Information for Presenters / Melbourne

Information for Melbourne Presenters

Oral Abstract Presentations

Presentations are an important part of the event program. In order to showcase the diversity of digital health research happening, Digital Health Week 2026 is running a number of streams showcasing a large number of presentations. Specific details of your stream and time will be available in the final program for the event.

  • You must submit your presentation files so that these are available on the day via this Qualtrics form. Prepare your slides for widescreen (16:9)

    To encourage sharing of ideas across the sites, we request that you also submit a recording of your presentation. By submitting the recording, you consent to us sharing the presentation on the University of Sydney Digital Health and Informatics Network’s Youtube Channel. 

    Due date for final presentation files and recording submission is COB Friday 12th December.

  • Oral presentations are for a maximum of 7 minutes. Digital Health Week 2026 encourages use of the Pecha Kucha presentation style.

    This presentation style uses 20 slides, allocating 20 seconds to talk to each slide (6 minutes 40 seconds).

    This particular style has been chosen to encourage dynamic, progressive storytelling and ensure that all presenters are allocated equal time, and visual aids, for their presentations.

    After presenting, each speaker will be allocated 2 minutes of question time from the audience.

    Note: Pecha Kucha style is not essential - if you have another innovative presentation style, we welcome you to use this also but adhere to the timing of a maximum of 7 minutes.

    Digital Health week encourages the use of person centred language throughout the conference. Please refer to the language guides below. You may also like to consider language guidelines for your specific health topic area:

Posters

You are welcome to present a digital poster rather than slides, and/or to bring a hardcopy version of your poster for people to peruse at their leisure.

FAQs

  • All presentations will be run in person. Please prepare your slides for widescreen (16:9)

    All conference rooms will be supplied with data projection (i.e. PowerPoint), laptop computers (PC) or monitors, screens, microphone, and audio speakers. Here are some tips for PowerPoint presentations 

    1. Be consistent with the look of your presentation - ensure that fonts and colours are consistent throughout your presentation.

    2. Focus on key messages, be short and concise. 

    3. Font size should be no smaller than 20ppt and try to use bullet points instead of paragraphs.

    4. Design your slides in the correct screen ratio (16:9) will help to avoid stretched or cut off text, images and logos. The correct ratio can be set by going to Themes > Page set up > Slide size > Widescreen (16:9).

    5. Ensure sufficient contrast between the font and the background 

    6. Use videos, images and graphs to add variety to your presentation. Keep data on a chart, graph or illustration simple.

    7. Embed your video files into your presentation to ensure smooth transition between slides. 

  • Yes. Please submit your presentation files here. Presentation files for oral presentations need to be submitted by COB Friday 12th December 2025. Presentation files will only be used on the day of the conference and will not be made publicly available.

  • Slides and recordings for oral presentations need to be submitted by COB Friday 12th December 2025. Slides will only be used as a back-up on the day of the conference and will not be made publicly available. You do not have to submit the recording but this will allow you to share your research across the three sites. By submitting the recording, you consent to us sharing the video recording on the University of Sydney Digital Health and Informatics Network’s Youtube Channel. If you want to provide a recording, please follow this link to read tips to help you prepare for your recorded presentation

    Please ensure you follow the presenter guidelines prior to submitting your files. Please note that due to the large number of presenters, we will not be accepting any presentation slides on the day. If you have any questions about how to prepare your presentations, please contact us at digital.health-week@sydney.edu.au.

  • For the oral abstract presentations, your time slot includes 7 minutes for your presentation followed by 2 minutes of Q&A. Please keep within this slot when presenting. The session chair will be keeping time, facilitating fairness to subsequent speakers and delegates.

    For the Poster presentations, you will have an opportunity to provide an informal overview of your work to those who visit your poster, with an opportunity to answer questions during the session.

  • On the day, we ask you to be in the room no less than 10 mins prior to the start of your session. Before your session, you will be welcomed by the Chair of your session.

  • If you have any questions about preparing or submitting your files, please don’t hesitate to contact us at digital.health-week@sydney.edu.au