Instruction for authors
Oral presentations
In order to ensure a smooth course during the session, we kindly ask presenting authors to consider the following:
- The time slot for each presentation is 20 minutes for regular presentations (15 Min. talk + 5 Min. Q&A). Kindly introduce yourself shortly at the beginning of your talk.
- Session chairs have been instructed to rigorously enforce the schedule, i.e., to strictly limit the length of a presentation. We kindly ask you for your understanding and for your cooperation in keeping the schedule.
- Be at the room of your session 15 minutes before session start, so that you can meet your session chairs and the other speakers in advance.
- A video projector and a notebook (Dell G15 5520) -will be available in all conference rooms. The presentation format in the conference rooms is 16:9, but of course the Format 4:3 will be also possible) The use of personal notebooks has to be announced to the VDE service staff in advance.
- Please bring your presentations on a USB memory stick in MS-Power Point or Adobe PDF format to ACTUATOR 2026 and submit it to the presentation laptop at least 1 hour prior to your talk!
In order to avoid any problems with your presentation please make sure that it fulfills the necessary requirements for the following software:
- MS Office Version 11 Home (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- WindowsMediaplayer 11.2312.7.0
- Adobe Acrobat Reader 8
Poster presentations
- Please prepare your poster in DIN A0 size portrait format (approx. 84,1 x 118,9 cm).
- When preparing the poster, presenters should have in mind the objective of capturing the interest of attendees to the work that is being presented. The quality of the presentation stimulates the attention from the audience and improves the overall satisfaction of the community attending the conference. Use an appropriate font size allowing posters to be readable by delegates 1.5 m away.
- The poster message should be clear and understandable without oral explanation. Further, we would like to call the attention of poster presenters to the following items:
- Each poster board is marked with a poster ID-number. Please find your poster ID-number in the final Program (printed or PDF version).
- Authors are requested to use only the boards provided for their poster.
- Posters can be put on the board starting by Tuesday June 30, 08:00 h and latest until 12:00 of the day of the poster presentation. All posters should be fixed to the poster board using pins which will be provided on site at the registration desk.
- Authors are required to stand by their posters during the whole poster session on Wednesday, July 1 (12:00- 13:30), and to remove their posters from the boards after the lunch break at 14:30 at the latest. Posters left on the boards after that will not be returned to the authors.
Poster pitches
Poster pitches give all poster authors the opportunity to briefly present the key idea of their work to a wider audience.
- Authors should prepare a short presentation of 1–2 PowerPoint slides highlighting the main objective, methodology, and key results of their poster. The pitch should be clear, focused, and limited to the most important aspects to attract interest and encourage discussion during the poster session.
- Please bring your poster pitch presentations on a USB memory stick in MS-Power Point or Adobe PDF format to ACTUATOR 2026 and submit it to the presentation laptop at least 1 hour prior to your talk!
