Thank you for your contribution and welcome to the 24th Futures Conference!
The Futures Conference 2024 will be organised in hybrid mode. Thursday 13 and Friday 14 of June 2024 will be held on-site in Turku and partly online.
Note that as an on-site participant you will also be able to access all of the virtual sessions on Tuesday 4 June.
Thank you in advance for your cooperation and sensitivity in following the instructions provided. If you have any questions, do contact the conference secretariat at futuresconference@utu.fi.
Virtual Conference Platform
In addition to the live events on the conference venue, the Futures Conference 2024 is built on a virtual platform called Howspace. Personal links to the platform will be provided as soon as the platform is activated. You will find the program, live-streamed presentations of the keynote speakers, links to the various virtual sessions and their recordings, contact information for the other participants, all on the platform.
The platform works on both, desktop and mobile, and it will stay open from 29 May until 28 June. The programme recordings are available on the platform for the conference participants. More details about the platform will be available closer to the event.
Guidelines for Speakers and Workshop Facilitators
The parallel on-site sessions are scheduled for Thu 13 June at 13.00–16.30 and Fri 14 June at 9.00–10.30 and 12.45–16.30. Note the time zone EEST (UTC +3).
There will be a chairperson in each parallel track of the session. The chair will introduce the speakers and manage the time to ensure that each speaker has equal time. The chair will also lead the question-and-answer discussion after the presentation.
Speakers are free to bring their own copies of presentations, papers, and other materials to distribute at the track.
The length of the spoken paper tracks are 90–105 minutes. There will be 4–5 presentations in each track. The time allocated for each presentation is limited to 20 minutes, including a 5 minutes chaired discussion.
You may wish to use a visual aid such as PowerPoint or Prezi to reinforce your presentation and engage your audience. We recommend limiting the number of slides to 5–10 to stay on schedule.
You can submit your presentation in advance, but you can bring it on an USB stick as well. If you send the slides in advance, please do so no later than Thu 6 June via futuresconference@utu.fi (name the file Firstname_Lastname.ppt). The moderator who will be in the lecture room for technical assistance will prepare the slides sent in advance on the devices in the conference room or help you with any issue arising with the presentation.
Please go to the associated lecture room at least 10 minutes before the start time of your assigned track. All lecture rooms are equipped with PC computers and data projectors.
Note that we are publishing the presentation slides (in pdf format) on the conference platform Howspace. If you are not sending us your slides in advance, please do so shortly after the conference. However, if you do not want your presentation to be shared with the conference audience, please notify us via futuresconference@utu.fi.
Note also that the on-site sessions are not recorded.
Workshops with On-site Participants
The on-site workshop sessions will be held in the lecture rooms at the conference venue. Please go to the associated room at least 10 minutes before the start time of your assigned track. All lecture rooms are equipped with PC computers and data projectors. If you need other equipment, please contact the conference secretariat in well advance.
The length of a workshop sessions is 90–105 minutes. You can concentrate on facilitating your workshop since there will be a moderator in each session to assist if any such a help is needed.
You can submit your presentation in advance, but you can bring your slides on an USB stick as well. If you send your presentation slides in advance, please do so no later than Thu 6 June via futuresconference@utu.fi (name the file Firstname_Lastname.ppt). The moderators will prepare the slides sent in advance on the devices in the conference room or help you with any issue arising.
If you are not sending us your slides in advance, please do so shortly after the conference. However, if you do not want your presentation to be shared with the conference audience, please notify us via futuresconference@utu.fi.
Note also that the on-site workshops are not recorded.
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