Thank you for presenting at the ISAKOS 2025 Congress!

This page is designed to prepare you for your presentation at Congress. Please visit the page regularly for updates on technical requirements, deadlines, and general information.

Who are these guidelines for?

• Faculty making presentations in the Congress Scientific Program
• Authors of papers who have been selected for podium presentations
• In-Person Poster/Gong Show Presenters
• ePoster Presenters

The scientific program including posters can be viewed on the Congress Interactive Agenda.

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As Faculty or a Presenter, you will need to:

• Deliver your lecture, paper, or poster at Congress in person. (This includes ePoster presenters.)
• Register to attend Congress.
• Submit a short biography and photograph (headshot) for the interactive program.
  Submitting a photo and short biography is not mandatory, however, it will allow the Congress attendees to get acquainted with your professional background before attending your session. The upload of this information is completed online in myCongress.
• If appropriate for your session type and role, submit your PowerPoint presentation at the Speaker Ready Room.

If you are no longer able to attend Congress to present your paper or poster, you may transfer the Presenting Author responsibilities to another abstract author who will be attending. Simply login to myCongress, choose myAbstracts and under the abstract listing you will see the option to Change Presenter. The new presenting author will receive notification and must accept the presentation invitation for the paper or poster to be included. They must also register to attend Congress.

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PowerPoint Development and Onsite Submission

• The first slide of your presentation should be your presentation title, name, credentials, institution, and country.
• The next slide should be the Disclosures slide. You can simply list the conflicts on the second slide or write “Nothing to Disclose”. Note: You need to address the disclosure at the beginning of your presentation for at least 15 seconds to allow enough time for the audience to review and digest the information.
• We recommend that you label all slides that include unpublished data with a title: “UNPUBLISHED DATA – DO NOT COPY OR DISTRIBUTE”.
• If you include video clips with PowerPoint, the videos must be embedded as an MP4.
• If you wish to use a branded slide tempate, download the ISAKOS 2025 Congress PowerPoint Slide Template for your presentation.

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Presentation Slides Onsite Upload

• Please bring your slides to the Speaker Ready Room 2 on Level 0 on a USB stick. Audio-visual technicians will be available to assist you.
• Plan to upload your presentation slides in the Speaker Ready Room as soon as you arrive at the venue and at least 2 hours before the start of the session.
• If you are presenting at a 07:00 session, you will need to bring your presentation to the Speaker Ready Room the day prior.
• Only Congress supplied computers will be used in scientific sessions and podium paper presentations. Congress cannot support the use of personal computers. Presentations will be pre-loaded by the AV technician.
• If you include video clips in your PowerPoint presentation, be sure to test it with the technician in the Speaker Ready Room at least 2 hours before the start of the session or as soon as you arrive at the venue. Please check with the technician to ensure that the sound and picture from the video are transmitted well.

Speaker Ready Room Hours (Level 0, Room 2)

(Please note that hours are subject to change.)

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Presentation Layout and Ratio

• Format: Your presentation should be prepared in .PPT or .PPTX format.
• Ratio: Please note that the Congress computers are supplied with Office 2019 (at least) and the native ratio of the projection on the screens is widescreen 16:9. To change the ratio to 16:9 in PowerPoint in order to avoid misplacement of text and pictures, choose the DESIGN tab on the PPT toolbar ribbon, select SLIDE SIZE at the far right side of the toolbar, and choose WIDESCREEN (16:9).

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Important Instructions for Mac Users

To use Mac presentations on a PC compatible computer, you must prepare your presentation according to the instructions below, before taking it to the Speaker Ready Room:

1. Convert it to PowerPoint or PDF.
2. Use a common font, such as Arial, Times New Roman, Verdana, etc. (Special characters might be changed to a default font on a PowerPoint-based PC).
3. Insert the images as JPG files. The following file types will NOT be visible on a PowerPoint based PC – TIF, PNG or PICT.

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Scientific Paper Presenter Guidelines

Presentation Length and PowerPoint Requirements

• You have been allotted 5 minutes maximum for your paper presentation.
• Utilize approximately 9-13 PowerPoint slides in your presentation.
• The first slide should be your presentation title, name, credentials, institution, and country.
• The next slide should be the Disclosures slide. You can simply list the conflicts on the second slide or write “Nothing to Disclose”.
• We recommend that you label all slides that include unpublished data with a title: “UNPUBLISHED DATA – DO NOT COPY OR DISTRIBUTE”.
• If you include video clips with PowerPoint, the videos must be embedded as an MP4 file.
• The last slide should include references.
• If you wish to use a branded slide tempate, download the ISAKOS 2025 Congress PowerPoint Slide Template for your presentation.

Presentation Slides Onsite Upload

• Bring your slides to the Speaker Ready Room 2 on Level 0 on a USB stick at least two hours prior to your session.

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In-Person Poster/Gong Show Presenter Guidelines

We are delighted that your In-Person Poster will be included in the Congress Display and that you will present it live during the Gong Show in the ISAKOS Theater. We have added these features to Congress to facilitate more conversation between attendees and increased exposure for our presenting authors.

In-Person Poster Design and Display Instructions

The poster display will be located on Level 1 of the International Congress Center München. There are two poster display areas located at either end of the foyer near Meeting Rooms 11 and 12, and near Meeting Room 14c. You may place your poster on any open panel. We encourage you to stand by your poster during the midday exhibit hours to visit with other participants.

• Poster Format: In-Person Posters should be designed in portrait layout and printed to a size of 90cm wide x 120cm high.
• Poster Presenter Contact information: The Presenter's full name and Abstract number should be placed on the back side of the poster in the upper left corner.
• Poster Display Setup: Your poster should be set up as early as possible on Sunday, June 8th and removed by the conclusion of Congress on the afternoon of Wednesday, June 11th.

Gong Show Presentation Instructions

The Congress Gong Show will take place in the ISAKOS Theater, located on Level 1 of the International Congress Center München. Gong Show presentations will occur daily between 11:50-12:15 and 13:15-13:45. Visit the Congress Interactive Agenda to confirm the specific date and time of your Gong Show presentation.

Gong Show presenters will have one minute to explain their In-Person Poster. Your presentation should be prepared in .PPT or .PPTX format and include a maximum of three slides:

• Slide 1: Title, authors, financial disclosure statement for the presenting author
• Slide 2: Introduction and methodology
• Slide 3: Results and conclusion

You must deliver your PowerPoint presentation to the Speaker Ready Room 2 on Level 0 on a USB stick at least two hours before the start of your Gong Show session. Audio-visual technicians will be available to assist you.

• Plan to upload your presentation slides as soon as you arrive at the venue and at least two hours before the start of your Gong Show session. Presentations cannot be uploaded at the Theater.
• Only a Congress supplied computer will be used for the Gong Show.

Practice your presentation to ensure that you will stay within the 1-minute time limit or risk being GONGED off the stage!

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ePoster Guidelines

The Presenting Author must register for Congress. You will login to myCongress to upload your ePoster.

The deadline for uploading ePosters is April 15th.

Once you have registered for Congress and uploaded your ePoster, it will appear on your personal Speaker details page in the ISAKOS Congress Interactive Agenda and mobile event app.

E-Poster Presentation Slide Requirements

• Create your presentation in PowerPoint or KeyNote and then save as a PDF with one slide per page.
• No embedded video, animations or sound may be included in your E-Poster.
• You may wish to use the ISAKOS 2025 Branded Slides.
• The first slide must include the title and authors.
• The second slide must include the mandatory faculty disclosure, updated with your company affiliations and/or conflict of interest notifications as noted in your Financial Disclosure Statement.
• The last slide should include references.
• Presentation formatted as a PDF with one slide per page.
• Please do not exceed the maximum of 13 slides.

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Promotional Toolkit

To promote your participation as faculty and presenter at the 2025 ISAKOS Congress, please refer to our Media Toolkit.