Online Conferences: Opportunities, Challenges, and Ways Forward

Abstract

We have been using video calling or group calling facilities and even small professional meetings virtually through various digital platforms for the last couple of years in India. Many of us may remember our craze to conduct an online or virtual conference or any academics. Some of the institutions have lots of prestige due to having a digital academy. Some of the medical institutions in India had tele or virtual health or mental health services.  COVID-19 pandemic affected our life miserably; it imposed on us a virtual existence, and in many aspects of our personal and professional life we started using it and found it quite useful. Similarly, conference organizers have done lots of experiments that attendees felt beneficial and a good alternative to a conventional way of conducting conferences and that might change the way academicians or scientists gather in the future.