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Information for Speakers

SPEAKER PROPOSAL INFORMATION

The aim of the conference is to bring together leading learning professionals and share the very latest methods, tools, concepts, research and experience in eLearning and learning integration.

Each speech should be estimated to last 20-25 minutes max. (No fee is offered).
Presentations should be issue-oriented and/or technology/educationally oriented and must NOT highlight an individual vendor or product. Organizer will not cover expenses like travelling costs, hotel, food etc.

Please send your proposal to:

ELEARN@ITE-EXPO.RU not later than April 15th, 2010

 CALL FOR PAPERS (adobe pdf to zip archive, 5.39 Kb)

GUIDELINES

This document is designed to help you deliver a successful and useful presentation. The conference is organized into keynotes and seminar tracks around current e-learning issues and topics. Each keynote lasts 30-35 minutes and each expert track lasts 2 hours. The tracks are moderated by an expert facilitator (see below). The conference is generally closed with a panel debate and wrap-up involving leading personalities in the industry and the CEO?s of top exhibitors and sponsors. The entire event is designed for maximum interaction with the audience.

Official languages of the conference — Russian and English. Simultaneous translation is provided.

Keynote talks

A keynote is usually 30-35 minutes long and delivered by a highly expert speaker or statesman; The keynotes include Opening keynote to set the scene, closing keynote to wrap-up, an industry vision keynote, a hot topic keynote, a keynote on state of nation/industry involving data from very latest credible research and unpublished reports, presentations by leading business book authors/philosophers/analysts. Presenters should always plan time for discussion and questions.

Seminar Tracks

A seminar track lasts about two hours and consists of 4 related presentations, moderated discussion and an expert panel. Each presentation should take 20-25 minutes, with 10 minutes of moderated questions and discussions.

Seminar Chairman

Each track has a chairman selected for their experience in the subject matter, and their facilitation skills. The chairman?s role is to capture, rank and relay questions to the panel. The chairman also keeps the time and ensures respect of allocated time for each presentation.

The panel is made up of the 4 presenters, and in some cases a guest panel member. The speakers are kindly requested to ensure flow by making cross-references to other presentations in their track.

Presentation Structure

The following outline is suggested:

• Presentation Overview /desired outcomes / objective
• Fundamental Assumptions, rules and definitions
• Key discoveries / experiences / anecdotes
• News / Vision / Risks
• Conclusions or new rules / working theory
• Presentation summary

Presentation Equipment

Each seminar room is equipped with a video projector and an audiovisual support technician will be on hand. A PC is provided, with CD-Reader, linked to the video projector. Overhead slides are not catered for. Presenters are kindly requested to bring their presentation on CD-Rom or bring their own laptop computer, which will be plugged into the video projector, especially if they have sound and video demonstrations in their talk. No network connection will be provided and on-line demonstrations and technology /product presentations are strongly discouraged.

Selection of Presentations

The organizers select presentations based on the following criteria:

• Interest & relevance of the subject, fit within topics of program
• Quality, talent and reputation of speaker
• Top keynotes are allocated to international keynote speakers, authors, analysts and statesmen. After that priority is always given to top sponsors, media partners, key exhibitors and sponsors
• Content style & Objectivity: audiences prefer case studies presented by the user organisation supported by hard facts and real examples. The use of humour and anecdote always increase the ratings of a presentation
• In the interests of quality assurance and audience satisfaction the conference director will not accept presentations of political content, vendor or commercial content, overly theoretical or academic content

Speaker Pre-Requisites

Speakers are requested to provide the following items in ENGLISH, and Russian if desired, for both the international conference brochure, event catalogue, proceedings and international website:

• A photograph of good quality in JPG, TIF, GIF or EPS Format
• A career summary and list of publications, CV in word format
• A 2 paragraph abstract of their talk (Title, summary and objectives)
• Slide presentation of complete presentation by 15th May 2010 in PowerPoint or similar

Deadline

The bio, photo and abstract are required immediately at submission of presentation for selection purposes. Priority is always given to partners, sponsors and exhibitors (after statesmen, international experts and analysts). Presentations submitted after the 15th April 2009 cannot be considered.

The deadline for submitting of FINAL slides, CV, Photo and abstract is 15th May 2010

Contact information:

Project director — Alla Khaikina
tel. +7 495 935 73 50 / +7 495 788 55 85 ext.4203
mob. +7 926 240 85 31
E-mail: elearn@ite-expo.ru; khaikina@ite-expo.ru

Technical Manager — Alexey Kovalevich
tel. +7 495 935 73 50 / +7 495 788 55 85 ext. 4119
Еmail: kovalevich@ite-expo.ru

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