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<p style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0px"><b><u><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18pt; color: black">Pre Conference Webinar Event:</span></u></b><b><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18pt; color: black"> </span></b><b><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18pt; color: black">September
15 - 17, 2020; 2:00-3:30 pm Eastern</span></b><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; color: black"></span></p>
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<p style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0px"><b><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192)">Taking the Pulse of Natural History Collections During COVID-19 Series: Where are we now?</span></b><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; color: black"></span></p>
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What is the community experiencing? How are they coping? How do we persevere?</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; color: black"></span></p>
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<p style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0px"><b><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14pt; color: black">September 15:</span></b><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14pt; color: black"><span> </span>Review Results of BCON’s Community
Survey & Break-out room discussion</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; color: black"></span></p>
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<p style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14pt; color: black">Speakers: Gil Nelson, Barbara Thiers</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; color: black"></span></p>
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<p style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0px"><b><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14pt; color: black">September 16:</span></b><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14pt; color: black"><span> </span>Collections Perspectives & Break-out
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<p style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14pt; color: black">Speakers: <span style="margin: 0px; background-color: white">Brian Atkinson,</span> John Bates, Emily Braker, Mare Nazaire</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; color: black"></span></p>
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Response and Opportunities for the Future: Presentations and Panel Discussion/Q&A</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; color: black"></span></p>
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<p style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14pt; color: black">Speakers: Rob Gropp, Scott Miller,<span> </span><span style="margin: 0px; background-color: white">Pam Soltis, </span>Roland Roberts </span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; color: black"></span></p>
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<p style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0px"><b><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14pt; color: black">For additional information visit:</span></b><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14pt; color: black"> <a href="https://www.idigbio.org/content/webinar-series-adapting-covid-resources-natural-history-collections-new-virtual-world" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin: 0px">https://www.idigbio.org/content/webinar-series-adapting-covid-resources-natural-history-collections-new-virtual-world</a></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; color: black"></span></p>
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community to be able to attend and participate in this yearly event. </span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14pt; color: black">The annual ADBC Summit brings together representatives from TCNs, PENs, NSF, iDigBio, and other initiatives related to the
U.S. National Science Foundation’s Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) program. The Summit inspires collaboration and focuses discussions on shared goals, challenges, and opportunities. </span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; color: black"></span></p>
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