"Hybrid" scientific conference: lessons learned from the digital annual meeting of the CARS international conference during the Covid-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic, all scientific conferences in the year 2020 had to be adapted in their form of presence to accommodate for safety regulations, postponed, or canceled entirely. As organizers of the annual Computer Assisted Radiology & Surgery International Conference & Exhibition (CARS)-Conference 2020, we decided to hold a "hybrid" conference, i.e., a virtual conference with partial presence to mitigate the drawbacks of a purely virtual conference. It is the purpose of this paper to describe the results and experience gained by our first hybrid conference.

Methods

Besides technical necessities like an online conferencing tool, we introduced additional personal namely the technical chairs and communication officers ensuring

SUBMITTER: Ostler D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8826162 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature