Please communicate with your speakers and inform them of the points below. As a moderator, you are responsible for ensuring that speakers keep to their allotted time. If a speaker runs over time, this will affect the entire programme and subsequent presentations. If a speaker starts to exceed their allotted 15 minutes, you should inform them that they have one minute remaining and ask them to summarise and conclude.
Each presentation is 15 minutes, followed by 5 minutes for discussion. Alternatively, you may choose to have a combined 15-minute discussion at the end of the session. Please inform the audience of this at the beginning of the session.
If the audience response system is used, the lecturer must inform the audience and have the questions prepared in advance. Voting takes place via the app, and the results are displayed on the screen. The technician will take care of all the technical aspects.
Questions from the audience can be submitted via the meeting app. The questions will appear on a screen in front of you, where you can easily read through them and select which ones to use.
The app also includes an audience polling function. Before the presentation begins, the speaker should inform the audience that they will be using this function and should have prepared a number of questions in advance. Participants vote using their own smartphones.
Speakers should have a first slide displaying any conflicts of interest. If this is not included, we ask you, as moderators, to ask the speaker whether any conflicts of interest exist.