It's The Final Countdown da-da-da-da!

Only 4 days to go until our first ever virtual conference and we’re very excited in IAMSLIC HQ.

So, you may have noticed that we’re doing things a little differently this year…

Usually before our conferences we like to take some time to introduce our speakers, tell you a little about them as a person, give you some talking points for meeting them at the conference and introduce their talk. Well COVID made sure we had no time to do that in our usual way this year, so we've had a little think outside of the box and we think you're going to like our new idea! 

In the spirit of Changing Tack and Adjusting our Sails, we’ve asked our speakers to provide us with a brief video introduction. Let's hope the last eight months of video calls have eased our presenters nerves a little bit in front of the camera. We'll be honest, we just threw this one at them this week, so I'm impressed that we've received two videos already, co-incidentally they happen to be from our first speakers on Tuesday morning, both from Euraslic: Sofija Konjevic and Stephanie Ronan

Sofija_Konjevic.iamslic.mp4

Iamslic.Stephanie.ronan.mp4

We think they did a great job, we really just want to see everyone and feel a little bit more together. I mean, it going to be hard for anyone to top the Texas Two-Stepping intro we received from Dave Bacca last year, but I think that might have been asking too much from our presenters at such short notice! (https://youtu.be/usBdsGRwkB0)! 

 

Networking is going to be slightly more challenging this year, so for any of our almost 100 participants who have registered so far, if you would like to get in on the action and give us a video introduction... hold out your camera, press record and introduce yourself, simple as that. Then share with us on Twitter @IamslicOrg and use the hashtag #IAMSLICVirtual. We would love to hear and see from you all.

Conference kick off is Tuesday, so get Tweeting!