.Poster sessions are generally an hour long, with everyone in the room presenting at the same time. We are likely to divide the 30 posters into Group A and Group B. Group A will all present together in one hourlong time slot, during which time group B and others will roam the posters. Group B would then have an hour to present on a different day. Interactions are individual and last anywhere from 30 seconds to five minutes – there are no rules. This format lets you get a lot of 1 on 1 time with people, but you do end up repeating yourself. Most of us create an ‘elevator pitch’; a summary of 10-30 seconds of what the poster is trying to say. Then, if they are interested, I can walk them through individual sections of the poster.
The idea this year is to share practices, not research, especially about being creative (but in any of the categories you saw in the Call for Proposals). So there’s not really a ‘standard’ set of sections.
We provide an easel and then a cardboard trifold, and pushpins and small binder clips. Power cables will also be provided as needed.
Physically, the poster could be one of three things:
A pre-printed 3 foot by 4 foot, usually glossy, poster printed at something like FedEx Office. A variation is a foldable cloth of the same size, which travels easier but costs more. Both are created by you as a single PPTX slide sized to 36 inches by 48 inches – this is what you bring to the printer. Attached is a template already sized correctly (but do a ‘save as’ to .pptx)
A collection of regular-sized sheets of paper that you pin onto the trifold
Your laptop, showing either a single slide or – why note – an actual PPT presentation of multiple slides. But not too many. Some people like to wander away after 30 seconds. It could even be a demo instead of a PPTX. With the laptop option, you ignore the easel and trifold.