We are on the lookout for leaders and experts both from industry and academia to speak at WCP-2012.

Over the past several years, our highly successful life science events have attracted international speakers from top biotechnology companies, universities and research institutions. We focus on quality content and on recruiting top level speakers for all our events, which have established themselves worldwide as some of the most informative technical conferences. We are expanding the scope of our events to petroleum microbiology, and will continue to provide the best networking and information exchange platform for all of our participants.

Below are just a few more reasons why you should be a speaker at this year's Conference:
Why speak at WCP-2012?

• Meet other researchers involved in the field of petroleum biotechnology
• Exchange ideas with experts, engineers, and other leaders in the field
• Work with a targeted audience in petroleum microbiology
• Raise your profile as a professional in the fields of petroleum microbiology and geo-microbiology.
• Your name will be included on brochures distributed to over 100,000 industrial microbiologist and petroleum industry leaders worldwide
• Have the opportunity to expand your business or research
• Build up your professional network in China and the rest of the world

Speakers are carefully selected to represent range of experience, personalities, ideologies, and views. These speakers will be experts who have demonstrated innovative research and have achieved success in their field. If you would like to submit a proposal to give a presentation or display a poster at the conference, please send an abstract and a brief 3-5 sentence summary of your proposed topic on your recent work in Petroleum or Industrial Microbiology by email to olivia@bitpetrobio.com.

Speaker Roles

Keynote Speaker
Keynote speakers present during the first session of the forum and receive the highest billing in all event marketing. Their role is to open the forum with an influential speech that sets the tone for the whole event.

Chairman
A chair’s role is to make opening remarks at the start of the session or symposium, to introduce each speaker, field questions from the audience (asking a few of their own if there are none from the floor), and keeping the session on time. Chairmen will be asked to make announcements to delegates and to remain on or near the stage throughout the day.

Session Speaker
Individual speakers are required to prepare a 20-25 minute presentation with slides. They will be introduced by the chair, and then allowed to speak for the allocated time slot, allowing 5-10 minutes for questions from the audience at the end of their time.

Panelist
Panel speakers are not required to provide PowerPoint slides for their session. They may provide papers for the delegates to read, which will be inserted into the forum proceedings. They will be introduced by the panel moderator and asked a few questions. They will then be involved in an interactive debate with the moderator, other panel members, and the audience.

Moderator
Panel moderators are required to introduce each panelist, and ask them a series of prepared questions. They must also encourage participation from the audience, and field questions from the floor. They are responsible for keeping the discussion within the allocated time slot.

Sponsor
Sponsor speakers can be either session speakers or panelists. They are encouraged to keep to the topic suggested by the forum organizer and not to lapse into sales pitches in order to keep the attention of the audience.

Note:
Travel and hotel arrangements as well as the conference registration fee are the responsibility of the speaker. The organizing committee will not cover these expenses.