1) What is the typical duration of a presentation?
Total time is 25 minutes: 20 minute for a presentation with 5 minutes for questions.
2) Will you also be asked to write a paper?
No! Of course, you are welcome to write a paper in conjunction with this. Most clients do not.
3) What are the typical contents of a presentation?
A presentation typically starts with the business problem that
you were trying to address, and then moves to how you formulated problem solving. You
do not have to have an OLI-only solution : problem solving can include
experimental work, consulting from others, pilot plants, etc. At some
point your work with OLI (ideally) will highlight some aspect of the problem
solving - checking your guess or targetting a temperature / concentration.
4) Since proprietary results cannot be presented, how can an application be interesting?
OLI encourages our clients to present formulation techniques along with general comments about results. If detailed output and graphs can be presented, that is fine. However, it is more often the case that at least part of the results are withheld. This is fine.
5) I have a great potential application, is help available to turn this into a presentation?
Yes! At least one or two clients in every conference choose to co-present with an OLI process simulation expert. This is fine with us. Please let us know you are interested in working in this way.
6) What if I cannot get clearance to travel to the conference?
Please consider submitting a presentation in any event. Last conference, we had 2 remote presentations, one by a client in Germany and another by a client in South Africa. These were both well-received.
7) Is there anything I should avoid?
OLI asks that background information about your company be kept to a single slide, and that you avoid any advertisement of your company's technology, products, or services. Participants who are interested in your talk will be able to follow-up with you independent of your talk. We have been able to facilitate this kind of follow-up business between clients in the past.
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