1. Author name(s) Affiliation
MIEL 2017 Title of Your Talk
Author name(s)
Affiliation

2. Purpose
Assistance in slide preparation for an electronic presentation at the MIEL Conference
Presentation template
The contents of this file can be deleted and replaced with your presentation, or
You may use your own template that generally should follow the rules applied here

3. Outline Introduction Recommendations for slide preparation
Important dates
Conclusion

4. Introduction
This document is provided to assist you in preparing the presentation
It is expected that all the presentations comply to a minimum requirements
Presentation may appear well in your monitor, need not be so when projected
The uniform quality of the presentations will be highly appreciated by the conference audience

5. Your Presentation File
Your presentation file will be preloaded by the Conference Secretariat
You can view the file in the breaks before your presentation, but
Corrections are not allowed at the site
Only one self-contained file per presentation is allowed
Links to other files or Internet are not allowed

6. Recommended styles
About 25 slides for Invited and slides for Regular Papers
Every slide should have a short clear title
Maximum 10 lines of the text on each text slide with up to 10 words per line
Instructions for Page Setup:
Select the “On Screen Show” option
Set the “Slide orientation” to “Landscape”

7. Recommended styles Use short phrases, avoid full sentences
Preferably use Arial or similar visually-clear font
Font size:
At least 36 point for the titles
24-32 point for the text
Colour contrast: Dark lettering/lines on a white background or Light lettering/lines on a dark background

8. Presentation Contrast
High contrast is very important
For text/drawings on dark background
Foreground: White or yellow
Background: Preferably dark blue
For text/drawings on white background
Foreground: Black or dark blue only
Background: White

9. Display of slides
Preferably, the contents of each of the slides should display instantly
Do not use slow transition effects
Any sound effects are highly undesirable
Please avoid the animation effects

10. Slides with Figures
Keep the figures and graphs simple and clearly visible
Make the text in the figures readable
Use at least 20pt font
For reasonable quality of scanned images use the scan pixel resolution of dpi

11. Graph Example

12. Photograph Example

13. Important dates
April 30: PowerPoint presentation file to be sent to the Conference Secretariat (
May 13-16: Conference sessions

14. Conclusion Keep your slide contents simple
Send a clear message by every slide
Use large fonts for clear visibility
At least 36pt for titles and 24pt for details
Use high contrast colours
Highlight the results; no need to show all the contents of your paper