Lectures

Duration: 30-90 minutes

Mixture of formats, e.g. lecture with audience-submitted questions, interview session, or panel discussion with questions from delegates. Intended to be interactive vs. traditional speaker-focused lecture format.

Symposium

Duration: Variable – 120 minutes, half-day or full-day

A formal gathering featuring multiple experts delivering short presentations on a particular theme or topic. Symposiums are open to a diversity of perspectives. Presenters may suggest a specific theme or topic and would be expected to act as the lead, responsible for designing the symposium with assistance from the Host Organization, suggest invited speakers, and select other presenters from the Call for Paper process. Symposiums can be scheduled for varying lengths, depending on the number of speakers.

Research Presentations

Duration: 1.5 hour Session (90 minutes)

1.5 hour session with four or five 15-minute presentations with the remaining 15 to 30 minutes for discussion.

Roundtables

Duration: 45 minutes

20-minute presentations followed by 25 minutes of roundtable dialogue. Roundtables may have up to three shorter presentations of varying perspectives (all presentations should total no more than 20 minutes in order to leave 25 minutes for dialogue). Sessions may be moderated.|
*Language - Roundtable sessions may be presented in English, French, Mandarin or Spanish

Workshops

Duration: 45-90 minutes

Workshop leaders present a project currently under development followed by a peer review and input. Presentations are limited to 20 minutes. Peer review may be conducted by workshop participants or invited guests/critics.

Pecha Kucha

Duration: 20 minutes

Subject presented in 20 slides, 20 seconds per slide, 6 minutes and 40 seconds followed by 13 minutes of dialogue. Themed sessions of up to 4 presenters (80 minutes) may be grouped together.
Slides can include pictures, drawings, illustrations, etc.