PowerPoint presentations have been the standard at scientific conferences for a long time.
Unfortunately, one thing about them is certain: They’re trivial. Among all the identical-looking slides with their titles and bullet points sometimes really exciting things get lost.
It doesn’t always have to be that way. How about putting your results and ideas in the spotlight next time? We’ll show you some tools that can help you with this.

Imagine you’re presenting your latest research findings at a conference, but instead of going according to plan, everything gets out of hand.
You can’t decipher what’s written on your slides and you get stuck while trying to read it out. Maybe the bright green cursive handwriting wasn’t the best idea after all.
At least the animated slide transitions go down well with the otherwise absent-minded audience. As soon as the next creative effect appears, all eyes are on the screen again.
Just one minute left. Hurry up now, you’re only halfway through your talk.

Lots of authors have responded to your call for papers.
That’s good news. Don’t let them be overshadowed by less pleasant ones like the fact that no one really knows anymore which papers were accepted or rejected. It’s always better when both the abstract submission and the reviewing process are well-organized.
This works best with an abstract management system and that’s why we’re now going to take you through the essentials of such a system.

Resource-efficient meetings are the best.
Resource-efficient sounds like a lot of work though. Planning to transform an event into a green meeting usually means changing loads of things after all.
Unless you work with an event management software. Then greening your event will be less work instead of more.

Do you know what your attendees expect from your event? Or how they like certain program items or the event in general? It’s all guesswork and speculation – unless you ask them.