Laugh-cry Presenting... more people presenting than in audience 😮 Why? BECAUSE IT'S 8AM (OBVIOUSLY)

Do you also have 5 presenters crammed in one slot this year?

As the conference gets bigger this is more common but totally pointless, nobody can say anything intelligible AND interesting in the tiny amount of time available. Our prearranged panel of 4 was given a shorter time slot than usual, so effectively the same problem.

Second formal petition to reduce the amount of parallel sessions (from 35 at some time slots by the way), even if that means excluding some abstracts from the program or moving oral communications to the poster session. ✋🏼

Or they could just have sessions on the Wednesday afternoon: three sessions then would eliminate the need for 8am sessions on other days. And the conference formally starts on the Wednesday anyway.