Presentation Format

In order to ensure that we can keep to the program, please make sure your short talk presentation is no more than ten (10) minutes in duration, with three (3) minutes planned for questions for a total of thirteen (13) minutes. There will be a couple of minutes reserved between talks to allow for setting up the next one.

Talks sessions will use Zoom. In addition to the standard option of sharing your screen and delivering your talk live, you have the option to pre-record your talk and play the video instead. If you choose to do this, please acquaint yourself with the instructions here: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/360051673592-Sharing-and-playing-a-video 

In case you choose to present a pre-record video, we would like to receive a copy to guard against possible interruptions due to technical difficulties. Please send us your pre-recorded video by Monday, November 30, 2026 by email (wowconf2026@gmail.com). If the file is too large to attach to the email directly, you can use, for example, WeTransfer. It’s free and easy to use (https://wetransfer.com/).

Poster sessions will be organized in gather.town. To this end, we should receive your posters before the conference, by Monday, November 30, 2026, but the sooner you can do this the sooner we can start organizing the poster rooms.

Posters will be up in designated poster rooms, and authors should be present at their posters during the designated time. You can think of this as a ‘normal’ poster session – like the ones we used to have at in-person conferences - just in a virtual space this time. These sessions are not chaired. Instead, when a person comes to your poster, their camera and microphone will activate and you will be able to talk to them, answer their questions or walk them through your study. Only the people at your poster at any given time will see you and hear what you say. Here is a brief tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdRi0CPohYA 

Please, save your poster as an image (see below for formats) and send it as an email attachment to: wowconf2026@gmail.com 

Please use the following subject line: Poster [first-author-name]

In order for us to upload and embed an image, the image must be:

• in .png or .jpg

• at least 1000px for the width (24.46cm)

• at least 600px for the height (15.88cm)

• max 3MB in size

We recommend a minimum DPI of 72, but this is not a requirement. All images will be enlarged to fill the inside of the iframe, so exact dimensions and proportions are not required. Be aware that transparent backgrounds will be filled with a black background.