ABN 2025
Speaker & Chair Guide
Thank you for your input into the meeting
Please read below for information about your roles
Please upload your slides via the link below before Fri 2 May
Speakers & Chairs
• Read the information below and email us with any queries
• Our response is 48 hours, but is usually within 24 (Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm)
Training Day speakers
There is no speaker preview room or chair for your session, but all other information below remains the same.
Speaker Information
Preparing your talk
• You will present from a lectern, with a fixed mic
• You will have a radio button device to move on your slides
• The chair will manage questions from the audience via the app at the conclusion of your presentation
• We can check your slides beforehand to ensure that the text displays properly and any video files are correctly embedded
• Upload your slide deck on/before 1700 on Fri 2 May
• Bring a backup of your work to the meeting on a pen drive
• Be sure to include copies of any video or sound files used, just in case we need to convert them
• If you plan to use your own computer to present, this is fine but please inform us of this on/before 1700 on Fri 2 May
Presenting from your own lap top
Speaker preview room
Your presentation
Chair Information
If you have not chaired a session at an ABN event before, please visit the speaker preview room for instructions on how to chair and use the Q&A software.
Speaker Preview is Room 7 on the first floor, up the escalators and to your left.
• If you are chairing an abstract session, please read the abstracts in advance and think of questions to ask the presenter (links below)
• Our chairs are a mixture of those that have chaired before and those that haven’t
• Please plan who will do what with your co-chair before your session so you can share the work equally
• Note down questions you can ask in advance, if needed
• It is essential that your session runs to time
• A member of the ABN office team will be the room manager and your point of contact in the hall
• A printed chair pack will be on the top table when you arrive
• The chair pack will outline any announcements you need to make for your particular session and remind you of these guidelines
• If you are unclear about any aspect of your role, please consult the chair pack, ask your co-chair or ask your room manager
General Announcements for the audience
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Use the app for Q&A. If you need help to post a question, ask a member of staff, at the ABN stand or the registration desk
• Thank you to our sponsors who help make this meeting possible
• Please visit the exhibition stands in Hall 2A on the lower ground floor, and the sponsored symposia sessions
Handling Q&A
Delegates ask questions on the app – as they do, the questions will appear on the screen in front of you
• Aim for a diversity of questions
• Gently bring the question time to a close within the allotted time in order to keep to schedule
Scoring - Parallel Session chairs
• Please ensure you score each poster in your session via the scoring link provided here or via the app.
• You are welcome to score other abstracts too
• Please complete your scoring by 1600 on Fri 9 May
Please note that Fellows’ Presentations (the first ones in each of the parallel sessions) are not eligible for the platform prize.
Read your abstracts now
Summary of chair names
| Wed 7: 0915 | Plenary Session 1: Pathogenic Mechanisms in Neurological Disorders | Ruth Dobson & James Lilleker |
| Wed 7: 1015 | ABN Practical Neurology Lecture 2025 | Phil Smith & Geraint Fuller |
| Wed 7: 1145 | Parallel Session 1: Epilepsy | Owen Pickrell & Tony Marson |
| Wed 7: 1145 | Parallel Session 2: Cognitive | Simon Bell & Tom Massey |
| Wed 7: 1530 | Plenary Session 2: Expert Management of Common Neurological Disorders | Helen Grote & Khalid Hamandi |
| Wed 7: 1715 | Medallist Lecture 2025 | Isabel Maria Leite (citation) |
| Thur 8: 0900 | Plenary Session 3: Advice, Management and Referral | Lucia Li & Sean Slaught |
| Thur 8: 1045 | Gordon Holmes Lecture | Chris Kennard (citation) |
| Thur 8: 1130 | Plenary Session 4: Navigating Neurological Differences | Simon Hickman & Biba Stanton |
| Thur 8: 1400 | Plenary Session 5: Appraising New Therapies | Anish Bahra & Timothy Rittman |
| Thur 8: 1650 | Parallel Session 3: MS/Inflammatory | Ahmed Mubarak Mohamed & Tom Hayton |
| Thur 8: 1650 | Parallel Session 4: Neuromuscular | Katy Dodd & Dipa Jayaseelan |
| Fri 9: 0900 | Case Presentation Competition | Emma Tallantyre & Trevor Pickersgill |
| Fri 9: 1215 | CPC | Richard Davenport |
| Fri 9: 1430 | Parallel Session 5: Movement Disorders | Antonella Macerolllo & Ralph Gregory |
| Fri 9: 1430 | Parallel Session 6: QST | Alakendu Sekhar & Lucy Kinton |
| Fri 9: 1615 | Plenary 6: Video Session | Jan Coebergh & Hadi Manji |