International Vascular Biology Meeting 2018 organizational feedback

Wed, 20 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000

As member of the local organizing committee for the IVBM 2018 , I was asking conference participants for direct feedback. I received lots of praise, which I do not want to iterate here. If we are ever going to organize a large international conference again, here are the things that we should do differently next time. Maybe this list can also help other first-time organizers of large, international conferences. If this list gives you the impression that the conference was badly organized, you would be mistaken! All the important stuff worked smoothly and some of the issues below were solved before any of the participants noticed. However, there is always room for improvement of the details! And - as always - some of the issues were out of our control as we had outsourced some of the work, most notably to Confedent International . And some decisions were a compromise between the optimal and what the conference budget could accommodate. I also encourage you to contact me if you want to add something to this list; it could make things better in the future!

IVBM 2018 & 2020 (poster, talk, and virtual poster walk through)

Wed, 06 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000

IVBM 2018The International Vascular Biology Conference 2018 in the Finlandia Hall in Helsinki has been a big success so far. We received lots of positive feedback for the organization from the participants. Also my talk (“Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Proteolytic Processing of VEGF-C”) and my poster received good attention.Below the poster as a PDF download.IVBM 2020The IVBM 2020 in Seoul, South Korea, moved completely online. Unfortunately, some talks are only available for a very short time (one day), and I missed already a few of those. A physical conference has the advantage that it makes sure that you can pay full attention to the event. An online event has to compete with many other issues that are trying to grab your attention.

Finlandia Hall on Michael’s Domain

International Vascular Biology Meeting 2018 organizational feedback

IVBM 2018 & 2020 (poster, talk, and virtual poster walk through)