Preparing your Sessions

Many great topics will be presented on the iPRES 2024 programme, in a variety of matching formats!

The committees have prepared practical guidelines to prepare your materials, which you can find linked below.

Formats that can be presented on-site or remote

• Research or Practice Papers will become available online in the weeks leading to the conference. At the venue, the research or lessons learned from a project will be presented in combined sessions with other papers, with a panel discussion or with lightning talks.

• Posters will be available online shortly before the conference. At the venue, each poster will be displayed on a kiosk for 1,5 hours, with one of the contributors at hand to discuss the ideas and way of working.

• Clusters of Lightning Talks will open the sessions in the Concert Hall in a rapid sequence of 5 minutes per presentation, to quickly share innovative use cases or a milestone reached.

• Accepted posters, papers and lightning talks can be presented remotely, and these will be grouped in a dedicated track for remote presenters. Instructions will follow at the end of August, when we know who will participate online.

To allow smooth operations for both audiences at the venue and online, the AV team will control the presentations. Please read through the detailed instructions and come to the Slide Preview Room to check your presentation at least 2 breaks before your scheduled time.

Formats that can be presented on-site only

• The programme offers 5 panel discussions, where all the debaters are onsite at the venue, but the discussion will be livestreamed and remote audiences can join in.

Formats that are offline

• Looking for a group of like-minded people to discuss an issue and find solutions together in an informal setting? Join a Birds of a Feather session.

• A great way to build your expertise on a particular topic is a practical workshop (on the pre-conference day) or a didactic tutorial.
  Note: a limited number of workshops have remote presenters.

• Approach a topic in a playful way? Set up a board game, video game or other game formats.

The Great Preservation Bake-off is a format of its own

• The bake-off is a great way to demonstrate the added value of your product, solution, tool or workflow. Instructions for the actual demo will be available in August, with a scheduled webinar and Q&A on August 12th.