Key-note speakers, guests and other participants

- Choose your role and make up a legend using the materials you have read and translated from the English sources (President of The World Computer Games Confederation, a famous writer of the bestseller book, a researcher, Dean of Computing Faculty, Rector of Oxford University, Head of the Scientific Laboratory etc.). It is very important to be able to present your company or institution to other people at a conference. Speak briefly and concisely on the topic. Prepare an ‘elevator pitch’ (a quick presentation of a company that can be understood in the time it takes to ride up an elevator).

The elevator pitch

Introduce your institution/company/business in 60 seconds or less. Use the scheme suggested

a) What exactly do you do?

b) What is your previous experience?

c) What is your competitive advantage?

d) What are your future potentials?

e) How successful are you?

f) How much money do you need to implement the project?

 

- Fill in the application form.

- Write an abstract and the main theses of your speech based on the English literary sources you have worked with throughout the academic year.

- Send these materials to the organizing committee of the event and ask for confirmation.

- Prepare your performance supported by the e-presentation and deliver your speech at the conference. Be sure to take part in the debate or discussion.

 

 

 

PROGRAMMING OF A SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE (CALL FOR PAPERS, CONTINGENCY PLAN, CONFERENCE PACK, CONFERENCE OFFICERS, DURING THE CONFERENCE, AFTER THE CONFERENCE)

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1. Do you plan your working day and what for? How do you try to follow it?
2. Programming of a conference:

Divide into small groups. The number of the groups should correspond to the number of the text parts.

Students of each group study one of the sections, present the information obtained, and answer their group mate’s questions on the topic under discussion.

Programme

Anyone who has tried to organize a conference knows that the hardest thing to establish is the programme. This often goes through several different stages or order of speakers before being finished. One effective way of controlling this variability might be:

· Set out the aims of the conference and its format (symposium, workshop, round-table, etc.).

• Set out issues to be covered.
• Identify a proper title.

· Release the call for papers and send all personal invitations.

· Collect abstracts from speakers (rejecting - if necessary - those extraneous to the conference subject or devoid of any academic relevance) and confirmations of availability from chairs.

· Verify what technical devices each speaker needs.

· Verify if and how many overseas speakers you can afford.

· Divide speakers (and chairs) into coherent sessions on the basis of the subject of their paper, taking into account the technical devices they asked for when assigning the rooms and remembering to allow time for questions and for refreshments breaks.

· Send speakers and chairs the draft programme and ask them for confirmation.

· Type and release the definitive programme. At that point, your programme should not change any more, but it is possible (or rather, probable) that this will turn out to be necessary. This is the reason why you should not remain without a contingency plan.

Call for papers

Researchers regularly receive – directly or indirectly – 'calls for papers’, which means that yours will have to be catchy, neat and informative if you want to attract their interest. It should indicate in the clearest way:

• aim of the conference
• format of the conference (symposium, workshop, round-table, etc.)
• issues to be covered
• date and venue
• length of papers
• deadline for provisional titles and abstracts (as well as a word limit)
• address for submission
• fees (if any)
• scholarships (if any)

As to its dissemination, it should be sent to

• academic departments and centres dealing with the subject of your conference

· specialized mailing lists and newsgroups