Virtual Conferences: A Guide to Best Practices – A community resource from the ACM [Association for Computing Machinery] Presidential Task Force o​n What Conferences Can Do to Replace Face-to-Face Meetings Version 1.1 — April 13, 2020

Abstract: “Our conference organizing committee just decided to switch our physical conference to online.But the conference is supposed to start in three weeks, and none of us have ever even ​been to a virtual conference, much less put one on! Where do we start??? ”This document is a practical guide to the brave new world of virtual scientific conferences, assembled and curated by members of the Association for Computing Machinery’s Presidential Task Force on What Conferences Can Do to Replace Face-to-Face Meetings. With so many conferences going online in a short time, there are many organizers with urgent questions; at the same time, new insights, ideas, and experiences are being generated at a furious rate. We hope that this guide will serve both as a basic orientation for newcomers and as a repository of accumulated knowledge from the community. As heavy users of online technologies and as researchers responsible for developing them, the ACM community is especially well-positioned to offer advice that we hope will be helpful to other groups dealing with the same problems…”