<font face="arial" size="2"><p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The NASIG Executive Board is pleased to announce that <strong>we will hold the 35th Annual NASIG Conference online, June 9-11, 2020</strong>. We are even more pleased to announce that the conference will be free to all attendees, thanks to the generous contributions of our <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://nasig2020.sched.com/directory/sponsors" target="_blank">sponsors</a>.</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The synchronous online conference will include an opening session featuring vision speaker <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://nasig.wordpress.com/2019/11/13/vision-speaker-janetta-waterhouse/" target="_blank">Janetta Waterhouse</a>, along with 14 sessions originally scheduled for the in-person conference. The full program can be found at <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://nasig2020.sched.com/" target="_blank">https://nasig2020.sched.com/</a>.</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">In addition to our synchronous event, many of our other presenters will be recording their talks for on-demand viewing. We will encourage discussion of these events on the NASIG blog. The entire conference program will be made freely available on <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVvnh_CzXS8YgftuvIypTiQ" target="_blank">YouTube</a> after the live event.</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Attendees can register for the synchronous conference here: <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://forms.gle/CWP8UXrSsZsiudXX8" target="_blank">https://forms.gle/CWP8UXrSsZsiudXX8</a></p>
<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The Board also wishes to thank the members of our Program Planning, Conference Planning, Continuing Education, and Communications committees, all of whom have come together to make this event happen on a very short timeline.</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Thanks also to you, our members, for your continued support. We hope to see you online in June!</p>
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