Information for TPRC54 Presenters
TPRC54 Best Practices for Authors
TPRC is a dynamic research venue that creates energetic and memorable dialog between presenters and attendees. These recommendations aim to provide paper presenters and session discussions the information you will need to fulfill these important roles for the conference.
The agenda for TPRC54 features 95-minute paper sessions that run in five concurrent tracks over the course of two days. Most paper sessions have three scheduled papers; exceptions include sessions with lightning talks and those in which there was an untimely withdrawal of the paper. Maintaining the order and timing is of utmost importance as registrants will often “session hop” which requires the paper being presented exactly as scheduled on the program.
Each paper is allocated 20 minutes for author presentation and 10 minutes of audience questions. Questions must follow each paper individually, rather than at the end of the session.
Presenters/Authors
As a paper presenter in the conference, it is important for you to be prepared to present the key contributions of your paper in 20 minutes. Graduate students or others without significant experience in presenting research papers should rehearse your presentation in advance to ensure you are able to effectively present your paper and manage time. Everyone benefits when there is adequate time for discussion.
In preparing your remarks, you should also remember that TPRC is a cross-disciplinary conference. Please avoid jargon and undefined acronyms. On the other hand, while members of the audience may not come from your discipline, the average education and training level of attendees is very high. You need not dumb down your presentation.
In short, avoid lengthy introductions or spending significant time discussing methodology. Move swiftly into your presentation and focus on your findings.
Each room is equipped with a computer, internet connectivity and projection. Please make sure your presentation is in a format that is easily accessible to the computer. DO NOT EMAIL YOUR PRESENTATION TO THE CONFERENCE. The best ways to quickly access your presentation from the classroom desktop are:
Email the file to yourself or store in an online folder that is accessible to you
Have the file on a USB drive
Presenters must arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the first paper presented in your session to download your presentation to the desktop. This will allow a quicker hand off between papers. Papers will be presented in the order that they are listed in the conference program. The conference program will link to the abstract as well as your paper.
We wish you a successful conference!
TPRC54 Best Practices for Moderators
TPRC is a dynamic research venue that creates energetic and memorable dialog between presenters and attendees. These recommendations aim to provide paper presenters and session discussions the information you will need to fulfill these important roles for the conference.
The agenda for TPRC54 features 95-minute paper sessions that run in five concurrent tracks over the course of two days. Most paper sessions have three scheduled papers; exceptions include sessions with lightning talks and those in which there was an untimely withdrawal of the paper. Maintaining the order and timing is of utmost importance as registrants will often “session hop” which requires the paper being presented exactly as scheduled on the program.
Each paper is allocated 20 minutes for author presentation and 10 minutes of audience questions. Questions must follow each paper individually, rather than at the end of the session.
Session Moderators
As a session moderator, your primary responsibilities are to keep paper presentations on schedule, facilitate Q&A with attendees, and pose a question or comment to each paper. To accomplish this, you will need to do the following:
Please start the paper session on time. The schedule is tight, and the only way to ensure presenters have their full amount of time is to start the session in a timely manner. Inevitably this means that the first minute of your opening remarks may have to compete with interruptions from audience conversation, but ultimately starting the session at the appropriate time is necessary to ensure a timely introduction for your session, so persevere in gently, but firmly, getting the room to settle down for the session!
Please keep paper introductions to a brief reference to the author’s name, past affiliations, and the title of the paper.
If a scheduled paper drops out, please start the other papers at their scheduled times; do not move presentations up to fill the gap.
Dialogue with the audience is at the heart of TPRC, and presenters should be encouraged to not go over their 20 minutes with the justification that they are using their own Q&A time: that ten minutes belongs to the audience! Please take questions concerning a paper directly after that paper presentation. The audience tends to shift during a session and those who wish to ask questions related to the first paper may not be willing to stay until the end.
Sometimes some audience members may launch into long questions or soliloquies that take away from the paper presentations. As moderator, it is important to keep the discussion focused on the paper presented, not other topics introduced by the audience.
Finally, as a closing for each paper in the session, make sure that you give the paper presenter a chance to provide any closing remarks on their work, particularly if there has been a significant amount of back and forth on the topic in the Q&A. An important role as the moderator is to ensure there is always respect always shown for the paper presenter and audience members during the debate.
Paper Submission
All papers are to be upload via ConfTool:
Login to your account at https://www.conftool.com/tprc2026
Click on “Your Submissions”
For each accepted contribution, on the right hand side, you will find a link: “Final Upload”
Please double check that the correct presenting author is identified.
*Optional: Presenting authors can enter a short bio in the form.
Scroll to the bottom of your contribution, where you will find a box labelled “1st file.” Under “Select File” and “Choose a file,” select the correct pdf of your final manuscript.
Click “Upload File(s) and Save Data”
Submission to SSRN:
While SSRN will no longer have a designated TPRC proceedings, we urge all authors to also upload their paper to SSRN notating “Paper presented at 2026 TPRC”
Disclosure information
The Board is instituting some new language around conflict of interest and around using AI. When you submit your final paper, you will see some queries asking you to explain if and how you used any form of artificial intelligence in your work, as well as requests for you to simply disclose any potential relationship between your submitted work and financial support you may have received to undertake it. Our goal is simply to be transparent with our readers and conference attendees regarding support. We debated the language of disclosure quite a bit and are open to your assessment of it as you answer the questions during the submission process. Neither issue – AI and disclosure – bears on the accepted status of your paper. We are just aiming for transparency.
Find disclosure policy information HERE.
Registration
Registration for the conference is available by clicking HERE. All authors and presenters must be registered to attend the conference. Early registration discounts end August 15th.
Additional information
Please check our website for additional information including directions to the venue, hotel reservation links, RSVP requests for tutorials and Thursday dinner.