Busy week with online congresses

For some reason, this third week of March has been very popular with online events. I was invited to have a talk in 12th Drug Delivery and Formulation Summit that was held in 15-17th of March. Then also Neurocenter Finland and FICANWest (Western Finland Cancer Centre) jointly hosted a nice webinar on the afternoon of 16th of March, and finally there was also a Nordic POP ("Unique Nordic University Hub for Patient Orientated Products") Annual Meeting on 16-17th of March. So basically I was jumping from the event to event and from the presentation to presentation to hear all the most interesting ones for me. Afterward thinking, this would have never been possible to do, if these events were organized in their original places, in Berlin, Uppsala and Turku. So something good has definitely came out of the COVID-19 pandemic!

 

I must admit that the technology has also improved. DDF Summit used a platform called SwapCard, and I found it really nice! All the presentations were streamed (it was seen that purple window), so in the zoom, there was only me, the moderator and the technical support (and the counting clock), so it really felt like I was on a TV show! :) But actually I enjoyed a lot, even though I wasn't able to see or hear my audience. NordicPOP had AppInConf platform, which I didn't find as handy as the SwapCard, but then again, the ideology was the same and perhaps more money was used to organize DDF Summit than NordicPOP. These were also good experiences, as we are also going to host a NordicPOP event in next August! I will post more about it closer to that event!