As the new coronavirus infection spreads in Japan, the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers Data Engineering Research Committee, the Database Society of Japan, and the Database System Study Group of the Information Processing Society of Japan are holding the 12th Forum on Data Engineering and Information Management, and the 18th Japan. The Annual Meeting of the Database Society was held online.

 According to the National Institute of Informatics, the online event was held by the Research Organization of Information and Systems and the National Institute of Informatics. 563 researchers, students and business people participated. A total of 10 oral presentation sessions, 3 in 73 days, including programs such as "oral presentation session", "interactive session", and "plenary lecture", and 2 sessions held in parallel at the same time. There were two interactive sessions.

 Participants joined the session from home, work, laboratory, etc., but students said, "I was able to write a question in the chat at the timing I was interested in." "It was my first presentation, but I was able to do it without tension." Voice was sent.

 The forum on data engineering and information management is a training camp-style workshop held every year with the participation of about 600 researchers and students.It was scheduled to be held in Fukushima Prefecture in February this year, but the new coronavirus The event was canceled due to the spread of the infection.

reference:[National Institute of Informatics] An academic conference was held online to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus infection, and 563 researchers and students participated remotely in DEIM2020 using IT.

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