Is it your first time (or even your 10th time) giving a talk at a big conference like #AAIC25? Timing is important for your confidence, and out of respect for the audiovisual team, your co-chairs, and hybrid audience. 10-minute presentation tips: Sketch out 10 slides on paper to give your brain a big picture sense Slide 1: Title Slide 2: Disclosures Slide 3top: Text based overview of slides (images guiding optional) Slide 3bottom: Include goal or hypothesis Slide 4: Methods critical for the audience or mixed into data slides Slide 5-8: Data with title or text guiding interpretation Slide 9: Summary Slide 10: Acknowledgement (lab, collaborators, FUNDERS) 12-minute presentation tips: Sketch out 12 slides on paper to give your brain a big picture sense Slide 1: Title Slide 2: Disclosures Slide 3: Text based overview of slides…or Slide 3: Graphical big picture slide summarizing what you hope they gain from talk Slide 4-10: Methods critical for the audience and data Slide 11: Summary Slide 12: Acknowledgement (lab, collaborators, FUNDERS) Build out powerpoint: Pretend like you will not have a pointer when you create slides Make use of arrows, circles, or translucent boxes that animate Write in space below what you would want to say Practicing talk: Practice with text visible to time yourself Generally 1 minute per slide Practice without notes in front of the mirror Do you feel robotic, nervous, or not confident… In the mirror change to a 3-minute description of something you love Notice any differences? Switch back to practicing your talk (then or later) Pause for umms or like Use pencil/pen to advance slides and squeeze object to help pause Goal: revel in the beauty of sharing your science Breathe, you got this! Day of (or day before): Drop off your slides in speaker ready-room Arrive to your room 15-30 minutes early and breathe Find one of your co-chairs to introduce yourself Remember you belong there and soak up the moment Inspiration for #AskMEM answers above came from these questions I received following an @ISTAART Guide to AAIC: Podium Presentations…video soon to be uploaded😊 istaart.alz.org/videos/categ… Do you have any tips regarding timing oneself? I’ve presented orally in more blitz-type of events, or longer (like my thesis was), but never the middle-ground, which would be the 10-ish minutes at AAIC. I’m a little worried, since I want to include a decent amount of data but kind of wary about the timing and projection it’ll allow me.

Day 1 of @HAIconference (HAI) is off to a moving start. With our experimental year outside of Miami, @DrMariaALZ leads us with a message of hope. As HAI is a #biomarker and #neuropathology community of hope translating into clinical application 💜 – at San Juan, Puerto Rico