Highlights from the 2021 GTM

The 2021 EIOS Global Technical Meeting (GTM) was held from 06-10 December 2021 and offered a week of inspiring presentations and engaging discussions exploring relevant topics around Public Health Intelligence (PHI).

As the first ever virtual GTM, the event was attended live by 374 participants from more than 80 different countries around the globe. Meeting attendees were comprised of multidisciplinary experts from government and academic institutions, NGOs, UN agencies, as well as the private sector, overall representing 74 different entities! More than 80 speakers contributed to 18 live sessions, including 4 webinars, over the five conference days.

Thanks to the interactive virtual event platform, participants had the opportunity to meet a wide variety of multi-sectoral experts engaged in PHI from around the world, explore innovations, build relationships and exchange ideas across geographical boundaries and time zones.

For more information about the highly successful 2019 EIOS Global Technical Meeting in Seoul, Republic of Korea, click here.

19 July 2022

2021 EIOS Global Technical Meeting

Agenda Overview

Together Apart!

The 2021 conference programme was specifically been designed with a virtual experience in mind. This meant shorter but impactful conference days that featured multiple presenters with a dynamic format, a myriad of opportunities for attendees to interact with other conference participants and content on their own time.

Each conference day was divided into two, three-hour tracks (Track 1: 9am-12pm / Track 2: 3pm-6pm CET) to facilitate participation across time-zones. A common theme connected the two tracks and new live sessions were facilitated under this theme every day. This meant that whether participants were attending Track 1 or Track 2, they would have the opportunity to participate in similar sessions but were exposed to different speakers and discussions. If participants were interested in a session outside their time-zone or were unable to attend for any other reason, recordings of all sessions were made available on the conference platform within a few hours for on-demand viewing. As with our physical events, all content and all sessions were freely available to all conference participants to ensure unhindered access to the full meeting content to all our invitees.

Outside of the main conference tracks, participants were invited to attend a number of webinars, visit virtual exhibition booths, browse on-demand content and to set up one-on-one or group meetings with other attendees.