Instructions for Pre-Congress Teaching Course Faculty (TC), Invited Speakers (INV), Selected Oral (O) Presenters, Selected Late Breaking Oral Presenters (LBO)

All oral presenters will be presenting live, in person at the Congress/Course venue. Sessions will also be streamed via the virtual platform for remote virtual delegates and on-demand viewing, so please consider this when preparing your slides and presentation. Questions will come from the in-person audience as well as via the platform and app. More information about this will be provided nearer the time. Please see the programme for full schedule details.

As a scientific Congress, we look forward to your presentations making specific reference to the evidence used to support your topic. This must include at least one slide that affords delegates the opportunity to see the references that you considered in your work. In addition, an important outcome of the Congress is the ability for delegates to apply the information you present in their local settings. Accordingly, we ask that your presentation specifically address any barriers to implementation that you experienced or that you foresee. In addition to being reflective of best practice, these elements are a requirement of our educational accreditation and are subject to external review/approval.

Evidenced-based approach

Speakers must supply best evidence for their assertions.

Examples include: systematic review/meta-analysis of studies (RTCs or cohort case control studies) and literature review of topics.
Lack of evidence for assertions or recommendations must be acknowledged.
If a single study is the focus or select studies are omitted, speakers must provide rationale to support this decision.
Graphs and charts cannot be altered to highlight one treatment or product.
Both potential harms and benefits should be discussed. An efficient way to present this to clinicians is number needed to treat (NNT) and the number needed to harm (NNH), as well as absolute and relative risk reduction.

Barriers to change

Educational design includes discussion of commonly encountered barriers to practice change. If the topic is non-clinical, this does not apply.

Conflict of interest disclosure

In compliance with CME requirements all speakers and oral presenters must complete a conflict of interest form once their abstract has been accepted. Please ensure that the first slide in your presentation is the conflict of interest disclosure slide. See below for template slide link.

At the event all speakers must disclose any conflict of interest verbally and using a slide at the beginning of the presentation. Examples of relationships that should be disclosed include, but are not limited to:

any direct financial payments, including receipt of honoraria;
membership on the advisory board or speakers’ bureaus;
funded grants or clinical trials;
patents on a drug, product or device;
all other investments or relationships, which could be seen by a reasonable, well-informed participant as having the potential to influence the content of the educational activity.

If the speaker has no involvement with any for-profit or not-for-profit organisation, they should inform the audience that they have nothing to disclose, i.e., cannot identify any potential conflict of interest. It is the sole responsibility of the individual speaker to make such disclosures to the audience at the time of the presentation

Use of copyright-protected material

You may not distribute to participants, in hardcopy or electronically, any copyright-protected material unless you have obtained explicit permission from the copyright holder. It is the speaker's responsibility to obtain and document any such permission.
Slides used in live presentations may include appropriately referenced copyright-protected material (e.g., diagrams, drawings, photographs) without explicit permission from the copyright holder. However, such material (including cartoons, quotations, etc.) may not be included in any material posted online without the explicit permission of the copyright holder. NOTE: Logos from companies working in the pharmaceutical and related industries (ineligible) are not permitted on any materials, including presentation slides and posters. Use of company-prepared slides is not permitted.

Privacy of patient information: avoid using explicit patient identifiers or potentially recognisable marks in presentations, unless patient consent has been obtained.

Publication consent form

During registration, participating speakers, presenters and moderators will have been asked to confirm consent for their presentations to be accessible to all registered participants via the virtual platform, for up to three months after the Congress, and on the WMS website for society members to access thereafter.

If this consent was not recorded from you at point of registration, we will be in touch to request the information, so please do complete the form when received by email.

How to prepare your presentation

Selected Oral presentations (Oxx) are 15 minutes long (10 minutes for your presentation and five minutes for questions and answers). Late Breaking Oral Presentations (LBOxx) are 10 minutes long (eight minutes for your presentation and two minutes for questions and answers)

Your presentation should be prepared in .PPT or .PPTX format. Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Slide Dimensions: Width: 10 inches / 25.4 cm Height: 5.625 inches / 14.288 cm

If you would like to make use of the Congress app during your presentation time, for example, by including an audience poll, please let us know in advance.

We kindly request that you include the WMS 2026 Congress speaker template title slide with your name and title of your lecture at the start of your presentation, followed by the conflict of interest disclosure slide. The disclosure slide must be shown for a minimum of 10 seconds. WMS 2026 Pre-Congress Teaching Course template. In both cases, please download the slide template so you have your own copy.

Please send your completed slides to our Speaker Manager, [email protected] by 18 September 2026 so that we can share them with the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) who will be checking every presentation is compliant. When saving your presentation, the file name should have the following format: yourSurname-DAY-time.ppt (e.g. Smith-FRI-1040.ppt) (NB use only hyphens between name, day and time).

Speaker preparation room

In addition to submitting your slides by 18 September, you should also visit the AV technicians in the Speaker Preparation Room (Waiting room 5 on floor B2) the day before or at least four hours before your presentation session starts to personally deliver your slides to ensure they are successfully uploaded to the AV system in preparation for your session. This is also where you can make last-minute changes to your presentation and check it is all loading and working correctly to avoid any last-minute stresses. For Teaching Course faculty, please speak directly to the AV Technician in the room at the ANA Crowne Plaza Hiroshima to make sure they have everything in place.

Your presentation

Your slides will be in presenter mode, and you will be able to see your notes in PowerPoint. There will be a countdown timer visible to you and the moderator. It is essential that you keep to time. You will have a laser pointer activated by a mouse on the lectern screen for viewers in the room and virtually to see.