Presentation package
At the end of the semester, your team presents its project at the symposium. The presentation package has three parts:
- A one-minute video
- An A1 poster
- Your part in the symposium: someone at your poster during every break, and the whole team in the poster session
After the symposium you also submit a reproducibility package with everything needed to verify or reproduce your work.
One-minute video
The video is a short teaser that explains your idea and results to a broad audience. Make it an MP4 in 1080p, no longer than one minute. Give it sound, for example a voiceover, because the videos are played with audio. Nobody introduces the videos at the symposium, so yours has to make sense to someone who has never heard of your project.
We suggest this order: the problem, your approach, the main result and why it matters. Slides, screencasts and short footage are all fine; use whatever works best for your project. If you can explain it in 40 seconds without it feeling rushed or incomplete, even better.
Don't make a startup pitch, a music video or a cinematic trailer. Every second should help viewers understand your question, method or finding, so cut any clip that doesn't. Creative touches are welcome, but we grade clarity and scientific focus.
Poster
The poster is A1, portrait or landscape. Print it yourself; you get the printing cost refunded. At the symposium it hangs in the corridor all day and has to make sense without you standing next to it. Write it for a mixed audience of data scientists, clinicians and engineers, and think of it as an extended abstract that someone can understand in two or three minutes.
- Include a title, authors and affiliations, an abstract, motivation, data and methods, results, discussion, conclusions and the main references.
- Acknowledge your collaborators, data sources and supervisors.
- Keep the text short and the visual hierarchy clear, so that your main findings and figures stand out.
- Make figures high resolution and properly labeled, with readable axes and units.
Symposium
The symposium is on Tuesday, 16 March 2027, in Hörsaal B at TUM Klinikum Rechts der Isar (MRI). It is a full-day event with invited speakers and talks.
Just before the first break, all teams' videos are played back to back, so every attendee gets an overview of the student projects.
During every break, at least one member of your team stays at the poster to answer guests' questions; the others can rest or network. Break presence isn't graded on its own, but it counts under criterion 6 (Independence, initiative & professionalism).
Your whole team attends the poster session, where we visit every poster and you walk us through yours. Expect us to interrupt with plenty of questions. A walkthrough takes roughly 15 minutes, but there is no fixed length. If you have relevant code, an app or a prototype, demonstrate it. We grade the walkthrough per team, together with your poster and video, under criterion 5 (Poster, video & discussion); see Grading.
If we come to your poster during a break while most of your team is there, that conversation may become your graded walkthrough.
Submission package overview
The poster (as a PDF) and the video are due one week before the symposium, and the reproducibility package one week after it. See the Schedule for dates.
Upload everything to your group's Google Drive folder; we share the link after your topic is approved. Then notify us with a ticket to support@cacom.dev that has your group number in the subject (subject format). Sensitive or proprietary data never go into a public repository (see Data privacy).
Posters and videos are public at the symposium. Before the poster and video deadline, get your partners' consent and make sure neither contains anything confidential (see Confidentiality and IP).