Confex Archived
- ✔ Program staff finalize sessions and abstract determinations
- ✔ Room types for oral presentations (breakouts, quick, lightning) provided to Beverly for Confex programming and transfer of any session to another committee.
- ✔ Last day for sub-committee abstract review and program planning conference calls
- ✔ Identify and resolve any speaker/moderator conflicts (updates in Confex will be made by Beverly).
- ✔ Program staff confirm all sessions and abstract determinations in database for speaker invitations, including moderators, poster finalists and session titles. ANY CHANGES AFTER THIS DATE DO NOT ENTER IN CONFEX.
- ✔ Program sub-committee conference calls begin
- ✔ Abstract review by external reviewers (HARD DEADLINE IN CONFEX)
- ✔ Assign reviewers to topics (STEP 2) and send review communications
- ✔ Internal transfer and reassignment of abstracts completed between committees (STEP 1)
- ✔ Program staff to conduct an internal review of submitted abstracts
- ✔ Deadline for Submission of Abstracts (hard deadline in CONFEX)
- ✔ Internal review of incomplete abstracts
- ✔ Program team meetings to review CONFEX abstract review and session building.
- ✔ Staff abstract submissions testing completed in CONFEX (no test submissions after this date).
- ✔ Staff abstract submission testing and provide feedback on an ongoing basis.
- ✔ OPEN CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
- ✔ Deadline for submission of topics in CONFEX (HARD DEADLINE)
- ✔ Program staff working with committees to develop topics for abstract process.
- ✔ Identify in detail any new CONFEX report needs and submit to Beverly
- ✔ Enter breakout session allocations in CONFEX based on evaluation data, room counts, space limitation and topics/needs of sub-committees.
Archived to-dos
- ❏ Finalize non-abstract roundtable sessions (Emily, Mentor Breakfast, Fellow Lunch, invited sessions, etc.)
- ❏ Speaker letters of invitation and declined abstracts sent
- ❏ Open late-breaker abstract process
- ❏ Deadline for submission of late breaker abstracts.
- ❏ Late-breaker agenda finalized.
- ❏ Late-breaker invitation (and decline) letters sent.
- ❏ Speaker response to invitation
- ❏ Advanced deadline for presentation upload in Confex.