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Virtual event delivers real- world interaction


There was high praise for the fourth iteration of CISPC – this year held in an entirely digital format


More than 120 delegates from an array of institutions and countries around the world joined the organisers of CISPC for the first virtual version of the event. Despite the pandemic – and a busy


industry calendar in terms of the number of events on offer in late autumn – CISPC attracted not only a pleasing array of delegates but also an intriguing, international set of presentations and lightning talks, a series of virtual workshops, and a rousing panel discussion to round off proceedings.


The speakers were: • Rachel Bruce, head of open science, UKRI; • Martin Jagerhorn, FAIR Funder Workflow; • Tom Jakobs, National Research Fund Luxembourg;


• Michelle Urberg, Maverick Publishing; • Liz Bal, director of open research services, Jisc;


• Phil Gooch, Scholarly; • Steve Carlton, University of Manchester; • Anita Schjøll Brede, Iris.ai; • Alenka Prinçiç and Frederique Belliard, Technical University of Delft;


• Ian Bruno, Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre;


All hail the sponsors!


CISPC is reliant on sponsorship in order to remain viable, and the organisers were delighted to have attracted support from no less than seven industry organisations representing different areas of scholarly communications. The sponsors for CISPC 2020 were:


ISSN, Royal Society of Chemistry; Clarivate Analytics, Digital Science, MyScienceWork, EBSCO and the Company of Biologists. Our media partner was the European Database of Libraries, and CISPC 2020 was organised in partnership with Info International. Many thanks to them all!


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• Danielle Apfelbaum, Farmingdale State College, New York; and


• Barbie Keiser, president at Barbie Keiser Inc.


The event as held over two days, with short, snappy 20-minute sessions that ran pretty- much like clockwork thanks to the team at partner organisation Info International. Host Tim Gillett said: ‘Naturally, having


never organised a digital event before, we were somewhat nervous about how the event would pan out. In fact, it worked an absolute treat and Imagine we will consider delivering at least part of any future CISPC events digitally.


’Of course there were a few teething


problems at the outset, but by the time the first presentation started we were into the swing of things, and delegates quickly worked out their way around the online system, ReAttendance. ‘Our speakers were able to replicate the


feeling of a live, in-person presentation, with the opportunity for questions-and-answer sessions at the end of each morning and afternoon. ‘Of course, it also gave our delegates the


chance to dip in and out of sessions, press the pause button, and watch sessions at their leisure if they were not able to catch them live. All in all we were delighted with how it went.’


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