#ECRWednesday webinar: Reforming academic conferences

In this month’s ECR Wednesday webinar we heard what could be done to reform the conference experience for both organisers and participants in order to make them more effective and accessible for attendees.

This webinar was chaired by Vinodh Ilangovan, Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, and member of the eLife Early-Career Advisory Group.

And featured five speakers:

Aneth David, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Humberto Debat, National Institute of Agricultural Technology, Argentina

Emily Lescak, Code for Science and Society, United States

Sarvenaz Sarabipour, Johns Hopkins University

Samantha Seah, European Molecular Biology Laboratories, Heidelberg