Key Points:

• Workshop meetings prior to IDS meeting
• IDS meeting duration 2 - 3 days
• No parallel sessions
• Flexible use of sessions for state of the art lectures, short presentations, poster discussion, stop press presentations, debates, etc., the meeting may be extended into the evening to allow for a less dense programme.
• Sufficient time for interaction between participants: 30 min breaks, 60 min lunches
• Posters as important part of the meeting: 1 hour poster sessions per day All posters exhibited throughout the meeting. Poster session separate from lunch or coffee break, could be moved to late afternoon (with "wine and cheese")
• at least 1 hour Workshop sessions for summarising results of prior workshop meetings
• 1 hour IDS General Assembly
• Study groups may organise (and finance) individual sessions