Speaker Center

Welcome to the 2013 Speaker Center!

The speaker center will help DESIGN West conference session speakers plan and prepare for the show.

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Location

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Dates

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Special Hotel Rates

Available Now! Find hotel accommodations with the DESIGN West rate here.

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Important Deadlines

* Note: We require all DESIGN West 2013 speakers to sign and return a speaker agreement. This agreement confirms your intent to speak at the event, and gives the DESIGN West Conference the right to post your contributions to the online conference proceedings while you maintain your right to use your work elsewhere.

Please submit your speaker agreement to no later than Friday, February 22nd. If you do not sign it, you will be asked to do so upon check-in at the conference, which may cause some delay.

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Speaker Benefits

Free Registration!

As a speaker, you will receive complimentary admission to DESIGN West 2013. There is no need to register for specific classes. You will receive an All-Access badge which will allow you access to all classes and special events, including the keynotes and show floor parties!

Registration Hours

Extensive Exposure!

Your name, bio, and course description are featured on our website and listed in our onsite printed guide. We will also be conducting an aggressive PR campaign, designed to increase interest in the conference and your presentation.

Access to the Speaker Ready Room!

Our Speaker Ready Room will provide a comfortable space for you to prepare for your sessions, relax and network. It will be exclusively available to you and all of the DESIGN West speakers during the conference.

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Your Role as a Speaker

As a conference program speaker at DESIGN West, it is your responsibility to submit an electronic version of both your presentation slides and a technical white paper (1,500 words) that will be posted to the Proceedings website for registered attendees to download prior to the conference. Please do not send hardcopies of these materials. These should be submitted electronically via the directions below.

Note: PowerPoint slides are not a substitute for the technical white paper.

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Audio Visual

Each of the conference session rooms will include the following:

• 1 wired lavaliere microphone
• 1 podium microphone
• 1 LCD projector with connection
• Screen

Note: Speakers will be responsible for providing their own laptop.

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Evaluations

Electronic evaluations will be sent to all conference attendees for each session. Post-show our Conference Team will tabulate the results and provide each instructor with individualized feedback on their performance.

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Guidelines for Presentation Slides and Technical White Papers

Format: PDF and PPT

Submit your presentation slides in both PDF and native file formats and your technical white papers in PDF format. We will not distribute or post the PowerPoint (or other native files). Place the class title, the class code and your name prominently at the beginning of each document.
When you submit a PDF, please prepare presentation file with two slides per page (handout view).

Template

Please use the DESIGN West 2013 PowerPoint template included in the Speaker Kit and below.

• DESIGN West PowerPoint TEMPLATE

Fonts

Please use standard fonts in your presentations (ie: Calibri, Arial, Times New Roman and Courier). Doing so will minimize the chances of conference attendees having difficulty viewing your notes.

Content

Ideal material includes general session overviews, copies of slides and/or files, notes, diagrams, and problem solving exercises. The content of your notes will depend on the format of your actual presentation.

Insert the graphics in your document.  Do not "link" the graphics to your document. All graphics, pictures, charts, figures, etc., should be inserted (embedded) into your electronic file. 

File Naming

Please use the following format for labeling your files:
"ClassCodeSlides_LastName.ppt"

For example, the slides for Class Code ESC-906 with Speaker Albert Einstein should be named as follows:
"ESC-906Slides_Einstein.pdf"

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Directions to submit Presentation Slides and Technical White Papers

1. Upload to our FTP site (preferred process):

Please Note: If you do not have an FTP program such as Filezilla you will need to use Internet Explorer 6 (Internet Explorer 7 or later will not work and you will need to use Windows Explorer). If you open My Computer, you can just type the address into that address bar.

• Enter: ftp://electroguest@ftpwest.ubm-us.com
• Username: electroguest
• Password: elect@19
• Select: "electronics" folder
• Select: "incoming" folder
• Select: "DESIGN West 2013" folder
• You can then drag your presentation to this screen
• Please notify Travis Tabet by email once you have uploaded your presentation

2) Email:

If your files are under 8MB, you may submit via email to Travis Tabet at .

*If you are using and FTP program like WSFTP, or are on a Mac and using Fetch or some other software:

• Server: ftpwest.cmp.com
• Same username and password as above
• Same directions as above

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Tell the World You are Speaking at DESIGN West!

Invite your Friends and Colleagues to DESIGN West!

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Public Relations Tools for Speakers: Press Release

Guidelines

DESIGN West offers an amazing audience to target for an announcement about your participation. No other event brings the same impressive and accessible blend of media, exhibitors and attendees together. We encourage you to write and distribute news about speaking at DESIGN West and have put together the following press release guidelines.

• The date and location of the event should be included in the first paragraph: DESIGN West is happening April 22-25, 2013 at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, CA.
• Event boilerplate should be included in the press release: About DESIGN West
  Held in key strategic technology development locations worldwide, UBM Tech's DESIGN events are the global electronics industry's leading gatherings. With cutting edge product demonstrations, visionary speeches and hundreds of essential technical training classes and accreditation opportunities, DESIGN is the ideal venue for the electronics engineering community to learn, collaborate and recognize excellence. UBM Tech's DESIGN events cater to the extremely technical, higher-learning needs of the world's top engineers while providing an unprecedented forum for the examination of the industry's pressing business challenges. In addition, DESIGN West celebrates decades of unique local electronics industry culture, innovation and Silicon Valley's significant contributions to the global technology industry.
• For more information, visit www.ubmdesign.com.
• For further information on promoting your participation at DESIGN West, please contact Linda Uslaner, Marketing Director at .

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Questions?

Should you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact the following:

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