Information for World Congress Speakers & Presenters

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Breakout speakers and poster presenters should direct any questions to Tiffany Leimback at worldcongress@bio.org

Breakout Speakers

Presentation Guidelines
  • All speakers should come prepared to deliver PowerPoint presentations. No overhead projectors will be available.
  •  All speakers should plan to speak no longer than 15 minutes to allow time for questions from the audience and other panel members as well as discussion of topics covered by the panel.
  • All speakers must submit their PowerPoint presentations to the speaker ready room in advance of their breakout session
  •  Please be advised that all presentations will be posted on a secure website for attendees after the conference. If you wish to have your presentations excluded from the proceedings, please contact worldcongress@bio.org with that request by May 20, 2012.

Speaker Deadlines

Early Bird Rate End: February 29, 2012
Changes to Abstracts: March 8, 2012
Speaker Registration Deadline: March 31, 2012
Presentation excluded from Proceedings request: May 20, 2012
 
Room Assignments
Speaker Ready Room: Gainesville 1
Track 1: Advanced Biofuels Technology: Osceola A
Track 2: Feedstock Crops and Algae: Osceola B
Track 3: Renewable Chemical Platforms adn Biobased Materials: Osceola 1-3
Track 4: Specialty Chemicals, Pharma Intermediaries, Food Ingredients: Osceola 4-6
Track 5: Synthetic Biology and Metabolic Engineering: Naples 1-3
Track 6: Technical Presentations: Sarasota 1-3
 

Poster Presenters

Poster Set-up
The posters are 4 ft high x 8 ft wide (120 cm x 240 cm). Your display may be smaller than this, but it cannot exceed this size limit as you will interfere with your fellow presenters’ presentations. Oversized posters will not be accommodated.
 
*Posters must be set up between 2:00 pm and 5:00 pm on Tuesday, May 1. The poster boards will not be available before this time.
 
BIO will provide push pins on site to mount the posters.
 
Reception Details
Date:     Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Time:     6:00 – 7:30 PM
Place:    Exhibition Hall
You must attend the poster reception on the evening of Tuesday, May 1. During this reception you must be able to discuss your poster with reception attendees in depth. Each poster must have a representative presenting it at all times during the reception. Each attendee is allowed to present one poster only.
On site, each poster presenter is responsible for his or her poster at ALL times. BIO will not accept responsibility for the posters.
 
You just leave your poster up during the entire reception and must remove your poster by 7:00 pm on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 (posters remaining after 7:00pm will be discarded).

 

Speaker Deadlines
Early Bird Rate End: February 29, 2012
Changes to Abstracts: March 8, 2012
Speaker Registration Deadline: March 31, 2012
Presentation excluded from Proceedings request: May 20, 2012
PDF file of Poster to be used in Proceedings: May 20, 2012
 

Workshop and Investor Session Speakers

All speakers must sumbit their PowerPoint presentations to the speaker ready room in advance of their session.
 
Speaker Ready Room: Gainesville 1
 
Room Assignments for Tuesday Workshops:
Woodcock and Washburn: Osceola A
Lonza: Osceola B
BP Biofuels: Osceola 1-3
INEOS: Osceola 4-6
World Council: Naples 1-3
World Council: Sarasota 1-3
 
Workshop speaker who have any questions reagarding their presentations should contact James Wydick at jwydick@bio.org
 
All investor sessions will take place in the Exibit Hall. Any investor session presenter questions should be directed to Laura Avenius at lavenius@bio.org