2017 Call for Presenters

Note: After you submit your abstract, you will receive a confirmation email. If you do not receive a confirmation email, your abstract may not have been received. Email I²SL if you have any questions.

New and exciting techniques and technologies broaden the scope of innovation and adaptation in the sustainable laboratory and high-tech facility community. Each year, I2SL invites planners, designers, builders, facility managers and owners, manufacturers, and other industry leaders.

• Call for Presenters Deadlines
• Presentation Guidelines
• Registration Requirement
• Speaker Benefits
• Selection Criteria
• Suggested Presentation Topics
• Additional Publication and Recognition Opportunities

Call for Presenters Deadlines

Back to Top

Presentation Guidelines

Each presentation in a technical session will have 30 minutes. I²SL recommends allotting 20 minutes for the presentation and 10 minutes for questions and answers. Consider limiting your presentation to 10 to 20 slides to allow sufficient time for each slide. Our technical audience is looking for in-depth information on your projects, including challenges faced, lessons learned, and specific innovations incorporated.

Back to Top

Registration Requirement

All speakers are required to register for and attend the conference during their presentation time. Speakers are responsible for all fees associated with attending the conference, including but not limited to:

• Conference registration fee (See Speaker Benefits below).
• Hotel accommodations.
• Travel costs (e.g., airfare, parking).
• Meals (excluding those included with the conference registration package).

If you are unable to present, you must notify I²SL by Friday, September 22, 2017, and provide a replacement speaker. If you do not notify I²SL and provide a replacement speaker by this deadline, I²SL may not be able to consider you as a speaker for future conferences.

Back to Top

Speaker Benefits

I²SL offers the following benefits to speakers:

• Discounted registration fee (two per presentation).
• Abstract or presentation considered for additional publication opportunities.
• Name, abstract, biography, and presentation posted on the I²SL website, with speaker's permission.
• Name, organization, and presentation title listed in the conference's onsite mobile app. The abstract and biography will also be included with the speaker's permission.
• Speaker ribbons on name badges.
• Networking opportunities with other leaders in your field.

Note: This is a reduced paper conference. I²SL will not provide hard copies of any speaker's materials at the conference; however, we will make your abstract, speaker biography, and presentation available electronically if we receive an authorization waiver on your abstract submission.

Back to Top

Selection Criteria

A committee of laboratory sustainability experts will review all abstract submissions. Entries will be judged on:

• Quality and merit of technical information presented.
• Relevance to I²SL's sustainable laboratory and high-tech facility community.
• Aspects of your approach, concept, or technology application that are sustainable, cutting-edge, unique, and/or noteworthy.
• Lessons learned that the audience will take away from the presentation (i.e., the stated learning objectives).
• Useful, tangible materials the audience can take away from the presentation, such as tools, resources, or samples.
• Absence of marketing at any point during the presentation.

Special attention will be given to abstracts that:

• Focus on new developments and technologies.
• Evaluate a completed project's performance by presenting documented results over a period of time.
• Are presented by the facility owner.
• Are related to the suggested presentation topics.

In addition, keep in mind:

• Incomplete submissions will not be considered.
• Abstracts proposing more than two speakers will not be considered.
• Abstracts that contain marketing materials will not be considered.

If the review committee feels your presentation would be better suited for a different presentation format than the type that you originally submitted, your presentation may be reclassified. You will be notified of any changes upon acceptance of your abstract.

Back to Top

Suggested Presentation Topics

I²SL strives to provide presentations that meet the needs of the sustainable laboratory and high-tech facility community. I²SL welcomes abstracts that:

• Relate to I²SL's suggested presentation topics and/or involve any new or innovative information or cutting-edge sustainable technologies. These abstracts will be given first priority, as these presentations are among the most well received by the I²SL Annual Conference audience.
• Provide follow-up information or lessons learned from projects discussed during past conferences.
• Provide an owner and/or user's perspective.

If there are any remaining session spots in the agenda, I²SL may fill them with abstracts on additional topics.

Suggested presentation topics include:

• Balancing Environmental Health, Safety, and Security with Sustainability
• Carbon Neutrality and Net-Zero Energy for Laboratories and Campuses (in Boston-Cambridge)
• HVAC Control Strategies
• Laboratory Codes, Standards, and Hazard Assessments
• Laboratory Conservation and Education at the User Level
• Laboratory Operations and Maintenance and Management of Change
• Predicting and Quantifying Laboratory Energy Performance
• Project Financing
• Sustainable Equipment for Laboratory Users
• Sustainable Laboratory Design and Building Systems (New and Retrofit)

Back to Top

Additional Publication and Recognition Opportunities

Presentations on I²SL's Website

I²SL will make the conference proceedings available to interested parties. Conference attendees will be able to access the presentations via a password-protected page on the I²SL website for free for a limited period of time following the conference. Those who do not attend the conference but are interested in viewing the presentations will be able to access to the presentations by becoming an I²SL Member.

I²SL's E-Library

Following the 2017 I²SL Annual Conference, select speakers will be invited to write a full paper on their projects for inclusion in I²SL's E-Library.

Conference Sponsorships

Get your organization noticed by the laboratory architects, engineers, builders, owners, and operators who specialize in creating and maintaining sustainable, high-tech facilities. Sponsorship opportunities begin at just $500 and include valuable benefits for your organization.

Back to Top

Back to the 2017 I²SL Annual Conference