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Event Planning and Group Travel in Barcelona
This blog lays out some of the conferences that are scheduled for the first quarter of 2020. We have provided the names and dates of all the conferences, and expanded on the ones we find most interesting!
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January
CSL 2020 – Computer Science Logic Conference
Dates: 13th – 14th – 15th – 16th January
Venue: University of Barcelona
Computer Science Logic (CSL) is the annual conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL). This 28th edition of the conference, which has previously been hosted in Birmingham, Stockholm, Marseille and Berlin, this year comes to Barcelona after taking a break in 2019.
According to the CSL website, “the conference series started in 1987 as a programme of International Workshops on Computer Science Logic, and then in its sixth meeting (in 1992) became the Annual Conference of the EACSL.”
ACM FAT 2020 – Fairness, Accountability and Transparency in Socio-Technical Systems
Dates: 27th – 28th – 29th – 30th January
Venue: Barceló Sants
The inaugural conference was held in New York in 2018, followed up by Atlanta in 2019. The conference has now made its way to Europe for the first time. This conference brings together the field of computer science and the practical and ethical risks involved as this field develops. Their website states: “ACM FAT* is an interdisciplinary conference dedicated to bringing together a diverse community of scholars from computer science, law, social sciences, and humanities to investigate and tackle issues in this emerging area.”
ELT Convention
Dates: 30th – 31st Jan – 1st February
Venue: Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Billed as a conference for English Language Teachers by English language teachers, the ELT Convention promises to help teachers in several ways. They will meet up to rest and reconnect with others in their field, and “shake up” their teaching methods while “exercising all their teaching muscles” through three days of activities, workshops and lectures.
February
World Congress of Cutaneous Lymphomas (WCCL)
Dates: 12th – 13th – 14th February
Venue: Auditorio Axa
This is the 4th Congress of Cutaneous Lymphomas, with the previous editions having been previously held in Chicago, Berlin and New York. Cutaneous lymphomas are cancers that effect lymphocytes, a type of white blood cells.
The conference will “provide an innovative and comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art advances in basic, translational and clinical research; it will discuss new developments in the diagnosis, practice and management of cutaneous lymphomas, promoting the highest standards of care and support of the patients.”
ICEMI 2020 – International Conference on Education and Management Innovation
Dates: 13th – 14th – 15th February
Venue: Hotel Colon
This 9th edition of the ICEMI Conference will be held at the Hotel Colon, located opposite the iconic Barcelona Cathedral. It will bring together researchers, engineers, scientists and students to share ideas and their experiences working in Education and Management Innovation.
MWC 2020 – Mobile World Congress
Dates: 24th – 25th – 26th – 27th February
Venue: Fira Gran Via (some Events will be at Fira Montjuïc)
Easily Barcelona’s most famous annual conference, the Mobile World Congress is the largest mobile event in the world. You’ll find the latest innovations in technology from around the world, talks from visionaries at the top of their field and hundreds of exciting exhibits.
March
ENETS 2020 – European Neuroendocrine Tumor Society Conference
Dates: 11th – 12th – 13th March
Venue: CCIB – Centre de Convencions Internacional de Barcelona
The European Neuroendocrine Tumor Society is involved with research that works on “improving therapies, diagnostics and treatments for patients all over the world.” The Society has nearly 1,400 members from all fields of research and medicine, including oncology, pathology, radiology and many more. The conference is an opportunity to bring people from across these fields together.
EBCC-12 – European Breast Cancer Conference
Dates: 21st – 22nd – 23rd March
Venue: CCIB – Centre de Convencions Internacional de Barcelona
The website of the European Breast Cancer Conference states that: “The goal of EBCC-12 is to promote the establishment and implementation of a European multidisciplinary platform for scientific exchanges about all aspects of breast cancer, from bench to bed side.”
Speakers from all fields related to breast cancer research come to the conference to talk on a huge variety of topics related to this central theme. The conference gathers together physicians, scientists and patients to display “new New & stimulating scientific programme mapping the breast cancer journey.”
EBART International – Evidence-based Assisted Reproduction Technology Conference
Dates: 26th – 27th March
Venue: Palau de Congressos de Barcelona
Started in 2016, each edition of this conference has been in Barcelona and is held every two years. It is the first conference of its kind, namely, the first conference to focus specifically on the research and development of assisted reproduction technology.
Two key changes have been made this year: the venue has been changed to the Palau de Congressos de Barcelona, and parallel sessions, which will be “one focused on topics related to Clinicians, and another for Embryologists”, have been introduced.
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