Programme

The programme of the ICAM 2023 can be accessed by pressing the button below.

For the hybrid event in St. Gallen on 19 to 23 June 2023, there is an Overview page, a page detailing the oral presentations as well as a page documenting all the short poster pitches presented during the hybrid event. The latter two pages also give access to the abstracts of both oral as well as poster presentations.

The schedule for the fully on-line Poster Session on Tuesday 27 June is also available by pressing the button below (in case you can not spot it, return to the “Overview” page to find it). Again, abstracts are directly accessible from there. The morning session will be from 08-11 CEST (06-09 UTC), the afternoon session from 15-18 CEST (13-16 UTC). Poster presenters will be asked to be at their poster for one hour each in the morning and in the afternoon, respectively, unless this is in the middle of the night. The specific attendance times for each thematic topic are indicated in the topic header (CEST is UTC+2). Attendance times will also be documented in all virtual Gather.town Poster Session rooms.

Programme for oral and poster presentations

For your convenience, we replicate the details concerning the organisation and technical setup of the different sessions that we have sent to all participants by e-mail on 05.06.2023 below:

Information for oral presenters

Oral presentations will be 12 minutes plus 3 minutes for questions, except for invited talks which will be 24 plus 6 minutes, respectively.
Your presentation will run on a local Windows PC which means that you will have to send us your presentation, irrespective of whether you will present on-site or on-line.
We support PowerPoint presentations as well as PDF files (employing Adobe Pro). We encourage the use of a 16:9 format, but 4:3 will work fine, too.
On-site presenters will be able to switch slides themselves, whereas on-line presenters will have to request the change of the slides with “next slide, please” (or similar … ;-).
Both on-site as well as on-line presenters will have no pointer and no “Presenter View” for PowerPoint slides.
On-site presenters will have the option between a head-set and a stationary microphone at the lectern. They will be visible for Zoom participants.
On-line presenters are asked to ensure good audio (preferably with a head-set) and are encouraged to share their video while presenting.

Information for poster presenters

Poster presenters will have two opportunities to present their poster: An oral pitch of 90 seconds during the hybrid Plenary Sessions as well the presentation of the digital poster for up to 6 hours during the Posters Sessions on Tuesday 27 June.
Poster pitches (see programme for timings)
- You can support your 90 seconds poster pitch with one slide (pptx or pdf; 16:9 format preferred, but 4:3 will work fine, too).
- Your slide will be presented from a local Windows PC (we will only show the first slide if you send us more than one slide, and we will show an empty slide in case you will not provide a slide for your poster pitch).
- On-site poster pitches will be done from the lectern (fixed microphone, camera installed), on-line pitches via Zoom (please share your video).
Poster presentations in Gather.town on Tue 27.06.2023 (see programme for timings)
- Your digital poster needs to meet the following requirements:
  - Must be a .png or .jpg file.
  - Ideally uses a 16:9 aspect ratio
    - Minimum (- minimum, not maximum!) width is 1000 px (24.46 cm)
    - Minimum (- minimum, not maximum!) height is 600 px (15.88 cm)
    - Landscape is preferable to view the full image, but portrait can be used with scrolling.
    - Maximum file size is 3 MB.
    - Do not use a transparent background.
- We will upload your digital poster to Gather.town.

How to send us your presentations and posters, and until when

Please send us all your material (i.e., slides for oral presentations, one slide for poster pitches, digital poster) until Thursday 15 June 2023.
If your files are less than 10 MB in size, please send the material directly by e-mail to icam2023@meteoswiss.ch.
If your oral presentation or poster pitch slide is larger than 10 MB in size, please use some login-free file transfer service such as e.g., https://wetransfer.com to provide the material to icam2023@meteoswiss.ch.

Links to Zoom (hybrid Plenary Sessions) and Gather.town (Poster Sessions)

The links to Zoom (for the hybrid Plenary Sessions, 19-23 June) as well as to Gather.town (for the fully on-line Poster Sessions, 27 June) will be provided to all registered participants in due time.
We assume you are all familiar with the use of Zoom.
- Please raise your hand to ask a question, or write your question into the chat.
- Please only unmute your microphone for presentations or questions. – We encourage you to share your video while you talk.
We will record all presentations during the hybrid Plenary Sessions. – Please let us know immediately if you do not agree with this.
Gather.town is an easy-to-use on-line version of a real-world poster session. We will provide a short HowTo for all participants who have not experienced a Gather.town poster session before.

If you still want to read on: Why we have set up ICAM 2023 the way we did.

With the experience of working and exchanging on-line during and since the Corona pandemic, and to minimise the emission of fossil fuels as much as possible, we strongly believe that international scientific conferences should be done in a hybrid format.
ICAM 2023 aims to be an inclusive hybrid conference, i.e., we try not to discriminate on-line participants as much as we can.
As for posters, the best way (we think) to be inclusive is to have the Poster Sessions fully on-line, since it is impossible for an on-line poster presenter to “stand in front of a hard-copy poster”.
The date for the fully on-line Poster Session is deliberately chosen to be after the hybrid event since this allows most people to participate at the Poster Sessions from their fully equipped working place (or any other favourite place they may have). Hybrid conferences that have done the fully on-line poster session during the conference week have seen hundreds of seemingly independent people sitting around in the conference building with their computers on their laps participating individually at the on-line poster session with often very poor audio (background noise) and minor to major connectivity problems (all sitting on the same network).
To foster the significance of the posters as an integral part of ICAM 2023, there will be short poster pitches (1.5 minutes; one slide) during the hybrid event to advertise all posters shown during the Poster Sessions.
Last but not least, Gather.town will be available during the conference week in case anyone wants to ad-hoc discuss their poster with someone else already ahead of the Poster Sessions, be it on-site or on-line.