Musings on the future of scientific (physical but not socially distanced) conferences: testing the water with organizing the on-line MicroTAS2020.

Lab on a Chip EDITORIAL Cite this: Lab Chip,2021, 21,987 DOI: 10.1039/d1lc90012a rsc.li/loc Musings on the future of scientific (physical but not socially distanced) conferences: testing the water with organizing the on-line MicroTAS2020 Séverine Le Gac * ab and Hang Lu * c As many people have experienced in the past year or so around the world, COVID19 has brought many changes in our lives. In hindsight - a wellorganized team and structure As for any other MicroTAS and other conferences, this online event was organized by the chairs, us, with the assistance of the professional conference organization Preferred Meeting Management, Inc. and several committees in charge of specific aspects. 2 Snapshots of some video contributions from members of the microfluidic community highlighting what the MicroTAS conference means to them, the importance of having a MicroTAS conference in this COVID-19 situation and the foreseen advantages of an online conference. [Extracted from the article]