Information for chairs and speakers

Thank you for agreeing to give a talk / chair a scientific session during the 9th World Congress on ADHD in Amsterdam!

Please find useful speaker and chairperson information below.

We look forward to welcoming you in Amsterdam!

Speakers

Important facts:

• Please be aware of your presentation time communicated to you in the notification e-mail.
• Each meeting room will be equipped with a notebook and a data projector for PowerPoint presentations. There will be no possibility to connect your personal notebook in the lecture room.
• Last minute changes in your presentation can only be made in the Speakers’ Centre. No changes can be made in the lecture rooms.
• The Speakers’ Centre is located in Room G108 on level 1 of RAI Amsterdam.

Preparation of your PowerPoint presentation:

• The format for presentations is 16:9.
• Store all your files in one folder. Please make sure that videos and your presentation are all in the same folder.
• Avoid creating symbols as graphics or using special fonts that are external to your Microsoft PowerPoint or word processing programme since these might be displayed incorrectly. Instead, always use the ‘Symbol’ function in the ‘Insert’ menu of your programme to insert symbols.
• If using fonts within the presentation, which are not installed on a standard MS Windows 10 computer with MS Office 365, these fonts should be saved as embedded fonts within the final version of the presentation.
• Colours: Use light-coloured fonts for texts on dark backgrounds or vice versa. A strong contrast is important for good legibility.
• Movies should be embedded within a PowerPoint presentation (so that they are part of the PPTX file). Linked movies (mostly in PPT) should be saved as external files to the same folder which contains also the presentation file. Please make sure that a standard Windows 10 computer can play those videos.
• The most common video formats are supported: AVI, MP4, M4V, MOV, MPG, Windows-WMV. The perfect video is a H.264 video in MOV or MP4 format
• Microsoft PowerPoint (up to Microsoft 365) versions for PC can be used. The following presentation formats cannot be handled or uploaded: Prezi, Apple Keynote. Please be aware that presentations made on Macs generally do not run properly on PC. Please visit the Speakers’ Centre to check for incompatibilities.

Please click on the below button to download the disclosure information slide.

Upload of your PowerPoint presentation:

• You are invited to upload your PowerPoint presentation until 11 May 2023.
• If you are not able to upload your presentation online prior to the congress, please come to the Speakers’ Centre on level 1 in room G108 the day before or at least three hours prior to your lecture. Experienced technicians will capture your PowerPoint presentation (preferably from MS Win 10 compatible USB memory sticks as well as USB hard drives) and store it on the central congress server. At the Speakers’ Centre, you can check and rehearse your PowerPoint presentation.

Opening Hours Speakers Centre: 

Thursday, 18 May 2023                   12:00 - 19:00
Friday, 19 May 2023                         08:00 - 17:30
Saturday, 20 May 2023                    08:00 - 17:30
Sunday, 21 May 2023                       08:30 - 13:00 

Chairpersons

• Please introduce each speaker with full name prior to his/her presentation.
• You are kindly requested to respect and keep within the time schedule of your session.
• Please take care that each speakers keeps the time for his or her talk as exceeding the time for one talk puts the following speakers at a disadvantage and shortens the time for questions and discussion.
• Please foresee time for questions and a short discussion after each talk if not otherwise indicated in the session schedule. Questions during plenary sessions are not foreseen.
• Our congress staff allocated to each hall are at your disposal. If you have any questions or requests, please approach the hall manager.

If you have any questions, please contact adhd2023@cpo-hanser.de.