Session Formats
AGU24 will offer session formats that foster and encourage discussion across the meeting and will incorporate design principles and will offer session formats that foster and encourage discussion across the meeting including:
- Expanding open discussion and engagement times.
- Recording most sessions so they are available to all attendees.
- Accessing most presentations and posters online.
- Accommodating virtual presentations as much as possible.
- a mix of invited scientific thought leaders connected to AGU’s mission which encompass diverse presenters and conveners
- creative and dynamic format with attendee engagement.
- moderated discussions designed around a theme
- short presentations, panels, and poster sessions.
Please note, conveners may also opt to accept contributed abstracts and convene a companion poster session.
These 90-minute scientific sessions will be allocated by the program committee after abstract submission. These live, in-person only sessions begin with three-minute lightning talks from each presenter with:
- An overview of their dynamic, digital, and interactive poster.
- Discussion of their digital poster at their assigned touchscreen monitor following the lightning talk.
- Accepted in-person poster presenters will be required to print a paper poster and attend the conference venue on the specified dates.
- Online poster presenters will have the opportunity to showcase their posters through an online platform that will be determined.
Proposed by the AGU community (including AGU staff) and open to all meeting participants, these one-hour sessions, are best for:
- Collecting feedback or raising awareness about particular initiatives, programs or special projects.
- Delivering updates and gathering input about government agency initiatives, academic programs, special projects and other focused interest groups for the broader AGU community.
- Roundtable or panel discussion formats
Approved town halls will be:
- Focused on topics that do not compete with, substitute or duplicate scientific session formats or substitute for ancillary event requests.
- Scheduled onsite in Washington D.C. Online-only town halls will be held the week prior to AGU24.
*Please note, requests for ancillary event space will open in September 2024.
Approved workshops will:
- be half day or full day in length.
- require a separate registration for all workshop attendees.
- be scheduled onsite in Washington D.C. on the Sunday prior to the start of meeting.