Click here<\/a> to download the Symposium graphic for inclusion in a slide presentation.<\/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\u00a0 2020 (extended)\u00a0<\/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<\/p>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t 19 February 2021<\/p>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t 24-26 March 2021<\/p>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t Talks: <\/strong>10-minute presentation + 2 minutes for questions.\u00a0 Your session will have a chair and audio-visual support.<\/p>\n Presenters are asked to upload your final 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 Please also provide a recording of your presentation (use the same upload link) by 26 February. In the event of a disruption due to COVID the committee requires these to enable NZGS to adapt and meet the needs of its members.<\/p>\n\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\n\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\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 “Good Grounds for the Future<\/strong><\/em>“.<\/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 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 Please ensure your paper meets all the requirements before submitting.<\/p>\n\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.\u00a0 Your prompt and punctual submission is greatly appreciated.<\/p>\n If you wish to withdraw your submission, please notify the organisers in writing to nzgs2021@confer.co.nz<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t Call for Papers 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 2019 Submissions close: Extended to 1 November 2019 Authors notification: Extended 6 December 2019 PAPER…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/nzgs2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/nzgs2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/nzgs2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/nzgs2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/nzgs2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/nzgs2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2800,"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/nzgs2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/2800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/nzgs2021\/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\t\nLanguage 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 6 weeks prior to the Symposium.\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\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"