Speaker Guidelines

Slide Template

We HIGHLY recommend that you use the ACNAP 2024 slide template.

Speaker Guidelines

Please refer to your agreement form for confirmation of the presentation title, date, time of presentation and specific instructions with regards to that session.

Speakers:

• Must be available for the entire duration of the session
• The length of your talk should not exceed the time allocated and may include discussion time – Please review your assigned timing on your Agreement form.
• Please carefully review the Upload and Audiovisual guidelines below when preparing your presentation.

Technical Guidelines

All presentations should be 16:9 formatted and have a 1280 x 720 minimum resolution.

We recommend that you use the ACNAP 2024 Slide template for your presentation.

In order to ensure optimal delivery of your presentation, please stick to the following guidelines in the preparation of your presentation:

• Your presentation must be prepared in PowerPoint version: type .pptx - for optimal rendering please use the official slide set template
• Preferred page set-up is landscape orientation (portrait orientation will not be displayed correctly).
• Use standard Windows fonts only. Try to avoid the use of non-standard Windows fonts or language-specific fonts.
• Images: Do not copy and paste the images from another application, please use the “insert image from a file” functionality from PowerPoint (format JPG or PNG). Make sure that the inserted images have a minimum resolution of 300dpi.
• Video: All videos must be embedded in your presentation. To avoid any issue with movies and loops with PowerPoint, presentations MUST be saved as .pptx files.
• Apple: Please give your filename an extension “pptx” (Preferred version: PowerPoint 2016).
• Check your presentation on a Windows-operated computer (preferably Win7) before you upload it 

Declaration of interest

All speakers are requested to insert a Declaration Conflict of Interest Slide in their presentation, based on the related declaration made in their agreement form. This will allow the audience to take potential conflicts of interest into account when assessing the objectivity of the presentation.

In case the declaration of interest is missing from a presentation, this presentation will not be published post congress on ESC 365. It is the responsibility of the speaker to ensure that his/her DOI is clearly indicated in the presentation.

Online upload 

The Online Upload Service will open on 21 May.
Upload will only be possible ONLINE. We therefore highly recommend that you use this service to upload your presentation(s) in advance.

Please note that there will be NO Speaker Service Center available at the congress venue – onsite upload will not be possible. It is mandatory that you upload your presentation using the online service.

The Online Upload Service is fast and easy to use:
To upload your presentation, sign in to your MyESC Account on MYESC/My Agreements
Full link: http://escol.escardio.org/MyESC/modules/congress/Agreement/default.aspx?eventID=2500

For each presentation uploaded you will receive a confirmation email.

Once uploaded:

• You can review your uploaded presentation anytime on your MyESC account.
• To modify your upload, you can re-upload a corrected version, only the latest uploaded version will be kept. No onsite changes will be possible. Any modification must be done using the online services.　

Presentations can be uploaded online until midnight (GMT+1) the night before the presentation is scheduled to take place. So even whilst at the congress, you can use this service.

ESC 365

After the congress your presentation will be referenced accordingly on ESC 365.

Declaration of interest

The existence of potential conflicts of interest does not necessarily indicate a bias. However, it is our ethical obligation to inform participants so that they are made aware of any relationship that might cause unintentional bias.

A potential conflict of interest may arise from various relationships, past or present, such as employment, consultancy, investments and stock ownership, funding for research, family relationship etc. This will allow the audience to take potential conflicts of interest into account when assessing the objectivity of the presentation.

When accepting the role(s) via the agreement form, Speakers/ Chairpersons/ Discussant / Presenter have declared possible conflict of interest. This information is accessible to edit and update as may be required. It is the person's responsibility to ensure the information is up to date both in the system and on the slide which will be shown at the start of presentation.

IMPORTANT -

Declaration of interest is mandatory – The information declared at the time of the submission of your agreement form will be automatically inserted in your presentation and placed as second slide. 
At the start of your presentation, we request the DOI Slide to be displayed and read out loud to give the audience sufficient time to take note of the conflicts disclosed.

Copyrights

Presentations given at the Congress will be featured on ESC365 if the speakers have granted the ESC the rights to use the presentation for educational purposes. 
Please refer to the Online Agreement Form for the copyrights terms. 

Complete your Speaker Profile

In order to give you more visibility, we propose that you update your Speaker Profile.  Your information will be available in connection with your presentation(s).

Please access or re-access your Speaker Profile, as some mandatory consents have been added to allow us to display the information you shared.

Doing so now, you will save time on-site or at the time of online upload
You can do this at any time - update your Speaker Profile

Spread the word about #ACNAP2024

A promotional toolkit with graphical elements is available to help on the promotion of ACNAP 2024 to your network.

Be active on Social Media

Share the science and add your voice to the biggest CV conversation on X!

• Use Congress hashtag #ACNAP2024
• For posts you deem pertinent for ESC to share, please tag @escardio
• Post about the major breakthroughs/conclusions/highlights, and with the most relevant images from the speaker
• Avoid promotional posts ie 'session xyz starting now’ or content that does not give any scientific value ie 'Great talk from @abc…’ without adding her/his key messages, points etc
• Include a quote or quote another speaker, or tag their profile using their handle
• Double check spelling and grammar
• If you have a concern/complain don’t use social media to raise it. Talk to a member of staff. We are always at your service
• Won’t have time to post? You can still share it (repost)
• Apply same ethics & etiquette you would in any other context

Video / Audio / Photos

The recording of video or audio during any session of ESC Congresses is strictly prohibited.

It is the responsibility of each presenter or speaker to notify the audience of any restrictions on the photography of the content they are presenting. 
Such an announcement must be made at the beginning of the presentation.