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TI Hybrid conferences: opportunities, challenges and ways forward
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AF Puccinelli, Eleonora
   Zeppilli, Daniela
   Stefanoudis, Paris V.
   Wittische-Helou, Annaig
   Kermorgant, Marjorie
   Fuchs, Sandra
   Menot, Lenaick
   Easton, Erin E.
   Weber, Alexandra A-T.
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C1 Department of Oceanography, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
   University of Brest- Unite Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 6539 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)/Universite de Bretagne Occidentale (UBO)/Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD)/Ifremer, Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Environnement Marin (LEMAR) – Institut Universitaire Europeen de la Mer (IUEM), Plouzané, France
   Univ Brest, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Ifremer, UMR6197 Biologie et Ecologie des Ecosystemes Marins Profonds (BEEP), Plouzané, France
   Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
   Nekton Foundation, Oxford, United Kingdom
   School of Earth, Environmental, and Marine Sciences, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville, TX, United States
   Marine Invertebrates, Museums Victoria, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
   Department of Aquatic Ecology, Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
C2 UNIV CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA
   UBO, FRANCE
   IFREMER, FRANCE
   UNIV OXFORD, UK
   NEKTON FND, UK
   UNIV TEXAS, USA
   MUSEUMS VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA
   EAWAG, SWITZERLAND
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   PDG-REM-BEEP
UM BEEP-LM2E
   LEMAR
IN WOS Ifremer UMR
   WOS Cotutelle UMR
   DOAJ
   copubli-france
   copubli-europe
   copubli-univ-france
   copubli-int-hors-europe
   copubli-sud
IF 3.7
TC 6
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00787/89875/95351.pdf
   https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00787/89875/95352.pdf
   https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00787/89875/95353.pdf
   https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00787/89875/95354.xlsx
   https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00787/89875/95355.xlsx
LA English
DT Article
DE ;international conference;inclusivity;opinion survey;pandemic;carbon footprint;meeting organization
AB Hybrid conferences are in-person events that have an online component. This type of meeting format was rare before the COVID-19 pandemic, but started to become more common recently given the asynchronous global progression of the pandemic, the uneven access to vaccines and different travel regulations among countries that led to a large proportion of participants being unable to attend conferences in person. Here we report the organization of a middle-sized (581 participants: 159 onsite, 422 online) international hybrid conference that took place in France in September 2021. We highlight particular organizational challenges inherent to this relatively new type of meeting format. Furthermore, we surveyed both in-person and online participants to better understand their conference experience and to propose improvements based on the feedback received. Finally, we compare the advantages and disadvantages of three types of conferences (onsite-only, online-only and hybrid) and suggest that hybrid events should be favored in the future because they offer the most flexibility to participants. We conclude by proposing suggestions and ways forward to maximize accessibility and inclusivity of hybrid conferences. Our study brings novel insights on the challenges and opportunities created by hybrid conferences, by reporting not only the organizing committee experience but also by considering the participants’ perspective. 
PY 2022
PD JUN
SO Frontiers In Marine Science
SN 2296-7745
PU Frontiers Media SA
VL 9
UT 000837194500001
DI 10.3389/fmars.2022.902772
ID 89875
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