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abstract:
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  text: Legacy conferences are costly and time consuming, and exclude scientists lacking
    various resources or abilities. During the 2020 pandemic, we created an online
    conference platform, Neuromatch Conferences (NMC), aimed at developing technological
    and cultural changes to make conferences more democratic, scalable, and accessible.
    We discuss the lessons we learned.
acknowledgement: We thank all of our volunteers from the NMC conferences (list of
  names in the appendix). We also thank the NSF for support from 1734220 to B.W.,
  and DARPA for support to T.A.
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author:
- first_name: Titipat
  full_name: Achakulvisut, Titipat
  last_name: Achakulvisut
- first_name: Tulakan
  full_name: Ruangrong, Tulakan
  last_name: Ruangrong
- first_name: Patrick
  full_name: Mineault, Patrick
  last_name: Mineault
- first_name: Tim P
  full_name: Vogels, Tim P
  id: CB6FF8D2-008F-11EA-8E08-2637E6697425
  last_name: Vogels
  orcid: 0000-0003-3295-6181
- first_name: Megan A.K.
  full_name: Peters, Megan A.K.
  last_name: Peters
- first_name: Panayiota
  full_name: Poirazi, Panayiota
  last_name: Poirazi
- first_name: Christopher
  full_name: Rozell, Christopher
  last_name: Rozell
- first_name: Brad
  full_name: Wyble, Brad
  last_name: Wyble
- first_name: Dan F.M.
  full_name: Goodman, Dan F.M.
  last_name: Goodman
- first_name: Konrad Paul
  full_name: Kording, Konrad Paul
  last_name: Kording
citation:
  ama: 'Achakulvisut T, Ruangrong T, Mineault P, et al. Towards democratizing and
    automating online conferences: Lessons from the Neuromatch Conferences. <i>Trends
    in Cognitive Sciences</i>. 2021;25(4):265-268. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2021.01.007">10.1016/j.tics.2021.01.007</a>'
  apa: 'Achakulvisut, T., Ruangrong, T., Mineault, P., Vogels, T. P., Peters, M. A.
    K., Poirazi, P., … Kording, K. P. (2021). Towards democratizing and automating
    online conferences: Lessons from the Neuromatch Conferences. <i>Trends in Cognitive
    Sciences</i>. Elsevier. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2021.01.007">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2021.01.007</a>'
  chicago: 'Achakulvisut, Titipat, Tulakan Ruangrong, Patrick Mineault, Tim P Vogels,
    Megan A.K. Peters, Panayiota Poirazi, Christopher Rozell, Brad Wyble, Dan F.M.
    Goodman, and Konrad Paul Kording. “Towards Democratizing and Automating Online
    Conferences: Lessons from the Neuromatch Conferences.” <i>Trends in Cognitive
    Sciences</i>. Elsevier, 2021. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2021.01.007">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2021.01.007</a>.'
  ieee: 'T. Achakulvisut <i>et al.</i>, “Towards democratizing and automating online
    conferences: Lessons from the Neuromatch Conferences,” <i>Trends in Cognitive
    Sciences</i>, vol. 25, no. 4. Elsevier, pp. 265–268, 2021.'
  ista: 'Achakulvisut T, Ruangrong T, Mineault P, Vogels TP, Peters MAK, Poirazi P,
    Rozell C, Wyble B, Goodman DFM, Kording KP. 2021. Towards democratizing and automating
    online conferences: Lessons from the Neuromatch Conferences. Trends in Cognitive
    Sciences. 25(4), 265–268.'
  mla: 'Achakulvisut, Titipat, et al. “Towards Democratizing and Automating Online
    Conferences: Lessons from the Neuromatch Conferences.” <i>Trends in Cognitive
    Sciences</i>, vol. 25, no. 4, Elsevier, 2021, pp. 265–68, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2021.01.007">10.1016/j.tics.2021.01.007</a>.'
  short: T. Achakulvisut, T. Ruangrong, P. Mineault, T.P. Vogels, M.A.K. Peters, P.
    Poirazi, C. Rozell, B. Wyble, D.F.M. Goodman, K.P. Kording, Trends in Cognitive
    Sciences 25 (2021) 265–268.
date_created: 2021-03-07T23:01:25Z
date_published: 2021-04-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2023-08-07T13:59:07Z
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doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2021.01.007
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