Oral Session Presenters

Oral session presenters will give a LIVE talk in a Zoom meeting room.  Please prepare slides for a 10-minute presentation.  After your talk, there will be approximately 4 minutes for questions.

Please join your zoom meeting room at least 5 minutes before your session starts.  When you join, use the 'rename' function in the participant pane to add your session and talk numbers in front of your name.  For example, 1-1 Jane Doe. Please remove the numbers from your name after your session is over.

Speaker testing sessions: Monday, March 14 and Thursday, March 17, 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.  See email for zoom links.

Pitch/Poster Session Presenters

Pitch presentation

Pitch/poster presenters will first give a LIVE pitch in a Zoom meeting room. Please prepare slides for a 3-minute presentation. There are no restrictions on the number of slides you can use.  We recommend no more than 4 slides excluding your title and acknowledgement slides.   

Please join your zoom meeting room at least 5 minutes before your session starts.  When you join, use the 'rename' function in the participant pane to add your session and talk numbers in front of your name. For example, 1-1 Jane Doe. Please remove the numbers from your name after your session is over.

Speaker testing sessions: Monday, March 14 and Thursday, March 17, 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.  See email for zoom links.

Poster presentation

Immediately after your pitch session, there will be a 40-minute interactive Poster session in Gathertown for you to discuss your work with symposium participants and answer questions. During the first coffee break on day one of the symposium, please go in to Gathertown to familiarize yourself with functionalities and find your poster location. 

When your pitch session finishes, sign-in to Gathertown and enter your pitch session ID followed by your first and last names in the name field. For example, 1-1 Jane Doe. Please remove the numbers from your name after your session is over.

You must be stationed at your poster during your assigned poster session. You will receive information about the location of your poster in Gathertown in early March. 

At your poster, you will be able to talk with symposium participants who have entered your designated poster space. If you wish, you can also share your computer screen to show a demonstration, slides or a video.  

Poster specifications

• Your poster will be an image of your pitch slides.  You are not required to include your acknowledgement slide.  See Sample poster here.
• File format: .png or .jpg
• Poster size: Landscape, at least 1000x600 px or 24.46 cm x 15.88 cm
• File size: no larger than 3 MB
• Filename: label your file as PitchID_LastName_FirstName (e.g., 1-1_Last_First.jpg)
• Upload deadline: Posters must be uploaded here by Friday, March 18, 2022 23:59 EDT.

Tips to create your poster

• Use the save-as option in powerpoint to save your individual slides as images.  Insert your single slide images in a new single slide.  Use the save-as option to save this slide as an image.
• If you are creating your poster using a screenshot or snipping tool on your computer, please make sure the resulting image is not blurry when magnified.
• If you would like to share any tips on creating posters, please email them to kwong572@uwo.ca and we will share them with other presenters.
• Your poster will be pinned to Gathertown by the ImNO Student Committee.  Please respect the upload deadline (March 18, 2022 23:59 EDT).  Your poster will be available for viewing in Gathertown for the duration of the symposium. 

Oral and Pitch Awards

Awards for the best presentation in each oral and pitch session will be announced during the closing and awards session on March 24 at 4:35 p.m. EDT.