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Oral Presentations

Length of Presentation

Oral presentations will take place during concurrent sessions and will have a duration of 10 minutes, followed by 5 minutes for discussion.

Submission Guidelines

  • The word limit for abstracts is 350.
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  • Capitalize your abstract title.
  • Each applicant may submit three abstracts (max).
  • There is no limitation on the number of co-authorships.
  • The abstracts must be written in English.
  • All oral presentations must be given in English, and no translation service will be provided during the conference unless they are from Kiswahili scholars.
  • All abstracts must be submitted online no later than
  • May 30, 2026.
  • An abstract must be submitted by its presenter.
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  • The receipt of your abstract will be confirmed by email. Only completed abstract forms will be considered.
  • The Abstract Committee will determine the presentation type of each accepted abstract, with consideration given to the author’s preference.
  • The committee’s decision is final.

Abstracts Evaluation

The submitted abstracts will be reviewed by the DU BRAINS 2026 Abstract Review Committee. Applicants will be informed of the outcome by the end of 10th, June 2026 (at the latest).

All notifications will be sent to the email address provided during the abstract submission process. The decisions made by the Abstract Review Committee are final. If a substantial part of the abstract has been published or submitted elsewhere, this needs to be declared.

These abstracts may still be accepted but might get lower priority. If you used a tool such as ChatGPT to help describe the work presented in the abstract, this must be clearly indicated and justified on the abstract submission form.

Registration

All presenters of provisionally accepted abstracts must register before the deadline of the early bird registration on May 31st, 2026.

If the presenters have not registered by that date, the abstract will not be included in the conference program and abstract book.

Dissemination of Abstracts

Accepted abstracts will be bundled in a digital abstract book (in PDF format) and posted on the conference website. After the conference, the abstract book will remain available on the Daystar AI website.

Presenters for oral presentations are asked for permission to post a PDF of their PowerPoint presentation after the conference on the conference website, which will later be transferred to the Daystar AI conference website.

Cancellation

If your abstract has been accepted but circumstances prevent your attendance, please ask a co-author to present who has also registered for the conference and notify the Conference Secretariat (aiconference@daystar.ac.ke) about this change as soon as possible.

If cancellation is unavoidable, please contact the Conference Secretariat immediately to remove your abstract from the conference program.