Workshop Presentation Guidelines

Workshop Presentation Guidelines

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Thank you for participating as a workshop presenter at one of the three workshop at CampusEnergy2026. Here, you will find the necessary resources to enable a seamless presentation.

Thank you for agreeing to serve as a presenter at one of the three workshops offered at CampusEnergy2026.

All three workshops will run simultaneously on Tuesday, February 17, 2026 at the Gaylord National Harbor Resort and Convention Center. Whether you're presenting in our TENS workshop, Data Center and District Energy, or Thermal Distribution Workshop, bookmark this Workshop Speaker Resources page for key updates and FAQs to ensure you have a successful presentation.

Moving forward, if you have any questions, please contact Jason Beal or Emily Riskalla at speakers.idea@districtenergy.org.

Important Upcoming Deadlines

Submit Signed Speaker Contract
Friday, October 22, 2025

Registration & Payment Deadline -
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

PowerPoint & PDF Presentation Submission Deadline -
Wednesday, January 14, 2026 (final edits due by Friday, January 30, 2026)

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IDEA uses Conference Harvester to gather all pertinent speaker information, including your contact information (name, job title, company, email, bio, headshot) and speaker deliverables (registration, PPT slides).

All speakers should have received an email with a personalized login to update your profile and upload deadline-specific deliverables on your own. If you haven't received your email (or misplaced it), please reach out to speakers.idea@districtenergy.org so we can resend it.

If you have major changes to your session (adding/deleting a presenter or change to your session title), please email speakers.idea@districtenergy.org. Otherwise, you can make all other edits on your own.

Your Deliverables: Presentation Slides

As a workshop presenter, you are required to submit any PPT slides associated with your presentation to IDEA for approval by Wednesday, January 14, 2026. You will submit your slides in Conference Harvester (if you have multiple presenters, only one presenter needs to upload slides).

IDEA will review the slides and contact you directly with any suggested edits or will simply approve your slides. Once your slides are approved, you are allowed to make minor edits to them until Friday, January 30, 2026. To make edits, you would once again login to Conference Harvester, delete the old slides, and upload the updated version.

Please note the PPT you submit is the version we will load on the laptop for you. A PDF copy of your slides will be created from your slides and included in the CampusEnergy2026 app. Due to IDEA having to download the slides from harvester to give to the onsite AV company, we cannot accept late changes to your slides. 

Slide Content Rules and Regulations

A few brief rules regarding your slide deck content:

  • Case studies and project data must be included. Please present technologies, equipment, tools, etc. within the context/application of a case study/project.
  • NO COMMERCIAL CONTENT ALLOWED (e.g. equipment/product cut sheets, product catalogs, company profiles, “About Us” slides, marketing slides)
  • No speaker photos/about me slides. Speaker photos and bios will be made available on the CampusEnergy2026 website and event app. Due to the limited time to present, you want to spend time on your content.
  • No comparisons to other vendors’ and/or competitors’ products.

Workshop Room Logistics

Your workshop will take place in one room. 

Your Session Room: The room set for workshop presentations is the same in every room, including:

  • A mic’d podium for presenters, on a riser/stage positioned at the front-middle of the room. 
  • A 6' table(s) on stage, near to the podium, to allow seating for all the workshop presenters in your section.
  • An IDEA laptop on the podium, with presenter's PPT presentation preloaded. 
  • A large screen (where slides will be projected) set up in the corner of the room.
  • A microphone for audience questions, stationed in the middle of the room, 

Session Length:  Presentations during a workshop can vary, some can be straight podium presentations, some with a series of presenters, or a mix of both. IDEA will work with you individually to discuss expectations.

Moderator: Each track within your workshop will have a moderator who will do a quick intro of the session and speakers. To save time, your full bio will not be read as attendees can read it in the app. The moderator will also field questions from the audience at the conclusion of your presentation, during the Q&A period.

In addition, there are workshop chairs who will also be involved in the workshop throughout the day.

Audio Visual/Staff Assistance: An AV tech and an IDEA staff member will also be on hand to assist/troubleshoot issues when needed.

Session Tracks: IDEA divides the program into session tracks, which are blocks of time in which multiple presentations on the same topic are given over that period of time. IDEA asks that the speaker(s) for each presentation within a session track be present in the room at the beginning of their time block, ready to go on stage when it is time for their presentation to begin.

Recordings: IDEA will professionally record your session for inclusion on the IDEA Learning Center post-conference. Anyone registered to attend will have access to the recordings.