Guidelines for presenters

 All presenters are requested to come to the registration desk to upload their presentation half day before their communication. For those of you who present on Monday morning, please send your presentation at the latest on Sunday 3rd November to serge.palu@cirad.fr

Keynotes

Duration is 30 minutes: 25’ presentation and 5’ questions

Some guidance on the content

• The main objective of the keynote is to highlight the issues and challenges at stake, the current trends in this field, needs for innovation and translation into decision making.
• The idea of the whole session including your keynote is to give material / initiate debate for brainstorming discussions.

Oral presentations

Duration is 20 minutes + 3 min. questions

Content

• The main objectives of the oral presentations are to present new results of interest for the audience of the conference. Your presentation should be easy to understand for non-specialists since the conference is organized in plenary session to promote inter-disciplinary discussions.
• You do not need to expend too much on the context but the challenges that have led to carry out your study should be presented.
• In addition to scientific issues, it will be important to highlight the consequences of your findings for the development of new industrial crops.
• The idea of the whole session including your presentation is to give material / initiate debate for brainstorming discussions.

Lightning talk with poster

Duration is 5 minutes – presentation (3 slides maximum including title page and acknowledgments ). All the Lightning talks will take place one after the other. The main objective for each lightning talk is to highlight the most interesting results in order to stimulate questions and discussions during the Poster session.

Poster presentations

Posters are a creative and popular alternative to the oral presentation of a paper. In a poster session, there is no formal oral presentation; instead, each author is assigned a display area on which diagrams, graphics, data, pictures/photos, and a small amount of text are presented.

The poster should be self-understandable, but the author should be available at certain times, such as coffee breaks or refreshment breaks and during the devoted poster session, to interact with viewers and answer questions.

Posters allow more time for authors and viewers to discuss the topic, more personal interaction and exchange of professional experience, initiate questions with focus on your subject, and the potential for continued display of the poster at your workplace.

General guidelines for poster production

How should you make the content of a poster? A good poster should answer the following questions.

• Does the poster deliver a message?
• The information’s are enough or too much?
• Graphics are expressing the information?
• Is it original in its content or findings?
• Is the methodology mentioned?
• Are aims and objectives mentioned?
• Are the conclusions/results presented?

Visual guideline for posters

• The heading of the poster should be visible and it should include topic, Author name and contact details.
• The letters should be visible at least from approximately 2.5 meters.
• Use simple format and more spatial layout with good color combination.
• Use reader friendly icons and symbols such as arrows, numbers and etc.
• Avoid as much as possible abbreviations .
• Highest clarity and visibility will attract the audience.  

We  recommend to bring handout copies of your poster in A4 format, mainly if you are selected for a lightning talk, in order to promote your work during the 5 min oral presentation.

Poster size

All the posters will be installed the first day of the conference. Grids are provided (prefer posters with eyelets)

The available surface for your poster is adapted to A0 format:

• 118 cm (height) x 96 cm (width)
• 46.5 in (height) x 37.8 in (width)