How to organize an online conference

Orad Reshef; Igor Aharonovich; Andrea M Armani; Sylvain Gigan; Rachel Grange; Mikhail A Kats; Riccardo Sapienza

doi:10.1038/s41578-020-0194-0

How to organize an online conference

Nat Rev Mater. 2020;5(4):253-256. doi: 10.1038/s41578-020-0194-0. Epub 2020 Mar 18.

Authors

Orad Reshef¹, Igor Aharonovich², Andrea M Armani³, Sylvain Gigan⁴, Rachel Grange⁵, Mikhail A Kats⁶, Riccardo Sapienza⁷

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario Canada.
² ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems, Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales Australia.
³ Dept of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA USA.
⁴ Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Sorbonne Université, Ecole Normale Supèrieure, Collège de France, CNRS UMR 8552, Paris, France.
⁵ ETH Zurich, Department of Physics, Institute for Quantum Electronics, Zurich, Switzerland.
⁶ Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI USA.
⁷ The Blackett Laboratory, Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, UK.

Abstract

The first online-only meeting in photonics, held on 13 January 2020, was a resounding success, with 1100 researchers participating remotely to discuss the latest advances in photonics. Here, the organizers share their tips and advice on how to organize an online conference.

Keywords: Conferences and meetings; Education; Optics and photonics.