Inside a Revamped Poster-session System

Last year’s conference of the Annual Society of Anesthesiology (ASA) was a big one: more than 12,000 attendees, with around 2,000 poster presentations delivered in three days. 

All that activity meant getting attendees to connect with the poster that is relevant to their work, let alone the researchers behind it, could be a challenge.

"Even though poster sessions are formal, they are really informal because the chances you'll be able to meet with the authors are low, the chances you'll have to engage with the author is very low and the chance of someone asking an author a question is also very low, because sometimes posters are very niche," said Joel Chetzroni, CEO of Multilearning, which developed the tools ASA used to handle posters at the conference.

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