Guidelines for ITEC Conference Speakers and Authors

Please follow the below guidelines when submitting your abstract.

• You will be required to send a draft/interim version of your presentation to the ITEC Organisers by 11 March 2013.
   
• You will be required to send your final presentation to Clarion Events by 26 April 2013.
   
• Soon after your abstract has been accepted you will be notified of who will be your Session Chair. He/she will be very keen to view your presentation by the deadline, in order to ensure that you have included the right content that is pertinent to your session.
   
• The Conference Producer for the ITEC Conference is Joanne Fisher. Joanne will be your point of contact and will be available if you have any questions regarding your presentation, or any aspect of the conference. Please email joanne.fisher@clarionevents.com
   
• The ITEC Organisers and Committee understand that you are likely to have to make changes to your presentation. This is completely acceptable, and new versions can be sent to Joanne Fisher at any time up to the event date.
   
• If you decide to write a paper supporting your presentation it should be submitted by 26 April 2013.
   

NB: Authors should be aware that the ITEC organisers, and your Session Chair will not accept presentations that includes content that is overtly commercial.

• The deadline for submission of a paper is Friday 26 April 2013.
   
• All conference speakers can attend the ITEC Conference and Exhibition free of charge for the full three days.
   
• It is essential that you stay within the time allotted to your presentation.
   
• There will be a speakers’ lounge, which will be available throughout the conference, where you can check your presentation and make changes if necessary.
   
• Delegates and speakers to the ITEC Conference are entitled to access to a password protected website that contains PDF versions of speaker presentations and/or papers. Please note that presentations delivered at the conference will be published together with papers where they are provided.
   

• The Session Chairs will be invited to nominate a presentation that is worthy of winning the award for the best presentation of the Conference in terms of content and delivery. These nominations will be reviewed by the ITEC Committee directly after the Conference has ended. The winning presentations will be published on the ITEC website.
   
• The website containing the speaker’s presentations and/or papers will be available two weeks after the end of the Conference. CDs with the Conference Presentations on will also be made available.
   
• By submitting your presentation to the organisers, you grant permission for it to be made available to the Conference Committee/Delegates/Speakers after the event on the ITEC 2013 website and on the Conference Presentation CD.