POWER ON YOUR PLATE

Oral Presentations

Oral Presentations

Power on Your Plate: All-Africa Summit on Diversifying Food Systems with African Traditional Vegetables to Increase Health, Nutrition and Wealth

The Scientific Committee invites oral presentations in the following categories:

1. DIVERSITY AND BREEDING
2. SEED SYSTEMS, ACCESS, AND QUALITY
3. FOOD ENVIRONMENTS
4. VALUE CHAINS AND SCALING
5. NUTRITION
6. BEYOND FOOD

All abstracts submitted must be original work and not previously presented in any other format at other symposia.

Abstracts should be a maximum of 300 words.

All oral presenters, including invited and keynote speakers, must submit a manuscript.

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract submission closes
31 August 2020

Acceptance notification
30 September 2020

Full paper submission opens
30 September 2020

Preparing your presentation

  • All oral presentations will be conducted using a laptop and a projector.
  • Prepare the presentation file using Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 or later versions with extensions *.ppt or *.pptx.

Alternatively, you can use an Adobe Acrobat file with extension *.pdf.

Embedding all fonts in the presentation file is recommended in either case.

Bring your presentation file to the summit

Save your presentation file on:

  • USB flash memory stick or thumb drive

Your media and the file should be free of virus infection.

NOTE: Bringing your own laptop, tablet, smartphone or desktop PC for your presentation is not acceptable.

Length of presentations

Oral presentations:  12 minutes for presentation, followed by 3 minutes for discussion.
Keynote speech:  35 minutes for presentation, followed by 5 minutes for discussion.

Twelve to twenty slides should be sufficient for a good oral presentation.

A typical presentation would consist of the following topics in this order:

o Title, authors and affiliations
o Speaker’s name should be highlighted
o Introduction (background, motivation, purpose of research)
o Outline of the talk
o Materials and Methods
o Results
o Discussion
o Conclusion and future plans
o Acknowledgement

Use a font large enough to be seen from the back of the room. Avoid crowding slides with too much text.

Use basic fonts (e.g., Century, Calibri, Arial, New Times Roman) and standard ASCII character set for your presentation. Basic fonts are included on the session PC, but multilingual encoding systems and fonts such as CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) or CJKV fonts are not available. Using multilingual character sets may cause garbled text. Be sure to embed all fonts in your presentation file and check the file before your presentation.

For PowerPoint users, resist the temptation to use amazing visual or sound effects, which may not perform as expected during the presentation and cause delays.