Speaker Guidelines

Slide Template

We HIGHLY recommend that you use the EuroEcho-Imaging Congress 2024 Slide Template 

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.

Audiovisual Guidelines

Technical Guidelines

All presentations should be 16:9 formatted and have a 1920 x 1080 minimum resolution.

They will be displayed from a PC with Windows 10 and PowerPoint 2019.

We recommend that you use the EuroEcho-Imaging Congress 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 2019).
• Check your presentation on a Windows-operated computer (preferably Win10) before you upload it 

Restrictions

Personal laptop computers cannot be connected to the projectors in lecture rooms & presentations cannot be loaded directly onto the computer in the lecture rooms. Presentations must be uploaded via our online service.

To the attention of MAC users

If your presentation is on a Mac computer, we recommend you ONLY provide a Windows-compatible file.

Online upload 

The Online Upload Service is now open.
We highly recommend that you use this service to upload your presentation(s) in advance.

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=2491

Once connected, you will see under the presentation title a link to upload.

A step by step wizard will take you through the process

• First, you will need to select up to 3 Keywords　
  Select from an available list of topics/keywords - or with the option to use free text if you do not find a suitable entry. These are important to accurately index your presentation and be referenced on ESC 365.
• Then you can upload your file.

For each presentation uploaded you will receive a confirmation email.

• If your upload is successful, no further action is required, your presentation will be available for you in the lecture room.
• If your upload is failed, you will be contacted by our technical team.

Once uploaded:

• You can review your uploaded presentation anytime on your MyESC account or at the Speaker Service Centre
• To modify your upload, you can re-upload a corrected version, only the latest uploaded version will be kept.　

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.

• Tuesday 10 December - 15:00 - 18:00
• Wednesday 11 December - 08:30 - 17:00
• Thursday 12 December - 08:00 - 17:00
• Friday 13 December - 08:00 - 15:00

Speakers can come to the Speaker Service Centre to review their previously uploaded presentation as well as for technical assistance from the dedicated team.

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/ Discussants / Presenters 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.

Chairpersons/Discussants/Judges must declare possible conflict of interest regarding the topics of the presentations orally at the beginning of the session.

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  for the copyrights terms. 

Complete your Speaker Profile

In order to give you more visibility, we recommend 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 #euroecho Congress

A promotional toolkit with graphical elements is available to help on the promotion of EuroEcho-Imaging 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 #EuroEcho2024
• 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
• Quote the 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 EuroEcho-Imaging Congress 2024 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.