Click here<\/a> to download the Symposium graphic for inclusion in your ePoster (.jpg).<\/strong><\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the Symposium graphic for inclusion in a slide presentation. <\/strong><\/p>\n\t July 2019<\/p>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t Extended to 1 November 2019<\/p>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t Extended 6 December 2019<\/p>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n 2 December 2019<\/p>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t 15 May 2020 (extended) <\/p>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t End of June 2020<\/p>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n February 2020 (updated)<\/p>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t 4 September 2020<\/p>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t 15-17 October 2020<\/p>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t The symposium aims to provide lively discussions around learnings from our past achievements and failures as well as a focus on new technologies in order to develop \u201cGood Grounds for the Future<\/strong><\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n Symposium theme and subthemes include:<\/p>\n Before submission, please have an abstract prepared of no more than 250 words along with a title and authors. You will be asked to paste the title and abstract into fields in the submission form then enter each author and affiliation. You will not be uploading a file.<\/p>\n Abstracts should be submitted by the 15 October 2019 deadline. Acceptance confirmations will advise on presentation length and detail instructions for full papers due by 15 April 2020.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t Offered by Doug Mason, WSP OPUS \u00a9 NCTIR, NZTA and KIWIRAIL<\/em><\/p>\n Please note that due to the large number of papers anticipated for the Symposium, papers may be presented (a) orally, (b) as a digital or paper poster, or (c) 5 by 5 short group presentation.<\/p>\n Paper Submission – NOW CLOSED<\/strong><\/p>\n Please ensure your paper meets all the requirements before submitting.<\/p>\n How to upload your Full Paper (due Wednesday 15 April 2020):<\/strong><\/p>\n Timely submission of your paper by the submission deadline is important as we have limited time for the peer review and to finalise the symposium proceedings. Your prompt and punctual submission is greatly appreciated.<\/p>\n If you wish to withdraw your submission, please notify the organisers in writing to nzgs2020@confer.co.nz<\/a>.<\/p>\n Instructions for presenters<\/strong><\/p>\n Talks: <\/strong>10-minute presentation + 2 minutes for questions. Your session will have a chair and audio-visual support.<\/p>\n Presenters are asked to upload your presentation here<\/a> the day before your session. Please name your file with your last name and session name\/time. For backup please also bring your presentation on a USB stick.<\/p>\n Projector format is 16×9 (widescreen). Each room at the venue will have a data projector, laptop, screen, sound system along with internet. Please plan to present using this equipment. If you wish to plug in your own device, please advise us in advance.<\/p>\n Poster:<\/strong><\/p>\n We ask you to bring along a physical poster (up to A0 portrait or landscape) which will be on display throughout the entire Symposium. We will ask poster presenters to stand with their poster at designated times so that people can converse with you about your paper.<\/p>\n Velcro dots and pins will be provided. Please bring your poster to the registration desk on arrival at the Symposium venue.<\/p>\n ePOster (Updated 20 Aug): <\/strong><\/p>\n We do have a few people based outside of New Zealand that we recognise are unable to attend in person. In appreciation of your efforts, we invite you to provide us with your poster in a digital format for display at the Symposium. Upload it here as a scalable (high resolution) jpg or pdf.<\/a><\/p>\n Please design your poster in portrait orientation with a widescreen aspect. You are encouraged to use the graphic provided as a footer.<\/p>\n Kindly supplied by BECA<\/em><\/p>\n Call for Papers The call is now closed and it is time for presenters to prepare their presentations. Click here to download the Symposium graphic for inclusion in your ePoster (.jpg). Click here to download the Symposium graphic for inclusion in a slide presentation. Take note of these key dates: ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS Submissions open: July…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/nzgs2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/nzgs2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/nzgs2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/nzgs2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/nzgs2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/nzgs2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2584,"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/nzgs2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/2584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/nzgs2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Take note of these key dates:<\/h3>\n
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\n\tLanguage of Submission<\/h3>\nAll abstracts must be submitted in English.\n
Review and Notification to Authors<\/h4>\nAll completed submissions will be reviewed by at least two reviewers. You will be informed by email of the acceptance status of your abstract by 29 November 2019 along with details of presentation length and final paper requirements.\n
Registration<\/h4>\nAll presenters are required to register and pay the symposium registration fee in order to be included in the program and to present. Registration and payment of registration fee by presenters of accepted abstracts must be completed no later than 31 July 2020.\n
Publication<\/h4>\nAccepted abstracts will be published. By submitting an abstract, authors agree to allow NZGS and the 2020 NZGS Symposium committee to publish.\n
Presentation<\/h4>\nInstructions for presenters will be included in acceptance communications via email from the domain @confer.co.nz<\/a> so please ensure you safe list this domain.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"