VIDEO: The challenges of moving IDWeek online
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In the spring, in anticipation that the COVID-19 pandemic could complicate IDWeek, organizers asked presenters to prerecord sessions in the event they could not travel.
As the pandemic progressed, it became apparent the meeting would need to go virtual for the first time.
“We needed to make some decisions about how we would best pull everything into one type of platform,” Sandra Vura Harwood, CMP, vice president of meetings and education and IDWeek meeting secretariat for the Infectious Diseases Society of America, told Healio.
The concept for “Chasing the Sun,” a 24-hour session on COVID-19, reflected the idea of getting multiple perspectives on COVID-19 from around the world, Harwood said. Although meeting preparation has been challenging, she said there are some benefits to hosting a virtual meeting.
“While I hope that we are not all virtual next year, I see this as some component moving forward,” Harwood said. “If we can take the best of what we produce this year, capitalize on that and improve it, I think it’s only going to enhance our offering and hopefully bring some of this content to a broader audience.”
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