PRESENTATION GUIDELINES

ORAL (PRESENT-IN-PERSON/PHYSICAL)

  1. The official language is English.
  2. The total time allocated for each presenter is 10 minutes. The oral presenter should plan to speak for 8 minutes and 2 minutes for Q&A. If the presentation exceeds 8 minutes, the moderator will shorten the Q&A period. All presenters are advised to be punctual and adhere to the time limit for presentation.
  3. Each oral presentation venue will be equipped with a laptop, projector, LCD and laser pointer. The laptop is equipped with MS PowerPoint (pptx) and please ensure that all presentations are in this supported format.
  4. Use of a personal laptop is not allowed, and therefore, presenters must upload their slides presentation to Google Drive at least 1 hour in advance of their presentation. Please click this link to upload your slide presentation.
  5. All presenters are advised to bring his/her own computer and a USB thumb drive with presentation materials as backup.

ORAL (VIRTUAL)

  1. The official language is English.
  2. The virtual oral presenter should provide a pre-recorded video presentation.
  3. The video presentation should be recorded using any platform and saved as MP4 (video and audio).
  4. The video presentation should be within a maximum of 8 minutes and uploaded to Google Drive latest by 14th October 2022. Please click this link to upload your prerecorded video presentation.
  5. A day before the presentation session, the virtual oral presenter will be given a Zoom Meeting link and must be available for at least 20 minutes in advance of their presentation slot. The pre-recorded video presentation will be played by the MAAC technical committee and a live Q&A session (2 minutes) will be conducted afterward.
  6. All presenters must be present during the live Q&A session in order to be considered for the Best Oral Presenter Award.

POSTER

  1. All posters accepted for MAAC 2022 will be displayed in digital format and presented as e-posters only.
  2. The poster must be designed in a landscape orientation and appear within one window/slide.
  3. Use the default “Widescreen” slide size PowerPoint (33.867 cm in width * 19.05 cm in height) or any other dimensions that have a 16:9 ratio, if possible.
  4. Allocate the top of the poster for the title and authors as stated on the submitted abstract. All authors with their affiliations need to be listed below the title. The name of the presenting author should be underlined.
  5. Posters that describe research work should be structured into Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion and References (and Acknowledgments if desired).
  6. The images or figures should be at least 300dpi. The main text of the poster should have a minimum font size of 10.
  7. All e-posters must be saved as a PDF file and uploaded to Google Drive latest by 14th October 2022. Please click this link to upload your e-poster.
  8. All e-posters will be evaluated by judges before the conference date and there will not be any Q&A for this pre-conference judging process.
  9. The authors of selected e-posters (rapid-fire session) will be notified through email. For those who are presented virtually, a Zoom Meeting link will be shared a day before the conference day. The authors must be available for at least 20 minutes in advance of a live rapid-fire poster presentation and Q&A session (5 minutes).
  10. The authors will need to present the poster for 3 minutes and get ready for a live Q&A session (2 minutes), and therefore, the total time to present a poster in the rapid-fire session is 5 minutes each.