Home base for the conference was a Slack workspace, where registered participants mingled, watched live-streamed talks (and recordings of talks they missed, or wanted to watch again!), browsed poster presentations, interacted with presenters and other attendees via text or video chat, planned Special Issue paper proposals, checked our twitter stream, or competed at trivia night! There were two conference sessions each day, no more than three hours in length, set at opposite ends of the Sydney day (8-11am & 9pm-12am GMT) to better align with timezones world-wide.

Collectively, conference attendees:

• sent over 11 thousand messages in public channels
• reacted over 26 thousand times to posts in public channels
• sent another 18 thousand private messages via Direct Message

There were 850+ registered participants from 52 countries.  Nearly all showed up for the full week, and most posted multiple messages. Most public channel activity was understandably in channels used for scheduled presentations (including #displayhall1 and #displayhall2), but there was also a lot of activity in round table discussions, in a few channels focussing on specific research interests (#jsdm-multivariate-analysis, #movement-modelling), and in social channels (#mingle, #the-pub, #first-time-at-isec), some of which were suggested by members during the conference (especially #meetup-bipoc, #under-age-participants). So the data show clearly that we used the virtual format not just to watch talks, but to network with each other and to think about new ideas, as we would have in person. Or maybe better!

Thanks everyone for coming and contributing!  Here's the "blooper" reel from the closing session of the conference...