President’s piece

摘要

Here I am soldiering through post-AEGCfatigue to get some words down onpaper - sounds like a sign of a successfulconference, and that it was. I’m yet tohear the final attendance numbers,but the latest update I had was 460attendees!! Like many others, I havebeen a little wary of virtual conferences.Of course, the continued lockdownsand travel restrictions leaves us withno doubt that the decision to switch toa fully virtual conference was the rightone. In the past I had thought that itwould be difficult to block out the timefor a virtual conference and not let otherwork matters interfere - I am happy tosay this was not the case. In fact, I foundthe conference incredibly interactiveand engaging. I made new connections,learnt new things and came away withplenty of ideas.