A poster is a method of presenting your research to an audience in a visual format. WPRC 2024 offers the unique opportunity to showcase your research in the poster format.

Poster presentation Benefits:

• Unique opportunity to combine visual and oral explanations of your projects in the form of poster presentation

• Best poster Award: 1 best poster will be awarded at the closing ceremony of the conference

• The entire accepted poster abstract will be published in SIPM Journal

• Best posters will be given an opportunity to publish the full work at discounted processing charges in the SIPM/ APICARE journals

The selection of the winner will be based on:

• Posters will be evaluated based on the following three parameters; those are

• Presentation Style (5), Research Quality (5) and Layout/Design (5).

• Presentation clarity of poster and oral explanation.

• Presentation clarity of poster and oral explanation.

Poster guidelines:

• The size of the poster should be: 40″ x 59″ or 1X1.5 Sq.Mts.

• Space your information proportionally: divide your poster either horizontally or vertically into three or four sections, and place your materials within those spaces.

• Use large text (your text should be at least 18-24 pt; headings 30-60 pt; title >72pt.

• Choose colors carefully and pay attention to contrast.

• Cropping, Margins and Spacing: All edges and margins should be straight and even.

• Don’t overcrowd space and be attentive to balance from top to bottom and from the side margins. Organize your elements into columns.

• White space: (the area not covered with text or graphics): Not too much (or the viewer’s eye will wander). Not too little (or you’ll confuse and overwhelm your viewer)

• White space: (the area not covered with text or graphics): Not too much (or the viewer’s eye will wander). Not too little (or you’ll confuse and overwhelm your viewer)

• Posters should have the following information.

         o Title (with authors and affiliations)

         o Introduction / Objectives / Aims

         o Methods

         o Results

         o Conclusion

         o References

         o Acknowledgements

         o Contact information

• Posters should stimulate discussion, do not give a long presentation.

• Keep text to a minimum, emphasize graphics, and make sure every item in your poster is necessary.

• Good quality of the ink is to be used to print the poster.

• No computers or extra aids may be used during a poster presentation.

• Poster should be placed at the allotted places 2 hours prior to the poster session and can be removed at the end of the day.

• Keep your poster presentation to ~10 minutes per visitor/judge (5 min discussion & 5 min query session).

• Each poster can be presented by maximum 2 presenters during the poster evaluation.

• Try not to stand directly in front of your poster, allow other scientists to view the entire poster. Stand to the side.

• Carry your poster to the meeting, using tubular packaging or a portfolio case. Do not mail your poster to the conference headquarters or to the meeting site.