Author: ROGER C. SCHONFELD, LAURA BROWN
Conferences serve several roles. They offer faculty and researchers a way to showcase their work through presentations. They connect people through formal and informal interactions, including serendipitous hallway conversations. Conferences serve their organizers as a way to bring the field together as well as, for some, a source of revenue-generation. In some cases, they are a unique opportunity to bring together “everyone” in a field. In other cases, they offer a small and intimate chance for deeper engagement. The sudden virtualization of conferences sparked a flurry of experimentation. It is now time to build the future of the scholarly meeting.
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