We’re dedicated to giving you an outstanding experience, whether attending remotely or onsite. With our Hybrid Conference Platform, you’ll enjoy much more than just live-streamed presentations. Here’s what you can do:
- Create your personal profile and effortlessly connect with networking partners
- Access all presentations on-demand for two months, at your convenience
- Showcase your poster online, accompanied by a short presentation video
- Schedule virtual meetings with fellow participants
- Join online chats and easily submit questions to the session moderator
The following Q&A may help you to decide how you should attend the conference.
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Why do we invest in hybrid?
How does virtual attendance work?
Will remote attendance be cheaper?
Can I change my mind?
Why invest so much in offering an excellent hybrid conference?
- Through our work, we are united around the aim of mitigating human-induced global warming, which has consequences that are visible today and catastrophic for many. Air travel made up 90% of a total of 200 t CO2e generated by the last edition of CISBAT. As the conference attracts a more and more international public, we wish to keep the environmental impact of the conference to a minimum by extending a warm virtual welcome to participants joining us online, making sure that they do not miss out as they renounce long-haul trips.
- Participants with lower travel budgets should have the chance to participate.
- Wonderful tools now allow an excellent remote experience!
Of course, this is an individual choice to make, and you may have good reasons to travel, but we thank you for carefully considering remote participation nevertheless.
How does virtual attendance work?
All participants will be given access to the hybrid platform shortly before the conference. The platform will stream the program in realtime but also give access to presentations, posters and pitches during the conference and for a few weeks after. You will be able to present yourself with your user profile and easily network online.
- Remote oral presenters will upload their previously recorded presentations before the conference. While the video is being shown both online and onsite, they will connect via zoom for a Q&A session. Questions will be asked both onsite and via chat online and will be transmitted to the presenter by the session chair.
- Remote poster presenters will upload their poster accompanied by a 1' pitch video. Both will be accessible online and at the conference venue. There will be a chat channel specifically regarding your contribution.
- Online viewers will be able to watch presentations in real time or at their leisure, during a few weeks after the conference.
Will remote attendance be cheaper?
The registration fee is the same whether you take part remotely or in person, since there is a considerable cost attached to hiring a film crew that can guarantee professional quality. This will also allow changing attendance mode should any travel issues occur. Please note, however, that neither the workshops nor the third conference day program of visits will be filmed.
Can I change to online participation if I cannot travel for some reason?
Yes, this will be possible but please let us know as soon as possible. It works also the other way: you may change your registration from virtual to in-person provided you inform us at least 10 days in advance.
