If you are an active participant of WFSBP, please read through this page carefully as it includes all relevant information regarding your presentation and/or your poster.

Important facts:

• Presentation time: Each Free Communication (FC) should be a roughly 10-minute lecture followed by a 3-minute discussion (depending on the amount of speakers in your session)
• As a speaker in a symposium, your presentation time depends on the amount of colleagues who will present with you. Your chairperson will advise further
• Each meeting room will be equipped with a notebook and a data projector for PowerPoint presentations. There will be no possibility to connect your personal notebook in the lecture room.
• Last-minute changes in your presentation can only be made in the Speakers’ Center. No changes can be made in the lecture rooms.
• The Speakers’ Center is located in ______________________

Preparation of your PowerPoint presentation:

• The format for presentations is 16:9.
• Store all your files in one folder. Please make sure that the videos and your presentation are all in the same folder.
• Avoid creating symbols as graphics or using special fonts that are external to your Microsoft PowerPoint or word processing programme since these might be displayed incorrectly.
• If using fonts within the presentation which are not installed on a standard MS Windows 11 computer with MS Office 365, these fonts should be saved as embedded fonts within the final version of the presentation.
• Colours: Use light-coloured fonts for texts on dark backgrounds or vice versa. A strong contrast is important for good legibility.
• Movies should be embedded within a PowerPoint presentation (so that they are part of the PPTX file). Linked movies (mostly in PPT) should be saved as external files to the same folder which also contains the presentation file. Please make sure that a standard Windows 10 computer can play those videos.
• The most common video formats are supported: AVI, MP4, M4V, MOV, MPG, and Windows WMV. The perfect video is a H.264 video in MOV or MP4 format
• Microsoft PowerPoint (up to Microsoft 365) versions for PC can be used. The following presentation formats cannot be handled or uploaded: Prezi and Apple Keynote. Please be aware that presentations made on Macs generally do not run properly on PCs. Please visit the Speakers’ Center to check for incompatibilities.
• Please note that all speakers are expected to disclose any conflicts of interest on a PowerPoint slide to be shown at the beginning of the presentation.

Speakers' Center Opening Hours: 

• Thursday, 27 August: 07:30-17:30
• Friday, 28 August: 07:30 - 17:30
• Saturday, 29 August: 08:00 - 16:00

• Please introduce each speaker with full name prior to his/her presentation.
• You are kindly requested to respect and keep within the time schedule of your session.
• Please take care that each speakers keeps the time for his or her talk as exceeding the time for one talk puts the following speakers at a disadvantage and shortens the time for questions and discussion.
• Please foresee time for questions and a short discussion after each talk if not otherwise indicated in the session schedule. 
• Our congress staff allocated to each hall are at your disposal. If you have any questions or requests, please approach the hall manager.

During the congress, we will have 2 poster sessions. The sessions will be held in the Pre-Function Area:

·       28.08.2026, 18:30–20:00

·       29.08.2026, 18:00–19:30

These sessions offer an effective forum for the exchange of information and a means to communicate ideas, research, and programmes. Poster authors are required to be available for questions and further information at their poster board during both Poster Sessions.

Poster number

At this congress, posters will be grouped by topic for the convenience of those attending the sessions and numbered within their respective topic. The poster exhibition is open during regular congress hours.

As an example, Poster Session P-A-005: P = poster, A= session, 005 = abstract.

Mounting and removal of posters

·       Mounting: Please hang your poster till 28.08.2026 by 12:00

·       Removal: Please take your poster down by 30.08 14:00

Posters that have not been taken off at 14:00 will be disposed of.

Printing

Please note that neither the congress centre nor the organisers provide printing services. We kindly ask you to either bring your poster with you or arrange printing at a local copy shop in Hamburg.

If you have any questions, please contact wfsbp2026@cpo-hanser.de.