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Creating Healthy Work Environments 2025
Creating Healthy Work Environments 2025
Creating Healthy Work Environments 2025

PechaKucha Presentation Guidelines

At the Conference
  • Pick up your registration materials. This serves as your presenter check-in; no additional presenter registration is required on-site.
  • Test your presentation in the Presenter Ready Room prior to your session. Staff will be available in the Presenter Ready Room to explain how to use the equipment and to answer any additional questions.
  • Arrive at the session room approximately 15 minutes before the session begins to meet the moderator and familiarize yourself with the setup.

Working With Your Moderator

  • PechaKucha presentations should be presented back-to-back with minimal lag time between presentations and the moderator should facilitate PechaKucha sessions in this fashion.
  • To learn how to successfully work with your moderator and avoid any concerns, please download the Ensuring Compliance for Sigma Event Presentations document using the button below.
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Presenter Ready Room
  • The Presenter Ready Room is located in South Mountain of the Sheraton Phoenix Downtown. Please check the map of the venue and signs on-site for the exact location.
  • All oral presenters may view their already loaded presentations on the computers. Changes to the presentations must be made at least one hour prior to the presentation and approved by the Nurse Planner on-site. Presentations can be made from handouts, which will be the responsibility of the presenting author. If a presentation is missing, please immediately notify staff.
  • The Presenter Ready Room is available for use during the following times:
    • Friday, 28 March 2025: Noon-12:45 p.m. (1200-1245)
      2:15-4:00 p.m. (1415-1600)
    • Saturday, 29 March 2025: 10:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m. (1000-1330)
    • Sunday, 30 March 2025: 8:30-10:00 a.m. (0830-1000)
Presentation Information

PechaKucha Presentations

  • Each PechaKucha session will be 40 minutes long with multiple presentations.
  • Presenters are limited to the PechaKucha format and must adhere to the standard formatting of 20 slides for 20 seconds each. Each PechaKucha presentation should not exceed 6 minutes and 40 seconds.
  • There is no scheduled built in Q&A from the audience for this presentation format.
  • We highly encourage PechaKucha presenters to view this video about how to create a PechaKucha presentation.
  • Please refer to your presenter invitation for the date and time of your presentation. Presenter invitations with scheduled presentations will be sent to all accepted presenting authors by the end of December 2024.

General Information

  • Be aware of the time limitations with the presentation.
  • This presentation type is meant to be a storytelling approach with minimal wording on the slides.
  • We recommend keeping these four things in mind when creating this type of presentation:
    • It should be engaging.
      • Since the slides will advance every 20 seconds, the presentation should keep the audience's attention.
    • It should be highly visual.
      • This presentation type relies on pictures. The use of words on the slides should be minimal to make the presentation more memorable.
    • It should focus on one topic.
      • The time limit of each slide is to keep the presenter on track with presenting their work with minimal time for tangents.
    • It should promote creative thinking.
      • This presentation type should challenge the presenters to be concise and strategically use images to connect the ideas.

Animation

  • Limit animations.
  • If using animation, be sure that animation is timed, and transitions do not occur on the click.
Audio/Visual Equipment Guidelines and Requirements
  • All session rooms are equipped with:
    • LCD projector
    • Computer
    • Projection screen
  • All presentations must be given on the provided computer and projector. Presenters CANNOT use personal equipment or attach personal equipment to the equipment provided by the audio/visual vendor.
  • Only provided equipment and software are available for use during presentation. Specialized software (Flash, QuickTime, etc.) will not be supported on-site.
  • All PechaKucha presentations will be set to auto-advance every 20 seconds.
Presentation Guidelines and Requirements
  • All presentations will be pre-loaded by Sigma to reduce downtime due to technical problems and ease the transition between presenters.
  • Embedded audio and video files are not permitted and will not be supported on-site. Presenters are not allowed to add hyperlinks to their presentations to show video or audio files.
  • Presentation files will need to be uploaded via the Invitation to Present no later than 11:59 p.m. ET on 23 January 2025.
  • Changes to the presentation must be made at least one hour prior to the presentation and approved by the Nurse Planner on-site. Changes on-site are not ideal and should be avoided.
Speaker Guidelines for Addressing International Audiences

Best Practice Approaches for Addressing International Audiences

  • Present with shorter sentences and use simple words in a slower cadence.1
  • Avoid abbreviations, jargon/slang, or idioms.2
  • Limit use of content that is specific to any single nation.
  • Do not use jokes during the presentation, as jokes will not likely translate well between different cultures.1,3
  • Be mindful of nonverbal communication.3