IVADO Digital Futures 2025

On October 3 (10 a.m. to 12 p.m.), take the opportunity to attend a free preparatory workshop, open to all IVADO student and postdoctoral community members and highly recommended for event speakers. You will learn from a professional in the field how to better reach your target audience, while taking a practical look at your presentation at Digital Futures!

Also check out these preparatory documents and training sessions, which will help you perfect your presentations:

• Promoting your Research Through the Media
• Structuring and Scripting an Academic Oral Presentation
• Making a better research poster (AJE – American Journal Experts)
• Astuces pour une présentation par affiche dynamique! (Réseau de l’Université du Québec)
• Conseils en communication scientifique (Acfas)
• Les 10 RaccourSci de la communication scientifique orale (Acfas)
• L’affiche scientifique : Maximiser l’impact de sa présentation (Sentinelle Nord)

To listen to the oral presentations that stood out at the 2024 edition and better prepare your presentation for this year:

• First prize from the Ericsson jury – best oral presentation: Georges-Philippe Gadoury-Sansfaçon
• Second prize from the Desjardins jury – best oral presentation: Imane Chafi
• Third prize from the Fastercom jury – best oral presentation: Benjamin Nguyen
• Ericsson Audience Award – best oral presentation: Imane Chafi

8:30-9:00:  Welcome

9:00-9:40: Introduction and presentations of IVADO student services

9:40-12:00: Student oral presentations

12:00-1:30: Poster session

1:30-2:30: Student oral presentations

2:45-3:30: Panel – Challenges and Opportunities in Collaborative Research

3:30-6:00 : Awards ceremony and networking cocktail

Once again this year, prizes will be awarded to the best presentations of the day, thanks to our sponsors (details to come)!

Guidelines for oral presentations

• Presentations must be given in English or French and must not exceed 5 minutes;
• The presentation must be based on a maximum of 5 slides, without animation or video;
• The slides must be integrated into the following template

Evaluation criteria for oral presentations

Jury members will evaluate presentations according to three criteria:

1. Speaking talent and involvement

• Clear, confident voice, rhythm and stage presence;
• Makes the audience curious about the subject;
• Able to make connections between his/her research project and its applications, advances and societal issues.

2. Science communication skills

• Ability to summarize and use accessible language for every public;
• Use of humor, figures of speech, relevant examples.

3. Presentation structure

• Sequence of ideas to facilitate understanding of the subject;
• Balance between the different parts of the presentation (introduction, development, conclusion).

Guidelines for poster presentations

• Maximum poster dimensions are 120 cm high by 240 cm wide.
• Your poster will also be evaluated on the basis of a three-minute pitch from you.

Poster presentation evaluation criteria

• Ease of reading (coherent structure, legibility of text and graphics, overloading, color contrast)
• Accessibility of the research project for the public, both on the poster and orally (3-minute pitch)
• Highlighting of main results and scope of research
• Clear, short, catchy title and conclusion
• Student presence during poster session