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GSA 2015 ANNUAL MEETING & EXPOSITION

Technical Sessions

Speaker Ready Room

SCIENCE & CAREERS Baltimore Convention Center, Room 333 Baltimore
Meeting App
Sat., 31 Oct., 8 a.m.–8 p.m.
GSA has a new meeting app that can be used in two ways:
Sun.–Tues., 1–3 Nov., 6:30 a.m.–6:30 p.m. (1) Install it as a native app on iOS or Android phones and tablets,
and you can browse and search the entire meeting even without
Wed., 4 Nov., 6:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. an Internet connection; (2) As a Web app, this responsively
designed application will run on any Web browser and work well
We highly recommend that all speakers visit the speaker ready on screens of any size. The app will help you build your own
room for an opportunity to run through their presentations and schedule for the meeting, and that schedule will sync with all of
get comfortable with the equipment. Highly qualified technicians the devices on which you run the app. This way, you can start
are on-hand to offer assistance. planning for the meeting using the Web app and then continue
using the app on your smartphone or tablet while in Baltimore.
To submit your presentation prior to the meeting (deadline:
11:59 p.m. EDT, 28 Oct.), please upload to the Conference The Web app is available this month (early to mid-September).
Exchange Web site at http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/extra.cgi. You Native apps will be available in the Apple Store and Play Store in
will need to know your abstract ID (see your abstract acceptance early October. If your mobile device is short on memory and you
notification) and password. Your abstract acceptance e-mail will would prefer not to install the native app, and if you have a good
also include the time and location of your presentation as well as cellular data plan just in case you encounter Wi-Fi problems at the
whether you’ve been slated for a talk or a poster. You can also meeting, we recommend that you use the Web app on your phone.
withdraw your presentation via this site.
For more information and download links go to community
If you are unable to submit your presentation prior to the .geosociety.org/gsa2015.
meeting, please do so in the speaker ready room the day before
your presentation, following this schedule: Includes the Entire Technical Program

If your Presentation is on Upload no later than • Locate the sessions and individual talks you want to hear, and
add them to your personal schedule;
Sunday 8 p.m., Saturday, 31 Oct.
• See who is exhibiting and add them as favorites;
Monday 6:30 p.m., Sunday, 1 Nov.
• Find speakers and add them as contacts;
Tuesday 6:30 p.m., Monday, 2 Nov.
• Select events to attend and add them to your calendar; and
Wednesday 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, 3 Nov.
• View uploaded presentations.
If you have a Sunday presentation and are unable to get to the
speaker ready room on Saturday, please take your presentation Everything you need to know about the meeting, always at
directly to your session room at least 30 minutes before the session your fingertips!
is scheduled to begin.

Acceptable file types: PowerPoint (.ppt or .pps), Microsoft
Word (.doc), or PDF (.pdf). If your graphics or video clips are not
embedded in your presentation, please be sure that you bring
them as well.

GSA TODAY | SEPTEMBER 2015 Mac users: We strongly recommend that you test your
Mac-produced presentation on a Windows-based system before
coming to the meeting. Make sure that the hyperlinks still func-
tion, and avoid using a rewritable CD (CD-RW), as we’ve encoun-
tered compatibility problems with them. If your presentation
includes embedded video, your video will most likely NOT play
automatically on the PC platform. You will need to convert your
.mov files to .avi format or create a link in your slide show to an
external .mov file. If you choose the latter, your animation will
play in a separate QuickTime window, outside of your PowerPoint
presentation. If you are unable to run your Mac presentation from
a PC, we will be able to accommodate you; please talk to the tech-
nicians in the Speaker Ready Room for more information.

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