from a PC with Windows 10 and PowerPoint 2016 on a 16:9 format screen.

All presentation must be delivered at Speaker Ready Room at least 2 hours before your scheduled presentation time. If your presentation is scheduled early in the morning please deliver your presentation the day before.

Upload your presentation here (until 25th August)

By clicking, you will be redirected to a web page where you can enter your email address. You will receive a new email with a “special button” to use for uploading the presentation. You can update and change your presentation until August 25th. After that date, all presentations must be uploaded in the Preview Room in Florence.

In order to ensure an optimal delivery of your presentation, please stick to the following guidelines in the preparation of your presentation:

  • Your presentation should be 16:9 formatted.
  • Preferred page set-up is landscape orientation (portrait orientation will not be displayed correctly).
  • Use standard Windows fonts only. Try to avoid use of non-standard Windows fonts or language specific fonts.
  • Images: Do not copy and paste the images from another application, please use the “insert image from a file” functionality from PowerPoint (format JPG or PNG).
  • Video: we strongly suggest WMV or MP4 as video formats. To avoid any issue with movies and loops, presentations should be saved as a .pptx files.
  • Apple Keynote users: Please export your presentation and select pptx format in the advanced option dialog. Check your presentation on a Windows-operated computer (preferably Win 10).

On site help

If you have technical questions regarding your presentation you can meet the technician in the Speaker Ready Room to either make sure that your presentation will run properly on the system or to anticipate a backup solution.

Restrictions

Personal laptop computers cannot be connected to the projectors. Presentations cannot be loaded directly onto the computer in the lecture rooms. Presentations must be uploaded via our service at the Speaker Service Centre

Poster presentations

Posters will be presented in portrait format (100 cm high and 70 cm wide) with the title, the addresses of authors, the picture of the presenting author and the scientific content (introduction, methods, results, discussion, conclusion).
The poster should be printed by the participants or using to the on site service. Please indicate the number of your abstract to the staff in the poster room for installation.
The number of your poster will be displayed on the top of the panel.

Posters First round Second round
Palazzo Congressi Floor -1 from 1 to 33 from 56 to 76
Cavaniglia from 34 to 55 from 77 to 98

Posters from 1 to 55 must be showed from Sunday the 1st of September 8:00 am to Monday the 2nd of September 3:00 pm (poster session Monday the 2nd of September from 13:30 to 14:30).
Posters from 56 to 98 must be showed from Monday the 2nd of September 5:00 pm to Wednesday 4th of September 3:00 pm (poster session Tuesday the 3rd of September from 13:30 to 14:30).
During the poster session authors should be in attendance at their poster.