Smile and be nice to all the presenters and session chairs. They are doing their best.
Read the presenter instructions
and the session chair instructions
before you read the rest of these instructions.
On-Site Sessions
- The Session Sheet and Session Report for your day and room can be collected from the registration desk in the break before the session.
- Meet your session chair in the session room 10 minutes before the start of the session and give them the session sheet and take the session report sheet.
- If the session chair does not show up come to the registration desk and we will get a replacement session chair for the session.
- On-Site presenters must use the conference laptop so the on-line sessions work – no exceptions.
- The conference laptop is the host for the rooms Zoom session
- The laptop is pre-logged in with the screen saver and sleep functions disabled
- The laptop is pre-logged in for Zoom
- All its details are on a sticker on the laptop (just in case).
- Meet the presenters in the session room 20 minutes before the session and load their presentations into the appropriate folder on the room laptop.
- Use the USB port on the right hand side of the laptop.
- Do not unplug the AV dongle.
- If you remove the Logitech Presenter dongle make sure you plug the Logitech Presenter dongle back in when you have finished
- Leave the folder for the presentation open on the desktop
- Make sure Zoom is running and sharing the whole screen
- Make sure the Zoom mic is unmuted (Zoom button) so the presentation goes out on Zoom.
- Inform the session chair if any of the presenters is missing.
- When the session starts:
- The session chair should introduce the session and the speakers and keep the session to time.
- Do not jump papers if there is no presenter, have a break and resume at the nominated time for the next paper.
- When a presentation is finished the session chair will ask for questions. Delegates should raise their hand to ask a question. When the session chair nominates a questioner take the wireless mic to them so everyone in the session and on zoom can hear the question.
- Zoom questions will come out on the audio
- Make sure the presenter answers all questions into the microphone so the on-line audience can hear.
- When questions are finished help the next presenter to get ready then get the presenter who just finished to sign-off on the session report confirming the presentation took place.
- If the presenter does not show up write NO SHOW in large letters in the signature area of the session report for that paper.
- Do not jump papers if there is no presenter, have a break and resume at the nominated time for the next paper.
- At the end of the session
- Return the wireless mic to the session chairs table
- Delete all the presentation for that session from the laptop
- Take the chair’s session sheet and your session report to registration.
On-Line Sessions
- All the on-line sessions have a room just like the on-site sessions – it’s just that ALL the presenters are on-line.
- Collect the Session Sheet and Session Report for your session from registration at the start of the break before your session.
- Meet your session chair in the session room 10 minutes before the start of the session and give them the session sheet for the current session and take the session report sheet and the wireless hand-held microphone.
- If the session chair does not show up come to the registration desk and we will get a replacement session chair for the session.
- The conference laptop is the host for the rooms Zoom session
- The laptop is pre-logged in with the screen saver and sleep functions disabled
- The laptop is pre-logged in for Zoom
- All its details are on a sticker on the laptop (just in case).
- 10 minutes before the start of the session
- Make sure all the on-line presenters are present in the Zoom meeting.
- Inform the session chair if any of the presenters is missing
- The presenters Zoom name should be
- session_paper-number-in-session_your_name
- (e.g. CS3-I_2_Myeongha_Hwang)
- session_paper-number-in-session_your_name
- When the session starts:
- The session chair should introduce the session and the speakers into the microphone and keep the session to time.
- Do not jump papers if there is no presenter, have a break and resume at the nominated time for the next paper.
- Use the lectern microphone to communicate with the Zoom participants.
- Find the next presenter and enable their microphone via zoom and give them screen share capability.
- Their name in the zoom list of attendees should be:
- session_paper-number-in-session_your_name
- (e.g. CS3-I_2_Myeongha_Hwang)
- session_paper-number-in-session_your_name
- Their name in the zoom list of attendees should be:
- When it is question time take the wireless mic to each in-room questioner so the zoom presenter and other on-line participants hear the question.
- The session Chair should then ask for any on-line questions before moving to the next presenter.
- Repeat for each on-line presenter until the end of the session.
- At the end of the session
- Complete the session report signing on behalf of the on-line presenters noting any NO SHOWs
- Take the chair’s session sheet and your session report to registration