Session Chair Guidelines
Thank you for participating as a Session Chair at the TAPPI NETInc Conference. We are excited that you are part of the program. This page is designed to provide information that will help guide you throughout your process as a session chair. The first tool at your disposal is the TAPPI Author Kit. The author kit details TAPPI's commercialism and anti-trust guidelines.
In order to meet the growing needs of TAPPI members & conference speakers, TAPPI has developed an on-line Speaker Management System that facilitates the submission process. All documents including written manuscripts, powerpoints, & speaker bios should be uploaded to the Speaker Management System by the authors in your session. Each Session Chair will need to go into the system to review each manuscript and PowerPoint Presentation in his/her session. Once a document has been reviewed please set the review status to Approved, Denied or Revisions Requested. This needs to be completed for each item that is assigned in your "My Reviews" area in the system, for your session.
How to Review Documents in Speaker Management
AUTHOR DEADLINES
- August 1 - Upload License Agreement to be included in the conference proceedings
- August 1 - Upload Draft Extended Abstract for Session Chair to review
- August 8 - Upload Draft PowerPoint Presentation for Session Chair to review
- August 15 - Upload Final Extended Abstract for TAPPI Antitrust Review
- August 22 - Upload Final PowerPoint Presentation for TAPPI Antitrust Review
Extended Abstracts should be a minimum of two pages. The extended abstract should include:
Outline
Intro
Background
Research
Conclusion
Commercialism guidelines can be found on the TAPPI website.
Please remember that as a Session Chair you should register at the heavily discounted speaker full conference rate. If you are a Session Chair and will only be attending on the day of your presentation you are eligible to register at the speaker single day rate. Please contact cmckinney@tappi.org with any questions.