You need to ensure that your poster follows the Poster Guidelines.  Please understand that failure to follow the guidelines could mean that your poster doesn't display well or is even hard to read.

• Slide/Poster size: 40 x 22.5 inches, which is a 16:9 ratio. If you use a 4:3 aspect ratio you are limiting the space you have available for content on your poster, and it will display with black bars on each side of your poster.
• Leave a ½ inch margin around all sides to help ensure that the content of your poster does not get cut off on the TVs used for the poster kiosks.
• The poster layout should be landscape orientation – i.e., horizontal.
• DO NOT PUT ALL OF YOUR POSTER CONTENT ON ONE PAGE. Recommended max of 10 slides for better viewing. There is no need to put the content of your poster on just one page. You can have up to 10 pages for your poster, so use them. It will make your poster easier to read for everyone viewing it.
• Recommended fonts: Calibri, Arial, Times New Roman; any large size font, if it fits the slide/poster ratio above. Small text might be very hard or impossible to read.
• Graphs and images can be embedded into your poster.
• Do NOT embed any video or audio in your poster. Any video or audio embedded in your poster will not be accessible on the poster kiosks. If you want video or audio to accompany your poster, please submit them as separate files. Also please note that we can display your poster or video/audio, but we cannot display both at the same time, so keep in mind that people will be switching from your poster to the video or audio and then back to your poster.
  • Videos and audio: You will need to upload the video and audio files each as a separate file. Use actual files: no YouTube links. No more than 5 minutes of videos should be included with your presentation. Video may be displayed in the following formats:
    • .mp4 files and .mov files encoded with the H264 codec
    • No more than 5 minutes of videos should be included with your presentation
• Do NOT build in navigation buttons within your poster. Those navigation buttons will not be accessible within the poster kiosk, so there is no need to spend time creating them.
• Do NOT add links to your poster. If you have links to sources on the internet, use a QR code instead of a link in your poster. Links are not clickable within the poster system, but a QR code is easily scannable by those viewing your poster. See the QR Tag Creation paragraph below.
• Poster PPT templates are available for download at the link above.

Please agree below that you have followed the above guidelines.