Onsite Presentation Info

  • By agreeing to provide your presentation material, registering for the conference, and presenting it in-person, the accepted manuscript will be published and searchable on IEEE Xplore. Presentation material will only be made available to registered conference attendees for a limited period. All presentations will be in-person, no exceptions.

    • Bring your presentation to the Speaker Ready Room in either PowerPoint or PDF (Adobe Acrobat). IBM PC versions ONLY.

    • A QR code will be available in Speaker Ready for speakers to upload their slides/presentation. You may also use a thumb drive/USB drive to transfer your presentation.

    • Refer to the Speaker Resource Center  page for a complete list of action items, deadlines and resources.

    • Briefly outline what will be covered. Define your problem/objectives

    • Use your presentation to visualize the essential points of your talk.

    • Keep concepts simple and limit each page to one main idea

    • Use several simple figures rather than one complicated one

    • Make a clear conclusion. Suggest potential applications

  • For your 20-minute presentation, use the PowerPoint Presentation Template which contains suitable colors, fonts, and examples of good and bad techniques. Even if you do not plan to use PowerPoint, carefully review the information in the PowerPoint template. Note the following:

    • IEDM uses a widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio for all presentations. The PowerPoint template uses a 13.33″ wide, 7.5″ high landscape page setup.

    • Leave 1/2″ or 1cm margin on all four sides. All pages should be in a horizontal format, not vertical.

    • No logos are permitted except on the title page.

    • Use black or dark-colored fonts on a white background. Use Calibri or a similar font. Do not use font sizes smaller than 24 point.

    • For pages with text only, use no more than 30 words and no more than 6 lines, per slide.

    • For illustrations make all lines, numbers, and captions of sufficient thickness and size so that they are projected clearly.

    • Often graphical data imported from another application have inadequate line width and font size to be useful. If necessary, re-draw the material using thicker lines and larger fonts or directly in native PowerPoint graphics.

    • Use duplicate copies of a page if you need to refer to it at different times in your presentation. Do not rely on moving back to previously shown pages.

    • Embed true-type fonts in PowerPoint files. To embed fonts, click on “File”, “Save As”, “Tools”, “Save options”, “Embed fonts in the file” or, click on “File”, “Save As” and check “Embed True Type”

    • Save your presentation as follows: Session Number-Day-Author. Example: 2-2-Mon-Shah.ppt

    • Create a voice-over PowerPoint

    • Video Presentation Best Practices

    • File must be in MP4 Format and saved as Session Number-Day-Author. Example: 2-2-Mon-Shah.ppt

    • Files of up to 1GB can be attached to the form. Export an MP4 format and a resolution of 720p.

    • Ensure figures are readable; consider zooming in when discussing harder-to-read tables and images

    • Rehearse your talk aloud with a private audience prior to recording it.

    • You may choose to show your face through the webcam and display your slides as you talk.

    • Review your entire recording to ensure there are no problems or issues with sound quality.

  • One day prior to the session:

    • Bring your presentation to the Speaker Ready Room in either PowerPoint or PDF (Adobe Acrobat). IBM PC versions ONLY. A QR code will be available in Speaker Ready for speakers to upload their slides/presentation. You may also use a thumb drive/USB drive to transfer your presentation.

    Day of the session:

    • Report to the room assigned to your presentation 30 minutes before the session begins. Your Session Chair will instruct you on use of the microphone and the controls to advance the images in your presentation.

    • You will have a laser pointer to direct the audience’s attention to a particular area of an image during your presentation. Please observe proper etiquette with this pointer: do not turn it on when it is not needed. When it is needed, please point carefully to the area of interest rather than wave it carelessly across the screen.

    • The audience will have microphones available for the question-and-answer period. However, if a question is inaudible to everyone in the room, please repeat the question yourself before answering it. If there is difficulty understanding a question due to a language barrier, please ask your session chair for assistance.

    • Both regular papers and late news papers are allotted 20 minutes, with an additional 5 minutes for a question-and-answer period following each talk. The Session Chairperson will introduce the speakers and will moderate the question-and-answer period.

  • IEDM Student Verification Information

    In order to qualify for the IEEE IEDM Roger A. Haken Best Student Paper Award:

    • The work described in the paper must have been performed primarily by the student author.

    • The student must give the presentation at IEEE IEDM. If the student does not present the paper, then the paper will no longer qualify for the IEEE IEDM Roger A. Haken Best Student Paper Award

  • The content of electronic presentations is assumed to be placed in the public domain at the time of the IEDM. However, we will make reasonable attempts to delete all electronic files from IEDM computers after the presentations are completed. The IEDM will not publish or distribute the presentation material.