DDL 25 conference chair Gary Pitcairn opened the Silver Anniversary edition of Drug Delivery to the Lungs by welcoming approximately 550 attendees to the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. With the meeting’s rapid growth in attendance over the past few years, it has now eclipsed RDD as the largest meeting of OINDP specialists held annually.
At the end of his remarks, Pitcairn noted that the new mobile app for DDL 25 had been downloaded over 300 times prior to the start of the meeting. He then turned the podium over to committee member Alex Slowey for a detailed explanation of the app’s numerous features, including the sli.do technology which allows audience members to submit questions for presenters anonymously.
Throughout the conference, session moderators selected questions submitted via sli.do as well as soliciting oral questions from the audience. Sli.do apparently had numerous fans as several moderators noted that more questions were submitted anonymously than could be answered during the short Q&A periods after each talk. The technology also seemed to have assisted the moderators in limiting the number of questions actually asked and answered, and for the most part, the meeting stayed significantly closer to the published schedule than in past years.
In addition to sli.do, the app includes abstracts, a feedback form, a delegate list that allowed attendees to upload profile information and links to social media accounts, and an interactive map of the exhibition hall, allowing attendees to easily locate booths among almost 80 exhibitors.
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