SPRI 2010 SUGAR PROCESSING CONFERENCE

March 28-31, 2010

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

 

IBERVILLE SUITES/RITZ-CARLTON HOTEL, NEW ORLEANS

 

 

INSTRUCTIONS TO PRESENTERS

 

SPRI has contracted with the Iberville Suites to provide a professional technician to handle the audiovisual requirements for our meeting in March.

 

All presentations must be shown as a Powerpoint presentation. A computer for showing Powerpoint presentations will be available for your use.  The computer system will be equipped with Windows XP with Office 2007 for the showing of computer-generated files. We cannot guarantee that you will be able to show your slides if your slides are in a format other than Powerpoint 2000 or higher.

 

Registration will begin on Sunday, March 28, 2010, 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm before the Welcoming Reception. Please hand in your powerpoint disks at the registration desk so the conference programer can install all the presentations according to the program.

 

Each presenter is requested to submit his/her paper via email before the conference so all papers will be on a thumb drive to be given to all delegates at the conference.  Please send your documents to the Charley Richard.  Please allow sufficient time for your electronic version of your presentation to reach us.  Electronic version must reach the SPRI office by March 21, 2010.

 

INSTRUCTION FOR POSTERS

 

The poster board dimensions are: 4' x 8' double sided, push pin receptive tackboards. (pins will be supplied)

 

Posters may be left up for the entire day of the scheduled showing.  The authors are requested to be at their posters during poster session breaks.

 

Posters are treated as papers for the proceedings, and poster presenters are encouraged to submit a short summary of your poster for the proceedings.

 

 

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

 

A proceedings of the conference will be published, and all presenters of papers and posters are requested to provide an electronic version (request Word formats only), either on disc or by via email to the SPRI office at charley.richard@ars.usda.gov

 

 

TABLES FOR EXHIBITORS

 

Table mount displays with dimensions of 60” x 30’ will be available with poster board and electrical power source.   (included in the exhibitor fee for members and non-members)