ITHEC 2020 – Virtual Edition is based on two main components: the international conference and the exhibition. As a participant in the event, you can attend the high-quality technical lectures, poster presentations and interactive break-outs on the digital platform, view companies’ and participants’ profiles, and make contact with all other participants, industry staff, speakers and individuals of interest to you using a variety of communication tools, such as 1-1 or group text and video chats. As a first step, an integrated matchmaking tool that will suggest interesting contacts for you will. This will also enable you to have to join the business speed-dating formats. You can also schedule meetings before and during the event that fit your personal agenda.

At ITHEC 2020 – Virtual Edition there are no 3D rendered booths or conference rooms; it is a virtual platform focused on personal dialogue with experts in the industry, exchanging ideas and contacts, and gathering various insights from the technical lectures and networking sessions. On the platform, you will find the conference sessions and company profiles with an abundance of information fitting the conference topics. You can network with all speakers, exhibition booth staff and contacts in the industry, and you will have access to the virtual and interactive sessions.

As a participant you can purchase a ticket via the Online Registration. This gives you access to all conference sessions and company profiles and you can contact any registered participant. You will also have free access to interactive live sessions with our exhibitors. Full Access tickets include even more functions – such as the access to all lectures and participant profiles after the event, and the receipt of the presentation slides.

Yes. You must register as a participant in the digital event and purchase your ticket via the Online Registration. After that, you will receive an “onboarding” link to enter at the virtual platform, where you fill in additional information about yourself and your company, and also answer specific matchmaking questions according to your interests and needs. This will give you the opportunity to contact other participants and lets you benefit from the networking functions. For this purpose your profile will be visible on the platform during the event.

During the “onboarding”, you will set up your individualized participant profile on the digital platform and define your criteria for matching (what you are offering or looking for). You yourself decide, for example, whether you want to upload a profile photo, but we highly recommend doing so. The profile you set up will be visible on the platform to other participants for the duration of the digital event, to enable you and them to make contact. Your profile will no longer be visible once the platform goes offline.

After you have bought a ticket via the Online Registration you will be invited in a separate email (beginning of October ) to participate in the onboarding process for ITHEC 2020 – Virtual Edition. During the onboarding, you will register on the event platform, define your profile, and state your criteria (what you are offering or looking for) so as to get the greatest possible advantage from the matchmaking tool. The matchmaking tool will support you during the event by suggesting the most interesting contacts for you among the full list of participants.