Presentation guidelines

Preparing your presentation for SPIE Photonex

Below, please find things you can do to start to prepare for your SPIE Photonex presentation.

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Abstracts due (date extended) 24 July 2023
Registration opens July 2023
Authors notified and program posts online 18 August 2023
Submission system opens for manuscripts and poster PDFs* 22 August 2023
Poster PDFs due for spie.org preview and publication 19 Sept. 2023
Manuscripts due 4 October 2023
Advance upload deadline for oral presentation slides** 17 October 2023

*Contact author or speaker must register prior to uploading
**After this date slides must be uploaded onsite

A to-do list leading up to the conference

Prepare to present

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Take an online course on presenting from SPIE

Present a better paper

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