625 words is 5 minutes Lacey was kind enough to type up her notes from our session on everything you need to know for our Sunday conference. I attach them here. That should be exactly 5 minutes. Academics are by and large poor performers, you can find out a lot about a person by their performance at a conference, the trick is to do a good job. Prepare your oral presentation.
Academics are usually scrupulous abt time.
This is not an idle exercise, it is abt the size of an abstract, the kind you would submit to places to have pprs accepted for a conference. It is their job to make certain that all of the panelists are being paid attention to.