BBDC Advances in Diabetes Care 2025

Thank-you for agreeing to be a speaker at BBDC Advances in Diabetes Care 2025 at the Bram & Bluma Appel Salon - Toronto Reference Library, 2nd Floor - 789 Yonge Street, Toronto on March 28, 2025.

This web page will guide you through a series of tasks for your presentation. Please complete all the tasks by the deadlines listed below.

1 Preparing for Your Session

Due
March 1st

Conflict of Interest Form

Every speaker must complete the Conflict of Interest Disclosure Form.

Format Requirements

Presenters should maintain a practical focus, highlighting new issues and diagnostic challenges relevant to practicing physicians and should structure presentations around a set of individual cases (3-5 depending on the length of the talk).

Presentations are limited to the stated length and cannot impede upon the discussion and Q&A time. Participants can submit questions throughout the session which the moderator will curate and ask at the end of each session.

Content Requirements

Your presentation content and delivery needs to be in alignment with at least one of the identified Program Learning Objectives for the target audience.

You will need to create 2-3 Learning Objectives for your session. Learn more about writing learning objectives.

2 Prepare your Presentation

Due
March 25th

How To Submit your Presentation

  1. Please submit your presentation (in .ppt) format by email to CPD Conference Services or using this WeTransfer link
  2. Please ensure the title of your presentation file is named: Diabetes-firstname-lastname so we are able to easily track it
  3. If you have polling questions or other interactivity, please write the question number and slide number in the body of the email so we can ensure they are not missed and built into our polling platform
  4. Please note that the presentation will be made available on the conference website in PDF format after the event. Ensure that your slide deck can be easily converted to PDF by minimizing transitions and animations.

Mandatory Slides

University of Toronto Accreditation conditions require that all presenters/speakers must include a disclosure slide and learning objectives slide at the beginning of their presentation, stating all real or apparent conflict(s) of interest or lack thereof and verbally notify the audience. Download Slide Template (PPT)

Interactivity

All presentations must include a minimum of 25% interactivity. This is typically achieved through audience response (polling) and Q&A.

Copyright

Content for PowerPoint presentations, websites and printed materials should not contain copyright-protected work. However, if the materials are deemed essential, the application of Fair Dealing may apply.

Patient Confidentiality

All presentations must comply with patient confidentiality agreements. Patient names should not be used, and images must not contain identifiable features (e.g., institutional location of scan, date of scan, patient date of birth, MRN, photography that shows facial or other identifiable features etc.).