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wpadmin — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 07:32:35 +0000

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Online Education Conferences June – December 2020

wpadmin — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 07:25:45 +0000

Here is a list of planned online education conferences 2020. These are world-wide June to December 2020. It is incredibly important to reach out to others, keep up with fresh knowledge and work on new ideas.

It may seem a bit presumptive to suggest physically attending a conference in this COVID-19 climate but don’t let that stop you from attending online conferences. Check with the conference providers about the steps they’re taking to stay safe (number limits, health checks, etc.), including if the conference can be attended virtually. If you’re planning on travelling check restrictions in that location.

Keep in mind that most of this list was compiled pre COVID-19 and some of these conferences may be postponed or cancelled.

Thanks to Clayton R Wright for providing the list. If you have anything to add to the list contact Clayton at crwr77 [@] gmail [dot] com.

June 2020

June 1, 2020 Faculty Assessor Training for Prior Learning Assessment. Organized by the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning. Offered online. https://www.cael.org/higher-education/faculty-assessor-training or https://www.cael.org/events

June 1, 2020 Leadership for Beginners: A Workshop for Teachers New to Leadership Positions. Presented by Critical Agendas. Offered online. https://www.criticalagendas.com.au/events/leadership-for-beginners-a-workshop-for-teachers-new-to-leadership-positions/ or https://www.criticalagendas.com.au/events/?_sft_event-category=1-day-workshops

June 1-2, 2020 York Annual Symposium and Mini Course on Game Theory, 11^th annual. CANCELLED. Department of Economics and Related Studies. University of York, York, United Kingdom. https://sites.google.com/a/york.ac.uk/gtsymposium/home

June 1-2, 2020 Assurance of Learning Seminar. CANCELLED. Organized by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). Tampa, Florida, USA. https://www.aacsb.edu/events/

June 1-3, 2020 Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) Annual Accreditation Conference – Asia Pacific. CANCELLED. Singapore https://www.aacsb.edu/events/conferences

June 1-3, 2020 Redesigning Pedagogy International Conference: Educating for Innovation, Nurturing Society, 8^th biennial. POSTPONED to March 17-19, 2021. National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. https://conference.nie.edu.sg/2020/

June 1-3, 2020 Future Presidents Institute. CANCELLED. Organized by the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC). Washington, D.C., USA. https://www.aacc.nche.edu/events/ or http://www.aaccfuture.com/

June 1-3, 2020 John E. Roueche Future Leaders Institute (For mid-level community college administrators). CANCELLED. Organized by the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC). Washington, D.C., USA. http://www.aaccfuture.com/ or https://www.aacc.nche.edu/events/

June 1-3, 2020 Advanced Leadership Development in Higher Education. POSTPONED to fall. Beaver Creek, Colorado, USA. https://www.academicimpressions.com/coronavirus-updates/ or https://www.academicimpressions.com/trainings/?fwp_product_categories=conference or https://www.academicimpressions.com/advanced-leadership-development-in-higher-education/

June 1-3, 2020 Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS) Conference, 48^th annual. CANCELLED. University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. http://www.cais-acsi.ca/ or http://cais-acsi.ca/2020/03/30/cancellation-of-the-in-person-cais-conference/

June 1-4, 2020 International Conference on Open Repositories (OR), 15^th annual. POSTPONED until May 31-June 3, 2021. Organized by the Library and Information Service at Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa. http://or2020.sun.ac.za/

June 1-4, 2020 Gartner Security and Risk Management. National Harbor, Maryland, USA. https://www.gartner.com/en/conferences/calendar

June 1-5, 2020 EdMedia World Conference on Educational Media and Technology and Innovate Learning. Organized by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Originally scheduled for the Renaissance Amsterdam Hotel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In 2020, the event will be held June 23-26, 2020 online only. http://www.aace.org/conf/

June 1-5, 2020 How to Teach in a Digital Context: Digital Skills for Teachers in Adult Education. Organized by the NGO Trainers’ Association. Warsaw/Warszawa, Poland. https://eaea.org/event/teach-digital-context-digital-skills-teachers-adult-education-training-course/ or https://eaea.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/NGO_Trainers_Association_courses.pdf

June 1-5 and 8-12, 2020 Digital Humanities Summer Institute. CANCELLED for 2020, but will be held in June 2021. University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. http://www.dhsi.org/

June 1-5, 2020 Creative Pro Week: The Essential “How-To” Conferences for CreativePros – InDesign Conference, Print and ePublishing Conference (PePcon), and Photoshop and Illustrator Conference for Designers (PsAi). Organized by the Creative Publishing Network. Austin, Texas, USA. https://creativeproweek.com/

June 1-7, 2020 New to Online, Essentials Part I: Getting Started. (Other dates are available.) Organized by the Online Learning Consortium (OLC). Offered online. https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/learn/olc-new-institute-schedule/

June 1-7, 2020 Exploring Competency-Based Education. Organized by the Online Learning Consortium (OLC). Offered online. https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/learn/olc-new-institute-schedule/

June 1-7, 2020 Introduction to Learner Experience Design Methods, Part II: Experience Mapping. (Other dates are available.) Organized by the Online Learning Consortium (OLC). Offered online. https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/learn/olc-new-institute-schedule/

June 1-21, 2020 Assessing Prior Learning. Organized by the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL). Offered online. http://www.cael.org/events or https://www.cael.org/higher-education/faculty-assessor-training

June 1-28, 2020 Project Management for Instructional Designers. (Other dates are available.) Organized by the Online Learning Consortium (OLC). Offered online. https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/learn/olc-new-institute-schedule/ or https://my.onlinelearningconsortium.org/s/events#/events/smallIcons

June 1-July 28, 2020 EDUCAUSE Institute Management Program. (Originally scheduled to be held in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA from June 8-11, 2020.) Organized by EDUCAUSE. In 2020, offered online only. https://events.educause.edu/event-finder

June 2, 2020 Westminster Education Forum: The Next Steps for Improving England’s School System – The New Inspection Framework, Best Practice, and the Role of MATs and Free Schools. To be held online. https://www.westminsterforumprojects.co.uk/conferences/westminster-education-forum or https://www.westminsterforumprojects.co.uk/conference/next-steps-for-reforming-englands-school-system-20

June 2-3, 2020 EduTECH Australia. POSTPONED until November 9-10, 2020. (10,000+ attendees) International Convention Centre, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. https://www.terrapinn.com/exhibition/edutech-australia/ or http://www.edutech.net.au/?utm_source=terrapinn&utm_campaign=listing&utm_medium=link&utm_term=AF

June 2-3, 2020 EduBUILD. (Education buildings and infrastructure) POSTPONED until November 9-10, 2020. International Convention Centre, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. http://www.edubuild.net.au/ or https://www.terrapinn.com/exhibition/edutech-australia/EduBUILD-2020.stm

June 2-3, 2020 Effects America: Gathering the Community of the Visual Effects (VFX) and Animation Industries. Marché Bonsecours, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. https://www.effects-events.com/en/home/

June 2-3, 2020 Streaming Media East: The Business and Technology of Online Video, 22^nd. Originally scheduled for The Westin Copley Place, Boston Massachusetts, USA. In 2020, event organizers will hold free online sessions from June 2-5, 2020. http://www.streamingmedia.com/east/ or http://www.infotoday.com/conferences.asp

June 2-4, 2020 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development. POSTPONED. Berlin, Germany. https://en.unesco.org/events/esdfor2030 or https://en.unesco.org/events/unesco-world-conference-education-sustainable-development-0 or https://en.unesco.org/events

June 2-4, 2020 Smart Workspace Design Summit: Enhance Human Experience at the Workplace. Originally scheduled for Ellington Hotel, Berlin, Germany. In 2020, this event will be held online. https://fleming.events/smart-workspace-design/ or https://fleming.events/events/

June 2-4, 2020 Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians (CAPAL) Conference, 7^th. CANCELLED. Western University, London, Ontario, Canada. http://conference.capalibrarians.org/

June 2-4, 2020 Security Professional Conference. Organized by EDUCAUSE. Offered online. https://events.educause.edu/event-finder

June 2-5, 2020 International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd), 6^th. Faculty of Business Administration and Management, Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Valencia, Spain. Originally scheduled as a face-to-face event. In 2020, this event will be held online from June 3-5, 2020. http://www.headconf.org/

June 2-5, 2020 Institute on General Education and Assessment. Organized by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). Offered online. http://www.aacu.org/events

June 2-5, 2020 Institute on High-Impact Practices and Student Success: Enhancing Institutional Capacity for Quality, Equity, and Student Engagement. Organized by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). Emory Conference Center Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. May be offered online only. http://www.aacu.org/events

June 2-5, 2020 National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) Conference and Expo. CANCELLED. Minneapolis Convention Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. http://www.naceweb.org/ConferenceExpo/default.htm

June 2-5, 2020 Learning DevCamp: Collaboration and Learning at Its Best (Creating learning solutions from content to tools to platforms), 7^th. POSTPONED until September 14-17, 2020. University of Utah, University Guest House, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. http://learningdevcamp.com/

June 2-6, 2020 Computex: Building Global Technology Ecosystems, 40^th. POSTPONED to September 28-30, 2020. (42,495 attendees from 171 countries) Taipei, Taiwan. http://www.computextaipei.com.tw/

June 2-6, 2020 Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) Conference: Play Everywhere. Co-hosted by the Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies (CoE-GameCult) and the game research teams in three universities (Tampere, Turku, and Jyväskylä) Tampere, Finland. https://digra2020.org/ or http://www.digra.org/

June 2-6, 2020 Collegiate Information and Visitor Services (CIVSA) Annual Conference, 27^th. CANCELLED. (The next conference will be held June 15-19, 2021 in St. Louis.) Caribe Royale Orlando, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.civsa.org/annual-conference/2020-conference/

June 3, 2020 Advance Higher Education (HE) Conference. CANCELLED. Organized by AdvanceHE. Dublin, Ireland. https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/programmes-events/conferences or https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/programmes-events/conferences/advance-he-conference-ireland or https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/programmes-events/covid-19-update-revised-events-programme

June 3-4, 2020 ICT Professionals Leadership Workshop. Organized by Liquid Learning. Offered online. https://liquidlearning.com/events

June 3-4, 2020 United Kingdom Evaluation Society Annual Conference. De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms, London, United Kingdom. https://www.evaluation.org.uk/

June 3-4, 2020 Spotlight on Digital Capabilities. Organized by the Digital Capabilities Group (DCG) and the Digital Education Group (DEG) of the Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association (UCISA). Birmingham Conference and Events Centre, Birmingham, United Kingdom. https://www.ucisa.ac.uk/en/Events/2020/June/Spotlight-on-Digital-Capabilities-2020 or https://www.ucisa.ac.uk/events

June 3-4, 2020 Supported Online Learning for Students Using Technology for Information and Communication in Their Education (SOLSTICE), 13^th Conference and Centre for Learning and Teaching (CLT) Conference, 17^th. Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, United Kingdom. https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/solstice/conference/2020-solstice-clt-conference/

June 3-4, 2020 Big Data: Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Analytics Conference and Exposition, 5^th. (4,600 attendees) Organized by Corp Agency. Metro Toronto Convention Centre (MTCC), Toronto, Ontario, Canada. https://www.bigdata-toronto.com/2019/

June 3-4, 2020 Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Marketing and Branding Annual Conference: Data Mining, Communications and Marketing, and Enrollment. Offered online. https://www.case.org/conferences-training/annual-conference-marketing-and-branding or http://www.case.org/

June 3-4, 2020 Home Delivery World: Retail Logistics. POSTPONED until October 29-30, 2020. (2,500 attendees) Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA. https://www.terrapinn.com/conference/home-delivery-world/?pk_campaign=listing&pk_kwd=AF&pk_source=terrapinn&pk_medium=link

June 3-5, 2020 International LUMAT Symposium: Research and Practice in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 9^th. Originally scheduled to be held at Aalto University, Espoo, Finland. In 2020, will be held online June 3-4, 2020. https://www.luma.fi/en/lumat-2020/

June 3-5, 2020 International Perspectives on University Teaching and Learning Symposium. CANCELLED. Organized by Auburn University. Disney’s Contemporary Resort, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.auburn.edu/academic/international/its/ or https://www.eaie.org/community/calendar.html

June 3-5, 2020 Higher Education Innovation Summit: Conversations, Collaboration and Creativity, biennial. POSTPONED until June 2-4, 2021. University of Minnesota Rochester, Rochester, Minnesota, USA. https://r.umn.edu/summit

June 3-5, 2020 Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Integrating Quality Conference, 12^th. CANCELLED. Kansas City Marriott Downtown, Kansas City, Missouri, USA. https://www.aamc.org/professional-development/events

June 3-6, 2020 International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) Conference: Evolving English and the Digital Era, 6^th. POSTPONED until June 2-5, 2021. University of Eastern Finland (UEF) Joensuu, Finland. http://www.uef.fi/en/web/isle6

June 3-6, 2020 Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education (NASPA) Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement Meeting. Originally scheduled for Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. In 2020, this event will go online from June 4-September 11, 2020. https://www.naspa.org/events/civic-learning-and-democratic-engagement-meeting2 or https://www.naspa.org/events/page/2

June 3-7, 2020 International Writing across the Curriculum (IWAC) Conference, 15^th biennial. POSTPONED to August 4-7, 2021. Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. https://wac.colostate.edu/iwac/

June 3, 8 & 12, 2020 Game Not Over: Gamification as a Key to Engagement in Today’s Classroom. Organized by the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) Global Network. Offered online. https://events.efmdglobal.org/events/game-not-over/

June 3-30, 2020 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Electronics Components and Technology Conference (ECTC), 70^th. Originally scheduled February 26-29, 2020 at Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort, Orlando, Florida, USA. The 2020 event will now be offered over an extended time, online. http://www.ectc.net/ or http://www.ectc.net/registration/index.cfm

June 3-July 1, 2020 Writing for Instructional Design and Training Certificate. Organized by the Association for Talent Development (ATD, formerly the American Society for Training and Development, ASTD). Variety of possible dates and locations including online. https://www.td.org/education-courses/search-all-programs or https://www.td.org/education-courses/writing-for-instructional-design-and-training-certificate

June 4, 2020 Behaviour Management 101: What They Didn’t Teach You at University. Presented by Critical Agendas. Offered online. https://www.criticalagendas.com.au/events/behaviour-management-101-what-they-didnt-teach-you-at-university-copy-copy/ or https://www.criticalagendas.com.au/events/?_sft_event-category=1-day-workshops

June 4, 2020 Introduction to Higher Education. POSTPONED till fall 2020. Organized by the Association of University Administrators (AUA). Innside Hotel, Manchester, United Kingdom. https://aua.ac.uk/events/introduction-to-higher-education/ or https://aua.ac.uk/events/

June 4, 2020 Association of Colleges (AoC) East Curriculum and Quality Network. Suffolk New College, Ipswich Campus, Ipswich, United Kingdom. https://www.aoc.co.uk/events/aoc-east-curriculum-and-quality-network-0 https://www.aoc.co.uk/events

June 4-5, 2020 Teaching and Supporting Students with Diverse Needs. Organized by Critical Agendas Australia. Offered online. https://www.criticalagendas.com.au/events/teaching-and-supporting-students-with-diverse-needs-qld-2020/ or https://www.criticalagendas.com.au/events/?_sft_event-category=conferences

June 4-5, 2020 The Education Show: Learning and Teaching Resources for K-12. POSTPONED to June 4-5, 2021. Organized by the International Exhibition and Conference Group. Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, Brisbane, Australia. https://www.theeducationshow.com.au/ or https://iecgroup.com.au/?portfolio=the-education-show

June 4-5, 2020 Efficiency and Responsibility in Education Conference, 16^th. Organized by the Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic. http://erie.pef.czu.cz/ or https://erie.v2.czu.cz/en/r-13310-about-the-conference

June 4-5, 2020 Enhancing European Cooperation in Vocational Education and Training (VET) – Looking Back, Planning Ahead. Organized by the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training. The original face-to-face event scheduled for Thessaloniki, Greece will now be offered online from June 30-July 1, 2020. https://www.cedefop.europa.eu/en/events-and-projects/events/enhancing-european-cooperation-vet-looking-back-planning-ahead or https://www.cedefop.europa.eu/events-and-projects/events

June 4-5, 2020 American Association of University Administrators (AAUA) Leadership Seminar: Meeting Higher Education’s Challenges of 2020 and Beyond. CANCELLED (But, will be offered June 10-11, 2021 at the same location.) Marriott Stanton South Beach Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida, USA. http://www.aaua.org/meetings.htm

June 4-5, 2020 Bridging the Print + Digital Publishing Divide Conference (PePcon covering PDF, ePUB, HTML5, InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator). Austin, Texas, USA. http://pepcon.com/

June 4-5, 2020 Assurance of Learning Seminar II. Organized by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). CANCELLED. Tampa, Florida, USA. https://www.aacsb.edu/events/

June 4-7, 2020 Adult Education in Global Times: An International Research Conference. CANCELLED. Primarily hosted by the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE). Partnering organizations include the Adult Education Research Conference (AERC), the European Society for Research in the Education of Adults (ESREA), and the Standing Conference on University Teaching and Research in the Education of Adults (SCUTREA). University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. https://edst.educ.ubc.ca/aegt2020/ or http://www.casae-aceea.ca/ or https://newprairiepress.org/aerc/ or https://www.esrea.org/ or http://www.scutrea.ac.uk/

June 5, 2020 New England Faculty Development Consortium (NEFDC) Spring Conference: Students as Partners in Learning Design. CANCELLED. Northern Essex Community College, Haverhill, Massachusetts, USA. https://nefdc.org/conferences/

June 5-6, 2020 International Association of Facilitators (IAF) Facilitation Event. Istanbul, Turkey. https://www.iaf-world.org/site/events or https://www.iaf-world.org/site/events/iaf-facilitation-event-2020

June 5-6, 2020 Continuous Improvement Assessment Forum (CIAF). CANCELLED. Organized by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). ABET Headquarters, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. https://www.abet.org/continuous-improvement-assessment-forum-ciaf-6-5-2020/

June 5-7, 2020 Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT) Computer Assisted Language Learning Conference (CALL). Originally scheduled for Hirosaki Gakuen University, Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan. In 2020, will be held online. http://jaltcall.org/events/ or https://conference2020.jaltcall.org/

June 5-8, 2020 International Conference on Frontiers of Educational Technologies (ICFET), 6^th. CANCELLED. Organized by the International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology. Tokyo, Japan. http://www.icfet.org/

June 6-8, 2020 GlobalMindED: Creating a Capable, Diverse Talent Pipeline. Sheraton Denver Downtown, Denver, Colorado, USA. http://www.globalminded.org/ or https://globalminded.org/annual-conference/2020-program/

June 6-9, 2020 Special Libraries Association (SLA) Annual Conference. POSTPONED to October 15-18, 2020. Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. https://connect.sla.org/ac2020/welcometocharlotte or https://www.sla.org/attend/future-conference-locations/

June 6-10, 2020 World Association for Cooperative Education (WACE) International Research Symposium, 4^th biennial. CANCELLED. University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland. http://www.waceinc.org/calendar.html or https://www.waceinc.org/limerick2020/index.html

July 6-10, 2020 Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA): Excellent in Mathematics Education – Foundations and Pathways, 43^rd. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. https://www.merga.net.au/ or https://www.merga.net.au/Public/Public/Events/Annual_Conference.aspx

June 7-9, 2020 European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) Annual Conference: Embracing the Future – A New Mandate for Business Schools. POSTPONED to August 30-September 1, 2020 Lyon, France. http://www.efmd.org/events or https://events.efmdglobal.org/events/2020-efmd-annual-conference/

June 7-9, 2020 Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education (NASPA) Region II Annual Conference. POSTPONED till June 2021. Niagara Falls, New York, USA. https://www.naspa.org/events/naspa-region-ii-annual-conference or https://www.naspa.org/events

June 7-10, 2020 International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM) Innovation Conference, 31^st. Originally scheduled for the Ellington Hotel Berlin, Berlin Germany. In 2020, the event will be offered online. https://www.ispim-innovation.com/events or https://www.ispim-innovation-conference.com/

June 7-10, 2020 Conference on Engineering Education for Sustainable Development (EESD): Building Flourishing Communities, 10^th. POSTPONED to June 13-16, 2021. School of Engineering, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland. https://www.eesd2020.org/

June 7-10, 2020 Career Education Colleges and Universities (CECU, formerly the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities, APSCU) Annual Convention. CANCELLED. (But, a virtual form of the event is being considered.) Swan and Dolphin Resort, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.cecuevents.org/ or http://www.cecuevents.org/convention/

June 7-10, 2020 National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) Professional Learning Institute, 29^th. CANCELLED. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. https://www.naeyc.org/events/future-dates

June 7-10, 2020 American Evaluation Association (AEA) Summer Evaluation Institute – Finding Your Path in Evaluation. CANCELLED. Sheraton Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. https://www.eval.org/p/cm/ld/fid=754

June 7-11, 2020 International Conference on Communications (ICC) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE): Communications Enabling Shared Understanding. Originally scheduled for Dublin, Ireland. In 2020, this event will be held online. http://www.ieee-icc.org/ or https://icc2020.ieee-icc.org/

June 7-11, 2020 Association of Caribbean University, Research and Institutional Libraries (ACURIL) Conference: Design Thinking in Libraries, Archives and Museums – Revolutionizing the Way We Do Business, 50^th. POSTPONED until 2021. Beach Tower Hotel, Atlantis Resort, Bahamas, Nassau. https://acuril.org/

June 7-11, 2020 Association Supporting Computer Users in Education (ASCUE) Conference: Collaborate, Innovate, Creativity, 53^rd. CANCELLED. Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA. http://ascue.org/

June 7-12, 2020 Display Week. Organized by the Society for Information Display (SID). POSTPONED to August 2-7, 2020 (But in a new location, San Jose.) Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco, California, USA. http://www.displayweek.org/ or http://www.sid.org/

June 8, 2020 Succeeding as a Remote Worker in 90 Minutes. Offered online. https://learning.oreilly.com/live-training/

June 8-9, 2020 European Association for the Education of Adults (EAEA) General Assembly and Annual Conference. Originally scheduled for Bratislava, Slovakia. In 2020, the event will now be held online. https://eaea.org/event/eaea-annual-conference-grundtvig-award-ceremony-and-general-assembly-2020-access-and-outreach/ or https://eaea.org/

June 8-9, 2020 Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum. Sponsored by the Institute for Knowledge Mobilization. Canadian Museum of Immigration, Pier 21, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. http://www.knowledgemobilization.net/forum/

June 8-9, 2020 EmTech Next. Hosted by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Technology Review. Offered online. https://emtech.technologyreview.com/emtech-next-2020/ or https://events.technologyreview.com/events/

June 8-9, 2020 Learning Summit. POSTPONED until October 5-6, 2020. Organized by the League for Innovation in the Community College. Hosted by the Maricopa County Community College District. Gilbert, Arizona, USA. https://www.league.org/ls2020az or https://www.league.org/events

June 8-10, 2020 Learning Analytics Summer Institute (LASI). POSTPONED. Co-hosted by New York University and Teachers College Columbia University, New York City, New York, USA. https://www.solaresearch.org/events/lasi/lasi20/

June 8-10, 2020 Addressing Student Mental Health: A Comprehensive Approach. Offered online. https://www.academicimpressions.com/mental-health-institute-for-deans-of-students/ or https://www.academicimpressions.com/trainings/?fwp_product_categories=virtual-conference

June 8-11, 2020 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR). POSTPONED to October 26-29, 2020. Radisson Blu Hotel, Dublin, Ireland. http://www.icmr2020.org/

June 8-11, 2020 University-Industry Interaction. Organized by the University Innovation Network. In 2020, the conference will be held online. http://www.university-industry.com/ or https://www.eaie.org/community/calendar.html

June 8-11, 2020 Association for the Assessment of Learning in Higher Education (AALHE) Annual Conference, 10^th annual. Originally scheduled to be held at the Sheraton Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. In 2020, this event will be held online from June 8-19, 2020 https://www.aalhe.org/2020-conference

June 8-11, 2020 EDUCAUSE Institute Learning Technology Leadership Program. Originally scheduled for Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA. Likely to be offered online. (However, this event was no longer listed on the EDUCAUSE webpage just before this conference list was released.) https://events.educause.edu/event-finder

June 8-11, 2020 International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 14^th.The physical conference has been cancelled at Atlanta, Georgia, USA. However, an online conference is planned. https://www.icwsm.org/2020/

June 8-12, 2020 South East Asia Pacific Audio Visual Archives Association (SEAPAVAA) Conference: Memory, History, and Archives, 24^th. CANCELLED. Hosted by the Vietnam Film Institute. Da Nang, Vietnam. http://seapavaaconference.com/ or http://www.ccaaa.org/

June 8-12, 2020 London Tech Week: Be Part of the Future – Uniting Tech and Talent in a World-Class Hub of Innovation. POSTPONED to September 2-10, 2020. London, United Kingdom. However during the original dates, June 8-12, the organizers will host a series of sessions under the umbrella “Power of Collaboration and Resilience of the Tech Ecosystems and Its Effect on Our Global Community”. https://londontechweek.com/

June 8-12, 2020 The Networking Conference (TNC): Making Waves, 36^th. CANCELLED. Hosted by Joint Information Systems Committee (Jisc), the United Kingdom’s National Research and Education Network organization. Brighton, United Kingdom. https://tnc20.geant.org/

June 8-12, 2020 Teaching to Increase Diversity and Equity in STEM (TIDES). (STEM = science, technology, engineering and mathematics) Organized by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). Lansdowne Resort and Conference Center, Leesburg, Virginia, USA. http://www.aacu.org/events or https://www.aacu.org/2020-TIDES

June 8-12, 2020 Driving Cybersecurity Change: Establishing a Culture of Protect, Detect and Respond. Offered online. https://www.sans.org/information-security-training/by-location/north-americao or https://www.sans.org/vlive/details/mgt521-jun-2020-lance-spitzner

June 8-14, 2020 New to Online, Essentials Part II: Converting Your Course. Organized by the Online Learning Consortium (OLC). Offered online. https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/learn/olc-new-institute-schedule/

June 8-14, 2020 Applying Universal Design for Learning Principles to Online Courses to Increase Accessibility and Engagement. Organized by the Online Learning Consortium (OLC). Offered online. https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/learn/olc-new-institute-schedule/

June 8-14, 2020 Strategies for Supporting Online Faculty. Organized by the Online Learning Consortium (OLC). Offered online. https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/learn/olc-new-institute-schedule/

June 8-14, 2020 Designing Gamified Learning Environments. Organized by the Online Learning Consortium (OLC). Offered online. https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/learn/olc-new-institute-schedule/

June 8-19, 2020 Digital Leaders Virtual Summit. (The event will include 128 presenters covering 24 topics including cyber resilience, data analytics, and emerging technologies.) Offered online. https://digileaders.com/two-weeks-in-june-and-a-week-in-october/ or https://virtual.digileaders.com/

June 8-July 3, 2020 Proving and Improving: Foundations of First Year Assessment. Organized by the National Resource Center, First-Year Experience and Students in Transition. Offered online. https://sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/national_resource_center/events/index.php or https://sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/national_resource_center/events/online_courses/index.php

June 9-10, 2020 Chief Information Officer (CIO) Summit: Leading Digital and Technology Driven Disruption. Auckland, New Zealand. https://www.ciosummit.co.nz/

June 9-10, 2020 Future EdTech: Transforming Life in Education – Innovate, Engage, Evolve. Originally scheduled for London, United Kingdom. In 2020, this will be held online for June 9, 2020. http://futureedtech.com/ or https://tmt.knect365.com/future-edtech/

June 9-11, 2020 Developing and Implementing a Research Strategy. Organized by the Center for Learning Innovations and Customized Knowledge Solutions (CLICKS). Pullman Dubai City Center, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. http://www.cli-cks.com/schedule-of-public-capacity-building-programs-for-the-academic-year-2019-20/

June 9-11, 2020 Identity Week: Global, Trusted, Visionary. POSTPONED until November 17-18, 2020. (3,500 attendees) ExCeL, London, United Kingdom. https://www.terrapinn.com/exhibition/identity-week/index.stm

June 9-11, 2020 Professional Learning Communities at Work Institute. (PLC = “ongoing process in which educators work collaboratively in recurring cycles of collective inquiry and action research to achieve better results for the students they serve”.) This event is held at different times and locations including Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. https://www.solutiontree.com/events.html?limit=25&p=3 or https://www.solutiontree.com/events/plc-at-work-institute-las-vegas.html

June 9-11, 2020 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3): The Future of Video Games. CANCELLED. (But, the event will return in 2021.) Organized by the Entertainment Software Association. Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, California, USA. https://www.e3expo.com/ or http://www.gamesindustry.biz/network/events

June 9-11, 2020. ConnecTech Asia: Empowering the Digital Economy. POSTPONED to September 29-October 1, 2020. (35,000 attendees) Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. http://www.communicasia.com/ or https://www.connectechasia.com/communic-asia.html

June 9-12, 2020 Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) Conference: Guiding the Journey – Learner – Teacher – Learner, 40^th annual. CANCELLED. Will be held June 15-18, 2021 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. https://www.stlhe.ca/conferences-events/stlhe-annual-conference/

June 9-12, 2020 Global Internship Conference: Internship Ability – Accessibility, Scalability, Sustainability. CANCELLED, (But, some content will be offered online.) Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. http://globalinternshipconference.com/ or https://www.aieaworld.org/upcoming-conferences or https://www.aieaworld.org/upcoming-conferences#conferences2020

June 9-12, 2020 Information Technology in Academic Medicine Conference. CANCELLED. Organized by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Group on Information Resources (GIR). The Roosevelt Hotel, New York City, New York, USA. https://www.aamc.org/professional-development/events

June 9-13, 2020 International Language Testing Association. Assessment in Multilingual Contexts – Models, Practices, Policies and Challenges. Hammamet, Tunisia. https://www.iltaonline.com/page/LTRC2020STD

June 10, 2020 Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security Crash Course. Offered online. https://learning.oreilly.com/live-training/

June 10-11, 2020 ICT Professionals Leadership Workshop. Organized by Liquid Learning. Offered online. https://liquidlearning.com/events

June 10-11, 2020 Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) Festival of Work (Incorporating the Human Resources Software and Recruitment Show, and the Learning and Development Show, 7,000+ attendees). Olympia London, London, United Kingdom. https://www.festivalofwork.com/ or https://events.cipd.co.uk/events/

June 10-11, 2020 Gartner Enterprise Architecture and Technology Innovation Summit. London, United Kingdom. https://www.gartner.com/en/conferences/calendar

June 10-11, 2020 Gartner Program and Portfolio Management Summit. London, United Kingdom. https://www.gartner.com/en/conferences/calendar

June 10-11, 2020 TechXLR8: Accelerating Business Transformation with Technology. POSTPONED until September 2-3, 2020. ExCeL, London, United Kingdom. https://tmt.knect365.com/techxlr8/

June 10-11, 2020 Cloud and Devops World Forum: Drive Business Growth, Streamline Enterprise, Innovate Your Future, 11^th. POSTPONED until September 2-3, 2020. Co-located with TechXLR8. ExCeL, London, United Kingdom. https://tmt.knect365.com/cloud-devops-world/ or http://cloudwf.com/

June 10-11, 2020 Learning Experience Design Online Conference. Organized by The Learning Guild (Formerly, the eLearning Guild). Offered online. https://www.elearningguild.com/online-conferences/content/5842/online-conferences-home

June 10-12, 2020 International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations: Urban Diversities – Exclusion and Inclusion of Immigrants and Refugees at the Local Level, 20^th. Originally the event was scheduled to be held at the University of Milan, Milan, Italy. In 2020, this event will be held online. https://ondiversity.com/2020-conference

June 10-12, 2020 European University Information Systems (EUNIS) Congress, 21^st. CANCELLED. Helsinki, Finland. https://www.eunis.org/eunis2020/ or http://www.eunis.org/events/eunis-congress/

June 10-12 2020 World Forum Principles of Scientific Publication. Hosted by Polytechnique Montréal. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. https://www.polymtl.ca/authorship/en or https://publicationethics.org/events/world-forum-principles-scientific-publication

June 10-12, 2020 British Columbia Council for International Education (BCCIE), 11^th. CANCELLED. Fairmont Hotel, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. http://bccie.bc.ca/events/summer-conference/ or https://www.eaie.org/community/calendar.html

June 10-12, 2020 Edu Data Summit: Intersection of Big Data, Predictive Analytics, Learning Analytics, and Education. POSTPONED to June 8-11, 2021. Delegates Dining Room at the United Nations, New York City, New York, USA. http://www.edudatasummit.com/

June 10-12, 2020 Deshpande Symposium for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Higher Education, 9^th annual. Originally scheduled to be held in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. In 2020, this event will be held online. http://www.deshpandesymposium.org/

June 10-12, 2020 Big 12 Teaching and Learning Conference: Advancing Student Learning and Retention, 7^th annual. CANCELLED. University of Kansas, Overland Park, Kansas, USA. https://edwardscampus.ku.edu/big-12

June 10-12, 2020 International Conference on E-Learning in the Workplace (ICELW), 13^th annual. Originally scheduled for Columbia University, New York City, New York, USA. In 2020, this event will be held online. http://www.icelw.org/

June 10-12, 2020 Creating an Interactive Syllabus. Organized by the Online Learning Consortium (OLC). Offered online. https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/learn/olc-new-institute-schedule/

June 10-12, 2020 STEM Institute for Student Success and Retention. Offered online. https://www.academicimpressions.com/stem-institute-for-retention/ or https://www.academicimpressions.com/trainings/?fwp_product_categories=virtual-conference

June 10-17, 2020 Impactful Leadership: Vision, Purpose and Creating a Pathway for Change. Organized by the Australian Council for Educational Leaders (ACEL). Offered online. https://www.acel.org.au/acel/ACELWEB/Active/Event_Display.aspx?EventKey=20ERWEB&WebsiteKey=20e11af7-b4d0-4ed8-b16e-21ea248da601 or http://www.acel.org.au/acel/ACELWEB/Events/Event_Index/ACELWEB/Active/Events_List.aspx?hkey=dd624a67-ae56-4b71-bd28-8ad033ce17bc

June 10-July 15, 2020 Consulting Skills Certificate. Organized by the Association for Talent Development (ATD, formerly the American Society for Training and Development, ASTD). Variety of possible dates. Offered online. https://www.td.org/education/search-all-programs or https://www.td.org/education-courses/consulting-skills-certificate

June 11-12, 2020 Australian Curriculum Studies Association (ACSA) Symposium: Reimaging the Curriculum – Achieving Educational Goals through Practice, biennial. CANCELLED. (However, the event will be held in 2021.) Hotel Grand Chancellor, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. https://www.acsa.edu.au/pages/page10.asp or https://www.symposium.acsa.edu.au/

June 11-12, 2020 FLIP+ e-Assessment Conference. Originally scheduled for Luxembourg. In 2020, this event will be held online. https://flip-plus.org/ or http://flip-initiative.org/

June 11-12, 2020 Continuous Improvement Review Seminar by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). One session for Asia Pacific. Another Session for Americas, Europe and the Middle East. Offered online. https://www.aacsb.edu/events/seminars/continuous-improvement-review

June 11-13, 2020 ECSITE (European Network of Science Centres and Museums) Annual Conference: Echoes from the Future. CANCELLED. Hosted by the Kershikova Institute. Ljubljana, Slovenia. https://www.ecsite.eu/annual-conference

June 11-13, 2020 Viva Technology: For Startups and Leaders. CANCELLED (But, the event will take place in spring 2021.) (124,000 attendees, 13,000 startups). Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, Paris, France. https://vivatechnology.com/

June 11-13, 2020 International Conference on e-Society, e-Learning and e-Technologies (ICSLT), 6^th. (This event was postponed from January 9-11, 2020) Hosted by the University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, United Kingdom. http://www.icslt.org/

June 11-13, 2020 Association of Canadian Archivists: 20/20 Vision – Seeing Archives Differently, 45^th annual. Originally scheduled for the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. In 2020, this event will be held online, June 11-12, 2020. https://archivists.ca/2020-Annual-Conference

June 11-13, 2020 Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education(NASPA) Vice Presidents for Student Affairs Summer Convening. San Diego, California, USA. https://www.naspa.org/events/the-summit-naspa-vpsa-summer-convening1 or https://www.naspa.org/events

June 11-14, 2020 European Association of Science Editors (EASE) General Assembly and Conference: Promoting Sustainability and Diversity in Research – The Role of Editors, 15^th biennial. POSTPONED until June 11-13, 2021. Valencia, Spain. https://ease.org.uk/ease-events/15th-ease-conference-valencia-2020/

June 11-14, 2020 Bernard College Annual Faculty Institute. 20^th. Bernard College, Columbia University, New York City, New York, USA. https://reacting.barnard.edu/events2/upcoming

June 11-14, 2020 Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education (NASPA) Region III Summer Symposium. Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA. https://www.naspa.org/events/naspa-region-iii-summer-symposium or https://www.naspa.org/events

June 11-16, 2020 Facilitating Virtual Training Certificate. Organized by the Association for Talent Development (ATD, formerly the American Society for Training and Development, ASTD). Variety of possible dates. Offered online. https://www.td.org/education/search-all-programs or https://www.td.org/education-courses/facilitating-virtual-training-certificate

June 12, 2020 Cybersecurity Offensive and Defensive Techniques in Three Hours. Offered online. https://learning.oreilly.com/live-training/

June 12-13, 2020 Association of International Schools in Africa (AISA) Institute for International School Nurses and Medical Workers. International School of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya. https://aisa.or.ke/All-AISA-Events or https://aisa.or.ke/event-3470770

June 12-13, 2020 Textbook and Academic Authoring Annual Conference: Education, Inspiration, Networking, 33^rd annual. CANCELLED. Organized by the Text and Academic Authors Association. San Diego, California. USA. http://www.taaonline.net/ or http://www.taaonline.net/taa-conference

June 12-14, 2020 South China International Early Childhood Education Exhibition, 11^th. Pazhou Poly World Trade Expo Center, Guangzhou, China. http://www.kidsexpochina.com/

June 12-15, 2020 Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) Conference. (Focuses on the scholarship, teaching and practice of management) Originally scheduled for Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. In 2020, this event will be held online. http://www.asac.ca/

June 12-15, 2020 Canadian Health Libraries Association Annual Conference: Vision 20/20. CANCELLED. Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. https://www.chla-absc.ca/annual_conference.php

June 13-14, 2020 Maker Faire Prague (Festival focused on invention, creativity and resourcefulness. Event occurs at different times and locations in Asia, Europe, and North America.) Prague, Czech Republic. http://makerfaire.com/

June 13-15, 2020 Association of American University Presses (AAUP) Conference, 84^th. CANCELLED (But, some form of an online event may occur.) The Westin Hotel, Seattle, Washington, USA. http://www.aaupnet.org/

June 13-17 2020 Canadian Evaluation Society (CES) Conference: Evaluation Use – Achieving Our Potential? POSTPONED until 2001. Ottawa, Ontario Canada. https://evaluationcanada.ca/

June 13-17, 2020 European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW): The International Venue on Practice-centered Computing and the Design of Cooperative Technologies, 18^th. Originally scheduled for Siegen, Germany. In 2020, this event will be held online. https://www.designresearchsociety.org/event_list?current_page=5&sort_type=upcoming&filter%5Bperiod%5D=all&display_type=default or https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2020/

June 13-19, 2020 InfoComm (Professional audiovisual conference and marketplace). CANCELLED (But, some form of a virtual offering will be held June 16-18, 2020.) Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.infocommshow.org/ or https://www.avixa.org/events

June 13-20, 2020 SANSFIRE Cyber Security Training. Washington, D.C., USA. https://www.sans.org/information-security-training/by-location/north-america

June 14-15, 2020 Tertiary Studies and Careers Expo incorporating the South Australia Work and Skills Expo, 11^th annual. CANCELLED. (2021 dates to be announced.) Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. http://www.careersevent.com/tscea/ or https://www.careersevent.com/event/adelaide-careers-event/

June 14-16, 2020 Canadian University Business Officers (CAUBO) Annual Conference: Where Innovation Thrives. CANCELLED (However, the event will be held May 30-June 1, 2021 in Montreal.) Toronto, Ontario, Canada. https://www.caubo.ca/ or https://www.caubo.ca/knowledge-centre/learningevents/annual-conference/

June 14-16, 2020 National Association of State Directors of Teaching Education and Certification (NASDTEC), 92^nd annual. CANCELLED (In 2021, the event will be held June 13-15 in Savannah, Georgia.) Hyatt Regency Boston, Massachusetts, USA. http://www.nasdtec.net/ or http://www.nasdtec.net/?page=FutureEvents

June 14-17, 2020 International Telecommunications Society (ITS) Biennial Conference: Digital Societies and Industrial Transformation – Policies, Markets and Technologies, 23^rd. POSTPONED until June 20-23, 2021. Gothenburg, Sweden. http://www.itsworld.org/ or https://www.itsworld.org/events-calendar/

June 14-18, 2020 Pacific Northwest Great Teaching Seminar, 41^st annual. Organized by Umpqua Community College. Menucha Retreat and Conference Center, Corbett, Oregon, USA. https://www.pcc.edu/about/events/great-teaching-seminar/

June 14-26, 2020 Institute for Management and Leadership in Education. CANCELLED. (A program will be offered in 2021.) Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. http://www.gse.harvard.edu/ppe/program/institute-management-and-leadership-education-mle

June 14-August 1, 2020 Summer Enrichment Courses: Developing and Teaching an Online Course, Managing Your Online Classroom, Preparing to Teach Online, Evaluating Online Teaching. Organized by Magna Publications. Offered online. https://www.magnapubs.com/summer-enrichment-courses-2020/

June 15-16, 2020 Association of Visual Pedagogies (AVP) Conference: Visual Worlds of Education, 5^th. POSTPONED to 2021. Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL), Bergen, Norway. https://visualpedagogies.com/2019-conference-2-2/ or https://www.hvl.no/en/research/conference/shaping-visuality–innovation-and-formation-in-education/

June 15-17, 2020 European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS): Liberty, Equality and Fraternity in a Digitizing World. CANCELLED. Marrakech, Morocco.https://ecis2020.ma/

June 15-17, 2020 International Conference on Universal Design, 5^th. POSTPONED until June 9-11, 2021. Undergraduate Center, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland. https://ud2020.aalto.fi/

June 15-17, 2020 International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation Conference (ICE/IEEE ITMC): Digitization through Digital Twins – Innovation in the Analysis and Management of Environmental and Physical Engineered Complex, 26^th. (IEEE = Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society, ITEMS). Was scheduled to be held at Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom. Conference will now be held online. http://www.ice-conference.org/ or https://www.ice-conference2020.org/

June 15-17, 2020 QCon New York Software Development International Conference, 9^th. Organized by InfoQ. New York Marriott Marquis, New York City, New York, USA. https://qconnewyork.com/

June 15-17, 2020 Executive Leadership Academy. Organized by the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC). Originally scheduled for Washington, D.C., USA. In 2020, will be held online June 25-26, 2020. https://www.cic.edu/programs/executive-leadership-academy or https://www.cic.edu/programs#

June 15-17, 2020 University Business Tech (UBTech): National Summit on AV and IT Solutions. CANCELLED. MGM Grand, Las Vegas, USA.http://ubtechconference.com/

June 15-17, 2020 Campus Safety West Conference. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. https://campussafetyconference.com/

June 15-17, 2020 National Conference on Student Assessment: Measure What Matters and Create Accountability for Equity. CANCELLED. Organized by the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO). Sheraton Denver Downtown, Denver, Colorado, USA. https://ccsso.org/ncsa or https://ccsso.confex.com/ccsso/NCSA2020/cfp.cgi

June 15-17, 2020 Continuing Education: Leading Innovation and Change. Offered online.

https://www.academicimpressions.com/continuing-education-leading-innovation-and-change/ or https://www.academicimpressions.com/trainings/?fwp_product_categories=virtual-conference

June 15-18, 2020 International Conference on Thinking. CANCELLED. Johannesburg, South Africa. (In 2021, the event will be held in Australia. In 2022, the event will be held in South Africa.) https://icot2020.org/

June 15-18, 2020 International Consortium for Educational Development Conference: The Future-Ready Graduate, biennial. CANCELLED. Zurich, Switzerland. http://icedonline.net/ or http://iced2020.ch/

June 15-18, 2020 International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), 8^th. POSTPONED to November 30-December 3, 2020. Oldenburg, Germany. http://www.ieee-ichi.org/

June 15-18, 2020 International Symposium on World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), 21^st. POSTPONED until August 31-September 3, 2020. Cork, Ireland. http://www.cs.ucc.ie/wowmom2020/

June 15-18, 2020 Canadian Higher Education and Information Technology (CANHEIT) Conference. POSTPONED until 2021. Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. www.canheit.ca

June 15-18, 2020 Innovate Education Colorado (InnEdCo, formerly Technology in Education): Inspiring Digital Age Teaching and Learning. CANCELLED. Keystone Resort and Conference Center, Keystone, Colorado, USA. http://tiecolorado.org/

June 15-18, 2020 Best Teachers International Summer Institute: What the Best College Teachers Do, 23^rd annual. CANCELLED. Wilshire Grand Hotel, West Orange, New Jersey, USA. http://www.bestteachersinstitute.org/summer-institute/

June 15-19, 2020 International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC): Internet of Everything, 16^th. Originally scheduled to be held at St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus. In 2020, the event will be held online. https://iwcmc.org/2020/

June 15-19, 2020 Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE) Conference, 25^th annual. Sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE). Hosted by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and the Centre for Excellent IT Education (Excited). Trondheim, Norway. https://iticse.acm.org/ or https://iticse.acm.org/drupal/

June 15-19, 2020 Digital Leaders Week (A series of 120+ events taking place across the United Kingdom. Many are offered online.) POSTPONED to October 12-16, 2020. https://digileaders.com/week/

June 15-19, 2020 Open Apereo: The Higher Education Open-Source Conference. (The Apereo Foundation develops and support software such as Opencast and Sakai.) University of Michigan School of Technology, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, also available online. https://www.apereo.org/events or https://www.apereo.org/content/open-apereo-2020-ann-arbor-mi

June 15-19, 2020 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Digital Scholarship Institute. Hyatt Place Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, USA. https://www.arl.org/events/list/

June 15-21, 2020 New to Online, Essentials Part III: Course Design Basics. Organized by the Online Learning Consortium (OLC). Offered on different dates, online. https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/learn/olc-new-institute-schedule/

June 15-21, 2020 Introduction to Digital Badges. Organized by the Online Learning Consortium (OLC). Offered online. https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/learn/olc-new-institute-schedule/

June 15-21, 2020 Creating YouTube Videos for Teaching and Learning. Organized by the Online Learning Consortium (OLC). Offered on different dates, online. https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/learn/olc-new-institute-schedule/ or https://my.onlinelearningconsortium.org/s/events#/events/smallIcons

June 15-21, 2020 Fundamentals: Engaging Learners in Online Discussions. Organized by the Online Learning Consortium (OLC). Offered on different dates, online. https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/learn/olc-new-institute-schedule/

June 15-22, 2020 EdTech Week. (40+ events around London, 6,000 attendees) London, United Kingdom. http://londonedtechweek.com/

June 15-26, 2020 Online Learning (previously, Sloan) Consortium (OLC) OLC Innovate and MERLOT Joint Conference. Previously scheduled for March 31-April 3, 2020 then July 21-24, 2020 at the. Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA. This event will now be offered online. https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/attend-2020/innovate/ or http://onlinelearningconsortium.org/annualconferences

June 15-July 27, 2020 EDUCAUSE Institute New IT Managers Program. Offered online. https://events.educause.edu/event-finder

June 16, 2020 Effective Pedagogy High Impact Strategies. POSTPONED (But, an online version is available.) Rydges Hotel, Hobart, Australia. https://www.powerfulpartnerships.com.au/effective-pedagogy

June 16, 2020 Teaching and Learning Conference, 10^th, annual. CANCELLED. College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, Minnesota, USA. http://www.css.edu/about/conferences-and-camps/conferences/teaching-and-learning-conference.html

June 16-17, 2020 Micro-Credentialing in Higher Education Workshop. Organized by Liquid Learning. Offered online. https://liquidlearning.com/events

June 16-17, 2020 Going Online: A Strategic Compass. POSTPONED until fall 2020. Organized by the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) Global Network. Hosted by the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. https://events.efmdglobal.org/events/going-online-a-strategic-compass-2/

June 16-17, 2020 Next Stage – Developing a Sustainable Online Strategy. Organized by the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) Global Network. Offered online. https://events.efmdglobal.org/events/virtual-workshop/

June 16-17, 2020 Emerging Technologies Leadership Forum: Connect, Learn, Lead. Organized by the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA). Originally scheduled to be held June 26-27, 2020 at the Anaheim Marriott, Anaheim, California, USA. In 2020, this event will now be held online, June 16-17, 2020. http://www.setda.org/events/ or https://www.setda.org/events/conferences/etlf2020/

June 16-18, 2020 Autonomous Vehicle Technology Expo. POSTPONED. Messe Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany. https://www.autonomousvehicletechnologyexpo.com/en/

June 16-18, 2020 Canadian Campus Card Conference (CCCC). University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. https://naccu.org/page/2020cccc

June 16-18, 2020 Training Industry Conference and Expo (TICE). POSTPONED to September 14-16, 2020. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. https://trainingindustry.com//tice/

June 16-18, 2020 Problem Based Learning (PBL) World. Originally scheduled to be held in Napa, California, USA. Now, will be offered online. https://www.pblworks.org/ or http://www.pblworld.org/events/pbl-world-2020/event-summary-5237d171cf6a4019a052b634e39c2096.aspx

June 16-19, 2020 North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA): Hot Chile, Cool Learning, Conference, 66^th annual. Originally scheduled for New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA. In 2020, this event will be held online. https://www.nactateachers.org/index.php/upcoming-conferences

June 16-19, 2020 Institute on Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation Campus Centers. Organized by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). Originally scheduled for Emory Conference Center Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. In 2020, this event will be held online. http://www.aacu.org/events

June 16-19, 2020 Higher Education Case Managers Association (HECMA) Conference: Bridging the Future and Today – Inspiring Limitless Horizons in Higher Education Case Management. POSTPONED until 2021. Hilton Portland Downtown, Portland, Oregon, USA. https://www.hecmaconference.org/ or https://www.hecma.org/hecma-conference-2020/

June 16-July 14, 2020 Articulate Storyline Certificate. Organized by the Association for Talent Development (ATD, formerly the American Society for Training and Development, ASTD). Variety of possible dates. Offered online and in Chicago and New York City. https://www.td.org/education/search-all-programs or https://www.td.org/education-courses/articulate-storyline-certificate

June 17, 2020 Understanding Copyright. Organized by the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP). Offered online. https://www.alpsp.org/Events-Training

June 17, 2020 Creating Purposeful Individual Learning Plans. Presented by Critical Agendas. Offered online. https://www.criticalagendas.com.au/events/creating-purposeful-individual-learning-plans-copy-copy-copy/ or https://www.criticalagendas.com.au/events/?_sft_event-category=1-day-workshops

June 17-18, 2020 Media and Learning (Highlights pedagogical and technical developments in video-supported learning). POSTPONED until October 12-13, 2020. Stuk, Leuven, Belgium. http://www.media-and-learning.eu/

June 17-18, 2020 IdentityNORTH Annual Summit: Digital ID and Authentication. Originally scheduled for Telus Tower, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 2020, this event will be offered online. https://www.identitynorth.ca/ or https://www.identitynorth.ca/events/identitynorth2020/

June 17-18, 2020 Training and Simulation Industry Symposium (TSIS). Originally scheduled to be held at the Rosen Centre Hotel, Orlando, Florida, USA. In 2020, will be held online June 16-19, 2020. https://www.trainingsystems.org/events or https://www.trainingsystems.org/events/2020/6/16/01t0

June 17-19, 2020 Education and School Trade Show (EDIX). International Exhibition Center (INTEX), Osaka, Japan. https://www.edix-expo.jp/en-gb/about.html

June 17-19, 2020 International Conference on Digital Government Research: Intelligent Government in the Intelligent information Society, 21^st annual. Seoul National Government in the Intelligent Information Society. Originally scheduled to be held in Seoul, Korea. In 2020, this event will be held online. http://dgsociety.org/

June 17-19, 2020 Hong Kong Association for Educational Communications and Technology (HKAECT) International Conference: Environment and Design – Current and Future. Main Library, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. http://www.hkaect.org/hkaect2020/

June 17-19, 2020 Rift Valley Technical Training Institute (RVTTI) International Conference: Safeguarding Sustainability Gains in TVET – Prospects and Challenges, 9^th. Eldoret, Kenya. https://rvti.ac.ke/download/call-for-papers-for-9th-rvtti-international-conference/

June 17-19, 2020 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences (IMX). Originally scheduled to be held in Barcelona, Spain. In 2020, event will be held online. https://imx.acm.org/2020/

June 17-19, 2020 International Conference on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence, 17^th. POSTPONED to October 7-9, 2020. Sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Systems, 2^nd. L’Aquila, Italy. http://www.dcai-conference.net/

June 17-19, 2020 Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) Europe, Middle East, and Africa. CANCELLED. Oslo, Norway. https://www.aacsb.edu/events/conferences

June 17-19, 2020 EDUCAUSE Enterprise Summit: Analytics. Held in collaboration with the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO), the Association for Institutional Research (AIR), and the EDUCAUSE Enterprise IT Program. Originally scheduled for Chicago, Illinois, USA. In 2020, the event will be held online. https://events.educause.edu/event-finder or https://events.educause.edu/enterprise-summit/2020

June 17-19, 2020 Online Teaching Conference (OTC): Empowering the Online Teaching Community for 20 years. Presented by CCCTECHCONNECT. Sponsored by the California Community Colleges Online Education Initiative. Originally scheduled for Pasadena Convention Center Pasadena, California, USA. The 2020 event will now be offered online. http://www.onlineteachingconference.org/

June 17-19, 2020 Creating Rubrics. Organized by the Online Learning Consortium (OLC). Offered online. https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/learn/olc-new-institute-schedule/

June 17-19, 2020 World News Media Congress (WNMC): World Digital Revenue Forum, World Editors Forum, Women in News Summit, 72^nd. POSTPONED to September 17-19, 2020. Zaragoza, Spain. https://events.wan-ifra.org/conferences or https://events.wan-ifra.org/events/world-news-media-congress-2020

June 17-20, 2020 VidCon: For People Who Love Online Video, 11^th annual. Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California, USA. http://vidcon.com/

June 17-21, 2020 Origins Game Fair, 46^th. POSTPONED to October 7-11, 2020. Greater Columbus Convention Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA. http://originsgamefair.com/

June 17-July 15, 2020 Certificate in School Management and Leadership: Leading Schools. Presented by Harvard Graduate School of Education. Offered online. https://www.gse.harvard.edu/ppe/program/certificate-school-management-and-leadership or https://www.gse.harvard.edu/ppe/professional-education-online-programs

June 18, 2020 European University Association (EUA) Focus Group Student Entrepreneurship – Learning for Impact. Originally scheduled for University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium. In 2020, the event will be held online. https://eua.eu/events/126-focus-group-student-entrepreneurship.html or https://eua.eu/events.html

June 18, 2020 Introduction to People Management in Publishing. Organized by the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP). Offered online. https://www.alpsp.org/Events-Training

June 18, 2020 Association for Science Education (ASE) Technicians Leadership Programme: Working with and Training Others. Offered online. https://www.ase.org.uk/events/online-cpd-event-ase-technicians-leadership-programme-working-and-training-others

June 18, 2020 EdTechX Europe: Transforming the World of Work Tomorrow through Education Today, 7^th. Tobacco Dock, London, United Kingdom. http://ecosystem.edtechxeurope.com/2020-summit-tickets

June 18, 2020 Westminster Higher Education Forum: Priorities for International Research Partnerships. Offered online. https://www.westminsterforumprojects.co.uk/forums/index.php?fid=westminster_higher_education_forum

June 18, 2020 Leveraging Advanced Features of G Suite and Web Tools in the Classroom. Presented by EdTechTeacher. Lincoln Elementary School, Rochelle, Illinois, USA. https://edtechteacher.org/summer/rochelle/

June 18-19, 2020 Primary and Early Childhood Mathematics Education Conference: To Make Mathematics Education Engaging and Relevant for All Students. Organized by the Mathematical Association of Victoria in collaboration with the Melbourne Graduate School of Education’s Mathematics Education Group. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. https://www.mav.vic.edu.au/Conference/2020-Primary-and-Early-Childhood-Mathematics-Education-Conference

June 18-19, 2020 Tertiary Education Women’s Leadership Workshop. Organized by Liquid Learning. Sydney, Australia. https://liquidlearning.com/events

June 18-19, 2020 Leadership for Principals and Aspiring School Leaders Workshop. Organized by Liquid Learning. Sydney, Australia. https://liquidlearning.com/events

June 18-19, 2020 Asia-Pacific EduTeach Conference: Technology and Teaching – Challenges and Issues, 3^rd. POSTPONED till November 19-20, 2020. Organized by Unique Conferences Canada. National University of Singapore. Singapore. https://educationconference.info/asia-pacific/

June 18-19, 2020 International Conference on the Future of Education, 10^th. Funded by the European Commission. Originally scheduled to be held in Florence, Italy. The 2020 event will now be held online. http://conference.pixel-online.net/FOE/index.php

June 18-19, 2020 European Conference on Research Methodology for Business and Management Studies (ECRM), 19^th. Aveiro, Portugal. (This event may be placed online.) http://www.academic-conferences.org/conferences/ecrm/

June 18-19, 2020 Continuous Improvement Review Seminar. CANCELLED Organized by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). Tampa, Florida, USA. https://www.aacsb.edu/events/

June 18-19, 2020 Academy for New Division Heads and Leaders. Organized by Independent Schools Association of the Central States (ISACS). Chicago, Illinois, USA. https://www.isacs.org/professionaldevelopment/conferences-and-workshops

June 18-20, 2020 Senior Leadership Academy. Organized by the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC). Washington, D.C., USA. https://www.cic.edu/programs

June 18-21, 2020 Science Mag Conference. Organized by the International Society of Managing and Technical Editors (ISMTE). Odessa, Ukraine. https://www.ismte.org/events/event_list.asp or https://www.ismte.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1278543&group=

June 18-21, 2020 Minority Faculty Leadership Development Seminar. CANCELLED. Organized by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). InterContinental San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico. https://www.aamc.org/meetings/347984/upcomingmeetings.html

June 18-21, 2020 Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA) Annual Conference: Fostering Students’ Ownership of Their Learning. CANCELLED. Co-hosted by Concordia University and McGill University. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. https://ceea.ca/en/conferences/

June 18-21, 2020 American Association of University Professors (AAUP) Annual Conference and Biennial Meeting. CANCELLED. DoubleTree Hotel Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia, USA. http://www.aaup.org/get-involved/upcoming-events

June 18-July 30, 2020 Project Management for Learning Professionals. Organized by the Association for Talent Development (ATD, formerly the American Society for Training and Development, ASTD). Variety of possible dates. Offered online. https://www.td.org/education/search-all-programs or https://www.td.org/education-courses/project-management-for-learning-professionals

June 19, 2020 How to Teach Online Effectively Using Zoom. Organized by Contact North. Offered online. https://contactnorth.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_v8Ej91x7QeyAe9goH-Y5XQ

June 19, 2020 Fast and Effective Assessment: How to Improve Feedback and Reduce Correction. Presented by Critical Agendas. Offered online https://www.criticalagendas.com.au/events/?_sft_event-category=1-day-workshops or https://www.criticalagendas.com.au/events/?_sft_event-category=1-day-workshops

June 19, 2020 Creative Uses of Google and Web Tools to Increase Student Engagement. Presented by EdTechTeacher. Lincoln Elementary School, Rochelle, Illinois, USA. https://edtechteacher.org/summer/rochelle/

June 19-20, 2020 National Effective Teaching Institute (NETI-2). Organized by the American Society for Engineering Education. Scheduled for Le Westin Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In 2020, this event will now be offered online. https://www.asee.org/education-careers/continuing-education/courses-and-workshops/ or https://www.asee.org/education-careers/continuing-education/courses-and-workshops/2020-neti2

June 19-20, 2020 Engagement, Innovation, and Impact Seminar. CANCELLED. Organized by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). Tampa, Florida, USA. https://www.aacsb.edu/events/

June 19-21, 2020 International Editors Conference: From Papyrus to Pixels – International Editing Trends, 2^nd. CANCELLED (The next conference will be held June 11-13, 2021 in Edmonton, Canada.) Le Centre Sheraton Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. https://www.editors.ca/professional-development/conference/international-editors-conference-2020 or http://www.editors.ca/

June 19-23, 2020 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL): Speedier Innovation, Sustainable Development, Societal Transformation. POSTPONED to August 1-5, 2020. Organized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)/Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Hosted by the School of Information Management, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China. http://www.jcdl.org/ or http://2020.jcdl.org/ or https://www.computer.org/conferences/calendar

June 19-23, 2020 International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS), biennial. Organized by the International Society of the Learning Sciences. Nashville, Tennessee, USA. (May be held online only.) https://www.isls.org/ or https://www.isls.org/conferences/conferences

June 19-July 31, 2020 Change Management Certificate. Organized by the Association for Talent Development (ATD, formerly the American Society for Training and Development, ASTD). Variety of possible dates. Offered online. https://www.td.org/education/search-all-programs or https://www.td.org/education-courses/change-management-certificate

June 20-24, 2020 Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS): Information Systems for the Future, 24^th. Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (Most likely will be offered online.) http://www.pacis2020.org/

June 20-26, 2020 Sound and Music Computing (SMC) Conference. Originally, the event was to be held in Torino, Italy. In 2020, the event will be held online. http://smcnetwork.org/ or https://smc2020torino.it/uk/

June 21-23, 2020 Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) Annual Presidents’ Meeting. University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. (Unclear whether this event has been cancelled, but the next event will be held June 20-22, 2021 in Singapore.) https://apru.org/calendar/ or https://apru.org/event/annual-presidents-meeting-2020/

June 21-23, 2020 Global Information Technology Management Association(GITMA)World Conference: Digital Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Transformation 19^th. Originally scheduled for Paris, France. In 2020, the event will be held online. http://www.gitma.org/

June 21-24, 2020 European Distance and e-Learning Network (EDEN) Annual Conference: Human and Artificial Intelligence for the Society of the Future – Inspiring Digital Education for the NEXT STE(A)M Student Generation, 29^th annual. Hosted by Politehnica University of Timisoara. Originally scheduled to be held in Timisoara, Romania. In 2020, the conference will be held online. http://www.eden-online.org/ or https://www.eden-online.org/2020_timisoara/

June 21-24, 2020 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition, 127^th. (Comprising 400 technical sessions) Originally scheduled for Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In 2020, the conference will be offered online, June 22-26, 2020. https://www.asee.org/annual-conference/2020 or https://www.asee.org/conferences-and-events/conferences or https://www.asee.org/conferences-and-events/conferences/future-conferences

June 21-25, 2020 Association of Extension Administrators (AEA) System-Wide Conference: Positioning Extension for the Next Generation. Renaissance Orlando at Seaworld, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://1890aea.org/index.php/events/1890-extension-2020-system-wide-conference

June 21-25, 2020 Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN) Conference: Vision 20/20 – Hindsight, Insight, and Foresight in XR and Immersive Learning, 6^th. Technically co-sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Education Society. Originally scheduled to be held at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California, USA. The 2020 event will now be held online. https://immersivelrn.org/ilrn2020/

June 21-26, 2020 National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) Academic Advising Summer Institute, 34^th annual. POSTPONED until June 2021. Erie, Pennsylvania, USA. http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Events/Summer-Institutes.aspx

June 22-23, 2020 Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) Co-Lab – Connecting Industry with Business Schools. CANCELLED. Boston, Massachusetts, USA. https://www.aacsb.edu/events/conferences

June 22-23, 2020 Introduction to User Experience Design for Developers and Managers. Offered online. https://vslive.com/events/training-seminars/2020/chicago/home.aspx?utm_source=AttendeeMktg&utm_medium=E-newsletterSponsorship&utm_campaign=VSLATLNL

June 22-24, 2020 Swiss Society for Research in Education (SSRE) Conference: Knowledge at the Intersection of Research, Practices and Learning. POSTPONED to August 31-September 2, 2020. Biel/Bienne, Switzerland. http://www.sgbf.ch/index_en.html or https://events.hep-bejune.ch/en/events/SSRE-Congress-2020/Call-for-papers.html

June 22-24, 2020 Association of Canadian Publishers (ACP) Annual Meeting. Hotel Arts, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. http://publishers.ca/events/

June 22-24, 2020 Open Source Summit and Embedded Linux Conference North America. Austin Texas, USA. https://events19.linuxfoundation.org/upcoming-events/

June 22-24, 2020 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security (IH & MMSec), 8^th. Originally scheduled to be held at the University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado, USA. In 2020, the event will now be held online June 22-25, 2020. http://www.ihmmsec.org/

June 22-24, 2020 Annual Conference on Assessment and Grading. Austin, Texas, USA. https://www.solutiontree.com/events.html?limit=25&p=3 or https://www.solutiontree.com/events/assessment-grading-conference-austin.html

June 22-25, 2020 International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE), 16^th. Madrid, Spain. http://www.intenv.org/

June 22-25, 2020 Computer Graphics International (CGI), 37^th annual. POSTPONED until October 20-23, 2020. Organized by the Computer Graphics Society (CGS) in cooperation with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH). MIRALab, University of Geneva, Switzerland. http://www.cgs-network.org/cgi20/

June 22-25, 2020 Canada International Conference on Education (CICE): Global Issues in Education and Research and the World Congress on Education (WCE). University of Toronto, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. http://www.ciceducation.org/ and http://www.worldconedu.org

June 22-25, 2020 International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA) Annual Conference and Exposition, 62^nd. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. https://www.iaclea.org/annual-conference/

June 22-25, 2020 Spark and Artificial Intelligence Summit. Moscone Center West, San Francisco, California, USA. https://databricks.com/sparkaisummit/north-america-2020

June 22-26, 2020 Teaching Vocational Exploration. POSTPONED to June 14-18, 2021. Organized by the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC). Techny Towers Conference and Retreat Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA. https://www.cic.edu/programs/teaching-vocational-exploration or https://www.cic.edu/programs#

June 22-26, 2020 European Association for Health Information and Libraries (EAHIL) Conference: BOAT = Be Open Act Together, 19^th. POSTPONED until fall 2020. Lodz, Poland. http://eahil.eu/events/ or http://eahil.eu/events/#.W94Rs9VKi70

June 22-26, 2020 International Conference on Internet of Things. POSTPONED until August 12-14, 2020. Sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. The event may also be available online. http://iciot.org/2020/ or https://www.computer.org/conferences/calendar

June 22-26, 2020 International Conference on Cloud Computing. POSTPONED until August 12-14, 2020. Sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. The event may also be available online. http://www.thecloudcomputing.org/2020/index.html or https://www.computer.org/conferences/calendar

June 22-26, 2020 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Services. POSTPONED until August 12-14, 2020. Sponsored by Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. May also be held online. http://www.ai1000.org/2020/index.html or https://www.computer.org/conferences/calendar

June 22-28, 2020 Designing Game-Based Learning. Organized by the Online Learning Consortium (OLC). Offered online. https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/learn/olc-new-institute-schedule/

June 22-28, 2020 Creating Infographics for Learning. Organized by the Online Learning Consortium (OLC). Offered online. https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/learn/olc-new-institute-schedule/

June 22-July 8, 2020 ATD Master Instructional Designer Program. Organized by the Association for Talent Development (ATD, formerly the American Society for Training and Development, ASTD). Variety of possible dates. Offered online and in a variety of cities. https://www.td.org/education/search-all-programs or https://www.td.org/education-courses/atd-master-instructional-designer-program

June 22-August 30, 2020 Online Teaching Certificate. Organized by the Online Learning Consortium (OLC). Offered on different dates, online. https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/learn/olc-new-institute-schedule/ or https://my.onlinelearningconsortium.org/s/events#/events/smallIcons

June 23, 2020 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report: Inclusion and Education – All Means All. Offered online. https://en.unesco.org/events/2020-global-education-monitoring-report-inclusion-and-education-all-means-all-virtual-launch or https://en.unesco.org/events?page=1

June 23, 2020 Association of American Publishers Annual Meeting for Professional and Scholarly Publishing Forum. CANCELLED. Spire, Washington, D.C., USA. https://publishers.org/

June 23, 2020 Storytelling across the Curriculum. Presented by EdTechTeacher. Sacred Heart School, Chicago, Illinois, USA. https://edtechteacher.org/summer/chicago/

June 23-24, 2020 International e-Engineering Education Services Conference. POSTPONED. Organized by the Tafila Technical University. Sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Petra Marriott Hotel, Wadi Musa (Petra), Jordan. https://e-engineering.org/

June 23-24, 2020 National Association of Disability Practitioners (NADP-UK) International Conference: Supporting Disabled Students, Supporting Ourselves, 21^st. Chesford Grange Hotel and Conference Centre, Kenilworth, Warwick, United Kingdom. https://nadp-uk.org/ac2020-supporting-disabled-students-supporting-ourselves/

June 23-24, 2020 Human Resources (HR) Tech Digital Summit, 3^rd. Offered online. https://www.hrexchangenetwork.com/events-hr-tech-na/?utm_source=Picreel&utm_medium=Advertising&utm_campaign=HRIQ-OE-20-%20HR%20Tech%20NA%20-%20Picreel&utm_term=&utm_content=&disc=&extTreatId=7511389

June 23-25, 2020 Social Media for Higher Education, 4^th. POSTPONED. Grace Hotel, Sydney, Australia. https://publicspectrum.co/events/4th-social-media-for-higher-education-forum/

June 23-25, 2020 International Council on Education for Teaching (ICET) World Assembly, 64^th. POSTPONED until June 22-24, 2021. Hosted by the Bath Spa University, Bath, United Kingdom. http://icet4u.org/ or https://www.icet4u.org/upcoming_world_assembly.php

June 23-25, 2020 Northeast Regional Computing Program (NERCOMP) Annual Conference Online. Organized by EDUCAUSE. Offered online. https://events.educause.edu/event-finder

June 23-25, 2020 Leadership Academy: The Business of Leading Schools. Organized by Independent Schools Association of the Central States (ISACS). Chicago, Illinois, USA. https://www.isacs.org/professionaldevelopment/conferences-and-workshops

June 23-25, 2020 Division of International Special Education and Services (DISES) International Conference: Envisioning the Future – An Inclusive Society for All. Organized by the Council for Exceptional Children. Dubai, United Arab Emirates. https://rads560.github.io/dises/events.html or https://rads560.github.io/dises/

June 23-25, 2020 Serious Play: Shaping the Future of Training and Education – Evaluation and Assessment, and Return on Investment(A conference for those who create, teach or train using serious games and simulations.) Hosted by University of Central Florida (UCF) Downtown Campus, Orlando, California, USA. http://seriousplayconf.com/ or http://www.gamesindustry.biz/network/events

June 23-26, 2020 Australasian Science Education Research Association (ASERA) Conference, 51^st annual. Originally scheduled to be held at the Novotel Wollongong Northbeach, North Wollongong, Australia. In 2020, this event will be held online. https://www.asera.org.au/conferences/2020-conference or http://asera.org.au/

June 23-26, 2020 International ACM Conference on 3D Web Technology, 25^th. POSTPONED to November 14-16, 2020. Organized by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH) and Web3D Consortium in cooperation with the Korea Computer Graphics Society. Seoul, Korea. https://web3d2020.web3d.org/ or http://www.web3d.org/events/now or https://www.siggraph.org//attend/events

June 23-26, 2020 Association for Biology Laboratory Education (ABLE), 42^nd annual. CANCELLED. (The next conference will be held June 22-25, 2021 at the University of Victoria in Canada.) University of California, San Diego, California, USA. http://www.ableweb.org/conferences/ or http://www.ableweb.org/conferences/able2020/

June 23-26, 2020 ATD-Yale Management Excellence Certificate. Organized by the Association for Talent Development (ATD, formerly the American Society for Training and Development, ASTD). New Haven, Connecticut, USA. https://www.td.org/education/search-all-programs or https://yale-accel.td.org/management-excellence

June 23-30, 2020 Security Operations Summit and Training. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. https://www.sans.org/information-security-training/by-location/north-america

June 24, 2020 The Times Higher Education (THE) Young Universities Webinar. (Originally scheduled to be a face-to-face event in Moscow, Russia June 24-26.). In 2020, the event will be held online. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/summits or https://www.timeshighereducation.com/summits/younguniversities/2020/

June 24, 2020 Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association (UCISA) London Meeting. Strand Campus, King’s College, London, United Kingdom. https://www.ucisa.ac.uk/Events/2020/June/ucisa-London-June-2020 or https://www.ucisa.ac.uk/events

June 24, 2020 Effective Social Media for Scholarly Publishers. Organized by the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP). Offered online. https://www.alpsp.org/Events-Training

June 24, 2020 Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) Summer Roundtable. Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill, Washington D.C., USA. https://www.chea.org/node/79850

June 24, 2020 Creative Uses of Google and Web Tools to Increase Student Engagement. Presented by EdTechTeacher. Sacred Heart School, Chicago, Illinois, USA. https://edtechteacher.org/summer/chicago/

June 24-26, 2020 Procurement and Contract Management for Higher Education Institutions. Organized by the Association of African Universities. Victoria, Seychelles. https://blog.aau.org/1st-workshop-on-procurement-and-contract-management-for-higher-education-institutions/ or https://event-mgt.aau.org/event/22/

June 24-26, 2020 Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER) Conference: Building Trust with Research Libraries, 49^th annual. Originally scheduled to be held at the University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia. In 2020, this event will be held online June 22-26, 2020. https://liberconference.eu/ or https://libereurope.eu/events/

June 24-26, 2020 Living Knowledge Conference, 9th. POSTPONED to June 23-25, 2021. Organized by the six Science Shops of the University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands. https://www.livingknowledge.org/events/lk-conferences/ or https://livingknowledge.org/lk9/

June 24-26, 2020 International Conference on Game Theory and Management (GTM), 14^th. POSTPONED until October 2020. Organized by St. Petersburg University and the International Society of Dynamic Games. St. Petersburg, Russia. https://gsom.spbu.ru/en/gsom/research/conferences/gtm2020/

June 24-26, 2020 European University Association Council for Doctoral Education (EUA-CDE) Annual Meeting: The Role of Doctoral Education within Europe’s Universities, 12^th. CANCELLED. (May be re-scheduled later.) University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom. https://eua.eu/events.html or https://www.eaie.org/community/calendar.html or https://eua.eu/events/101-2020-eua-cde-annual-meeting.html

June 24-26, 2020 Qualitative Analysis Conference: Conceptualizing Theory – Analytic Practices in Qualitative Research, 37^th annual. CANCELLED. (This event will likely be held at Brescia in 2021.) Hosted by Brescia University College, London, Ontario, Canada. http://www.qualitatives.ca/

June 24-26, 2020 Exploring Interactive Video Tools. Organized by the Online Learning Consortium (OLC). Offered online. https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/learn/olc-new-institute-schedule/

June 24-26, 2020 International Congress on Education and Learning Congress: Education in the Context of Global Migration, 9^th. Hosted by DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://oneducationandlearning.com/2020-congress/call-for-papers/ or http://oneducationandlearning.com/2020-congress/program/

June 24-27, 2020 International Eurasian Educational Research Congress: Education in the Digital Age – Teaching, Learning and Research, 7^th. POSTPONED. Organized by the Eurasian Journal of Educational Research (EJER) and Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey. http://ejercongress.org/?en

June 24-27, 2020 Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), 15^th. Seville, Spain. http://www.aisti.eu/index.php/pt/ or http://www.aisti.eu/index.php/pt/12-news/37-cisti-2017-12-conferencia-iberica-de-sistemas-e-tecnologias-de-informacao

June 24-28, 2020 Seoul International Book Fair. POSTPONED. Seoul, Korea. http://sibf.or.kr/

June 24-28, 2020 At-Risk and Struggling Students Conference. Atlanta, Georgia, USA. https://atriskstudentsconference.com/

June 24-August 12, 2020 Instructional Design Mastery Series. Organized by the Online Learning Consortium (OLC). Offered on different dates, online. https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/learn/olc-new-institute-schedule/

June 25, 2020 Association of Colleges (AoC) Quality and Performance Network. To be offered online. https://www.aoc.co.uk/events

June 25, 2020 Growth Over Grades: Pros, Cons and Alternatives to Traditional Grading. Presented by Innovative Educators. Offered online. https://www.innovativeeducators.org/products/growth-over-grades-pros-cons-alternatives-to-traditional-grading or https://www.innovativeeducators.org/pages/events

June 25-26, 2020 Irish Conference on Game-Based Learning (iGBL), 10^th. CANCELLED. Cork City, Ireland. http://www.igbl-conference.com/

June 25-26, 2020 Canadian eLearning Conference, 11^th. CANCELLED. (The previous name of this conference seems to have been the eLearning Alliance of Canadian Hospitals (eACH) Conference). Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning, Sick Kids Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada http://canadianelearning.ca/

June 25-26, 2020 Psychology One Conference. CANCELLED. Organized by the Society for the Teaching of Psychology and Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA. http://www.psychoneconference.org/

June 25-26, 2020 Executive Leadership Academy. Organized by the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC). Originally scheduled for Washington, D.C., USA. In 2020, this event will be held online June 25-26, 2020. https://www.cic.edu/programs/executive-leadership-academy or https://www.cic.edu/programs#

June 25-26, 2020 e-Learning Instructional Design Certificate. Organized by the Association for Talent Development (ATD, formerly the American Society for Training and Development, ASTD). Variety of possible dates. Offered online. https://www.td.org/education/search-all-programs or https://www.td.org/education-courses/e-learning-instructional-design-certificate

June 25-27, 2020 Asia Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) International Conference: Interweaving Theory and Practice in ELT in Asia Creating New Prospects for the Future, 18^th. KINTEX Convention Center, Goyang, South Korea. http://www.asiatefl.org/

June 25-27, 2020 Executive Leadership Academy. Organized by the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC). Originally scheduled to be held in Columbus, Ohio, USA. In 2020, this event will be held June 25-26 online. https://www.cic.edu/programs

June 25-27 and 28-30, 2020 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Summer Institute. Session 1: Literary and Informational Texts – Reading/Writing about Literature. Session 2: Writing, Speaking, and Listening – Teaching Communication Today. Louisville, Kentucky, USA. https://ncte.org/institute/ or https://ncte.org/events/

June 25-28, 2020 Process Education Academy: To See Growth, Inspire Learners – Creating Inspired Learning Environments. Hosted by St. Louis College of Pharmacy, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. In 2020, this event will be held online. http://www.processeducation.org/peconf/

June 25-30, 2020 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Meeting. CANCELLED. Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://www.ala.org/conferencesevents/node/7/ or http://www.ala.org/conferencesevents/upcoming-annual-conferences-midwinter-meetings

June 26-28, 2020 ASCD Conference on Teaching Excellence. (ASCD, formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development). Denver, Colorado, USA. http://www.ascd.org/conferences/past-and-future-conferences.aspx

June 26-28, 2020 Accounting Information Systems (AIS) Educator Association(AISEA) Conference, 22^nd annual. POSTPONED until June 25-27, 2021. Antlers Hotel, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA. http://www.aiseducators.com/conference.asp

Jun 27, 2020 Early Childhood Teachers’ Association Conference. Sheldon Event Centre, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. https://ecta.org.au/event/ecta-early-childhood-conference-expression-of-interest-to-present/ or https://www.cvent.com/c/abstracts/942d7296-c7b2-4f83-b5d7-935234f46625

June 27-30, 2020 Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) National Conference: Inclusivity in Research – Scholarly Inquiry throughout the Undergraduate Experience, 20^th biennial. Originally scheduled for Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA. Will now be offered online, June 28-July 1, 2020. https://www.cur.org/what/events/upcoming/ or https://www.cur.org/what/events/conferences/curconf/2020/

June 27-30, 2020 Association of College and University Housing Officers – International (ACUHO-I) Annual Conference and Exposition. CANCELLED. Oregon Convention Center, Portland, Oregon, USA. https://www.acuho-i.org/events/ace?portalid=0?portalid=0?portalid=0?portalid=0?portalid=0

June 27-30, 2020 American School Counselor Association (ASCA) Annual Conference: One Vision, One Voice. Seattle, Washington, USA. http://www.schoolcounselor.org/school-counselors-members/professional-development/annual-conference

June 27-30, 2020 Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education(NASPA) M. Ben Hogan Small Colleges and Universities Institute, biennial. Boston, Massachusetts, USA. https://www.naspa.org/events/naspa-m-ben-hogan-small-colleges-and-universities-institute1 or https://www.naspa.org/events/page/2

June 27-July 1, 2020 International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition: Bringing Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience and Computational Theories to Design Research, 9^th biennial. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. http://dccconferences.org/dcc20/

June 27-July 1, 2020 National Technology Student Association Conference: Inspire a Shared Vision, 42^nd annual. CANCELLED. Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. https://tsaweb.org/events-conferences/2020-national-tsa-conference

June 28-29, 2020 The Queensland Early Education and Care Conference. (700 attendees) Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. https://www.candk.asn.au/professional-events

June 28-29, 2020 Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Forum on Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities to Accelerate Sustainable Development for Human Progress. POSTPONED. Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, Kingston, Jamaica. https://en.unesco.org/events/caribbean-sids-forum-artificial-intelligence-opportunities-accelerate-sustainable-development or https://en.unesco.org/events?page=1

June 28-30, 2020 Association of Public and Land-grant Universities’ Council on Student Affairs (CSA). Kimpton Palomar Hotel, Washington, D.C., USA. https://www.aplu.org/meetings-and-events/events/2020-csa-summer-forum or https://www.aplu.org/meetings-and-events/events/2020/?page=1

June 28-July 1, 2020 International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Conference and Expo. POSTPONED until November 28-December 1, 2020. Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California, USA. https://www.iste.org/ or https://conference.iste.org/2020/

June 28-July1, 2020 Distance Learning Administration. CANCELLED. Jekyll Island, Georgia, USA. http://www.westga.edu/~distance/dla/

June 28-July 1, 2020 Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Annual Conference and Exposition. San Diego, California, USA. http://annual.shrm.org/

June 28-July 2, 2020 Teaching to Increase Diversity and Equity in STEM (TIDES). (STEM = science, technology, engineering and mathematics) Organized by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). Lansdowne Resort and Conference Center, Leesburg, Virginia, USA. http://www.aacu.org/events or https://www.aacu.org/2020-TIDES

June 29-30, 2020 Going Global: For Leaders of International Education. CANCELLED. Organized by the British Council. Queen Elizabeth II Centre. London, United Kingdom. https://www.britishcouncil.org/going-global or https://www.britishcouncil.org/going-global-2020

June 29-30, 2020 Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Editors Forum: Communications and Marketing, Magazine and Publications, Online Communications and Marketing. Offered online. https://www.case.org/events/editors-forum-2020 or http://www.case.org/

June 29-July 1, 2020 Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education(NASPA) Conference on Student Success in Higher Education. Baltimore, Maryland, USA. https://www.naspa.org/events/naspa-conferences-on-student-success-in-higher-education1 or https://www.naspa.org/events/2019SSHE or https://www.naspa.org/events

June 29-July 1, 2020 Trauma Informed School Conference (TISC). Organized by Beyond Consequences Institute (BCI). Originally scheduled for St. Charles Convention Center, St. Charles, Missouri, USA. In 2020, this event will be held online. https://www.beyondconsequences.com/tisc-spring

June 29-July 2, 2020 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 50^th, annual. Sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). Originally scheduled to be held at the Universitat Politècnica de València, València, Spain. In 2020, this event will be held online. http://dsn.org/ or https://dsn2020.webs.upv.es/

June 29-July 2, 2020 International Conference on Supercomputing. Sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)/SIGARCH. Originally scheduled to be held in Barcelona, Spain. In 2020, this event will be held online. http://www.ics-conference.org/ or https://ics2020.bsc.es/

June 29-July 2, 2020 Management and Organizational Behavior Teaching Society (MOBTS) Conference. Sponsored by Purdue University, Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA. To be held online. https://mobts.org/ or https://mobts.org/conference-sites/

June 29-July 3, 2020 World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR), 40^th. Geneva, Switzerland. This event may be held online. https://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/topic.jsp?group_id=62 or https://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/details.jsp?meeting_id=56053

June 29-July 3, 2020 National Congress of the Association for Mathematics Education of South Africa (AMESA), 26^th annual. POSTPONED. Sunnyside Campus, University of South Africa (UNISA), Pretoria., South Africa. http://www.amesa.org.za/AMESA2020/

June 30-July 2, 2020 MWC Shanghai (Formerly, Mobile World Congress Shanghai, 60,000 attendees). CANCELLED (But, the event will be held in 2021.) Shanghai, China. https://www.mwcshanghai.com/

June 30-July 3, 2020 Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) Conference, 43^rd annual. POSTPONED until July 7-10, 2021. Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. https://conference.herdsa.org.au/2020/ or http://www.herdsa.org.au

June 30-July 3, 2020 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) MobiHoc: Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing, 21^st. Originally scheduled to be held in Shanghai, China. In 2020, this event will be held October 11-14, 2020 online. https://www.sigmobile.org/mobihoc/2020/

June 30-July 4, 2020 The Creativity Workshop: Using the Tools of Creative Writing, Memoir, Art, Photography, Storytelling and Mindfulness. Hotel Paris, Prague, Czech Republic. http://www.creativityworkshop.com/conferences.html

June 30-August 4, 2020 Measuring Return on Investment Certificate. Organized by the Association for Talent Development (ATD, formerly the American Society for Training and Development, ASTD). Variety of possible dates. Also offered in Boston and Washington. Offered online. https://www.td.org/education/search-all-programs or https://www.td.org/education-courses/measuring-return-on-investment-certificate

June ? 2020 Inter-Institutional Benchmarking Summit. Organized by the Australasian Council for Open, Distance and E-Learning (ACODE). The 3^rd was held June 25-27, 2018 and hosted by Griffith University South Bank Campus, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

https://www.acode.edu.au/course/view.php?id=16%20

*As of May 7, 2020, information was NOT AVAILABLE for the 2020 version of the events below.*

June 6-7, 2019 Institute for Experiential Learning: Making Experiential Learning Explicit – Empowering Individuals and Teams in Business and Educational Organizations. Glidden House, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. http://www.experientiallearninginstitute.org/

June 6-7, 2019 American Council on Education West Summer Summit: Demonstrating Value – Economic Trends and the Changing Needs of Students. Doubletree by Hilton Hotel Portland, Portland, Oregon, USA. https://www.acenet.edu/events/Pages/2019-ACE-West-Summer-Summit.aspx

June 11-13, 2019 Learn Fest ATX (Formerly known as iPadpalooza, focuses on the innovative use of technology in the classroom). Westlake High School, Austin, Texas, USA. http://thelearningfestival.com/

June 14-21, 2019 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), 45^th. Organized by the International Computer Music Association. New York City, New York, USA. http://www.computermusic.org/

June 17-19, 2019 Thinking, Doing, Learning Conference, 4^th (biennial?). University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland. https://www.jyu.fi/en/congress/tdl2019

June 18-19, 2019 Digital Forum of French-Speaking Universities, 1^st. Bucharest, Romania. https://idneuf4-bucarest2019.auf.org/

June 18-20, 2019 Informatics Educators Forum Conference. Organized by the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA). St. Louis, Missouri, USA. https://www.amia.org/meetings-and-events

June 18-20, 2019 Learning International Networks Consortium (LINC) Conference: How to Thrive in a New Learning Society, 10^th. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. https://jwel.mit.edu/linc-2019

June 20, 2019 International Symposium on University Rankings and Quality Assurance, 11^th annual. Brussels, Belgium. http://www.publicpolicyexchange.co.uk/events/JF20-PPE2

June 20-21, 2019 Educational Technology Users Group (ETUG) Conference: Back to the Future, 25^th. Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. https://etug.ca/event/workshops-2/

June 21-22, 2019 Congress of Southeast Asian Libraries (CONSAL), 18^th. (650 participants) Phnom Penh, Cambodia. https://www.ifla.org/node/92319 or https://www.eifl.net/events

June 22, 2019 Symposium for Part-Time, Adjunct and Contingent Educators (SPACE). Kennesaw, Georgia, USA. https://www.spaceducators.com/

June 23-28, 2019 Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) Conference: Contesting Borders and Intersections, annual. Sponsored by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI). San Diego, California, USA. https://dis2019.com/

June 24-28, 2019 CeBIT: Europe’s Business Festival for Innovation and Digitization. Hannover Exhibition Grounds, Hannover, Germany. http://www.cebit.de/en/#new-cebit

June 25-26, 2019 AfricaTek: International Conference on Emerging Technologies for Developing Countries, 3^rd. Sponsored by the European Alliance for Innovation (EAI). Abidjan, Cȏte d’Ivoire. http://africatek.org/

June 25-27, 2019 Moodle Hack/Doc Fest Summer. Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA. http://www.clamp-it.org/news-and-events/

June 29-July 6, 2019 Guild of Natural Science Illustrators (GNSI) Conference: Grow Your Skills, Expand Your Network, Inspire Curiosity. Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. https://gnsi.org/event/gnsi-conference

The Wild, Citywide Scavenger Hunt That Ate San Francisco

wpadmin — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 07:22:46 +0000

Some of the missions proved particularly vexing. One required climbing hundreds of steps up to Grandview Park and using binoculars to spot letters painted on the ground across the city. I got to the top of the steps, gasping for breath, and found around a dozen people already looking for their next clue. More than one had made the steep journey two days in a row.

“Pursuit players will do basically whatever we ask them to,” Leong said. Then, with a laugh, “I promise we are not a cult.”

San Franpsyche

San Francisco has a long history of monkeyshines: The Merry Pranksters, the Suicide Club, the Cacophony Society, Burning Man, the Jejune Institute, the drunken melee of Santacon.

This new era of Bay Area madcaps has the ultimate goal of ensuring that people have a good time. Like their predecessors, they have relentlessly committed to the bit.

Danielle Egan, one of Pursuit’s ringleaders, works in “Product BizOps” at LinkedIn but moonlights as an artist and all-around mischief maker. She, along with fellow Pursuit organizers Leong, Theo Bleier, and Riley Walz (himself an internet-famous prankster), have been behind elaborate stunts like Mehran’s Steakhouse, a fake New York fine dining restaurant that existed for one night only in 2024. In San Francisco, Egan hosted a Sit Club—a parody of run clubs that invited participants to gather and simply just plop down somewhere. For Pursuit, she says there’s an art to crafting puzzles that are just the right amount of frustrating.

“It can’t be too easy,” Egan says. “There is a middle ground. Some people should struggle.”

Other mission creators used the opportunity to build a sense of community online. Artist Danielle Baskin, who planned the laundromat and music shop mission, had players begin her mission by drawing a doodle of Percy and submitting their favorite song. Upon completing the quest, they were rewarded with a link to a 100-hour-long playlist made up of all the songs players had entered. The accompanying doodles for each song are available on a companion website.

Baskin flicked through the drawings coming in on the first day the puzzle had been released, toggling on and off a switch that read TTP. That acronym means “time-to-penis,” a term in gaming development that refers to how long it takes an online service to become inundated with dicks.

“There are actually only three penises so far,” Baskin says, surprised. “Our players are really very friendly.”

Puzzle Trouble

Pursuit ran into its share of technical issues. In the first days of the game, the Percy support line got so many sign-ups and messages that the group’s Twilio account was maxed out. For the first couple hours of one mission, the QR codes didn’t work and had to be swapped out.

Pursuit players work together to unlock a box containing binoculars that they used to spot clues from the top of Grandview Park.

Photograph: Boone Ashworth

Boost Your Online Casino’s Visibility and Revenue

wpadmin — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 07:16:05 +0000

Casino SEO is the specialized search engine optimization service for the domains present in the global internet gambling market. The online gambling field has become highly competitive for SEO, including niches like online lotteries, casinos, virtual poker, and sports betting.

Online gambling websites generally have a bad reputation on prominent search engines; therefore, with gambling SEO, you will get strategic and on-point search engine optimization facilities so that they can get a better chance to stand for the ranking in the SERPs.

iGambling and the online gambling industry are growing at a fast pace; however, it can turn out more beneficial if you can access the right SEO technique either by yourselves or with the help of experienced SEO experts.

For online casinos, Digital marketing is the right thing to do

Constant and Fast changes have been observed in the gambling sector. Legislative and technological advancements are the responsible factors that make this possible; therefore, it is imperative always to be up-to-date and open to adapting strategies. There was a time in the year 2020 the market size of the online gambling industry was $59.6 billion, and it was expected to grow 11.5% annually to become a $110 billion industry by the end of the year 2027. But to the extreme popularity of online casinos among players, the market size of the Casino industry grew from $287.43 in the year 2021 itself and is expected to grow to $456.61 billion in 2022 at 58.9% CAGR. Today all the traditional casino gambling activities such as Poker, Blackjack, Roulette, etc., are available online.

Digital marketing for casinos has become an important aspect of running online casinos in a successful manner. This practice is popularly utilized by online casinos to acquire new customers and engage with existing customers to recall them for the action. With the help of a strong digital marketing program, one can increase the traffic of the company’s website.

What do online players want on their casino websites?

In several countries, online casino industries are considered the main source of entertainment for players. Casino gambling is part of the commercial gambling market, and it continues to grow in popularity, driven by the development of new destinations on online casino platforms. Despite the proliferation of online gambling websites, there are several people who are still considering real-life things. People like to go to brick-and-mortar casinos to experience the intensity of the surroundings and lively atmosphere that is full of different types of entertainment. Therefore, online casinos, too, have changed their interface; they are now offering what online players want to see in them, such as

Display of games:

People want to visit an offline casino because they feel that offline casinos provide them with better gambling and gaming options so that they can enjoy the fullest. Therefore, now at a well-optimized casino website, you will find an array of games since people want more options for gaming to be available for them. No one likes to wait to access slot machine games; therefore, online casinos offer different types of slot machine games, from traditional ones to the most advanced one that is present in the market, to delight the heart of the player. In short, an online player will be able to practically save their time and can enjoy an excess of games.

Free bonus:

Nothing comes for free; everybody knows it but deep in heart, everyone likes freebies. Especially when it is a form of a free spin or welcome bonuses, it is an interesting policy to increase the interest of players in online casinos and intelligent forms of marketing too.

Great interface:

No online player wants to engage with an online casino website that is not appealing and difficult to understand. Every casino player, whether they are accessing the online website or offline casinos, wants to achieve the real vibe of gambling. Therefore, they continuously hunt for them.

Flexible schedule:

Online casinos provide users a chance to pause the sessions or set auto-play for them to fit the game into their daily routine.

How can an effective and creative casino web design be created?

Without technology, no one can access an impressive and stunning range of casino games from the comfort of their home. Online casino websites have proven to be convenient as they reduce time wastage on traveling to brick-and-mortar gambling venues. It is a fact that online casinos don’t provide casino games; in fact, they work in collaboration with different software developers like Evolution Gaming, Microgaming, Play n Go, Playtech, NetEnt, and others who supply them with games like blackjack, roulette, video slots, baccarat, video poker, and live dealer variant. Professional game developers utilize advanced technology and create top-notch graphics and soothing soundtracks. If you are tech-savvy and love to try your luck, then read on to discover the techniques used in designing online casino websites and much more.

A good online casino website takes lots of skills and creativity to convert simple images into high-quality and engaging games. Software companies employ programmers to specialize in different coding languages like C, C++, HTML5, Net, and Adobe flash to build JAVA and exclusive HD games that can work instantly without any requirement of downloading software.

Developing an online casino game, especially video slot games, takes too much time; therefore, it must be started with an idea. Programmers and designers rely on technology to get the final product. Apart from the appealing graphics, casino games should be made up with sound effects, artwork, and other control settings. In general, most creators use specialized development software to produce different game variants provided by online casinos.

Why is social media important for casinos?

In recent years, online casinos are frequently using social media to inform, entertain and engage customers. With the effective use of social media online, Casino is able to make the most out of its business by attracting new and existing customers. The use of social media is not new; 54% of the world is using social media for marketing purposes. Almost all the users of the internet invest more than two hours actively on social media every day. The popular social media platforms that have been used by the social media for Casinos include Facebook, Reddit, Instagram, Twitter, and Youtube.

How is social media helping in attracting new players?

Social media helped online casinos in several ways to attract new players. Important of them are listed below: –

Making the announcement:

Most casinos use social media platforms to inform new users about the latest development in their business. For example, they can announce the new game on Twitter and Facebook or upload new teasers on Youtube. They can also use their social media posts to announce the upcoming tournament. This information will help the users in learning about the exciting tournaments on their favorite Casino or the one they have yet to try.

Responding to the comment and reviews:

Most online casino users like to share their experiences on social media platforms. Online casinos can use the same platform to engage customers by explaining the reason for various decisions. Companies can also use this opportunity to attract customers by offering rewards. Social media channels can help in establishing effective communication with other outlets.

Customer education:

Casinos use social media platforms such as Facebook and YouTube Live to educate customers on how to play a different type of games. The viral videos show customers how to play new games that are launched on the website or how customers can take advantage of the latest offers. Casinos are now using Twitter, too, to showcase their betting knowledge and ways through which they can enhance their betting credibility as industry experts.

Generating the insights:

Casinos are using social media to generate insights and metrics about their popularity or the games that customers may like. You can even do polls on Twitter and Facebook to collect ideas about the updates or changes they would like to see on the online games. These types of insights can help in improving their products and customer experience.

Influencer marketing:

Twitch and YouTube are the popular platforms where video gamers stream who are famous to the young generation and potential casino clients. These social media celebrities often turn out to be helpful in promoting free casino games in their live-streaming sessions.

Attracting new users:

Social gamification has become a popular trend of the time. Through them, online casinos can post games and simulations on different social media platforms and help users to give them a try. Social media is popular among teenagers, and besides, the young generation wants to take advantage of their chance to try something which is beyond their area, which is accessing online casino gaming.

Effective SEO Tips for your Casino

Being the manager or the owner of the Casino, you have a considerable number of tasks to do. Your ultimate goal is bringing the people to your establishment and motivating them to try their luck. With such a goal in your mind, it is important to understand how important online visibility is. The better and bigger your online presence is, the more people will expect to join your casino. However, the world of online marketing has evolved in recent years and will continue to do so in the coming time, especially in terms of casinos.

Planning SEO after hosting the website is the worst approach:

Most of the website’s admins consider planning SEO after hosting the site, but this approach is completely wild because when you host a website, a search engine processes the site according to its content and don’t rank it higher. So, it is suggested to plan gambling SEO before hosting your website. Make a sitemap and research the keywords according to the keywords you have.

Plan a content-rich website:

You don’t need to think about anything if the content present on your website is perfect. It is suggested to plan SEO for online casino before hosting the website so that your website may get a better ranking in the search engine. Albeit SEO & Digital Marketing for the Gambling Industry is one of many responsible features that can help your website rank higher, the quality of the content is the prime factor behind the ranking of the website. It would help if you kept the name of the domain memorable and short. If you think that you will be able to maintain the quality of the content on limited pages, then you are wrong. You have to keep much more quantity to the qualitative content present on your website.

Designing the website should be kept simple:

Nowadays, content is overflooded, but in most cases, users remain unsatisfied with the result of the search. Some of the websites are full of JavaScript and advertisements; users don’t want to go back to such websites. Therefore, you should focus on designing the website without any help from JavaScript. You should try to place ads in such a way that users should not be frustrated by visiting the website for the first time. Try to keep everything simple and keep the content within the word limits so that search engines can send traffic to your website.

Do the necessary approach of on-page search engine optimization:

If you are writing on-page content for the website, follow the search engine optimization guidelines in order to bring improvement to your website. You can include keywords in the title, header tags, description tags, and in the actual content of the page. At the same time, you should try to repeat targeted keywords so that your website can get better chances to rank higher according to the keywords. You have to use keywords in the image alt too and text should be bold; in short, you have to make it clear what your page is all about. This is good for both search engine and user points of view.

Pay extra focus to the traffic:

There are different analytics tools available on the internet marketplace to observe what type of people are looking for your website. Google Analytics is highly recommended for observing the traffic coming to your website. You can try all types of keywords which can rank higher, and soon you will be able to have a positive effect on the website.

If you are hosting and planning to start your own casino website, then you need solid planning. Soon your website will achieve a good ranking, but it is important to maintain the position; in order to do so, you have to research and observe the traffic and lower-ranked website for their weak points.

What type of content should be included on the casino website?

The global market of gambling is saturated. So, the new businesses that are planning to enter this field can only make their place by having amazing gambling and casino content on their website. In simple words, in the present time, too, the effect of good website copy on the internet can be overstated; therefore, you need good quality content on your website to attract traffic. Here we are listing some ways how it can be achieved.

Target the subject that your audience demands:

Gambling is a customer-centric industry; here, you have to notify each and everything to your target audience so that they can start drawing interest in your work. You can share cutting-edge information about the gambling world, like rules of popular tournaments, Casino related lawsuits, or the new strategy-related books that are published by successful professionals. It is important to determine the optimum subject in order to target your desired audience and turn them into customers.

Writing keeping SEO in mind:

SEO is crucial in the modern days of marketing. With the advent of the BERT algorithm in the year 2019, search engine professionals are able to understand the importance of user queries. It means that your content can match the queries frequently asked by the users. If the content is designed in such a way that it will help Google, then your website will be easily found on the search Engine. This is the same place where SEO came into shape.

Key factors of SEO copywriting of Casino and gambling are listed below; both are essential for your company as they will help your website to rank better in Google.

Keyword Selection:

The word poker or gambling are high in the competition and may not be the best option for which keywords you want to include in your content. In most cases, generalized keywords are used that dominate the big names in the industry. Next, you have to look for the words people are using for the search and draw the content on them. You can take the support of SEMrush for keyword research.

Pyramid style of writing:

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Top 7 Features Every Webinar Tool Should Have in 2025

wpadmin — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 06:50:36 +0000

Webinars aren’t just “nice to have” anymore; they’re essential these days.

Being a coach, a course creator, a startup founder, or part of a global team, webinars are how you teach, connect, sell, and grow. But with hundreds of platforms out there, how do you actually choose the right one?

It’s not just about streaming video anymore.

To truly stand out in 2025, your webinar tool needs to do more — engage your audience, simplify your setup, and help you deliver a smooth, branded experience every time.

In this guide, we’re breaking down the 7 features your webinar platform must have, backed by strategy, user behavior, and what actually keeps people tuned in.

What is a Webinar?

A webinar is a live, interactive online event designed to educate, engage, or inform a virtual audience. The term blends “web” and “seminar,” and that’s exactly what it is: a seminar hosted over the internet.

It’s used across industries — from education and marketing to coaching, corporate training, and even product demos. Attendees can join from anywhere in the world, typically via a browser or mobile device.

Key Features of a Webinar:

Live video and audio broadcasting.

Screen sharing for presentations, slides, or tutorials

Interactive tools like chat, polls, Q&A, and whiteboards

Recording capabilities for on-demand viewing

Registration + reminder system for audience management

In 2025, webinars are more than just virtual meetings —they’re powerful, branded experiences used to generate leads, close sales, teach concepts, or even build communities.

What Makes a Great Webinar?

Creating a webinar is easy.

Hosting a great webinar that keeps people hooked.

That’s the real deal.

Here’s what sets the top-performing webinars apart:

1. Clear Purpose + Value

Before creating slides or sending invites, define:

Who is this webinar for?

What will they learn or gain?

What action should they take after attending?

Tip: A catchy title like “How to 10x Your Coaching Revenue in 30 Days” performs better than “Coaching Webinar.”

2. Strong, Structured Content

A great webinar flows like a story, not just a lecture.

Start with a hook: statistics, a question, or a challenge.

Move into your core insights or training.

End with a CTA — whether it’s joining a course, booking a call, or filling out a feedback form.

Use a course outline format to design your flow, even for a single session.

3. Engagement, Not Just Information

People don’t want to be talked at — they want to be part of the experience.

Use polls, questions, emojis, or chats throughout.

Let your audience participate in real time — not just during Q&A.

4. Flawless Tech Experience

Nothing ruins a webinar faster than

Echoey audio

Frozen screens

Confusing interfaces

Always do a tech check.

And use platforms like BrainCert that are designed for zero-lag, mobile-friendly, browser-based webinars.

5. Follow-Up That Adds Value

Post-webinar engagement is just as important:

Send reply links within 24 hours

Share slide decks or downloadable guides

Ask for feedback or testimonials

Offer a discount or incentive to act now

BrainCert has built-in follow-up emails, auto-reminders, and survey features to automate this.

Your content may be gold, but your platform decides how it’s delivered.

Whether you’re running training, sales demos, or interactive workshops, a live webinar tool should have:

RTMP support for high-quality streaming

Simulcast to go live on multiple platforms

Custom branding

Mobile accessibility

Surveys, polls, and gamification tools

This is where BrainCert Webinar Platform leads the pack.

A great live webinar tool can uplift your brand presence, streamline communication, and boost conversions.

But a poor one?

It leads to laggy sessions, low engagement, and frustrated audiences.

So, what features make a webinar tool future-ready in 2025?

1. Ultra-Low Latency & High-Definition Streaming

No one likes lag. Whether you’re hosting a product demo or a coaching session, your audience expects real-time interaction.

In 2025, top webinar tools will need to offer

Sub-second latency

4K HD streaming support

Adaptive streaming for varying internet speeds

This isn’t just about clarity; it’s about trust. Smooth experiences build credibility and brand perception.

2. Interactive Tools for Audience Engagement

Attention spans are shorter than ever.

To keep participants glued to your screen, your webinar platform should include:

Polls, quizzes, and live Q&A sessions

Whiteboards and screen annotation tools

Emoji reactions and real-time chat moderation

Engagement isn’t optional; it’s your retention strategy.

3. Advanced Security & Access Controls

As data privacy laws tighten worldwide, your live webinar tool must prioritize:

End-to-end encryption

Custom access roles

Password protection and SSO (Single Sign-On)

Especially important for educational institutions, healthcare webinars, and internal team training.

4. GEO-Optimized CDN Infrastructure

Webinars are no longer local; your audience is global.

Choose a webinar tool with a GEO-distributed Content Delivery Network (CDN) that ensures:

Lightning-fast load times in every region

Lower latency & buffering worldwide

Reliable access across devices and continents

GEO-optimization isn’t just technical — it impacts your global growth.

5. Built-In AI Features for Smarter Hosting

Welcome to the age of AI.

The best webinar tools in 2025 should support:

Auto-captioning & real-time translations

AI-powered summaries and transcriptions

Smart follow-up email suggestions based on attendee behavior

It’s about working smarter, not harder.

6. Analytics & Conversion-Focused Reporting

Your webinar isn’t just a broadcast; it’s a conversion tool.

Look for platforms that offer:

Live attendance reports & drop-off analysis

Heatmaps of audience engagement

Click-through tracking on CTAs & offers

The more insights you have, the better your next webinar becomes.

7. Easy Integration with Your Stack

Your live webinar tool shouldn’t live in isolation. Top platforms should integrate with

CRMs (like Salesforce or HubSpot)

Email tools (like Mailchimp or ConvertKit)

Learning platforms and eCommerce solutions

Look for API access for custom workflows!

In 2025, it’s not just about going live, it’s about going live with impact.

The right features turn your webinar from “just another Zoom call” into an interactive experience your audience actually remembers and wants more of.

So if you’re ready to stand out, build trust, and grow your brand, it all starts with choosing a webinar tool that’s built for the future.

BrainCert gives you everything you need to deliver a high-impact webinar, even if you are running a business demo, hosting a coaching session, or launching a virtual summit.

Here’s how BrainCert’s live webinar tool stands out in 2025:

Stream Like a Pro with RTMP Broadcasting

Take your streaming quality to the next level. BrainCert supports RTMP (Real-Time Messaging Protocol) broadcasting, letting you stream directly from tools like OBS, Wirecast, or vMix. This means smoother, studio-grade webinars, without breaking the bank.

Simulcast + Dynacast for Global Reach

Want to be everywhere at once?

With Simulcast, you can stream your webinar across multiple platforms (like YouTube, Facebook, and LinkedIn) at the same time.

Meanwhile, Dynacast ensures bandwidth efficiency by adapting streams for every participant’s device and network quality.

Set the Stage with Custom Backgrounds

No need for perfect lighting or office aesthetics — BrainCert lets you create virtual backgrounds, blur real ones, or brand your backdrop to match your identity. Ideal for trainers, educators, and creators who want polished professionalism.

Launch Your Own Coaching Center

Go beyond webinars. With BrainCert, you can create a full-fledged coaching center, complete with content libraries, courses, discussion forums, and gated communities. It’s an all-in-one platform for knowledge businesses.

Customize the Entire Webinar Interface

Make your webinar feel like your own. Change layouts, choose your color palette, add your logo, and personalize the waiting room. BrainCert’s design flexibility helps you align every touchpoint with your brand.

Email Campaigns & Automated Reminders

Stay top-of-mind. Set up branded registration confirmation emails, calendar invites, and automated reminders — all built directly into the system. No third-party email tools required.

Real-Time Attendance Reports

Track who came, who left early, and who was the most engaged.

BrainCert delivers live attendance analytics plus downloadable reports to help you analyze performance and take action.

Go Mobile with Confidence

Your audience is everywhere. BrainCert’s webinar room is fully responsive, so users can attend from desktops, tablets, or phones without missing a beat — no downloads needed.

Drive Engagement with Polls & Surveys

Build interactivity with live polls, instant surveys, and feedback prompts. Whether it’s pre-event registration questions or post-session ratings, BrainCert helps you engage at every stage.

Create Your First Webinar in Minutes with BrainCert

Ready to go live but not sure where to start? Let’s fix that.

Hosting your first webinar doesn’t have to be overwhelming, especially when you’ve got a tool that does the heavy lifting for you.

With BrainCert, you can launch, run, and rock your webinar in just a few clicks.

Here’s how:

1. Pick Your Webinar Style

Whether it’s a product demo, a coaching session, a live course, or a Q&A, BrainCert’s webinar platform adapts to your vibe.

Want to stream to YouTube or Facebook?

Need a small classroom setup?

Planning a large-scale training event?

2. Customize Your Room

Set the tone with branded colors, custom logos, and background images. No cookie-cutter designs here; your webinar room should look like you.

3. Add Content Like a Pro

Upload slides, videos, PDFs, or share your screen in real-time.

You can pull in uploaded resources from your BrainCert content library in seconds.

4. Schedule & Send Automated Invites

Add your session to the calendar and let BrainCert take care of the reminders. Emails, push notifications, follow-ups — all automated, all on time.

5. Engage Like a Rockstar

Polls, surveys, live chat, whiteboards, and engagement tools are baked right in.

Whether it’s 5 or 500 attendees, you’ll keep them clicking.

6. Track Attendance & Performance

Once your webinar ends, the insights begin. BrainCert gives you attendance reports, session playback, and engagement analytics so you know what worked and what needs a remix.

Why BrainCert?

Because it’s more than a webinar tool. It’s your training HQ. With features like RTMP broadcasting, Simulcast & Dynacast, mobile optimization, and easy coaching center setup, BrainCert helps you grow your audience and build a brand.

You bring the idea. BrainCert handles the rest.

Your first webinar could be live in minutes, without tech headaches, glitches, or last-minute panic.

1. What is the best tool for webinar hosting in 2025?

Look for tools with ultra-low latency, engagement tools, and AI features — like BrainCert’s webinar solution.

2. How does a live webinar tool increase audience engagement?

By offering real-time features like polls, live chat, Q&A, and smart content delivery systems.

3. Can a webinar tool support global audiences?

Yes — with GEO-optimized CDN infrastructure and localization tools, your webinar can run worldwide without delays.

4. What are the key features to look for in 2025 webinar software?

Security, engagement tools, GEO support, HD streaming, analytics, and smart integrations are crucial.

5. Why choose BrainCert for live webinars?

BrainCert offers an all-in-one platform with webinar hosting, LMS, AI tools, and global performance, perfect for 2025 needs.

Your All-in-One Webinar Powerhouse

BrainCert is more than a webinar tool, it’s your virtual venue for professional presentations, interactive coaching, and lead-generating events.

Looking for the best tool for webinars in 2025?

BrainCert gives you everything, from setup to analytics in one secure, scalable platform.

If either hosting 1-on-1 coaching or enterprise training, BrainCert has you covered.

Semantic Search Explained: Vector Models’ Impact on SEO Today

wpadmin — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 06:36:58 +0000

Semantic search has transformed the way search engines understand and serve web content today — and vector embeddings are at the heart of that transformation.

In this in-depth introduction to semantic search and vector embedding models, Matt Hill, a 15+ year veteran of the SEO industry, breaks down the core mechanics driving the shift to more contextual online search, focusing on the role of vector embeddings and how SEO professionals can adapt their strategies for today’s semantic search landscape.

We cover:

What vector embeddings are

Types of vector embeddings (sparse vs. dense)

How vector databases work

How semantic search uses vector models

Vector mapping for SEO (with real-world examples!)

The importance of optimizing website content today for semantic search, not just for exact-match keywords

Key Terms & Definitions: Semantic Search & Vector Models

Semantic Search Semantic search is the process of understanding the intent and meaning behind a search query — not just matching exact keywords — using techniques like vector embeddings and natural language processing (NLP).

Semantic SEO Semantic SEO is the practice of optimizing web content so that search engines can understand its meaning and contextual relationships, not just its keywords, often by using structured data, topical depth, and related entities. It’s about aligning content with how semantic search actually works today.

Vector Embedding Vector embeddings are sets of numbers that represent and categorize the meaning or features of complex data or objects (such as words, images, or entire books and webpages) using numerical values, making information easier to find and understand in context. In digital applications, each embedding can exist within a multi-dimensional vector space.

Vector Mapping Vector mapping is the process of converting real-world data into vector embeddings that can be placed in a vector space.

Vector
Space A vector space is a mathematical environment where vectors are embedded in relation to one another so that their relationships (like similarity or distance) can be measured using math. Essentially, a vector space is where vector embeddings “live,” allowing us to compare meaning, relevance, or context using geometry

Vector Database A vector database is a software system designed to store, index, and search vector embeddings efficiently, especially at scale.

Understanding vector embeddings

The Dewey Decimal System as a precursor to vector embedding models

I had the recent experience of being in the local town library before a meetup I was attending, and it got me thinking about those old paper catalog systems that I failed to really grasp as a child. You know – those long wooden filing cabinets, each filled with thousands of typewriter-printed, decimal-lined index cards? It surprised me to learn that this same retrieval system, an enigma of my youth, is still utilized today as a staple for library cataloging in 135 different countries.

A search engine in its own right, the Dewey Decimal System (DDC) is really a precursor to everything we have today. Rather than queries and SERPs, this classic search system uses unique decimal codes with numerical and non-numerical characters to make it easy to find what you’re looking for within a vast library of texts.

Each book’s unique library call number can also be referred to as an embedding — a numerical identifier that helps classify information into relevant categories.

In the Dewey Decimal System, the embedding identifies the location and features of a specific book.

For instance, the call number 940.18 RUN is the universal library shelf location for “History of the Crusades” by Steven Runciman.

I mentioned above that the call number is just an embedding, which is just a numerical identifier. But what is that identifier composed of in this example?

By dissecting the DDC embedding, you can see that there is actually a hierarchical flow of information.

900: History & Geography

940: History of Europe

940.18: History of the Crusades

How the DDS code for “History of the Crusades” breaks down into hierarchical topical categories.

Comparing Runciman’s book title to the DDC classifications above, you see each of the first three digits corresponds to an increasingly greater relevancy to the topic, with the two characters after the decimal allowing for even further specification of the Crusades. Each character closest in proximity is a parent or child topic.

With the characters “RUN” appended as another identifier called a Cutter number representing the shorthand code of the author’s last name but is also the alphabetical location for that section. Other embeddings can be appended to the call number that are specific to the local library’s indexing system or modifications to the classification naturally evolve over time where deeper levels of specificity are needed.

Why has the DDC not come and gone like many other relics of the past? Well, the answer lies in that it was designed to be a living library. As the base classification system adds new content, there is no limit to the number of digits that can live after the first three characters and that could be referenced and searched from an index of millions embedding variations.

How vector embeddings are used in search today

Like the DDC numerical identifier concept above, vector embeddings used in search and LLMs today are essentially coordinates to an idea or topic, but within the multidimensional space of the internet.

In today’s hyper-competitive online search environment, with people giving their searches away to ChatGPT and TikTok, Google will continue its neural modeling in order to maintain a long shelf life in the data retrieval ecosystem space, just like the DDC.

Google’s AI Overviews, right now, are a very relevant example of the impact that newer vector embedding models are having on search behavior. But truly, this technology has been at play for a while for Google with the search engine’s attempt to focus on more natural language processing (NLP) models and away from models that encouraged spammy tactics and over-optimization. Google has now collected trillions of search data points across its product suite and core algorithm updates, such as Hummingbird and BERT, that allow for variations in language to be contextually taken into account.

Understanding vector databases and vector search

With all of this discussion around the evolution of search engines, it is important to remember that, at its core, Google search is just a program that simply calculates and ranks the outputs of those calculations. It’s a robot that still needs to turn blocks of text on web pages and in user queries into numerical embeddings for further calculation and categorization.

As a simple example of the types of basic calculations search engines are running behind the scenes to ‘understand’ web content and match it to user queries, we can look at the n-gram model.

N-grams refer to a more traditional method for understanding text patterns, often used before the widespread adoption of vector embeddings. They are contiguous sequences of words or characters used to analyze text.

N-gram example

For example, in the phrase “semantic search evolution”, you’d have the following n-grams:

1-grams (unigrams): “semantic”, “search”, “evolution”

2-grams (bigrams): “semantic search”, “search evolution”

3-gram: “semantic search evolution”

Using this method, Google’s database can store all of the keyword queries submitted based on overall volume, record the presence of individual keywords across the query list, and find patterns to assign an importance to each query.

SEOs usually learn about n-grams early in their careers as a part of understanding the simplified universal method of lexical retrieval using TF-IDF (Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency), a statistical equation for the weighing of results.

Key Terms & Definitions: TF-IDF

TF-IDF (Term Frequency–Inverse Document Frequency) is a traditional text analysis method that measures how important a word is to a document in a collection. It boosts the score of words that appear frequently in a page (term frequency) but downweights words that are common across many pages (inverse document frequency).

For SEOs, TF-IDF is used to identify which keywords a page should emphasize to rank well, based on keyword usage patterns in top-ranking content.

As search evolves toward semantic search using more vector models, TF-IDF’s reliance on exact keyword matches is being replaced by models that understand meaning and context.

Unfortunately, in simpler models like TF-IDF, problems present themselves when further nuance and clarification are required to truly understand the meaning of a text or query.

Look at the following example:

Bill ran from the giraffe towards the dolphin

Bill ran from the dolphin towards the giraffe

While the two sentences do not match and have different meanings, older algorithm models would score them as having a higher than 95% match because all of the same words are present in both.

This very basic example shows a clear area where more relational data is needed to properly interpret the different meanings of two sentences.

Semantic SEO enters the chat…

Today’s search engines incorporate semantic retrieval methods that use vector embeddings to go beyond simple keyword matching like TF-IDF to better understand the user’s intent behind a search prompt.

As Google users are increasingly searching on the go and often vaguely piecing together their queries in a way that aligns with their intent, that behavior needs to be captured and accounted for within the search algorithm.

Google Fellow and Vice President of Search, Pandu Nayak, provides an example of this need for better contextual understanding in search by citing the query: “insights how to manage a green.” This query will not make sense to the average person, but through combining massive amounts of embeddings and the relationships between those data points, Google’s systems can ascertain that the search query pertains to management styles based on a color-coded personality guide.

In order to understand how search engines like Google are using new methods like neural matching to improve semantic understanding and search results, we first need to unpack the concept of vector databases.

What are vector databases, and why are they important for SEO today?

Pretend for a second you are Tom Cruise. Or at least Tom Cruise in that one scene in Minority Report where his character is selecting and moving around all of those different data points in a three-dimensional virtual database. But rather than solving a crime, let us continue to pretend that maybe he’s just doing all of this to locate a specific copy of that “History of the Crusades.” Each of those data points he is moving is just a vector line originating from source classifications such as “War,” “Europe,” “History,” “Religion,” “Middle Ages,” etc. He is querying each source index, with the output being a connection point of all those vector details. That leads us exactly to a specific numerical location point on the virtual 3D grid where all the vectors come together to show the version of this author’s book we’re looking for. This is basically how a vector database works.

Taking my ridiculous comparison aside, vector databases, in a search engine context, can be thought of as all of the different indexes or libraries that Google uses to locate and serve your search results after you input a query.

This vector embedding fundamentals article from Hugging Face provides a great example that showcases the power of vector databases based on pure machine learning:

When seeking to answer “what is the nearest city to Chicago,” a human might immediately think to pull out a map. However, vector databases allow Google to simply turn this search into a mathematical equation. Using latitude/longitude coordinates, layered with population sizes by zip code, the shortest distance of comparable size can be calculated – Cicero. The power of these vector databases is that they can communicate with each other to provide even more relevant results based on conceptually understanding and comparing related dimensions of a topic.

While we don’t have public information on the exact formulas Google uses to calculate vector embeddings within their search systems, there have been a number of great published studies from researchers involved with Google’s shift to vector models that may shed some light on the process.

One example is this research piece from Tomas Mikolov, the team lead who introduced Word2Vec technology into Google’s algorithm in 2013. As suggested in the name, Word2Vec introduced all English words as vectors in Google’s systems to calculate similarity scoring. Other attributes of each word can then be layered on top and assigned weighting.

Keyword clustering and semantic relevance

Keyword clustering can provide a visual representation of basic vector embeddings, as in the example below.

In a basic keyword cluster, each of the ‘spokes’ radiating from the core key phrase shares contextual meaning, even though they use different phrasing.

If each keyword phrase outlined below existed in a multi-dimensional vector space, they would appear close together because vector models learn that these related phrases often occur in similar contexts.

In a vector space, clusters can have thousands of related keywords or queries, with their density determined by their relative distance from each other and if they are pointing in the same direction (also known as cosine similarity).

Key Terms & Definitions: Cosine Similarity

Cosine similarity is a metric used to measure how similar two vectors are by calculating the cosine of the angle between them. In the context of semantic search and vector embedding models for SEO, it quantifies how closely the meaning of two pieces of text (e.g., a query and a webpage) align, based on their positions in a high-dimensional vector space. This helps search engines retrieve content that matches user intent, not just exact keywords.

Establishing similarity and relevancy across multiple characteristics

While keyword clustering exercises are useful for visualizing basic topical categorizations, Word2Vec showed that vector embeddings can go beyond simple clustering and rank relevancy to specific dimensions or characteristics (For example, for terms related to kings or queens, vector embeddings may match these terms to related characteristics like royalty, masculinity, age, etc.) based on references across multiple indexes in a vector database.

Eventually, the BERT language model went on to incorporate this contextual weighting into Google’s ranking algorithm.

Key Terms & Definitions: BERT

BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) is a language model introduced by Google researchers back in 2018. BERT’s key feature is its ability to consider the full context of a word within a sentence, including its relationship to words before and after it.

To understand how today’s Large Language Models (LLMs) build on the concept of semantic relevance even further than the earlier vector embedding models, we can look at a sentence like: “Tim Cook damaged Apple at its core.”

LLMs are able to establish a contextual relationship between “Apple” and “Tim Cook” because of all of the references that exist in their vast knowledge bases between the two entities — understanding Apple as a company entity and Cook as its CEO in this context — to know that Tim Cook didn’t spoil a perfectly good snack.

Types of vector embeddings: dense and sparse

Sparse vector embeddings: limited contextual understanding

In the context of SEO, TF-IDF leverages sparse vector embeddings. These embeddings are called “sparse” because they consist mostly of zero values—each dimension in the vector corresponds to a specific word in the vocabulary, and only the words that actually appear in a document have non-zero values.

Sparse vector embeddings are more traditional relational data as they are mostly used to perform basic comparisons of sequences. Think of it as a list of items with most of those items having a zero value, compared to the non-zero elements in that list.

Let’s say you have a blog post with the topic of “healthy diet for your dog” or “puppy treats with natural ingredients,” and you want to rank for those specific terms and other qualifying queries related to this topic. A sparse vector analysis would list out all of the words and phrases in the blog post and assign each a score out of ten that speaks to the terms’ relevancy to the user’s query. While most of the words (and, or, the, but, etc.) would have a score of 0, the remaining portion of the words with a 1-10 score can then easily be weighed against the whole document.

Dense vector embeddings: understanding relationships between entities

Dense vector embeddings, on the other hand, allow for the capture of more nuanced and relational data characteristics. The development of dense embeddings is crucial for semantic search, as human language is filled with far more complex information and relationships of meaning that cannot always be distilled into the simplistic categorizations available via sparse vector embeddings.

Looking at the above vector examples, you can see that meaning and context can be captured in relationships between entities even if those entities aren’t exactly the same. The similarity of characteristics is captured through cosine similarity rather than a simple stack-ranked algorithm.

SEOs thinking about how Google can reference their content for use in LLMs are rethinking their content audits by looking for dense vector workflows to create a neural net (or cluster) of information around the topics we want to be visible. These neural nets can also be referred to as encoders that allow topics across HTML, audio, images, etc., to be connected. It’s how a search for “two dogs running” serves the below image.

(Image Source: Pinecone, “Dense Vectors: Capturing Meaning With Code”)

Vector search explained

Most people who use Google, YouTube, or Bing to search for things daily are not asking themselves about the mechanics of how their results are being served to them. For most, it is as simple as:

1.) You type in some keywords

2.) Those keywords are calculated against a large library of content

3. Get a list of results satisfying those keywords with references to more information on the topic.

However, as you would imagine, the folks at Google are thinking a lot about their retrieval methods. Which methods of data retrieval provide the best user experience? Which methods of data retrieval are the most cost-efficient? How can we keep track of an ever-growing number of webpages and types of media being served on the internet?

When early lexical retrieval models were being examined, there was one contrarian model that was tested against the more traditional search engine models. The model, called the uniterm model of retrieval, was “designed to allow rapid lookups on topic keywords and then cross-reference those keywords across multiple topics.” Applying this concept to search marketing, each new query is mapped to an index so that all queries can be compared against each other. This core concept is the basis of vector search.

According to Elastic Search, vector search solves this problem of scale by “leverag(ing) machine learning (ML) to capture the meaning and context of unstructured data.” From an SEO perspective, rather than measuring a single query against the index, Google can simultaneously compare the query and all of the other related queries around to reference against a multitude of indices covering images, video, news, etc.

(Image Source: Qdrant on vector embeddings via Mike King, “Vector Embeddings is All You Need”)

Remember my earlier, primitive example for how an early-career SEO understands how search engines work? With vector search, you can still keep it simple but up to date with just a slight modification:

1.) You type in some keywords

2.) Those searched keywords are mapped against multiple indexes to account for semantic variety

3.) The semantically referenced query is calculated against a large library of content

4.) Get a list of results satisfying those keywords with references to more information on the topic.

The net outcome? Better, more relevant search results for Google users and more data for Google to build upon. Google is organically creating self-classifications as new bodies of work are introduced over time as a living library of more dense vector relationships.

Hybrid search models today

Vector Search is one of the tools that make up the semantic retrieval side of the hybrid search model that is present in Google’s algorithm today. The truth is that the lexical method of data retrieval that Google has been using for years is still present in Google’s algorithm today. All of these historical data sets now represent even more vector embeddings to be referenced against.

(Image Source: Google Research Paper, “Leveraging Semantic and Lexical Matching to Improve the Recall of Document Retrieval Systems: A Hybrid Approach”)

Semantic SEO strategies

How is the adoption of vector models by search engines revolutionizing the way SEOs assess their content strategies today?

Well, we know that AI overviews have diluted web traffic, bringing back into focus the old saying, “quality over quantity,” when it comes to your organic traffic these days. With most search experiences being served without a single scroll below the fold of the search results (Only 9% of Google searchers make it to the bottom of the first page of the search results, according to a Backlinko study) or without a single click-through to a website, quality, qualified traffic is at a premium.

Using vector models in your SEO workflows and strategies

There are a myriad of potential SEO use cases for vector models that I think are underutilized today. These include:

Advanced keyword/topic clustering

On-site user recommendation engines

Pattern detection

Content generation

Utilizing vectors & LLMs in SEO platforms

At Lumar, one of the ways we use vector-powered LLMs in our website optimization platform is to detect differences in the language of a page compared to its hreflang tag. Hreflang information is used by search engines to show the most relevant version of a page to users based on their respective country location. Where the primary language of the page does not match the hreflang language used in hreflangs pointing to the page, search engines may ignore the hreflang links, or the page may be incorrectly shown to users in search results.

Lumar utilizes vector relationships to determine the dominant language of the page, including in text that may not be visible to the user, such as pop-ups. We support SEOs in doing website internationalization at scale by helping identify the extent of language gaps and prioritize international SEO issues through measurable and actionable metrics.

Learn more about advanced hreflang reporting in Lumar

Using vector embeddings to improve SEO workflows

There are a lot of cool things happening in the SEO space right now using vector embeddings.

In Mike King’s article, in which he urges SEOs to rethink the weight of the inverted-index method of SEO prioritization, he speaks to some pretty innovative ways to automate several common SEO workflows using vector embeddings.

For instance, he explains how to use vector embeddings and cosine similarity scoring (converting cosine similarity calculations into a score between 0 and 100) to plan your redirect mapping strategy for site migrations or internal link optimization using vector embeddings and cosine similarity scoring. Vector-assisted link mapping with an emphasis on both site architecture and relational content similarity adds plenty of opportunity for SEOs to automate this process. He even uses this same methodology for backlink outreach strategy, where cosine similarity is used to best identify link targets.

Another way vector embeddings can be used in SEO workflows is during the competitive analysis and strategy phase. SEOs can compare both the amount of overlapping cannibalization within your own websites AND the cosine similarity scores between your content vs. your top-performing competitors’ content.

Advanced keyword clustering with vector models allows SEOs to better build content strategies with denser embeddings for varied content opportunities that take into account branded traffic delineation and the historical context of competitive rankings.

Semantic SEO case study #1: Broadening content strategies with semantic analysis and entity optimization

In his recent blog post discussing how SEOs should be looking towards the future, Gianluca Fiorelli emphasizes that SEOs need to shift from the long-time industry keyword-matching mindset to opt instead for content strategies that take into account broader audience interests along the search conversion funnel. He doesn’t want to dissuade SEOs from standard keyword research completely, but he reminds us that “search engines and LLMs now rely on embeddings (not just keywords) to surface content.”

In practice, that means not solely focusing on your target keywords in the relevant page elements, but also starting to focus on semantic optimization and entity SEO.

Incorporating “entity-based” SEO in your strategy could help you illustrate the most popular formats for your specific content pieces (for example, potentially using short

lists vs. long-form reviews) and take into account all of the related subtopics that should be present.

While this concept isn’t new, what is innovative here is Fiorelli’s approach of using vector embeddings or semantic analysis throughout each step of his SEO strategy.

This could include:

Classifying your client’s industry and identifying the key entities associated with that industry

Using Google NLP tools to scrape queries associated with those diverse entities and their SERPs

Building a site taxonomy based on proven entities relating to the consumer journey

Analyzing new embeddings against your current site content to spot gaps and opportunities

Fiorelli covers a recent case study showing a content strategy that more intuitively aligns his clients’ ideal search consumer profiles to the business needs and objectives. After implementing new semantic SEO and entity-focused optimization strategies for his client in a highly technical manufacturing niche, they began to see rankings for unexpected keyword topics, and the brand began to see more citations on LLMs like ChatGPT and in AI Overviews.

“Search engines and LLMs now rely on embeddings (not just keywords) to surface content.”

Gianluca Fiorelli in “A guide to Semantics — or how to be visible in both Search and LLMs”

Semantic SEO case study #2: Understanding how semantic similarity scores correlate with SERP rankings

At Lumar, our Chief Product Architect, Michal Magdziarz, conducted a study to examine how higher semantic relevance scores correlate to higher search engine rankings.

What we found from studying 2,000+ search queries, calculating the top 10 SERP results’ semantic relevance scores, and comparing those scores against their SERP positions:

Vector models were much better at assessing and scoring on-page elements for semantic relevance than TF-IDF models.

Vector models were also better at demonstrating the correlation between high semantic relevancy scores and SERP position.

High-ranking pages in the SERPs, across all query types studied, consistently exhibited strong semantic relevance to the search query across multiple on-page elements (including main content, H1s, title tags, etc.)

Across all models (both vector and TF-IDF), a strong correlation was shown between highly semantically relevant short page elements (like Title or H1) and higher search rankings.

Semantically relevant “Main Content” elements showed a weaker correlation with high-ranking SERP positions compared to semantically relevant short page elements (like H1s and Titles). — Despite the weaker SERP position-semantic relevance correlation shown on the Main Content extractions compared to other element types across all models used, the vector models were again able to show a much stronger correlation here compared to TF-IDF models.

(You can read more details from our study on semantic relevance in our eBook, “From Keywords to Context: How Semantic Relevance is Redefining SEO”.)

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The future of semantic SEO (i.e., why should YOU care?)

In his SIGIR keynote, Google DeepMind researcher Marc Najork stated that “direct answers lower the Delphic cost of information seeking.” In simpler terms: Google is aiming to reduce the effort users need to find accurate answers, hence the rise of generative AI Overviews in search. These AI-powered summaries aren’t going away anytime soon.

What does that mean for website publishers and SEOs? While some traffic may bypass the traditional organic links, the visitors who do reach your site should be more qualified — SEO today is not just about getting more traffic, it’s about getting better traffic to your site.

Although traffic may be distributed differently, it’s becoming more targeted. Content that aligns with user intent — rather than just trying to match keywords — will likely attract higher-quality traffic over time.

Vector embedding models can complement traditional SEO methods. However, for many SEOs, there’s a learning curve. Start small. Begin integrating vector-based insights into manageable parts of your SEO workflows — for example, by analyzing semantic relationships across your website content and using that data to improve your internal linking strategies. Or try doing deep, dense vector analysis to help plan your content.

Understanding and incorporating vector-based semantic relevance strategies into your SEO plans can be a gradual shift for your team, but I believe it’s one that will define the next era of SEO.

Innovations in AI and NLP are shaping the future of SEO

SEO Strategy Creation and AI for Semantic Intent

I have been speaking with more and more SEOs who want to account for AI bot traffic on their sites and build new strategies to optimize their site content for LLMs.

For brands worried about how a growing number of AI bots are fetching and using their content, the hard truth is that the SEO space is evolving and practitioners need to take note or get left behind. There are many voices throughout the SEO ecosystem who have varying opinions on how to solve for this. For some SEOs, there is even the thought that the SEO landscape should be split, with a distinction between AI bot optimization (or ‘GEO’) and optimizing for click-throughs and user interaction.

Ann Robinson from VereNorth talks about “not reinventing the wheel.” Monitoring rankings and query volume will still be a play for SEOs, but combining traditional content research methods with entity comparison and answering related topics is going to be just as important for the industry moving forward. In practice, what this looks like is:

Describing the desired topics you want to rank for using related terms and comparative entities on prominent page elements

Refining those topics with continued research into related entities and synonyms being added to a text, or referencing an original text through internal links

Ensuring schema is being used on-page to distinguish entity properties and remove ambiguity.

Continuing to refine your content actively in this way is important. It will also be important to understand different types of prompts for how users may find your content when it’s referenced elsewhere. Putting a governance strategy in place to understand where AI bot traffic is hitting your website.

Conclusions on semantic relevancy & vector models’ impact on SEO

Just like the Dewey Decimal System once reshaped how we organized knowledge, vector models’ enhanced ability to unearth semantic relevancy is reshaping how we retrieve it.

But unlike the more static shelves inside a physical library, search engines are dynamic, ever-expanding collections built on live user data and constantly evolving algorithms.

Semantic relevancy isn’t just a trend in SEO — it’s becoming the backbone of modern search. Google’s incorporation of advanced semantic understanding models into its systems signals a future of online search where meaning matters more than keywords.

But for SEOs and searchers alike, this shift comes with some new complexity. Search engines have had some occasional missteps on their path with vector models — from factually incorrect AI Overview results, to a weaker-than-expected roll-out of Reddit-heavy SERPs.

The challenge in the SEO industry is to adapt like Google does. Treat your websites not as static assets, but as living libraries—constantly updated, structured for clarity, accessible to new technologies, and optimized for true relevance.

Best Hospitals in India

wpadmin — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 06:26:25 +0000

The hospital is a place whose basic work is to give medic care to the ailing persons. They offer you services in varied sectors like as diagnosis, health care and etc.

Online you will find out a lot of Indian hospitals. The most of them will help all of you to get your needed health care at low value. The purpose of them is to aid you get fit and fine with the best likely treatment.

Here you will obtain a list of good and useful hospitals in India. This list will aid you to trace your needed health care provider from whom you will have right treatment and health care.

1. All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi

This is also known as AIIMS Delhi. All of you will get good pediatric dietetic services here. You will also get the latest health care equipment here.

This noted hospital can manage more than 10 million patients at a time. It has over 2300 beds and the best medical staff in India & the whole region.

It tries to best to satisfy the ailing persons by giving the best treatments. It offers the highest training the students of medicine.

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2. Christian Medical College, Vellore

Christian Medical College is the best medical institute in India. CMC hospital Vellore India was founded in 1900.

The latest technology, sanitary measures, and affordable treatment cost are the concentrated features of CMC in Vellore.

CMC vellore Tamil Nadu has 3000 beds. Neurosciences, Gastroenterology, and Hematology are the specialties of this hospital.

The motto of CMC Tamil Nadu is to bring world class healthcare within the reach of the poor.

The official website of CMC Vellore contains: about CMC Vellore, cmc hospital vellore full address, cmc help desk phone number, cmc hospital vellore contact number, and cmc email address.

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3. Medanta Hospital, Gurgaon

Medanta is a top ranked multi-super specialty hospital in Gurgaon, India. There is a research center, medical and nursing school, and 1250 beds on this hospital.

This private medical institute started its journey in 2009. Organ Transplantation and Cardiac are the specialties of this hospital. Medanta provides high quality healthcare at affordable price.

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4. Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, Delhi

This healthcare chain was formed in 1995. Indraprastha Apollo Hospital is a trusted and reputed hospital in India. Indraprastha Apollo Hospital owned by Apollo Hospital group.

There are quality doctors, world class treatment, modern technologies, trained staff, and 695 beds in Indraprastha Apollo Hospital.

The mission of this hospital is to spread international standard healthcare to every individual.

The peculiarities of Indraprastha Apollo Hospital (Delhi) are Cardiac Sciences, Neurosciences, Cancer, Organ Transplantation, and Orthopaedics.

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5. Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai

TATA Memorial Hospital is the most popular government cancer hospital in India. It was launched on February 28, 1941 by the sir Dorabji Tata Trust.

TATA Memorial Centre also familiar as TMH. The aim of this cancer hospital is to make cancer treatment affordable.

Furthermore TATA Memorial Hospital gives Hematology-Oncology, ICU, Operation Theatre, blood test, and the treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

TATA Memorial Centre has qualified doctors, world class treatment, modern technologies, international standard infrastructure, and 400 beds.

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6. Fortis Healthcare Limited, Kolkata

Fortis Healthcare Limited is an Indian popular healthcare services provider. This popular hospital gives excellent healthcare facilities. Urology, nephrology, and cardiology are the specialties of this hospital.

Fortis Healthcare Limited has qualified doctors, medical staff, international standard infrastructure, world class treatment, and four hundred beds in this hospital. Fortis hospital began its journey in 2001.

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7. Lilavati Hospital & Research Centre, Mumbai

Lilavati Hospital and Research Centre is a famous multi-specialty tertiary care hospital in India. It was launched in 1978. This hospital owned by the Lilavati Kirtilal Mehta Medical Trust.

There are the best medical expertise, research, state-of-the-art facilities, education, charitable endeavors, and 323 beds in this hospital. Lilavati Hospital and Research Centre has developed unmatched trust with its patients.

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8. JIPMER

Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research is one of the best global medical universities. JIPMER started its journey in 1823. This medical university gives educational, medical research and training facilities to its students.

Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research proffers high quality patient care. The specialties of this hospital are Urology and Renal Transplant surgery. Being a post-graduate institute there are no facilities for undergraduate MBBS courses in this medical university.

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9. Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, Mumbai

Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital is a popular Indian tertiary-care hospital. The hospital was founded in 2009. There are 750 beds, international standard infrastructure and modern technologies in this hospital.

Besides, there are qualified doctors and trained medical staff in Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital. Children’s heart diseases, plastic and cosmetic surgery, and robotic surgery are the specialties of Kokilaben hospital.

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27. Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai

It is a classy human eye hospital. It gives the utile eye services all types of the ailing such as rich & poor. Here an fond and committed team of trained and fit nurses and doctors pay well services to the ailing persons.

This eye care hospital began its journey in 1978. The goal of it is to content patients by its well treatment. More, it gives the top priority over their ailing persons’ safety and well being.

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The 1830s Device That Created the First Animations: The Phenakistiscope

wpadmin — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 06:17:29 +0000

The image just above is an animated GIF, a format by now older than most people on the internet. Those of us who were surfing the World Wide Web in its earliest years will remember all those little digging, jackhammering roadworkers who flanked the permanent announcements that various sites — including, quite possibly, our own — were “under construction.” Charming though they could be at the time, they now look impossibly primitive compared to what we can see on today’s internet, where high-resolution feature films stream instantaneously. But technologically speaking, we can trace it all back to what this particular animated GIF depicts: the phenakistiscope.

Invented simultaneously and independently in late 1832 by Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau and Austrian geometry professor Simon Stampfer, the phenakistiscope was a simple wheel-shaped device that could, for the first time in the history of technology, create the illusion of a smoothly moving picture when spun and viewed in a mirror: hence the derivation of its name from the Greek phenakisticos, “to deceive,” and ops, “eye.”

When it caught on as a commercial novelty, it was also marketed under names like Phantasmascope and Fantascope, which promised buyers a glimpse of horse-riders, twirling dancers, bowing aristocrats, hopping frogs, flying ghouls, and even proto-psychedelic abstract patterns, many of which you can see re-animated as GIFs in this Wikipedia gallery.

Eventually, according to the Public Domain Review, the phenakistiscope was “supplanted in the popular imagination: firstly by the similar Zoetrope, and then — via Eadweard Muybridge’s Zoopraxiscope (which projected the animation) — by film itself.” Muybridge, previously featured here on Open Culture, did pioneering motion-photography work in the eighteen-seventies that’s now considered a precursor to cinema. Understanding what he was up to is an important part of understanding the emergence of movies as we know them. But the most instructive experience to start with is making a phenakistiscope of your own, instructions for which are available from the George Eastman Museum and artist Megan Scott on YouTube. The finished product may not hold anyone’s attention long here in the age of Netflix, but then, the age of Netflix would never have arrived had the phenakistiscope not come first.

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How Animated Cartoons Are Made: A Vintage Primer Filmed Way Back in 1919

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Was a 32,000-Year-Old Cave Painting the Earliest Form of Cinema?

Based in Seoul, Colin Marshall writes and broadcasts on cities, language, and culture. His projects include the Substack newsletter Books on Cities and the book The Stateless City: a Walk through 21st-Century Los Angeles. Follow him on the social network formerly known as Twitter at @colinmarshall.

How Much Cloud Storage Do I Need? Get the Number Right

wpadmin — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 05:51:56 +0000

Ready to conquer your digital clutter? We’re diving deep into the world of cloud storage, helping you figure out just how much space you truly need to become a digital ninja! No more guessing games, just smart solutions.

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Understanding Cloud Storage Needs

What is Cloud Storage?

So, what exactly is cloud storage, and why is everyone talking about it?

Think of it as your super-secure, off-site digital vault, a place where you can safely stash all your important files without hogging your computer’s precious hard drive space.

At GoodCloudStorage, we’re all about empowering you to simplify your daily life through the effective utilization of cloud technology. It’s a core purpose to enhance your productivity, security, and data management in this wild digital age.

We provide comprehensive product research and educational content, serving as your guide to navigate the complexities of cloud-based solutions, helping you determine how much cloud storage space you’ll actually use and ensure you get the amount of cloud storage you need.

Types of Cloud Storage

When we talk about the amount of cloud storage, it’s not a one-size-fits-all deal. You’ve got options!

Generally, cloud storage can be categorized into public cloud storage, which is what most of us use with providers like Google Drive or Dropbox, offering various storage plans and GB of cloud space.

Then there’s the private cloud, often favored by businesses for enhanced control and security, ensuring their storage requirements are met internally.

Knowing these types helps you determine how much cloud storage you really need, whether it’s for simple file storage or complex backup solutions, ensuring you’re using cloud technology like a true ninja – with precision and purpose.

Factors Influencing Your Cloud Storage Requirements

Determining how much cloud storage you need is a bit like packing for an adventure – it depends on what you’re bringing! Your cloud storage needs are heavily influenced by the type and volume of data you produce or consume.

Are you a photographer with gigabytes of high-resolution images, or do you primarily store documents and spreadsheets?

Understanding your digital habits – from how much storage you’ll use for backups to your daily file storage – is key. This helps us nail down the right storage capacity, ensuring you don’t overspend on much cloud storage space you won’t use or, worse, run out when you need it most.

Determining How Much Cloud Storage You Really Need

Assessing Your Storage Space Requirements

Alright, digital ninja, let’s get down to brass tacks: assessing your storage space requirements is where the real strategy begins.

This isn’t just about guessing; it’s about making a smart, data-driven decision to ensure you get the precise amount of cloud storage you need.

Think about your daily digital habits: how much storage space will you really use for photos, videos, documents, and backups?

Are you constantly creating large files, or is your digital footprint relatively small?

Pinpointing your typical data generation and consumption patterns is the first crucial step in determining how much cloud storage you need, setting you up for cloud success without overspending or falling short.

Evaluating File Sizes and Folders

Now that you’re thinking about your habits, let’s dive into the nitty-gritty of your digital inventory: evaluating file sizes and folders. This involves a little reconnaissance mission on your current hard drive.

Take a peek at those chunky video files, the vast libraries of high-resolution images, and even the seemingly small documents that can add up over time.

Understanding the typical size of your individual files and the collective weight of your most important folders is essential. This detailed analysis will help you determine how much storage you truly need, ensuring you select a cloud storage platform that offers the right storage capacity without breaking the bank.

Use Cases for Cloud Storage

So, why do you even need this much cloud storage, anyway?

Beyond simply stashing your files, understanding your specific use cases for cloud storage is key to nailing down the right amount of storage space.

Are you primarily looking for a robust backup solution for your entire computer, ensuring data recovery is a breeze?

Or do you mostly need file storage for sharing large projects with collaborators?

Cloud Tech Ninja offers direct tools like Ninja QuickSend for efficient file transfer, making it easy to send those big files without a hitch.

We also provide a Password Generator for an extra layer of security.

Recognizing these diverse applications helps you determine how much cloud storage you really need, ensuring your chosen cloud service perfectly aligns with your digital lifestyle.

Choosing the Right Cloud Storage Options

Comparing Free Cloud Storage Solutions

Alright, digital ninja, let’s talk about getting the most bang for your buck – or in this case, for no buck at all! When you’re trying to figure out how much cloud storage you need, free cloud storage solutions can seem like a great starting point. GoodCloudStorage dives deep into this arena, providing comprehensive product research that directly compares options like Google Drive vs. Dropbox vs. OneDrive.

We give you the detailed analysis and scoreboards to understand the nuances, helping you determine which free cloud service truly reigns supreme for your initial storage requirements. Our goal is to empower you to identify superior options and make informed adoption decisions, even when it comes to maximizing that initial, complimentary amount of cloud storage.

Understanding Storage Capacity in the Cloud

So, you’ve started exploring, but how do you truly grasp storage capacity in the cloud? It’s more than just a number; it’s about aligning the available GB of cloud space with your actual usage. Understanding your hard drive’s current contents and future digital habits is crucial for determining how much cloud storage you’ll actually use.

Don’t get caught paying for a massive storage plan you’ll never fill, nor find yourself constantly running out of much space you need. We emphasizes that knowing your typical file sizes – from documents to high-resolution videos – will help you select the precise storage capacity, ensuring you get the amount of cloud storage that perfectly fits your digital life without any wasted gigabytes.

AWS and Other Cloud Offers

When we talk about the big leagues of cloud storage providers, AWS (Amazon Web Services) often comes up, but they’re just one player in a vast landscape of cloud offers. While AWS typically caters to businesses with complex storage requirements, understanding their robust infrastructure helps us appreciate the diverse capabilities available in the public cloud space.

Beyond the major players, there are countless other cloud service providers, each with unique storage plans, security features, and pricing models. Navigating these options to determine how much cloud storage you really need can be daunting, but we are here to demystify it, helping you select a cloud storage platform that not only meets your current storage needs but also scales with your future digital adventures.

Not sure how much cloud storage you need? Use our quick calculator to find out! Just enter what you store — docs, photos, videos, or backups — and get a tailored estimate to help you pick the perfect plan. No guesswork, no overspending. Start now!

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Managing Your Cloud Storage Account

How to Monitor Your Storage Space Usage

Alright, digital ninja, you’ve wisely determined how much cloud storage you need and secured your perfect storage plan. Now comes the crucial step: actively managing your cloud storage account to ensure you’re always optimized.

This means consistently monitoring your storage space usage. Don’t wait until you get that dreaded “storage full” notification!

Regularly checking your amount of cloud storage used helps you stay ahead, making sure you don’t run out of much space you need for your critical files.

Many cloud storage providers offer intuitive dashboards that graphically display your current usage, breaking it down by file type and folder.

Utilize these tools to proactively manage your digital footprint and ensure you’re always making the most of your chosen storage capacity, whether it’s for file storage or comprehensive backup solutions.

Upgrading Your Storage Capacity

So, you’ve been diligently using cloud storage, and your digital life has expanded – congratulations! It might be time to think about upgrading your storage capacity.

Perhaps your initial assessment of how much cloud storage you really need has changed, or you’ve found new use cases that demand more storage space. Upgrading your storage plan is typically a straightforward process with most cloud service providers.

They often have tiered pricing structures, allowing you to seamlessly increase your GB of cloud space as your storage requirements grow.

Don’t be afraid to adjust; the goal is to always have the amount of cloud storage that perfectly matches your current and anticipated needs, ensuring you never feel constrained by much cloud storage you have. This flexibility is one of the superpowers of using cloud technology.

Best Practices for Using Cloud Storage

To truly become a master of the cloud, adopting best practices for using cloud storage is non-negotiable.

First, always maintain a clear folder structure; organization is key to easily finding files and managing your storage space.

Second, regularly review your stored data and delete anything you no longer need. This helps keep your amount of storage optimal and prevents you from paying for much cloud storage space you don’t use.

Third, always prioritize security: use strong, unique passwords and enable two-factor authentication whenever possible.

Remember, while your cloud storage providers secure their infrastructure, securing your account is your responsibility. By adhering to these practices, you’ll ensure your digital assets are safe, accessible, and efficiently managed, solidifying your status as a true cloud ninja.

A Deep Dive into Google’s Ever-Evolving Algorithms – seo tips

wpadmin — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 05:48:56 +0000

In the vast ocean of the internet, where billions of websites vie for attention, Google stands as the undisputed lighthouse guiding users to their desired destinations. At the heart of this digital colossus lies a complex network of algorithms, constantly analyzing, indexing, and ranking web pages to deliver the most relevant results to users’ queries. In this comprehensive blog, we embark on a thrilling journey through the history, evolution, and intricacies of Google’s algorithms, uncovering the key updates that have shaped the landscape of online search.

Our journey begins in the late 1990s, when Larry Page and Sergey Brin laid the foundation for what would become the world’s most dominant search engine. Google’s first algorithm, aptly named “PageRank,” revolutionized the way web pages were ranked by considering the number and quality of inbound links as indicators of a page’s authority and relevance. This breakthrough innovation propelled Google to the forefront of the search engine market, setting the stage for its relentless pursuit of excellence in search.

WHAT ARE GOOGLE’S ALGORITHMS?

Google algorithms are complex systems used by Google to determine the ranking of web pages in search results. These algorithms analyze various factors such as keywords, relevance, quality of content, and user experience to deliver the most relevant and useful results to users’ queries. Examples include PageRank, which evaluates the authority of web pages based on inbound links, and RankBrain, an AI-driven algorithm that interprets and processes search queries. Constantly evolving, these algorithms aim to provide users with the best possible search experience by delivering accurate, trustworthy, and timely information from the vast repository of content available on the web.

KEY FACTORS OF GOOGLE ALGORITHMS

MAIN GOOGLE’S ALGORITHMS UPDATE

Google algorithms are the backbone of the search engine, dictating how websites are ranked in search results. Understanding these algorithms is crucial for anyone involved in digital marketing or website management. Here’s a concise explanation of ten main Google algorithms:

Google algorithms consider numerous factors when determining the ranking of web pages in search results. Some key factors include:¹

PageRank: Developed by Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, PageRank was one of the first and most influential algorithms. It evaluates the importance of web pages based on the quantity and quality of inbound links. Pages with more backlinks from reputable sources are considered more authoritative and rank higher in search results.

Panda: Introduced in 2011, Panda aimed to combat low-quality content and content farms. It penalized websites with thin, duplicate, or spammy content while rewarding those with high-quality, original content. Panda forced webmasters to focus on creating valuable content for users rather than gaming the system with keyword stuffing or low-quality articles.

Penguin: Launched in 2012, Penguin targeted websites engaging in manipulative link-building practices, such as buying links or participating in link schemes. It penalized websites with spammy or unnatural backlink profiles, encouraging webmasters to focus on earning organic, relevant links from authoritative sources.

Hummingbird: Released in 2013, Hummingbird marked a significant shift towards semantic search and understanding user intent. It introduced the concept of conversational search, allowing Google to interpret complex queries and deliver more relevant results based on context and meaning rather than just keywords.

RankBrain: Introduced in 2015, RankBrain is an AI-powered algorithm that helps Google understand and process ambiguous or unique search queries. It uses machine learning to analyze search patterns and adjust search results accordingly. RankBrain plays a crucial role in determining search rankings by identifying relevant signals and improving the accuracy of search results.

Mobilegeddon: Rolled out in 2015, Mobilegeddon prioritized mobile-friendly websites in mobile search results. With the increasing number of users accessing the internet via mobile devices, Google aimed to improve the mobile search experience by favoring websites optimized for mobile usability and performance.

BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers): Introduced in 2019, BERT focuses on improving the understanding of natural language and context in search queries. It helps Google better comprehend the nuances of conversational queries, leading to more accurate and relevant search results. BERT has a significant impact on featured snippets and long-tail keyword searches.

E-A-T (Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness): While not a specific algorithm, E-A-T is a set of guidelines used by Google’s Quality Raters to assess the quality and credibility of web content. Websites with high levels of expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness are more likely to rank higher in search results, particularly for topics that require expertise, such as health or finance.

Core Updates: Google regularly releases core updates that aim to improve search quality and relevance. These updates can impact rankings across a wide range of websites, often leading to fluctuations in search rankings. Webmasters need to monitor these updates and adapt their SEO strategies accordingly to maintain or improve their search visibility.

Local SEO: While not a single algorithm, local SEO involves optimizing websites for local search queries and geographical relevance. Google considers factors such as proximity, relevance, and prominence when delivering local search results. Optimizing for local SEO can help businesses attract nearby customers and improve visibility in local search results.

In conclusion, Google’s algorithms are dynamic and ever-evolving systems designed to provide users with the most relevant and high-quality search results. From the foundational PageRank algorithm to the latest advancements in AI-driven technologies like RankBrain and BERT, Google’s commitment to improving search quality and relevance is evident. Each algorithm update reflects Google’s ongoing efforts to combat spam, prioritize user experience, and adapt to changing user behaviors and expectations.

As the digital landscape continues to evolve, webmasters, digital marketers, and SEO professionals must stay abreast of these algorithmic changes and adjust their strategies accordingly. By focusing on creating valuable, authoritative content, earning organic backlinks, optimizing for mobile and user experience, and adhering to E-A-T principles, websites can enhance their visibility and rankings in search results.

Furthermore, the rise of local SEO, voice search, and visual search underscores the importance of adapting to emerging trends and technologies. By embracing these innovations and optimizing for new search paradigms, businesses can stay ahead of the curve and capitalize on new opportunities to attract and engage with their target audiences.

In essence, while the complexity of Google’s algorithms may seem daunting, they ultimately serve a noble purpose: to connect users with the information they seek in a fast, reliable, and relevant manner. By understanding and respecting the principles that underpin these algorithms, website owners can not only improve their search rankings but also contribute to a healthier and more user-centric internet ecosystem.

Semantic Search	Semantic search is the process of understanding the intent and meaning behind a search query — not just matching exact keywords — using techniques like vector embeddings and natural language processing (NLP).
Semantic SEO	Semantic SEO is the practice of optimizing web content so that search engines can understand its meaning and contextual relationships, not just its keywords, often by using structured data, topical depth, and related entities. It’s about aligning content with how semantic search actually works today.
Vector Embedding	Vector embeddings are sets of numbers that represent and categorize the meaning or features of complex data or objects (such as words, images, or entire books and webpages) using numerical values, making information easier to find and understand in context. In digital applications, each embedding can exist within a multi-dimensional vector space.
Vector Mapping	Vector mapping is the process of converting real-world data into vector embeddings that can be placed in a vector space.
Vector Space	A vector space is a mathematical environment where vectors are embedded in relation to one another so that their relationships (like similarity or distance) can be measured using math. Essentially, a vector space is where vector embeddings “live,” allowing us to compare meaning, relevance, or context using geometry
Vector Database	A vector database is a software system designed to store, index, and search vector embeddings efficiently, especially at scale.

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