PowerPoint Presentation Guidelines
- Presenters may use their own template. Please use the widescreen slide size (16:9 ratio).
- Make your presentation as visual as possible.
- Use larger than normal fonts. Try to use an 18-point font size or larger if possible. It’s a big room and there will be people in the back row. Your presentation will look much different from the back row than it did at your desk.
- Use standard fonts when possible. If you are using a font that is not standard, please submit the fonts (Windows-based preferred) with your presentation.
- If you cannot fit everything you want onto one slide, please break it up into two slides or get rid of text. Don’t jam it all into one slide. “I know you can’t see this, but…” is not a good visual for the room.
- Technical Sessions are generally 60 minutes in length. Please plan for 45-50 minutes of content for your presentation to allow time for questions and answers at the end.
Action Items and Responsibilities
- Provide your bio and final PowerPoint presentation to the meeting’s Advocate Director no later than the close of business on the Thursday prior to the meeting date.
- Presentations will be posted on ASHE Chesapeake’s website following the meeting. Please alert the Advocate Director if there is sensitive information contained in your presentation which should not be posted on the website.
Meeting and Room Logistics
- Meetings are held at the Baltimore Engineer’s Club (11 W. Mount Vernon Place).
- Please arrive no later than 15 minutes prior to your scheduled start time.
- The meeting room is equipped with a screen/projector (or TV), podium, microphone, laptop and remote slide advancer.
