2023Q3 Reports: Member at-large

Hybrid-Conference working group

Have finished collecting the conclusions and initial report of the ACL hybrid-conference working group, whose aim was to come up with ideas and todo's on how to make our future conferences have a more engaged remote/virtual component (which has many reasons, esp. with pandemics and for people who cannot join due to visa/cost issues, and for environmental effects in general). The report has put special emphasis on increasing engagement and visibility for virtual attendees' talks and posters. The working group already included an ACL 2023 program chair and the plan is to finalize the report in the next ACL-Exec July meeting and share with EMNLP 2023 and future *ACL program chairs.