What Is an E-poster?
An e-poster is the digital version of a research poster that presenters submit at academic, medical, and scientific conferences. Instead of printing a large poster and pinning it to a board, the presenter uploads a single file, and the conference makes it available to attendees, usually on the event website or app, and sometimes on a screen in the poster hall.
The content is the same research a printed poster would carry: title, authors, background, methods, results, and a conclusion, laid out as one page. Most conferences ask for a wide 16:9 slide at 1920 by 1080 pixels, though some want a portrait shape, so the call for abstracts sets the exact size and file type, usually a single-slide PDF or PowerPoint. Some events also let presenters add narration, video, or animation, which a printed sheet cannot do.
E-posters cut cost for the presenter, who skips printing and shipping. The journal JPMER notes this eases the burden on authors without travel funding, and the same file can be reused at another conference and archived afterward. For the organizer it is more of a trade than a saving: instead of pointing people at a poster board, you collect, rename, and track a file from every presenter.
For the organizer, an e-poster is one more file to collect from every presenter, on top of slides, bios, and abstracts, each with its own deadline. To see how that submission step fits the rest of an event, read our guide to collecting abstracts and e-posters from presenters.
