19th St.Gallen International Breast Cancer Conference 2025
Primary Therapy of Patients with Early Breast Cancer. Evidence, Controversies, Consensus
12 – 15 March 2025, Vienna / Austria
19th St.Gallen International
Breast Cancer Conference 2025
Primary Therapy of Patients with Early Breast Cancer. Evidence, Controversies, Consensus
12 – 15 March 2025, Vienna / Austria
Faculty Resources & Guidelines
Thank you to all our invited Speakers, Chairpersons, Moderators and Panelists! Below you may find some useful information and guidelines for your conference participation.
We rely on you to support us in our promotional activities by letting the world know that you will be part of SGBCC 2025. Please find all resources at your disposal in our Media Toolkit:
Media Toolkit for Faculty
You have received your personalised registration link per e-mail. In case you have any questions regarding your registration or hotel booking, please email poppinger@mondial-congress.com.
Our official headquarter hotel for all invited faculty members is the Grand Hotel Wien (Kärntner Ring 9, 1010 Vienna).
The Faculty Welcome will take place on Tuesday, 11 March 2025 at the Grand Hotel, a flying dinner and drinks will be provided.
For those of you who are travelling to Vienna by plane and haven’t submitted their flight details along with the online registration, please send us your travel details, so we can arrange your transfer from the airport accordingly. Kindly note, that there will not be any departure transfers organized, but we can assist you on-site to call a taxi.
You will receive a link for travel reimbursement after the conference.
Please note the session timings and rundown of the various session types below. For details regarding the exact timings of your session, please refer to your faculty invitation or consult the Detailed Scientific Programme.
Session Types:
- Regular Session | 35-120 minutes | 2-8 speakers
Session 1 to 12 are regular sessions with different session timings, followed by a moderated group discussion.
Each presentation is approx. 8-15 minutes long, depending on the topic. For most sessions, there will soon be a detailed Session Run Down available, see below. (If you are unsure, please check your faculty invitation or contact Mondial for your exact presentation length.) - Debate | 30 minutes | 4 debaters (2 for and 2 against the topic)
Each debater has 5-6 min with slides, followed by 2 min rebuttal with or without slides each - Special Lecture | 15 minutes | 1 speaker
- SGBCC Academy | 45 minutes | 4 lecturers as discussants
No presentations, discussion only (the respective lectures will be available as videos on demand to all registered delegated before the conference)
Meet the expert sessions, in which questions to the previously recorded presentations will be discussed
Session Run Downs:
(more Session Run Downs will follow soon)
Presentation Date, Time & Length:
Please refer to your speaker invitation or consult the Detailed Scientific Programme for details regarding your presentation. For most sessions, there will soon be a detailed Session Run Down available under “Session Details”.
If you are unsure, you can always email poppinger@mondial-congress.com.
Presentation Media:
PowerPoint slides, Format 16:9
Please feel free to use the official SGBCC 2025 presentation template: Presentation Template
We will create a title slide and a COI slide for you, using the potential conflicts of interest you indicated during your online registration.
Conflicts of Interest:
In case your conflicts of interest have changed from the time of the online registration until the meeting, please inform us at your earliest convenience, so they can be amended.
Presentation Upload and Preview Centre:
You will receive a personaized Upload Link for your PowerPoint slide deck with the final information mailing approx. one week before the conference.
All Speakers are asked to visit the Preview Centre a minimum of TWO (2) hours before their session to check their PowerPoint slide deck. Please note, this may mean that you need to check your presentation the day before your presentation date.
Location: Austria Center, Faculty Lounge, Level 1
Opening Hours: to be confirmed
To ensure smooth proceedings, you are kindly asked to carry out your duties according to the following guidelines. The success of scientific sessions largely depends on professional guidance by the chairpersons – thank you for your contribution!
You can also download the Chairperson Guidelines as PDF here.
Before the session:
Be in the session room 15 minutes prior to the start of your session.
Invite the speakers to sit directly on the podium.
The session room attendant will inform you of any last-minute changes.
During the session:
Please present your own COI statement together with those of the speakers at the beginning of the session.
Briefly present the topics and speakers before they start their presentation.
Be prepared to initiate and encourage a lively discussion and comment on the data presented in relation to current knowledge base if time permits at the end of the session.
Respect the allotted time and finish the session promptly. Keep a strict timetable for all speakers and stop any presentation that is running over its agreed length.
The audience can ask questions via microphones which are placed in the aisles of the session room.
Q&A may take place at the end of the session if timing permits. The audience can ask questions via the microphone stands placed in the aisles of the session rooms.
Room attendants & technicians
The session room attendant is there to assist you with any issues and can contact a member of the SGBCC 2025 organising team, if required.
Several technicians are available on and off the stage to assist you.
St.Gallen Consensus Panel – Questionnaire and pre-vote
As usual, we have more questions that ought to be voted on by the St.Gallen International Consensus Panel than we can reasonably accommodate in the live Session on Saturday, 15 March 2025.
To use the discussion time during the Consensus session in Vienna efficiently, the Scientific Committee has decided that there will be a virtual pre-vote of the Consensus Questionnaire taking place from Monday, 10 February – Sunday, 16 February 2025.
As SGBCC 2025 Panelist, you will receive a personalized link on Monday, 10 February to submit your answers within a week. We kindly ask you to set aside sufficient time during that week in order to go through the full catalogue (approx. 250 questions). Based on pre-voting results, the most controversial and interesting topics and questions will be selected for the live discussion and (re-)voting during the Consensus session in Vienna; some of the pre-voting results will only be included in the Consensus Manuscript but not discussed onsite.
Prior to the pre-vote, you will receive the latest version of the draft questionnaire on Monday, 20 January for you to suggest final edits if deemed necessary. Comments on the pre-final questionnaire can be submitted until Wednesday, 29 January.
Please mark the following dates for the Consensus Questionnaire and pre-vote in your calendar:
| Mon., 20.01.2025 | Consensus Questionnaire will be sent to Panelists for comments |
| Wed., 29.01.2025 | Deadline Panelists for comments |
| Mon., 10.02. – Sun., 16.02.2025 | virtual Pre-vote for Panelists |
St.Gallen International Consensus Session & live-vote
Date & Time: Saturday, 15 March 2025, 08:30-13:00
Please make sure to arrive in the plenary hall 15 minutes before session start to take your place.
More detailed information about the session will be sent via email and published here in February 2025.
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