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Conferences during Covid-19: The challenge of taking face-to-face events online

Business Daily · BBC World Service

August 13, 202018m 54s

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Show Notes

Conferences during Covid-19: Jane Wakefield explores the challenges that big international events have faced this year in moving events online.

She speaks to Paddy Cosgrave, chief executive of the giant technology event Web Summit, and Chris Anderson from TED. Plus social scientist Elizabeth Dunn explains why there is true “magic” in meeting face-to-face.

Producer: Sarah Treanor

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