Speaker & Chair Guide
Thank you for your input into the meeting
Please read below for information about your roles
Please email your slides before Tue 5 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
• Please design your slides in 16:9 (not 4:3)
• 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
• Email us your slide deck before Tue 5 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 before Tue 5 May
Presenting from your own lap top
It is your responsibility to ensure that your machine is up to date and has the necessary drivers to allow presentations. The connection at the lectern is via an HDMI cable. Please ensure that you bring the necessary adaptors if required. Make sure that you have a local copy of the presentation on the laptop rather than it being hosted on a cloud drive in case of internet problems.
Speaker preview room
The speaker preview room is next to the registration desk on the first floor of the ICC. Please report to the technician in this room at least an hour before your session is due to start, so we can ensure that all presentations are present and in the correct running order. You will be able to make last-minute changes to your presentation before it is loaded onto a local server. You will have support from the technical team to ensure your presentation is running correctly on the screen in the room where you are speaking.
Your presentation
Sessions will be recorded. Registered delegates of the meeting will be able to watch your talk on the app from 2 weeks after the meeting until Tue 9 June 2026. Your slides will be deleted from our servers after the meeting.
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 next to the registration desk on the first floor, up the escalators straight ahead of you.
• 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
• 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 3, 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 below or via the app.
• You are welcome to score other abstracts too
• Please complete your scoring as follows:
-Poster scores by 1815 Thur 7 May
-Parallel & Case presentation scores by 1330 Fri 8 May
Read your abstracts now
Summary of chair names
Training Day
Tue 5: 1300 | ST Stream - Hall 5 | Ashni Khetarpal & Emer O’Connor |
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Tue 5: 1300 | FY/IMT Stream - Hall 7 | Amit Batla |
Main Meeting
Wed 6: 0915 | Plenary 1 | Martin Turner & Tom Massey |
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Wed 6: 1015 | Gordon Holmes Lecture | Citation: Jeremy Chataway |
Wed 6: 1445 | Parallel Session 1: Epilepsy | Sean Slaght & Sofia Eriksson |
Wed 6: 1445 | Parallel Session 2: Headache | Salwa Kamourieh & Mark Manford |
Wed 6: 1545 | Plenary 2 | Paul Holmes & Carolyn Gabriel |
Wed 6: 1730 | ABN Medallist Lecture 2026 | Citation: Fahmida Chowdhury |
Thur 7: 0900 | Plenary 3 | Hannah Steele & Dominic Heaney |
Thur 7: 1000 | Plenary 4 | Anand Trip & Hassan Zafar |
Thur 7: 1145 | Practical Neurology Lecture | Phil Smith & Geraint Fuller |
Thur 7: 1530 | Plenary 5 | Thomas Cope & Aisling Carr |
Thur 7: 1715 | Parallel Session 3: MS/Inflammatory | Kate Petheram & Sybil Stacpoole |
Thur 7: 1715 | Parallel Session 4: Muscle/NMJ/Peripheral Nerve | Khalid Hamandi & Katy Dodd |
Fri 8: 0900 | Case Presentation Competition | Tom Hughes & Rob Powell |
Fri 8: 1000 | Practical Neurology at 25 | Ann Johnston |
Fri 8: 1130 | Parallel Session 5: Acute Neurology / QST / Infection | Ralph Gregory & Mark McCarron |
Fri 8: 1130 | Parallel Session 6: Cognitive | Catherine Pennington & Matthew Harris |
Fri 8: 1400 | CPC | Richard Davenport |
Fri 8: 1500 | Video Session | Ashvini Keshavan & Neil Robertson |
Email the ABN
Email the Conference Team
abn@phproductionservices.co.uk
Call the ABN
44 (0) 20 7405 4060