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03 Jul 2020

Virtual Congresses: How to give value to participants in a virtual model

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A webinar in the series discussing the most burning questions for congress organisers.

This first webinar in the series addreses the critical aspect of providing value to delegates, speakers and poster presenters, and then glances at how the future may look. 

The webinar includes a presentation, an interview with Monica Fontana, Executive Director of ERA-EDTA, who has just delivered their online congress successfully with 10,000 participants, and a live discussion with the audience.

Topics include:

  • What does the audience expect from virtual meetings?
  • How can we translate the onsite congress programme to online medium?
  • How can we create ‘’live happenings’’ and real interactive discussions with speakers, poster presenters and exhibitors?
  • How will congresses look post-COVID-19?

Speaker

Monica Fontana
Monica Fontana

Executive Director, European Renal Association

AC Forum SG 2025

Monica Fontana was born in the United States in 1965; she moved to Europe in 1970 and grew up in Parma (Italy). In 1991, while writing her university thesis, she started working for the ERA-EDTA, a charity based in England and Wales with more than 7,000 active members, various medical journals, a European registry and various working groups and committees supporting research and educational in nephrology. As the person in charge of the membership office, Monica was able to be aware of all the various activities of the Association, from the Registry activities (being also appointed at the financial manager of a EU funded project linked to the Registry), the fellowship initiatives, the research programmes, the educational courses. ERA-EDTA organizes the second largest annual nephrology Congress worldwide and Monica was actively involved in many of the activities done during the annual Congress especially linked to the various committees. From 1995 until 2016, working from home, she added many other tasks to her main duties: the bylaws, advisor to the President (and Council), advertising and public and international relations. In 2015, Monica became the Executive Manager of the ERA-EDTA thus managing all the international operative staff of the association. In 2018 Monica was appointed as ERA-EDTA Executive Director.

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