

We will share more details about registration, speakers, and topics as they become available. Lanny Inabnit - AARC Vice President of Education and Meetings Thank you for all you are doing for your patients. We appreciate your understanding and flexibility during the pandemic.
#FACE2FACE CONGRESS REGISTRATION#
Stay tuned for registration details coming in the next month. Congress LIVE! will include learning sessions across all subject areas, our annual plenaries, virtual exhibit hall, networking opportunities, and games. Ensuring a Congress 2021 educational and interactive event is vital to the growth of our profession.Ĭongress LIVE! Learning in a Virtual Environment will take place across four days: December 1, 3, 7, and 9.

We are working to bring you a great virtual learning and networking opportunity this December. With many of our members working on the front lines, we want to help ensure their safety and provide flexibility during this challenging time. We will continue to rely on our robust virtual meeting platform for this year’s event, in order that all attendees have access to our top-notch program planned for this year.Īs much as we want to meet again in-person, now is still not the time. Attendee health and safety remain a top concern.

#FACE2FACE CONGRESS PROFESSIONAL#

So that we keep to our usual timetable for succession planning for Council and Committees, we plan to run a virtual AGM following a f2f Council meeting during the first week in March (date to be confirmed) to ratify the outcome of elections and announce successors to current Council and Committee members. When and how will the BTS election results be made known to the membership? The secretariat team will contact you to discuss the arrangements for the new dates. I am sponsoring/exhibiting at the congress? The secretariat team will be contacting you to discuss participation in September. I have been invited to speak at the congress? Awards will be presented at the Congress as usual, including the Lifetime Achievement Award as part of our 50 th Anniversary celebrations No- the same process will be in place as in previous years for each of the awards routinely associated with BTS Congress- Medawar, Calne-Williams, Roy Calne, Herrick and AHP awards. Will there be any change to the awards/award sessions? New deadline dates will be advised before the 21 st of January The BTS events team at the secretariat will contact you directly to confirm. Yes- the configuration of the meeting will be the same so it should not be necessary to change the time of your talk. If I have had an abstract accepted for BTS 2022, will it remain in the same session, day and time in the rescheduled Congress? If not, and you have travel insurance, you may be able to make a claim if COVID-19 related cancellations are included in your policy. Unfortunately, BTS cannot refund any costs incurred as a result of transferring bookings but we would expect most companies to be sympathetic to re-booking, given the circumstances. If you have booked your own travel and/or accommodation, please contact the travel company and hotel directly to transfer your bookings.Invited speakers: If the secretariat has booked your travel and/or accommodation, any travel and/or accommodation bookings for the new dates will be transferred for you subject to your confirmation.If I have booked travel and accommodation for the meeting, what should I do now? It will automatically be switched to the new Congress dates Yes- you do not need to do anything if you have already registered for the meeting. Will my registration carry over to the rescheduled Congress? Yes- we will still hold the Congress at Belfast ICC
