Presentations must be loaded into the conference server at least one hour prior to the beginning of your session. Speakers will not be allowed to connect personal computers to the projector, and session chairs will not be able to load presentations during oral sessions.

At the conference, a presentation upload room will be available for checking the content of your presentation and uploading it to the central server. Presentations may be uploaded from CD, DVD, or USB flash drive. Only Power Point presentations (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat files (.pdf) will be accepted, as the available software includes Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat Reader.

A laptop PC, projector, laser pointer, slide advancer, and lapel microphone will be available in each presentation room. Your uploaded presentation will be available on the presentation server in each session room.

For ICOPS/SOFE Joint Plenary Speakers: Presenters should plan for 50 minutes (+ 10 minutes of question time).

For SOFE Speakers: Presenters should plan for 25 minutes (+ 5 minutes of question time) for plenary presentations, 20 minutes (+ 3 minutes of question time) for invited presentations, and 15 minutes (+ 2 minutes of question time) for oral contributions.

For ICOPS Speakers: Presenters should plan for 50 minutes (+ 10 minutes of question time) for plenary presentations, 25 minutes (+ 5 minutes of question time) for invited presentations, and 12 minutes (+ 3 minutes of question time) for contributed oral presentations.

Posters should fit on 4' (four feet high) by 6' (six feet wide) boards. You will need to bring a finished, printed version of your poster. We will not be able to print posters at the conference.

Poster sessions will occur on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Each poster has been assigned a number, and you will need to mount your poster on the appropriately numbered board. (You can check the number by referring to the printed or on-line program.) SOFE posters will be in the morning sessions and must be mounted by 9 AM on the day of your relevant poster session, and taken down by 12:30 PM the same day. ICOPS posters will be in the afternoon sessions and must be mounted by 1:30 PM on the day of your relevant poster session, and taken down by 6 PM the same day. The posters should be attended during the posted session time each day.

Posters can be affixed using pins that will be provided. Velcro mounting is possible on our boards, but authors wishing to use Velcro must bring their own mounting supplies.