ADBC Summit 2020

This year's ADBC Summit has been abbreviated​ to accommodate virtual attendance. The event will be held via Zoom (room information will be distributed closer to the event) September 23-25, 2020 with orientation for new TCN's on September 22nd.

Conference Resources

• Virtual Meeting Resources
• iDigBio's Code of Conduct

Zoom Information

• We suggest the desktop client or mobile app, which use less bandwidth than Zoom in your browser. See Zoom help for more: https://bit.ly/2RM0rzQ.
• Zoom links will be posted below in the Conference Agenda

Pre-conference COVID-19 mini-series

September 15-17: Taking the Pulse of Natural History Collections During COVID-19 Series: Where are we now? Join iDigBio, NSCA, BCON, NSF, and SPNHC for a mini-series to discuss the climate of natural history collections during COVID. What is the community experiencing? How are they coping? How do we persevere?
September 15: Review Results of BCON’s Community Survey & Break-out room discussion
Speaker: Barbara Thiers
September 16: Collections Perspectives & Break-out room discussion
Speakers: John Bates, Emily Braker, Brian Atkinson, Mare Nazare
September 17: Where do we go from here & Panel Discussion
Speakers: Rob Gropp, Pam Soltis, Scott Miller, Roland Roberts
Zoom link for series: https://ufl.zoom.us/j/93561818170?pwd=eVRxU1RWQWE2VGFhTi91enV6WWJvdz09

Conference Agenda

Tuesday, September 22

Day One - Orientation
1:00 – 2:30 ET
Time	Zoom link
1:00 – 1:45	Orientation for New TCNs & PENs
1:45 – 2:30	Break-out Session
2:30 – 3:00	Break
3:00 – 5:00	EAB

Wednesday, September 23

Day Two
1:00 – 3:00 ET
Time	Zoom link
1:00 – 2:00	Keynote Speakers Ian Owens, Deputy Director at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History Rebecca Johnson, Associate Director for Science and Chief Scientist at the National Museum of Natural History
2:00 – 2:15	New TCN Presentation
2:15 – 2:30	New TCN Presentation
2:30 – 2:45	New TCN Presentation

Thursday, September 24

Day Three – TCN Presentations
1:00 – 3:00 ET
Time	Zoom link
1:00 – 1:10	TPT - Jen Zaspel
1:10 – 1:20	TORCH - Diego Barroso
1:20 – 1:30	PILSBRY
1:30 - 1:40	Break
1:40 – 1:45	California Phenology
1:45 - 1:50	Cretaceous World
1:50 - 1:55	Endless Forms
1:55 - 2:00	EPICC - Charles Marshall
2:00 - 2:05	InvertEBase
2:05 - 2:15	LepNet/SCAN
2:15 - 2:25	Break
2:25 - 2:30	Microfungi - Scott T. Bates
2:30 - 2:35	Mid-Atlantic Megalopolis
2:35 - 2:40	oVert
2:40 - 2:45	Pteridological
2:45 - 2:50	SERNEC
2:50 - 2:55	SoRo

Friday, September 25

Day Four
1:00 - 3:00 ET
Time	Zoom link
1:00 – 1:30	Looking forward with NSF
1:30 - 2:00	Break-out group discussions/ question generation
2:00 - 3:00	Panel response to questions