Presentation Guidelines

It is our great pleasure to welcome you as a session presenter/co-presenter at the 2^nd Asia Clinical Legal Education Conference in Chiang Mai, Thailand and virtually on May 26-28, 2023. To ensure a coherent quality, we kindly ask you to follow these guidelines:

What will the Asia Clinical Legal Education Conference both successful and different than many other conferences is the nature of how the Conference is conducted. We strongly try to steer clear from having the Conference be a “talk fest” or just having people present on what they do. Rather, the Conference is one that engages the presenter and the participants alike, throughout the entire session. It is done in a participatory manner throughout. This helps to ensure a richer sharing of ideas and also helps to guarantee that participants are attentive and directly included.

We therefore very much work to avoid sessions where the presenters simply speak to each other and then at the end enlist questions and answers from the participants.  While this can be a part of the session, we strongly urge/request that other interesting, participatory methods be employed. One of the Conference session mottos has been that they must be: “Far Reaching/Flexible/Fun!”

As a means to assist you in this process, we are offering you some “suggestive” guidelines on ways and means to present at your session.  We also are here to assist you, and provide “tips” that have worked in the past that have helped to have us reach our session goals, both related to substance and delivery. As we wrote above, the conference strives to bring greater depth and continuity to existing clinical legal education initiatives by encouraging creative techniques and attitudes, with the hopes of encouraging new and innovative designs to clinical legal education framework. We are confident that you and your team of co-presenters will succinctly mould and develop upon ideas for your topic to create an interactive session which is both fun and educational.

We would like to suggest the following guidelines when preparing for your session:

• Please avoid the extensive use of PowerPoint slides and absolutely avoid PowerPoint slides with a great amount of text writing.
• Work with your team to generate impactful discussion questions relevant to the topic. Do not be afraid to be provocative and bold, as that is exactly how we want the audience to respond!
• Inject the session with valuable nuggets of information which you envision your session’s delegates to take away with them.
• Please remember to apportion a good amount of time for audience interaction and Q&A.

Presentations

• All presentations must be in English.
• Presentations must be submitted via the website (click) prior to the event in Microsoft PowerPoint or PDF format; the presentation template is not mandatory. However, the structure of the presentation should align with the session objectives and we encourage you to ensure that the presentation is visually appealing, easy to follow, and effectively communicates the key points.
• Video presentation is optional; accepted presentation video format is .avi and .mp4.
• The deadline for presentation uploads is May 10^th, 2023 at 5:00 pm Bangkok Time.
• Please bring your presentations on a USB memory stick (in-person attendance).
• In-person and remote presenters/co-presenters are required to arrive 15 minutes in advance of the session start time.
• Remote presenters/co-presenters will have to log on to Zoom to join the on-site colleagues. Each physical conference room is equiped with Zoom. The link to online session will be announced soon on the conference program webpage.

Session Changes and Corrections

Session content changes to your accepted entry in the program, such as modification of title, summary description must be submitted to [email protected] and approved by the program committee before 5:00 pm Bangkok Time on April 30^th, 2023.

Session Polls (online session)

If you have poll questions for your session, please send the polls to [email protected] before 5:00 pm Bangkok Time on May 10^th, 2023 in order for the conference secretariat to incoporate in the Zoom.

Conference Video Recording

We intend to video record the Conference for our documentation and for future training, informational outreach use. Please let us know if you have any objections.

Note

Remote presenters will be invited to attend a zoom meeting on technical check activity where our technical staff will brief you and test your equipment. The meeting is expected to take place within May 8-12. You will be notified of the firm date and time in due course.

Key Dates

May 10th, 2023

Deadline to upload presentation materials through the conference upload web portal (click) and  to submit zoom polls for online presentation format via [email protected]