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Presentation Guidelines

Everything you need to know before you prepare your talk or your poster for GeoMATES 2027.

Guidelines

Preparing your presentation

A few things that make a talk or a poster work well in a three-day, single-track congress. Please keep to the allocated time: the schedule has no slack, and a talk that runs over takes the time away from its own discussion.

Oral presentations

  • 15 minutes in total — 12 minutes for the talk and 3 minutes for questions. Speakers who run over lose their own discussion time rather than the next speaker’s slot.
  • Accepted formats: PowerPoint (.pptx), PDF and Prezi. Both 16:9 and 4:3 are accepted; 16:9 fills the screen best.
  • Hand your file to the technician in the session room in good time — at the latest during the break before your session, and earlier if you can. Please do not arrive with the file at the start of your own talk.
  • If your slides contain video or audio, allow extra time and test the file with the technician in advance.
  • Be in the session room before the session starts, so everything can be checked without delaying the programme.
  • Focus on a few key messages rather than dense slides, and use a readable type size with good contrast — the back row is further away than it looks.

Posters

  • Posters are shown on e-poster screens. Each presenter has up to 3 minutes to walk the audience through their poster.
  • Prepare the file in portrait orientation and follow the size and resolution given in the e-poster system guide below.
  • Put the title, the authors and their affiliations at the top, so a passer-by can tell in a second whose work it is.
  • Keep the text large enough to read from about a metre away — roughly 28 pt at full poster size — and let figures, graphs and formulas carry the argument instead of long paragraphs.
  • The poster should make sense on its own, without your spoken explanation: people will look at it while you are not standing next to it.
e-poster technical details

The final deadline for submitting the posters for the conference is TBD.

Next steps

Before the congress

Abstract submission

The official abstract template and the submission rules.

Programme

The preliminary programme, the plenary speakers and the scientific sections.

Registration

Fees, deadlines and what the registration fee covers.