We are using the browser version of Zoom embedded as an iframe inside Accelevents. However Zoom does not support embeds for their webinar tool, only for Zoom meetings. There is some solution which might work for you:

If you get Error 300 (user email is required) you can restart Chrome.
Shortcut: chrome://restart and the browser keeps all the tabs which are opened before

If this does not work for you, please use for the Zoom webinars the direct link which you find in the chat of each session (top of the chat), this will open the session inside the desktop app in your computer.

Please use Google Chrome to navigate in Accelevents and for joining Zoom meetings via the Zoom links embedded in AccelEvents. Other browsers, such as Firefox, Explorer, Safari do not function or have limited functionality with AccelEvents.

Please see here:Troubleshooting guidelines

We will be running the event on a virtual conference platform called AccelEvent.

A few days before the conference you will receive all the information needed to connect to the platform once the event is launched. We will also be sharing information with the participants on the functionalities of the paltform. The recording of your presentations will be linked there by the organising committee, you will not need to worry about it. Note that you need to have finalized the payment of your registration fees to access the platform.

All the recordings of the presentations will be available on the online platform to the registered participants at all time. The sessions will be run live according to the schedule of the agenda. During the live sessions, participants will be able to ask questions, via the Q&A section of the platform, to the presenters. You can also contact and interact directly with the presenters via the conference platform at any time.

The All Hands meeting is run as parallel worshops with a flexible agenda, in comparison to the conference sessions. All Hands meetings may or may not have presentations. When available, the programs of the All Hands meetings will be made available on the AccelEvent platform but not on the week's agenda. If you have been invited to give a presentation for an All Hands meeting by the organisers of the workshop, please check directly with them if they want you to pre-record your talk or not.

Oral presentations: 30 secs to 1 min for a brief introduction (live) before the presentation starts, 10 mins for presentation (recorded), 3 mins for Q&A (live), 1 - 1.5 mins for transition between speakers;

Flash presentations: Brief introduction (live), 4 mins for presentation (recording), 1 min for question/transition time (live), there might be an additional live Q&A session after several flash talks in some of the sessions (e.g., Marine BON).

We ask all presenters to pre-record their presentations to limit the risk for technical glitches during the sessions.

Those recordings will be made available to all participants at all time for a month via the conference platform. During the sessions, you will be invited to briefly introduce yourself and your talk before we play the recording. After the recording ends, you will be invited back to andswer the questions that the participants may have. Those sessions will also be recorded and be made available.

We will have a virtual booth for each poster presenter, where your poster will be available to the participants at all times.

You also have the opportunity to upload a video of you providing more information to your poster. Within your virtual booth, you will have the opportunity to chat with other participants and answer questions. The setup of your booth as well as the upload of your poster/video will be done by us. For this, please provide us your poster/video (see "Where and how can I upload my poster contribution?").

We will use the plenary wrap-ups to invite the chairs of the sessions, and leads of the GEO BON Working Groups, BONs and Task Forces to give a five minute wrap-up of their main activities and achievements since the last All Hands meeting in 2018, a summary of their OSC session and their vision for the All Hands meeting. On Tuesday 7th, we will give the floor to the EBV and EESV focused working groups for the wrap-up, and on Wednesday 8th, the wrap-up session will be dedicated to the BONs and Task Forces. Those sessions are open to all participants, and some time will be reserved for Q&A at the end of the wrap-up.

Yes, absolutely. All sessions listed in the agenda, whether for the Open Science Conference or All Hands meeting are open to all participants.

Yes, the sessions will be recorded automatically.

Because the organisation needs to check each recording individually to make sure that they can be read and played before uploading them to our virtual platform, this cannot be left to the last minute. For this reason, talks that will not have been uploaded by July 2nd the lastest will have to be cancelled. The organizing committee may make exceptions under particular circumstances but needs to be informed the sooner possible and reserves the right to cancel the presentation if the proposed date to send the file is not manageable.

Yes, you need to pay to register to the conference. A waivers program for the registration fee was available until June 18th.

Yes, you need to register to the conference if you want to have access to the content and to the presentations.

There will be one available soon.

Yes, we will have two poster sessions where the poster presenters will be available to answer your questions. The posters are available at all time.

The only software that will be used for the conference is Zoom. We invite you to familiarize yourself with Zoom prior to the conference. We will also be using AccelEvent as the conference platform and Nextcloud for storing and sharing of the recordings.

As a participant you do not need to have a Zoom account to join the live sessions. Only volunteers and session chairs need a Zoom account. If you use Zoom to record your presentation, you will need an account.

All OSC sessions will have pre-recorded talks, but we expect the presenting authors to be present to introduce themselves and their presentation, as well as to respond to the questions of the audience. Some of the keynote speakers might do live presentations but we will have a pre-recorded talk as a back-up. The plenary wrap-up sessions will also be with live interventions by the presenters. Finally, for the All Hands meetings, this will depend on the preference of the organisers of the workshops.

We have created a folder on Nextcloud for you to drop the recordings of your presentations. Dropped files will only be accessible to the organizing team. Files must be named following this nomenclature "Name_format_Title". Format refers to oral or flash presentations. For the all hands meetings presentations, use the nomenclature "AH_Name_MeetingTitle" (AH stands for All Hands).

You can drop the recordings at your earliest convenience and no later than July 2nd following this link: https://portal.idiv.de/nextcloud/index.php/s/WnFSXeYpdjPf45r

We have created a folder on Nextcloud for you to drop the recording, jpg and PDF of your poster presentation. The jpg and PDF shoulnd't be bigger than 10MB. Dropped files will only be accessible to the organizing team. Files must be named following this nomenclature "Name_POSTER_Title".

You can drop the recordings at your earliest convenience and no later than July 2nd following this link: https://portal.idiv.de/nextcloud/index.php/s/ncAMgGZR6os9iBT

The presentations will be available for up to one month after the conference on the AccelEvent platform

The recording of you presentation will only be viewable by the conference participants, both during the conference and once it had ended, for a month. The organising committee will only have access to the pre-recording that you will upload on NextCloud, not to the PowerPoint itself.

Unfortunately, we will not have the time to check the quality of all the recordings. As a presenter, you are responsible to verify the quality of the recording of your talk as well as the length of your presentation.

Presenters should respect the time allocated to their presentations (10 min for oral presentations and 4 min for Flash presentations). If the shared recording is longer than the allocated time, we may need to reject the recording and cancel the presentation if there not enough time for you to send a new one. Note that for All Hands meetings, the rules might be different and you should ask the organisers of the meeting directly.

The sessions are managed by the session chairs and 1-2 volunteers assigned to each session. The latter will help the chairs facilitate the smooth-running of the sessions. More specifically, volunteers will help facilitate Q&A sessions by using the raise hands function and notify the session/meeting chair when attendees want to talk, moderate the Zoom chat box, make sure the microphones are muted during talks, start/end the recording of the sessions/meetings, etc.

Talks can be recorded with PPT or Zoom (pls see Online Materials for more information and tutorials). If you are using a Mac, we advise you to use Zoom instead of PPT. If you use Zoom: 1) install Zoom, 2) host a meeting, 3) make sure your audio (and video) is on, 4) share your screen and open your PPT presentation/poster, 5) then start recording (recording starts immediately), 6) stop recording when you are done then stop sharing screen (in this order), 7) leave the meeting, 8) recording is saved automatically as an mp4.

Please make sure that your recording is saved as a mp4 file if you use PPT to record your talk. (Note: In PPT it can happen that the audio is not recording properly when animations are played).

You can use a white board in Zoom (when you share your screen); Polling for webinars, or Using annotation tools on a shared screen or whiteboard to make your meeting more interactive.

Yes, Zoom sessions/meetings will be open 15 mins prior to the actual start time of the session/meeting.