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Live content can make a conference more vivid, but it doesn’t take live sessions only to achieve this. Presentations and other parts of the program can be pre-recorded and uploaded prior to the start. In addition, there are many organizers aiming for an interesting schedule with live sessions, but still want to offer participants the opportunity to view all the sessions later at their leisure.

Wouldn’t it be great if you could bring all the ideas and impressions your conference attendees are posting online to your conference? What if you could create a second-screen experience for everyone to participate? How about trying it with a Twitter wall at your next conference? Learn how you can use such a wall effectively and when it’s best to go without one.

The payment service provider PayPal is withdrawing from the Russian market due to the war against Ukraine. Conference organizers should therefore be prepared for problems, provided that participants from Russia can also register. What considerations should be taken into account? And what should happen with registrations from Ukraine?

The call for papers is closed and leaves you swamped with hundreds of submissions. But what happens next? Our peer review checklist will help.

Last month, we published our first article on the Coronavirus pandemic (in German only), at a time when it wasn’t recognized as a pandemic. In view of the current situation, some of the statements we made didn’t age well – even if we referred to legitimate sources who since had to rectify their statements, too. The danger was generally underestimated in the beginning, particularly with regard to conferences. Time for an update and some decision guidance for conference organizers.

PowerPoint presentations have been the standard at scientific conferences for a long time. Unfortunately, one thing about them is certain: They’re trivial. Among all the identical-looking slides with their titles and bullet points sometimes really exciting things get lost. It doesn’t always have to be that way. How about putting your results and ideas in the spotlight next time? We’ll show you some tools that can help you with this.