Program Change for 2011: There will *not* be a Poster Session this year given that our current Fellowship and Start-Up grantees are all in the final year of their LLHF grant cycle. Therefore, ALL grantees will be preparing a PowerPoint presentation.

Specific Content for PowerPoint Presentations

1. Please specifically address the following in your talk: research findings to date, progress over the last year, goals for the coming year or conclusions/findings and future direction.
2. If you are using slides, please limit the number of slides to 1 per minute so that you won't exceed your stated time limit.
3. NETWORK Grantees and Co-Investigators will be allocated 30 minutes TOTAL for their presentations.
   • Please speak no longer than 20 minutes and allow 10 minutes at the end of your allotted time for a few questions and discussion specific to your topic.
4. START-UP and FELLOWSHIP Grantees will be allocated 15 minutes TOTAL for their presentations.
   
   • Please speak no longer than 10 minutes and allow 5 minutes at the end of your allotted time for a few questions and discussion specific to your topic.

Technical Requirements and AV Information for PowerPoint Presentations

As a courtesy to your peers and for presentation continuity, this year ALL presentations must be sent directly to the Hillblom office PRIOR to the meeting start date. PLEASE make every effort to cooperate with us this year since you have been given ample notice to prepare your slides.

In an effort to minimize technical problems and maximize the scientific research content and the amount of time you have to connect with the audience, we have outlined the following requirements for your presentations:

1. The presentations need to be at the Hillblom office by Friday, October 7th and sent either on a CD/jump drive or via email to petaluma@llhf.org.
2. To EMAIL LARGE FILES, there are simple, FREE programs that you may use, such as the ones listed below:
• Adobe SendNow (maximum 100 MB per file free; if you already have an account with Adobe Acrobat you can use the same log in information)
• YouSendIt (maximum 50 MB per file free; for 1st time users you are allowed 2GB free)
3. Prior to the meeting, all presentations will have been loaded onto one central laptop provided by our AV company. NO personal laptops will be used during the presentations (AV will be able to accommodate either your PC or your Mac presentation that you send to us in advance).
   
4. Please create 1 single file for your presentation.
   
5. The title of the file should be the name of the LLHF grantee.  
6. If you are a Network grantee with additional presentations from your Co-Investigators, please make sure to send us the ENTIRE presentation as ONE file. It is the responsibility of the Network P.I. to collaborate with your team to create a single presentation file for the meeting.
7. Please DO NOT include any specialized fonts, embedded video/movies or sound in your presentation. We will NOT make an exception to use your personal laptop so that you can play your movies.
8. There will be an AV technician from American Audio Visual present in the Heron Ballroom A at 7:00 am on both Monday, October 17th and Tuesday, October 18th to review the presentation procedure with you. Please allow additional time to check your presentation.  This IS NOT a time to upload changes to your file, it is only an opportunity to run through the presentation format.
   

Please Note: We do not want you to lose your opportunity to present your research to our MAB and Board of Directors; therefore, we would appreciate your cooperation with these guidelines.