By clicking here, sponsors and exhibitors, are able to register for the Virtual Platform.

No, this is not Kenes’ first Virtual Congress. More information about our previous Virtual Congresses can be found here.

Yes, Exhibitors will receive their login details to the Virtual Platform from our Exhibition Manager in advance.

As we offer a variation of different booth designs, the amount of material will depend on which template is selected. Exhibitors are offered the possibility to add more documents, videos or hyperlinks then initially entitled to, based on their booth design. This will come with additional costs. Please contact the ILS department for more information.

The sizes of screens, as well as the specification of the materials for the booth, will be shared by our Exhibition Manager.

The deadlines will be shared on the Congress Website.

Yes, visitors have the ability to view and save documents in their Virtual Briefcase. If preferred, they can even send it to their email address.

Participants can get in touch as soon as they visit the booth. There is the option to click on the “Contact Us” tab and send an email with their question, or they can engage in the exhibitor’s group chat, or start a 1:1 chat with the Exhibitor. This can be done via text, audio or video call.

Exhibitors have the ability to see the participants who are live at their booth and have the option to actively start a conversation via text, audio or video call. Exhibitors are also able to interact with participants in their group chat.

At the end of the Virtual Congress, ILS will share a statistics and metrics report. This will include the first and last name of the participant and country. If given consent by participants, we could share more details, such as contact details.

Exhibitors can also retrieve leads by approaching visitors of their booth.

Exhibitors are asked to be online during the official Congress hours. However, Exhibitors can extend their online presence outside the official time in order to cover multiple time zones.

Your session can be live streamed or pre-recorded. For both options, we will offer you live Q&A.

Kenes will pre-record the sessions with the speakers. The Industry Coordinator will contact each speaker and send them the instructions for the pre-recording and different time slots that they will be able to choose from. If a session has more than one speaker, we will take each time zone into consideration when contacting each speaker.

The session will then be recorded by Kenes, and after one week of editing, it will be shared with the sponsor.

Yes, a live session will be recorded as it is taking place. It will then be made available to be viewed on demand on the platform 3 hours later.

Yes, the company will receive the pre-recorded session before the Congress, one week after it’s recorded with the speakers. And, as for the live session, they will receive after the Congress.

Live Q&A will be available and included in the session. Sponsors will also be able to add brochures or flyers in the Handout section of their session to be shared with participants.

Additionally, voting and evaluation features can also be embeded in the session. If you would like to receive more information, please contact me.

The live Q&A will start once your pre-recorded session has ended. The speakers and moderator will join live and Kenes will stream it and assist with anything needed.

The live Q&A doesn’t have a time limit, you can use your session’s time as you wish. You can request to stop the Q&A at any time.

Participants will be able to submit their questions that will first go to a moderator. The moderator, after a screening process, will decide which questions to send to the speaker, for him to answer, and they will be made public for all participants.

All exhibitors will have a chat room associated to their booth. Additionally, sponsors and exhibitors can add more chat rooms to their sponsorship package that they can use for different topics.

There is no limit for the number of people that can join a chat room.

All participants, speakers, sponsors and exhibitors can join any chat room at any time, an invite is not needed.

The chat room will be available throughout the Congress dates, after that it will be closed. However, during the 3 months that the platform is live, participants can still contact companies by clicking on the ‘Contact Us’ hyperlink on their booth.

There are two ways for a participant to join a company’s chat room:

• Booth – Participants can join a company’s group chat through the exhibitor’s booth by clicking on the ‘Chat’ hyperlink in the booth. By clicking they will automatically be in the compay’s chat room.
• Networking Lounge – Participants can also join a company’s group chat throught the Networking Lounge. When accessing this lounge, they will be able to see a list of all the available chat rooms in alphabetical order. Participants can scroll down and find the company’s chat room. Please note that in the Networking Lounge there will be several chat rooms available, not only from companies but also created by the Congress Organisers with different educational topics.

Yes, companies will be able to see the names of the participants that are online in their chat room, as well as participants will be able to see who is online from the company’s side.

Exhibitors can chat with attendees in the group chat, or they can click on the name of the participant and start a private conversation, that can be via text, audio or video.

The messages in the group chat are not private, anyone that is registered to the Congress can join in and see what was discussed. However, the 1:1 messages are private.

Messages in the group chat can’t be deleted or moderated.

E-poster presenters will be contacted by the Scientific Programme Coordinator to record their audio presentation at least one month before the Congress.

An e-poster presenter should be online during the Congress hours to reply to any questions that come via chat. If any questions are asked after Congress hours, when logging in the next day, presenters will be able to see them and reply. All questions and answers are public, so everyone who is registered in the Congress will be able to see the chat.

The statistics report will be shared a few days after the Congress and also at the end of the 3 months that the virtual platform is live.

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In a virtual Congress, a company has to follow the regulations from the country where the Congress received more registered participants on the previous edition.

Yes, there will be a clear separation between the Educational and the Sponsored Sessions in the lobby of the Congress.

The deadlines and specs will be shared on the Congress website xx months before the start of the Congress.