Speaker Resources 26
Presentation Guidelines, Logos, and Upload
The quality and consistency of Summit presentations has a major impact on attendees’ overall satisfaction with the Summit. Therefore, we ask that all faculty adhere to the Guidelines below.
Guidelines
- Provide us with a Microsoft PowerPoint (PPT) of your presentation, in electronic form, by the deadline date of April 10. To allow for maximum viewing quality, presentations will be displayed in WIDE-SCREEN. Please ensure you have selected the 16:9 format for wide-screen:
> Select ‘Design’ tab
> Select ‘Page Setup’
> Select ’16:9’ from the drop-down menu - While there is no required template, we ask that the first slide include the session title; the Summit logo and name “31st Healthcare Marketing & Physician Strategies Summit”; and names, titles, and organizations for all speakers. Your final thank you slide should include the Forum logo.
- Use standard, professional sans-serif fonts (e.g., Arial, Helvetica, Segoe UI, Tahoma) and a minimum 24-point font size for body text to ensure readability in large rooms and in the Summit app. Avoid decorative fonts and overly dense slides. If you choose to use a special or custom font, be sure to provide us with the font file.
- Panel discussions should include a slide featuring panelist photos, brief bios, and an overview of panelists’ organizations. Also helpful: a slide from each panelist highlighting key challenges, opportunities, strategies, and lessons learned related to the session topic.
- For sessions with more than one speaker, please incorporate all PPTs into one final PPT.
- For sessions that are 50-60 minutes long, please keep the number of slides to a maximum of 40-50 per session. For sessions that are 2-3 hours long, please keep the number of slides to 80-100 per session. NOTE: Adding more slides as “background material” that will not be discussed rarely appeals to attendees.
- Avoid specific references to any consultant, vendor, or agency and/or their products, services, or beliefs. All slides must be educational in focus.
- If a “branded” template is to be used, please ensure that ALL organizations are represented in the branding; i.e. do not include only vendor/consultant logos on a presentation that also includes a speaker/speakers from a provider organization.
- For hospitals, health systems, or other provider organizations, one slide should be sufficient to describe organizational background, such as system/hospital size, location, etc.
- Extensive background information on industry trends that attendees are already familiar with should be avoided.
♦ Presentation Deadline: April 10, 2026
♦ Upload your presentation in PPT format as well as a PDF version below. We will pre-load your PPT on the laptop in the room in which you’ll be speaking and post the PDF on the Summit app. NOTE: If the PPT is not received by the requested deadline date, it will not be posted on the app prior to the Summit.
♦ If you make any changes to your presentation, please be sure to re-submit both formats.
♦ Bring a copy of your presentation to the Summit on a flash drive. This ensures that we will have a backup, particularly if any changes were made to the presentation after the original was submitted.
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If you have any questions, please contact Jennifer Barnard at 312.440.9080, x3.