Each NCFR conference session has a presenter(s), but there might be a few other people around helping make sure the session goes as planned. Keep these roles in mind for your potential involvement in future conferences, too!

Presider

• Serves as a time-keeper and keeps the session moving in a timely manner
• Gives a welcome to the session; introduces speakers
• Helps with Q&A / audience discussion if no facilitator is present

Discussant

• Gives five minutes-worth of "take-home" remarks about the presentation material, after the presentations have been given — how the papers are connected, issues for elaboration and discussion, etc.
• Provides implications of the research presented
• If no presider is present, the discussant also introduces the presenters

Facilitator

• Facilitates the post-presentation discussion / questions between the presenters and the audience
• Prepares questions about each paper in advance to aid discussion; limits discussion time