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Oral Presentations

For a successful oral presentation submission, ensure you understand the essential guidelines, including format, content criteria, and deadlines, as specified by the event organizers.

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Oral Presentations

The number of oral presentations is limited and has been assigned on a competitive basis as judged by the Scientific Committee. To provide more people with the opportunity to present their work orally, we added a new category of presentations, short-orals. Accepted abstracts that are not accepted as Oral presentations or Short-oral presentations will have the opportunity to present their work in a poster session.

The Oral presentation will follow a traditional format, with presenters being afforded 7 minutes to present their findings and an additional 3 minutes to answer questions. The time limit for each presentation and related questions and answers will be strictly observed.

Short-orals are very short 3-minute presentations, meant to give participants a very brief introduction to your work, and spark further discussion during the congress.

To help create good congress experiences, we have created a series of guidelines for participants in preparation of their presentation.

Oral Presentation Guidelines

  • Presentations should be prepared in PowerPoint. Other formats (e.g. Prezi, Canva) can not be accommodated.
  • Presenting authors will have 7 minutes to present their work, with an additional 3 minutes to answer questions (the time limit for each presentation and related questions and answers will be strictly observed).
  • We encourage authors to present their work in an engaging and dynamic way to promote knowledge translation. We have listed a series of do’s and don’ts we recommend you to have a look at before preparing your presentation.

Do’s

  • Include a clear, but very brief, rationale for your work – i.e. answer the ‘so-what’ question for your work in a short and concise way
  • Explain the big picture of the methods used so that other academics can understand what you have done at a general level – i.e. don’t go into too much detail
  • Use clear, simple, easy to understand graphics to present your results
  • Present the implications of your work – what can others use this for
  • Create all your slides with a large font size and as little text as possible
  • Use images, illustrations or graphics where possible and appropriate
  • Limit yourself to 5-7 slides

Don’ts

  • Do not introduce the general benefits of physical activity, or the general physical inactivity challenge
  • Do not explain all details of the methods you used. You can discuss these details with the interested listeners during the networking breaks
  • Do not include big result tables with many numbers. They are good in papers but do not work in congress presentations
  • Do not use pictures that you do not have the right to use. I.e. if you use a picture from an online source, make sure that you are allowed you to use it in a public presentation
  • Do not present more than 10 slides

Short-oral Presentation Guidelines

  • Presentations should be prepared in PowerPoint. Other formats (e.g. Prezi, Canva) can not be accommodated
  • Presenting authors will have 3 minutes to present their findings, with an additional 2 minutes to answer questions (the time limit for each presentation and related questions and answers will be strictly observed).
  • We recommend a maximum of 3 slides, focusing on the ‘why’, ‘what’ and ‘so-what’ of your work
    • Why did you do what you did?
    • What did you find that everyone should know about?
    • What does that mean, and how can the findings be used?
  • Make sure that your contact information is clearly and easily available, e.g. by including a QR code