Confex
- ✔ Deadline to identify abstract finalists for Presidential Priorities session and coordinate with program leads
- ✔ Advanced deadline for presentation upload in eP
- ✔ Program staff confirm all sessions and abstract determinations in database (including moderators, session titles, and poster award finalists) Any changes after this date sent to Beverly to update Confex.
- ✔ Program staff finalize sessions and abstract determinations
- ✔ Late Breaker invitation and decline letters sent
- ✔ Late Breaker Agenda Finalized
- ✔ Deadline for speakers/moderators to respond to invitation
- ✔ Deadline for submission of late breaker abstracts
- ✔ Open Late-Breaker Abstract Process
- ✔ Speaker invitation and decline letters sent
- ✔ Identify and resolve speaker/moderator conflicts
- ✔ Room types for oral presentations (breakout, quick, lightning) submitted and transfer of any sessions to another committee.
- ✔ Deadline for committee abstract review and program planning conference calls
- ✔ Program committee conference calls
- ✔ Deadline for abstract review by external reviewers (hard deadline)
- ✔ Presidential Priorities Award nominees sent to review committee and program leads
- ✔ Reviewers assigned to topics and send review communications (step 2)
- ✔ Internal transfer and reassignment of abstracts completed between committees (step 1)
- ✔ Program staff conduct an internal review of submitted abstracts
- ✔ Internal review of incomplete abstracts
- ✔ Deadline for Submission of Abstracts (hard deadline)
- ✔ Program team meeting(s) to review Confex abstract review and session building if needed (To be determined by program)
- ✔ Open Call for Abstracts (coordination with CSTE site and comms)
- ✔ Enter breakout session allocations in Confex based on evaluation data, room counts, space limitation, and topics/needs of committees
- ✔ Program staff abstract submission testing completed in Confex (no test submissions after this date; screen grabs are required for requests and hard deadline to allow for any Confex programming)
- ✔ Program staff abstract submission testing and provide feedback on an ongoing basis
- ✔ Any new Confex report needs identified in detail by program staff and submitted
- ✔ Deadline for Submission of Topics in Confex (hard deadline)
- ✔ Program staff working with committees to develop topics for abstract process
- ✔ Committee and staff assignments finalized for Confex planning and programming