Call for Presentations

Who can present?
Presentation for Prepared Foods’ R&D Applications Seminar Eastare now being accepted from ingredient suppliers, product development firms, software companies, testing labs, consultants, academic institutions and associations.

What kind of presentations?
The Seminar's continued success and credibility is highly dependent on presenters who deliver educational, non-commercial, generic, practical, applications-oriented information to our bench-level R&D attendees.
 

 Program Documents

R&D East Program Schedule
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The R&D Seminar's 2010 Program will be updated regularly as presentations/speakers are accepted. Please check back with us.

How many presentations can a company submit?

There is a limited inventory of seminar presentations. To guarantee a broad spectrum of topics, organizations will be limited to a maximum of two (2) presentations.

• Presentations will be considered on a first come, first served basis.
• All speakers must register separately for the seminar.
• Speaker Registration Policy (PDF)
• Presentation acceptance is at the discretion of the Seminar’s independent Advisory Board (see below).
   

Presentation Submission Process

Organizations interested in presenting at the R&D Applications Seminar East must first submit a Presentation Outline.

The Presentation Outline will be automatically forwarded to the Advisory Board to provide a general description of your presentation. This allows the Advisory Board to evaluate the presentation(s) for suitability, topic duplication, and intelligently position your presentation in the proper seminar track.
 

Important Deadlines

• January 29, 2010 - Deadline for submission of a Presentation Outline.
• The Advisory Board will notify you immediately that your submission has been received.
• February 12, 2010 - The Advisory Board will notify you no later than as to whether or not your presentation(s) have been accepted. You will also be notified of your day, track, and time slot for your presentation.
• April 9, 2010 - Deadline to submit your PowerPoint presentation to the Advisory Board.
• April 9, 2010 - Cutoff date for special discount rate of $129.
• April 16, 2010 - Deadline for printing copies of PowerPoint presentations. Copies will not be available for presentations received after this date.

Advisory Board

The Advisory Board has been engaged to serve as independent advisors to the R&D Applications Seminar East. The Advisory Board’s primary function is to receive, review and ensure that the presentations are non-commercial, generic and educational in nature. Presentation acceptance is at the discretion of the Advisory Board.
        Once your Presentation Outline has been received, the Advisory Board will:

• Review your Presentation Outline for general content, topic suitability, duplication, and speaker contact information.
• Ask you to modify your PowerPoint presentation if they determine that it is too commercial or not educational in nature.

Speaker Registraton Policy
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Presentation Guidelines

1. Length: 40 minutes including 3-5 minutes for questions and answers.

2. Topics: Presentations can be of several types:

• How to use an ingredient(s) to solve a formulation problem. This would include why an ingredient should be considered (i.e., what is its function), its use level in a formula, considerations in its use (such as interactions with other ingredients/food components), ingredients it may replace and at what levels, and regulatory, labeling and production considerations.
• Informational topics crucial in product development. Typical topics include regulatory information such as health claims, labeling, allergens, nutritional labels; testing such as analytical or sensory; software and information technology developments and so on.
• Consumer and food industry trend information. Examples include trends in new retail or foodservice products, restaurant menus, flavoring systems, consumer issues such as children’s nutrition, obesity and other health issues, data on foods for Baby Boomers or ethnic groups. Information should be factual and provide a broad overview (rather than an argument for a specific ingredients use, for example.)

3. Technical level: The audience will be bench-level to supervisory level R&D, generally with a technical undergraduate or graduate degree, or with corporate chef background.

4. The presentations should meet the audiences’ expectation of providing useful, generic, educational, applications-oriented information. The use of ingredient brand names or overly commercial materials is not acceptable.
 

What is acceptable presentation content?

• Speaker & company affiliation on opening slide.
• All opening slides should include the following: "Prepared Foods' 2010 R&D Applications Seminar East."
• Company or branded ingredient logo may appear as part of the “master slide” design but not within the context of each slide.
• At the conclusion of your presentation, inviting the audience to visit you at your NY/IFT Suppliers Day Expo Tabletop for further discussion.
• Providing your business cards to the audience at the conclusion.
• Handing out samples (e.g., finished consumer products) to exemplify a point in the presentation.
• Presentation handouts* or company brochures can be passed out at the presentation.
• You will have the option of posting your 2010 R&D Applications Seminar East PowerPoint presentation(s), synced with the audio component, to a special E-Learning Center on www.PreparedFoods.com/elearning

*Note: Prepared Foods will have copies of your PowerPoint available, subject to their being submitted by April 3, 2009

Effective Presentations

• Presentations of this length normally accommodate 30-35 graphics. All graphics should be submitted in PowerPoint, PC compatible format only.
• Keep slides simple, making sure that they’re easy to read & understand.
• Express one concept per slide and limit each bullet point to 6-8 words.
• Make the text on the slides either black or blue for easy reading.
• Use between 18-28 point fonts for the text.
• Stick to basic fonts such as Times New Roman and Arial.
• The purpose of the slides is to support the conversation that they accompany.
• Beware of color’s impact on readability. For example, many attendees may have degrees of color blindness making red text on blue backgrounds undecipherable.