UKDC 2025 Presentations / Mini-Presentations 

All presenters – Please keep the following in-mind when you are creating your presentation: 

Timing:  

  • We need to keep to strict time limits due to the number of people presenting at UK Dementia Congress. For this reason we encourage all presenters to check the length of your presentation by going through it before you send it to us. Our session Chairs will need to keep everyone to time and your co-operation with this is much appreciated. 
  • If you are a plenary speaker, you’ll be contacted personally with your allocated time. 
  • If you are a parallel session speaker, you will have 12 minutes. Q&A will be offered either after your talk or when all session speakers have presented – your session chair will decide. 
  • If you are a mini presentation speaker, you will have 3 minutes (1 minute per slide). For Q&A, the presenter and delegates can network afterwards. If you require support, please see below.  We have included this option to ensure inclusivity and to give as many opportunities for people to physically present their work. 

Language: 

Please be mindful of dementia language guidelines. You can find resources to support your knowledge in this area from DEEP: https://dementiavoices.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/DEEP-Guide-Language.pdf and Dementia Australia: https://www.dementia.org.au/about-dementia/how-talk-about-dementia. 

Content: 

If your presentation describes research, please focus on the results and recommendations. 

Accessibility for people with dementia: 

Please bear in mind that UK Dementia Congress is attended by a wide variety of people, including people living with dementia. Please refer to Innovations in Dementia Accessible Writing Guide for information on how to make your presentation accessible to all: http://www.innovationsindementia.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/accessible-writing-guide.pdf 

Lived Experience: 

We encourage everyone presenting at UK Dementia Congress to incorporate the voice of lived experience whenever possible. If this can’t be in-person participation, we would encourage presenters to include short films and/or quotes from people with lived experience that relates to what you are presenting about. Please embed film(s) into your presentation – we cannot guarantee the WiFi connectivity at the venue and therefore films cannot be live streamed. 

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI): 

We encourage everyone presenting to be mindful of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion principles, and to actively demonstrate how you have incorporated these into what you are presenting. 

Resources: 

If you are able to signpost to any resources (especially those that are freely available) as part of your presentation, please do. Do also bring with you any printed literature that signposts delegates to resources – this will encourage further networking on the topic of your presentation. 

What is the deadline for finalising and submitting my presentation: 

To ensure the smooth running of UK Dementia Congress, we require plenary/parallel session presenters to submit their PowerPoint presentations no later than 31st October 2025 and mini-presenters to submit their three slides no later than 1st November 2025. We regret we cannot accept changes to presentations after these dates and appreciate your understanding in this matter. 

How presentations will be stored and used by Dementia Community: 

All plenary/parallel session presentations will be stored on Dementia Community’s systems for sharing during the live sessions at UK Dementia Congress 2025. These will also be available on our website after UK Dementia Congress to delegates who have completed their evaluation. 

All mini-presentations will be stored on Dementia Community’s systems, added into videos for sharing at UK Dementia Congress (to be shown on a rolling loop in the exhibition/catering areas during parallel session times and lunchtimes), and will be on Dementia Community’s website and/or Dementia Community’s YouTube channel. for the start of UK Dementia Congress. 

As UK Dementia Congress is a public event and photos/videos may be taken during the event, we advise all presenters to only include information on slides that they have permission to share publicly both live and online. 

Technical specifications for mini-presenters: 

3 slides in PowerPoint format from each presenter. 

16:9 landscape format (ideally 1920×1080 px resolution). 

For your information, the specification of the screens we are using to show the mini presentations is 50 inches 

Due to the size of the screens, we recommend:

  • Font size: Minimum 16 point. 
  • Try to avoid italics. 
  • No voiceovers 
  • Less is more – avoid putting too much text onto each slide. 
  • Include your logo / headshot. 
  • Include a link for onward signposting to your work/research/project etc by adding the full URL (website address) and/or a QR code (we will be encouraging delegates to scan QR codes on their phones for onward signposting to web resources). You can create a QR code for your URL (for free) here: https://www.qrcode-monkey.com.  
  • Your contact details (if you are happy for these to be publicly available). 

Examples for mini-presenters 

We are mindful that UK Dementia Congress has never had mini-presentations instead of physical posters before. Therefore we have created examples to support you in creating your mini presentation. 

An example of what the 3 slides could look like is here: https://journalofdementiacare.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Sample-UKDC-Mini-Presentation.pdf 

An example of how these will then be presented in video format is here:  https://youtu.be/Ga17zhzSa_8 

Do You Need Support? 

As this new format is a departure from physical posters, for 2025 we able to provide guidance and support for creating a mini presentation via Barbara Stephens, Dementia Community Society Secretary. Please email info@dementiapublishing.community if you require additional assistance, with a subject line of: ‘UKDC – Support for mini presentation creation’. 

We look forward to seeing you and hearing from you at UK Dementia Congress 2025!