Conference presentation

types

Junior faculty meeting 21-02-22

Presentation types
• Academic posters
• Oral presentations
• Pitch presentations
Academic posters
Preparation
• Tools: which program do you use?
• Publisher
• Powerpoint
• Design
• Minimal writing
• Contrasting colors background/text
• Abstract format
Information to include
• Headings
• Short, relevant, bold
• Title: large font, short
• Type of manuscript (systematic
review, original research…)
• Authors
• Affiliations: use logos
• Conference logo
• Main body
• 100 words per section
• Introduction: background and
aims, novelty
• Methods: sample, setting, duration,
incl/excl criteria, statistical
analysis
• Results: main findings, include
main graphs, tables, graphics
(large)
• Conclusions: derive from results
section, mention limitations,
impact
• References: minimal, smaller font
Information to include
• University template
• Tables and figures
• Good way to convey information
• Intersperse with text
• Use colors
• Good resolution
• Font size
• Text: 24; titles: 32
• Colors
• 1-2 colors for main text
• Digital posters
• May include videos or animations depending on the conference
Presenting your poster
• Explain the relevance
• Do not read the text
• Guide them through your poster
Oral presentations
Understand the audience
• Who are you presenting to?
• Motivate your research
• Convey the outcome
• Present only the necessary information to get your message across
• Presentation does not need to be in the order the study was conducted
Opening
• Attention getter
• Link to the topic
• Short
• Audience-oriented
• Relevant and appropriate rather than out of place or over dramatic
• Need for this research: why it is interesting to the audience
• Task: briefly what you did
• State the main message (maybe less detailed than at the end)
• Preview: outlines the presentation, prepare audience for the structure
Body
• Tree/hierarchy rather than a chain
• 2-5 statements to support the main message
• 2-5 statements fo support each main point
• Organize the main and subpoints
• Show audience the organization
• Strongest arguments first and last
Closing
• Review: main points
• Conclusion: restate main message (more detailed)
• Include any other interpretations of findings
• Close: make it clear that the presentation is finished
• Link back to the attention getter
Further tips
• Start and end forcefully
• First and last few sentences are most important
• Reveal the presentation’s structure
• Transitions are important
Pitch presentation
Lightening talk, data blitz, PechaKucha, Ignite
Lightening talk
• 5-10 minutes
• Only most critical information
• Aim: articulate a topic in a quick, insightful, clear manner
• Concise and efficient
• Grab attention
• Data blitz: session of lightening talks
PechaKucha and Ignite
• PechaKucha
• Japanese story-telling format
• 20 slides for 20 seconds each
• Talk less show more
• Ignite
• 20 slides in 5 minutes
Tips
• Define the key message
• Know the audience
• Tell a story
• Arc the story with the solution
• End with future directions of your work
• No complicated concepts
• No jargon
• Slides should be mainly visual (very little text)
More information
• Academic posters
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2049080116301303
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WnhoIbfcoM
• Templates
• https://www.posterpresentations.com/free-poster-templates.html
• https://mindthegraph.com/templates
• https://www.makesigns.com/SciPosters_Templates.aspx
• Oral presentations
• https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/oral-presentation-structure-139003
87/
• Lightening talks
• https://bassconnections.duke.edu/guidance-preparing-and-presenting-your-lig
htning-talk