Session Information

Thank you for being a part of this year’s NHS ConfedExpo. We are delighted that you are able to join us on 14 and 15 June 2023, at Manchester Central.

The following pages contain all the details you will need to prepare for your session at NHS ConfedExpo.

We hope that everything you need to know will be here. However, if you do have any questions, queries or issues regarding your session, please do not hesitate to contact us at confedexpo@nhsconfed.org.

All speakers are entitled to a two-day complimentary place at NHS ConfedExpo and are required to register ahead of the event. 

All speakers are presented with the details for how to register when they log in to the Lineup Ninja speaker portal. However, if you also wish to prompt your speakers and remind them that they need to register, then you can share the following link with them: https://nhsconfedexpo.reg.buzz/speaker-registration

We kindly ask that all speakers are registered as soon as possible, but no later than 2 June 2023.

Slido will be available for use by session leads across all the different content platforms. Slido will be used as standard in all sessions on the Exchange Auditorium and Exchange Hall main stages. 

If you plan to use Slido in your session, please confirm by contacting the team at confedexpo@nhsconfed.org to discuss your requirements. 

About Slido 

Slido (pronounced as Sly-doe) is an easy-to-use Q&A and polling platform. All participants will be able to access Slido through the event app, or by using the code NHSConfedExpo23

There's no need to download anything or register to Slido, the audience just uses their smartphone, tablet or laptop connected to the internet to participate. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWwbuqNJaw8&ab_channel=Slido 

Slido is a great way to engage your audience. It allows session chairs to: 

• Crowdsource top audience questions 

• Maximise the Q&A time by letting people vote up their favourite questions

• Engage participants with live polls and quizzes 

• Collect instant feedback with surveys 

• Brainstorm ideas with upvotes about selected topic 

Session chairs can moderate incoming questions so they have full control over what is being displayed on the presentation screen, as well as activate polls and ideas topics. 
 

How moderation works 

• Delegate comments and questions are held in the moderator portal when they are received. 

• The moderator backstage will have access to the moderator portal and simply clicks the green tick to feed the comment or question through to the public interface, or the red cross to prevent a comment or question feeding through to the public interface. 

• The session chair will see the public interface, and can choose the questions to put to speakers. 

• The AV team will be able to toggle between your session slides and the Slido interface, so that it is shown on the stage screen and will do this at the direction of the Chair and/or session lead 

• No moderation is needed for pre-loaded polls. 

 

Submit your Slido questions and polls 

If you plan to use Slido in your session, then you will need to submit your questions / polls by Friday 7 June for review by the ConfedExpo team. 

You can submit all of your slido information through the portal 

You will also be asked to name the person who will moderate questions and comments during the session. 

As part of the content development process, session leads were asked to provide the first name, last name and email address for each speaker and/or facilitator involved in their sessions. The central programme team have used this information to contact those speakers and request profile information for display on the event website. 

The programme continues to be updated with new speakers on a daily basis, but we ONLY publish speakers who have a completed profile. This includes job title, organisation, a current profile photo and a short biography. 

If your speakers do not appear on the website listing for your session, it is exclusively because we haven't received their profile information. 

To support speakers in completing their profile info, please encourage them to visit https://confedexpo23.portal.lineup.ninja/ asap to update their profile information. 

Your promotion of your sessions is the best way in which you can make sure your session is well-attended. There are over 140 content sessions across the core programme, feature zones and learning theatres, so your communications are vital to the success of your session at the conference.

If you are leading an NHS ConfedExpo 2023 session, please promote your own session/s and speaker/s through your usual communication channels and networks across social media, bulletins, and face-to-face events and meetings.