Poster Presentation Guidelines

Thank you for your participation in the IPOS 10th World Congress. We are pleased to count your presentation as part of one of our high-quality poster sessions. To ensure the poster presentations are successful, IPOS has drafted the following poster guidelines. We hope that these guidelines will be helpful to you when creating your presentation.

Poster presenters are responsible for putting up and removing their posters at the designated times. The posters, together with the exhibitor booths, will be located in the same area as the Congress coffee breaks. We hope this will give Congress attendees plenty of opportunity to view the display. However, because the posters will be a focal point of the congress, it is important that they be displayed and removed at the appointed times. IPOS has three poster sessions in the schedule this year. It is therefore particularly important for the presenters assigned to the first or second poster sessions to remove their posters in time for the second and third poster session presenters to display their work.

Please keep in mind that the purpose of presenting a poster is to outline your work for discussion. Therefore, the committee expects that poster presenters will be available for questions during their assigned poster session. Please prepare your poster to communicate the main points of your work to stimulate discussion with your viewers.

• The display area is 240 cm high by 95.5 cm meter wide. Each poster board will be marked with an abstract number. Please mount your poster on the poster board labeled with your assigned abstract number.
• Don’t forget to bring Velcro to mount your poster to the poster board!
• Poster presentations should be simple and to the point. Use a minimum amount of clear text. Avoid jargon.
• Make sure the poster is easy to read. Use large, BOLD fonts. Avoid hard-to-read fonts.
• Include section headings to direct the reader’s attention.
• Catch your reader’s attention with accent colors for contrast and to highlight main points.
• Use borders or white space to separate sections and increase legibility.
• Use simple figures (graphs, charts, illustrations and photographs) to illustrate your point. Make sure to include captions!
• Summarize your results/findings with bullet points.
• Consider providing handouts during your poster session.