<font face="arial" size="2"><p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Registration for our first online conference has been excellent and we are looking forward to three great days of programming next week. It’s not too late to join us virtually, but we will be <strong>closing registration at 11:59pm ET on Friday, June 5, 2020</strong> <strong>or once we reach at 2,900 attendees, whichever comes first. </strong></p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><strong>NASIG will hold the 35th Annual NASIG Conference online, June 9-11, 2020</strong><strong>.</strong> The conference will be free to all attendees, thanks to the generous contributions of our <a href="https://nasig2020.sched.com/directory/sponsors">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 href="https://nasig.wordpress.com/2019/11/13/vision-speaker-janetta-waterhouse/">Janetta Waterhouse</a>, along with 14 sessions originally scheduled for the in-person conference. The full program can be found at <a href="https://nasig2020.sched.com/">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 website. The entire conference program will be made freely available on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVvnh_CzXS8YgftuvIypTiQ">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 <strong>register by Friday, June 5, 2020</strong> for the synchronous conference here: <a>https://forms.gle/CWP8UXrSsZsiudXX8</a></p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">If you are unable to register, NASIG will be tweeting out a link to a YouTube LiveStream of the event that will be open to anyone. You can follow us <a class="mention mention-current-user" href="https://nasig.wordpress.com/mentions/nasig/"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>NASIG</a> on Twitter.</p>
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<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 next week!</p>
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