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Since a number of years, EUPHA, the European Public Health Conference and other associations, have been working hard to translate the evidence in a such a format that policymakers take notice. The work by WHO Europe on ‘telling the public health narrative’ or providing factsheets and infographics is an example. EUPHA has organised several skills building workshops on translation of evidence in the past years (e.g. 2018: You say tomatoe, I say tomato). The European Public Health Conference introduced the so-called pitch presentations (at Glasgow 2014), where researchers are asked to present their work in 5 minutes with maximum 5 slides (no animations), a way to learn to present key messages from research in just a few minutes. But what should you do, if you meet your policymaker in the hallway or in an elevator? Can you present your work, including key messages, without slides? And in less than 2 minutes? You should be able to. In this skills-building workshop, we will select a number of abstracts that have been accepted by the International Scientific Committee as posters and we will invite the presenting authors to this dare: present your work and key messages in less than 2 minutes. In order to see whether the policymaker is convinced, we are organising a small panel of policymakers and ask them to give their feedback. Are they interested? Do they remember the key message? And if all goes well, do you get an invitation to come back and present more of your work? Being able to present your key messages anywhere, anytime is needed. Panelist Anne-Marie Yazbeck Chafea, Luxembourg Contact: [email protected] Ivan Erzen Slovenia Contact: [email protected]