TY - JOUR
T1 - Holding a Conference Online and Live due to Covid-19
T2 - Experiences and Lessons Learned from EDBT / ICDT 2020
AU - Bonifati, Angela
AU - Guerrini, Giovanna
AU - Lutz, Carsten
AU - Martens, Wim
AU - Mazilu, Lara
AU - Paton, Norman W.
AU - Vaz Salles, Marcos Antonio
AU - Scholl, Marc H.
AU - Zhou, Yongluan
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The joint EDBT/ICDT conference (International Conference on Extending Database Technology / International Conference on Database Theory) is a well established conference series on data management, with annual meetings in the second half of March that attract 250 to 300 delegates. Three weeks before EDBT/ICDT 2020 was planned to take place in Copenhagen, the rapidly developing Covid-19 pandemic led to the decision to cancel the face-to-face event. In the interest of the research community, it was decided to move the conference online while trying to preserve as much of the real-life experience as possible. As far as we know, we are one of the first conferences that moved to a fully synchronous online experience due to the COVID- 19 outbreak. By fully synchronous, we mean that participants jointly listened to presentations, had live Q&A, and attended other live events associated with the conference. In this report, we share our decisions, experiences, and lessons learned.
AB - The joint EDBT/ICDT conference (International Conference on Extending Database Technology / International Conference on Database Theory) is a well established conference series on data management, with annual meetings in the second half of March that attract 250 to 300 delegates. Three weeks before EDBT/ICDT 2020 was planned to take place in Copenhagen, the rapidly developing Covid-19 pandemic led to the decision to cancel the face-to-face event. In the interest of the research community, it was decided to move the conference online while trying to preserve as much of the real-life experience as possible. As far as we know, we are one of the first conferences that moved to a fully synchronous online experience due to the COVID- 19 outbreak. By fully synchronous, we mean that participants jointly listened to presentations, had live Q&A, and attended other live events associated with the conference. In this report, we share our decisions, experiences, and lessons learned.
U2 - 10.1145/3456859.3456866
DO - 10.1145/3456859.3456866
M3 - Journal article
VL - 49
SP - 28
EP - 32
JO - S I G M O D Record
JF - S I G M O D Record
SN - 0163-5808
IS - 4
ER -