Speaker Guidelines


Oral Speaker Guidelines

  • Confirm the date and time of your presentation (see conference website).
  • Presenters are not allowed to move their presentations to a different time slot.
  • Report to the chairperson of the session at least 10 minutes before the session starts.
  • All oral presentations need to be submitted to the technical assistant at the help desk by 09h00 on the day of the presentation. If you prefer to email your presentation, you can send it to sasa2024@sastat.org. Please use the following filename format for your presentation: surname_stream_day. Any delay caused by not meeting this deadline will be subtracted from the allocated presentation time.
  • Laser pointers will be available in the venues.
  • Each presenter is allocated 15 minutes for their presentation and 5 minutes for questions. Please keep to this time allocation. The session chair will give a 5 minute warning before the end of the allocated 15 minutes and then a final warning when the 15 minutes is up. Once the chairperson has indicated the end of your presentation, please stop immediately.

Speed presenters

  • Confirm the date and time of your presentation.
  • Presenters are not allowed to move their presentations to a different time slot.
  • Report to the chairperson of the session at least 10 minutes before the session starts.
  • All oral presentations need to be submitted to the technical assistant at the help desk by 09h00 on the day of the presentation. If you prefer to email your presentation, you can send it to sasa2024@sastat.org. Please use the following filename format for your presentation: surname_stream_day. Any delay caused by not meeting this deadline will be subtracted from the allocated presentation time.
  • Laser pointers will be available in the venues.
  • Each presenter is allocated 8 minutes for their presentation. Please keep to this time allocation. The session chair will give a 2 minute warning before the end of the allocated 8 minutes and then a final warning when the 8 minutes is up. Once the chairperson has indicated the end of your presentation, please stop immediately. Questions will be taken at the end of the speed session.

Poster presenters

  • Posters will be displayed in tea/coffee area.
  • Presenters must set up their posters by 10h40 on day 1 of the conference, 20 November 2024.
  • Presenters must be available for discussion and questions on 20 November 2024 from 10h40 to 11h00 (morning tea) and again from 15h40 to 16h00 (afternoon tea).
  • Each presenter’s name will be allocated to their specific board. Please use the board that has been allocated to you and do not remove names from the boards
  • Prestik  will be provided to affix the poster to the board.
  • Posters are to remain up until 11h30 on the last day, 22 November 2024.