Presentation guidelines

Preparing your presentation for Defense + Commercial Sensing

Thank you for your interest in participating in SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing. We recommend reviewing the information below to become familiar with how to prepare your presentation. 

Participant giving presentation for SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing
Participant preparing poster PDF and videos for SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing

Important dates


Abstracts due 11 October 2023
Registration opens 8 January 2024
Authors notified and program posts online 16 January 2024
Submission system opens for manuscripts and poster PDFs* 19 February 2024
Poster PDFs due for spie.org preview and publication 27 March 2024
Manuscripts due 3 April 2024
Advance upload deadline for oral presentation slides** 19 April 2024

*Contact author or speaker must register prior to uploading
**After this date slides must be uploaded onsite at Speaker Check-in

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