2019 Pitch Presentations

If your poster abstract is amongst our ‘top scoring’ abstracts, you will be invited to present a ‘pitch’ to accompany it. For the first time this year at SAPC we will give you the choice of what to do with this three minute presentation. You have the choice of

• An elevator style pitch – This is your chance to convey your whole project in three minutes. The key to a good elevator pitch is getting over the bottom line, i.e. telling people what you have found. For this reason results are likely to be the focus of an elevator style pitch and much of the methods can be glossed over.
• A poster pitch – This is your chance to encourage people to come and find your poster to find out more. Unlike an elevator pitch, you probably won’t want to reveal your ultimate findings, but rather reveal just enough to pique the interest of the audience so they seek you out at the poster session

Pitches will be presented within parallel sessions alongside similar themed standard oral presentations and will be 3 minutes long. We welcome you to use slides as you wish, bearing in mind that presentation timing will be strictly enforced. Pitches will work best if the presenter does not simply try and condense a 10 minute talk into 3 minutes, but rather embraces the format appropriately. With such limited time for your presentation we advise that you focus clearly on one point (and rehearse your timing carefully!)

Guidance for making your pitch

You can use slides as you wish, but you will not be allowed more than 3 minutes.

Don’t just have a slide with your poster on as it is unlikely to be clear enough for the audience to see.

Keep it simple

• Focus on one point and explain why it is important
• Consider which bits of methods are really important for the audience to know and stick to those. It is probably not very much.

Don't

• Think just because you have put your talk on three slides it will only take three minutes. Cramming information onto fewer slides does not make it quicker.