Information for Presenters

Presentation Requirements

This year, we would like each presentation to have a main “take-away” based on best practice, strategy, or benefits (or some practical outcome). Presentations are to be EA focussed and not on IT operational activities.

Intellectual Property

We ask that you make your material available for post symposium publication and distribution under a Creative Commons (Attribution) license. Our preferred licensing level is:

Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia

This allows others to share and modify your material but requires they attribute it to you, do not use your workor derrivatives for commercial purposes and apply the same level of licensing to any derrived material. (Note the original author may still commercialise the material.)

If you wish to allow distribution but restrict others from altering or reusing the work in any way the following license is recommended:

Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Australia

This allows others to share your material, but they must not modify it or use it for commercial purposes and they must identify you (or your organisation) as the owner.

Equipment and Services

The audio-visual system has a built-in PC (Windows XP), overhead projector, and P.A. with internet access.

An alternate connection is provided for laptops, but hooking up machines between presenters can disrupt the flow of the event, and unless there is a compelling reason to use your own machine we will pre-load your presentation material on the provided system.

Note: Network access cannot be assured for presenter-provided machines.

Material for Presenters

Requirements for Presenters contains the information you will need to prepare your material.

Are you going to use slides? For consistency and to ensure a good audience experience, please use the Symposium Powerpoint Template. This a very simple template which you can modify as required. Where possible please use the white on black version - as this is easier for the audience to read. You may badge your slides with your organisation's logo in the bottom left corner of the footer on each slide.

The Venue

The venue is very comfortable for the number of attendees we are expecting: (Apporximately 50).
Your audience will be seated at two rows of tables artranged in a herring-bone pattern. There will be a lecturn mic and a lapel mic, but the room's acoustics are will allow most speakers to be heard with an average speaking voice. There are no major roads outside so traffic noise should not be a factor.

The main seminar room where the sessions will be held is shown below. The room is deeper that it is wide, so even though the screen size is large, the fonts sizes for our slide templates have been set to ensure people at the back can easily read your slide.


Main Seminar Room	Size of Screen

We have a spearate room for breaks and meals. (Please note food is not allowed in the main seminar room.)


Refreshment Area (East)	Refreshment Area (West)