Upon Arrival

         Before You Speak

         While You Speak

         After You Speak

         AV Equipment


At DAC:
Before You Speak

1) Attend the Speakers' Breakfast
  • Meet your Session Chair to go over details and make sure that your presentation will be in place and ready to be projected 15 minutes prior to your session.

  • Make sure that your Session Chair has the material needed to introduce you appropriately.

  • Somebody from the Presentation Help Desk will meet you there to answer any unresolved questions. If you still have any questions make sure to pose them there.
    • This is absolutely the last time to hand over last minute changes to the AV consultants so that they can load your file to the presentation computer in your auditorium to preform a final check for irregularities (e.g. font problems, file problems, etc.).
2) 15 minutes prior to your session
  • Work with the A/V Room Monitor to ensure your file is properly loaded on the computer.

  • The Session Chair will meet with you to insure that the A/V Room Monitor has received and loaded your file, to clear up any questions you might have, and to apprise you of any changes.

  • The Chair will introduce each paper in order of the program. If by some chance a speaker is missing, the Session Chair will announce that fact and leave a hole in your session. The audience at DAC usually computes the exact time and place of the papers they wish to attend well ahead of time and so we cannot move papers forward.

  • Sit in the front row, near the lectern and move to the lectern when your paper is first introduced. The session chair will place the microphone around your neck. A microphone at the lectern is also provided as a backup. Your title slide will be on the screen when you are being introduced and the Audio/Visual Assistant will have used it to check the focus. Don't read your title or repeat the names on the paper, they are on the slide and in the Proceedings. Go directly to your overview or statement of the problem.