Fourth Dx4LMICs conference

This year marked a change for the conference as Professor Lord Tarassenko took a step back and I took over chairing the Organising Committee. Based on feedback from last year’s conference we introduced several interactive elements borrowed, shall we say, from Unconferences.

The first, simplest and most successful was a structured networking session after morning coffee on day 1 where we asked attendees to sit at a table where they didn’t know anyone. They then introduced themselves for one minute each before talking for two minutes about what they are working on to see if they could find some common ground. Definitely something you can tell is working by the volume in the Hall! That was followed immediately by eleven lightning talks (with lightning questions).

In case you are wondering the rubber chicken squawked when time was up…

We tied together two interactive elements either side of lunch on day two; for the first we split the conference into seven different breakout groups based around topics the attendees had suggested when they registered. Their task was to propose two questions for the panel discussion which was immediately after lunch.

I’ll leave a more detailed description of the keynotes and talks to the conference report, but overall another successful conference with over 100 attendees, three sponsors and an after dinner speech by Dr Bernie Croal, President of the Royal College of Pathologists.