Oral Presenters
Guidelines:
The normal length of an oral presentation is 12 minutes plus three minutes for questions and answers.
You must visit the Speaker Ready Room at least 24 hours before your scheduled presentation.
All technical session rooms will be equipped with a PC using MS Office 2016.
Presentations should be prepared using 16:9 ratio.
Make the most of your presentation with tips from this article on creating better visuals.
GSA strives to provide you with top quality equipment in each of the technical session rooms. As you prepare your GSA oral presentation, please do so by using the 16:9 ratio in PowerPoint, or whichever presentation package you are using. To double-check this in PowerPoint, go to > Design > Page Setup, and make sure the "Slides Sized for" field is set to "On-screen Show (16:9)."
- THE KEYNOTE PRESENTATION SOFTWARE IS NOT SUPPORTED DURING the GSA CONNECTS meeting.
- For best results, use commonly used fonts. Remember, these are rental computers, and may not support the full selection of fonts.
For Oral Presenters Attending the Meeting in Person: To upload your presentation prior to the meeting (deadline: 11:59 p.m. EDT, 3 Oct.), please upload through your GSA Portal Site. You will need to know your GSA Login and password. Once inside your GSA Portal site, select the Speaker's Corner found in the left-hand panel. You can also withdraw your presentation via this site.
We strongly recommend all speakers visit the Speaker Ready Room to run through presentations in order to get comfortable with the equipment. We recommend this also to anyone who uploaded their presentation early. It's best to make sure images and fonts used in your presentation, work well on the rented conference centers equipment. Highly qualified technicians are on-hand to offer any needed assistance.
Speaker Ready Room Hours
Colorado Convention Center, 210/212
Sat., 8 Oct. 8 a.m.–8 p.m.
Sun.–Tues., 9–11 Oct. 6:30 a.m.–6:30 p.m.
Wed., 12 Oct. 6:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
The Speaker Ready Room does not have internet service.
If you uploaded your presentation online, or if you were not able to submit your presentation online prior to the meeting, please bring your presentation, on a thumb drive, to the Speaker Ready Room the day before your presentation.
Below is a schedule:
| If Your Presentation Is On: |
Upload No Later Than: |
| Sun., 9 Oct. |
8 p.m., Sat., 8 Oct. |
| Mon., 10 Oct. |
6:30 p.m., Sun., 9 Oct. |
| Tues., 11 Oct. |
6:30 p.m., Mon., 10 Oct. |
| Wed., 12 Oct. |
6:30 p.m., Tues., 11 Oct. |
If you have a Sunday presentation and are unable to get to the speaker ready room on Saturday, please take your presentation directly to your session room at least 30 minutes before the session is scheduled to begin.
Acceptable file types: PowerPoint (.ppt, pptx, pps, or .ppsx), Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx), or PDF (.pdf). If your graphics or video clips are not embedded in your presentation, please be sure that you bring them as well. The Speaker Ready Room does not have available thumb drives, so please be sure to come prepared.
Mac users—Please Read: If your presentation was created on a Mac and converted to run on a PC, please test it before you come to the meeting. Make sure that the hyperlinks still function, and avoid using a rewritable CD (CD-RW), as we’ve encountered compatibility problems with them. If your presentation includes embedded video, your video will most likely NOT play automatically on the PC platform. You will need to either convert your .mov files to .avi format or create a link in your slide show to an external .mov file. If you choose the latter, your animation will play in a separate QuickTime window, outside of your PowerPoint presentation. THE KEYNOTE PRESENTATION SOFTWARE IS NOT SUPPORTED AT ANY GSA CONNECTS MEETING. We strongly recommend that you test your Mac-produced presentation on a Windows-based system before coming to the meeting. All presentations must run on a Windows-based system.
Oral presentations will be recorded and placed on the meeting program after the meeting. These recordings are available only to meeting attendees and will be removed after one year. The presentation on the screen is all that will be recorded. We will not have a camera in the room to record the presenter.
We look forward to being together on-site in Denver this fall, but if you are unable to attend the meeting in person, you will be able to do your oral presentation remotely via Zoom. Please refer to the email sent to you 7 September, which contains the full details.
To present remotely, you will sign in to the Meeting Program web app and click on the "Join Now" button that will appear in your session 20 minutes before the session starts. You will share your screen at the time of your presentation and give your talk live. Prepare your PowerPoint or other file as you would for an in-person presentation. You will be sharing your screen during your presentation time. Your microphone will be opened for you to present, but the camera will not be turned on.
GSA is offering a training course for remote presenters. Plan on attending, 4 Oct., 1 p.m. EDT. An email with the Zoom training link will be sent 3 Oct.
In order to access the Zoom link for your session and present remotely, you must be registered for the meeting.