Presentation Format

Congratulations on your paper acceptance!

This year, HiPC is experimenting with a new format: 20-minute presentation slots for each paper (15 min in-person talk + 5 mins Q&A). Please convert your presentation slide deck to the PDF format for better portability and to avoid on-stage presentation issues. We’ll be asking you to send slides in PDF format to your session chairs who will play the presentation PDFs from an on-stage laptop/computer. Don’t include presentation content that requires internet connection or video/audio player. The intent behind this format is to increase the engagement and promote stronger
community building. But, this is only possible with effective presentations for each paper. We’ll be asking you to send slides in PDF format to your session chairs who will play the presentation PDFs from an on-stage laptop/computer. The session chair details will be available on the website closer to the conference dates.

We are providing a few guidelines to increase quality and effectiveness of the presentation.

How to structure your 15-min talk?

Limit your number of slides to 10-12, please! No more than twelve slides (excluding the slide listing the paper title and author titles).

Executive Summary (1 slide) – list the main contributions and approach of the papers as crisply as possible (what the paper should be remembered for).

Motivation (1-2 slides) – clearly, articulate the motivation behind the specific problem you are solving and the significance if the approach is successful.

Limitations of existing solution (2 slides) — clearly, articulate the most relevant and most recent solution in your problem domain and how you approach is different?

Approach and key ideas (3-4 slides) — two or three most novel ideas/findings of your approach. A few things that everyone should remember after the presentation. It is okay if the ideas are not described with 100% detail in the slides or during the talk.

Flagship results (2 slides) — your flagship experimental/theoretical results. Limit to one or two key results. Be brief but impressive. In the paper, you might have compared with five competing approaches, it is okay to re-do such comparisons and limit to only a few schemes.

Future research direction (1 slide) — Summarize your paper in a sentence or two. Explicitly list open or unresolved research questions and new research directions to facilitate discussion.

What not to include or avoid?

Avoid font size smaller than 20. Avoid text clutter on the slides.

Do not try to include all the methodological details or results – try to highlight a few important ones. Do not to discuss all the design and implementation details – try to highlight only the most novel and significant ones. Avoid repeated information. Use more visuals and less text. Don’t include presentation content that requires an internet connection or video/audio player.

Remember, the key is to get other people interested to read your paper after the presentation, and to help them remember a few key ideas from your approach – you cannot have everyone digest all the details of your papers in fifteen minutes.