Hello everyone,
I will be going for the GP2 Annual Meeting starting from the 3rd to the 4th October 2025. MDS Congress follows from 5th to 9th August 2025 in Honolulu,Hawaii.
Would love to meet up with anyone attending these two meetings. Kindly let me know on this thread.
See you soon.
Hi! @victorfloresocampo and I are attending GP2 (probably many more), and @waldoe is also coming to MDS!
Hello,
I will be there too. People from GP2/LARGE-PD be able to check that I am a human, not a chatbot/IA
I’ll be at MDS too, my last hurrah as the young members group chair. We’ll have a short hula session in the beginning of our networking event! Also, we have the business meeting & pavillion session that are of course open to all so I hope you’ll be able to come out so my socially awkward self can see some familiar faces 
MDS attending collabofriends! @hirotaka @Vidash and I will seek a table to chat with anyone interested in finding out more about the community or anything really on:
Monday, October 6 | 1:00 – 2:00 PM
Tuesday, October 7 | 9:30 – 10:30 AM
Also, come to the MDS Through the Years pavillion sesh tomorrow at 12, Young Members Group pavillion sesh on Monday at 12:30, Young Members Group business meeting on Tuesday 2:30, Young Delegates Networking Event on Tuesday 6 pm! I have a poster too, on Tuesday at 12:30, for sex differences in prodromal Lewy body dementia. You may see me running around like a headless chicken, do say hiiiiiii!
I’ll try to find a table behind the e-poster section. Looking forward to seeing you at 1pm!
Ok
See everyone soon
Hey can you guys come to Pavillion at 1pm today behind e-poster section?
We want to take a group picture
The most right (towards back) table in front of e poster Section 1!
I’m gonna try to take the same table as yesterday. It is in the front of the section 1 ePoster zone. See you all around at 9:30 am today!
it was great to see you at MDS! i know from personal experience that networking doesn’t come natural to everyone, so it’s inspiring to see how you were all thriving in making new connections 
peeps the post congress survey for MDS is out: http://movementdisorders.mmsend.com/link.cfm?r=KD6DR6RVGhx6mXZ4x7GdWA\~\~&pe=XVwbHbvKxCUQ4DdH8kPbMb-mg0VuFFO9kOx2D6-2zMU8gNZzkC-zhArBmIVGx9MJ8D4Sx0ptH2CeecXGO-b5IA\~\~&t=0Myy-zoa8jKj6QfM7IIDqQ\~\~
i honestly didn’t like the e-poster set up at all and didn’t hear any good feedback about it. i brought it up with soooooo many people, but i’m a complainer and already made that reputation amongst the mds leadership so my complains only go so far share your thoughts on that survey please! if you’ve been to other conferences with better e-poster set up, do share! i did like settings where there are tons of screens so you still tour around and get to see a lot of posters. there are multiple poster sessions throughout the day and there’s a rotation so the congress organizers don’t get 1000 screens. but i just feel like nothing replaces that touring the posters feel. standing up by your poster is not the most fun and you sometimes don’t get anyone showing up (happened to me too many times), but at least people do get to see your work as they walk around and it’s not a 3 minute slot that people who might be interested probably miss. also some stations at mds ran behind or early on the schedule so even if you showed up on time you may have missed, and good luck finding the presenter then… not sure how y’all felt and if anyone liked it?
I completely agree: the poster section was awful for both presenters and the audience.
For the audience:
You’re have thousands abstracts across multiple topics (genetics, AI, drug discovery, etc.). You have to open the app, scroll through all the abstracts, and find the ones you want to see. Then you schedule a time, go there, and listen to a 4-minute talk through headphones. Questions? You can ask them later. Suggestions? What is this?
In this format, you’ll never have an unexpected discovery, because you must target specific abstracts. Even if you read all of them, there’s no way for your figures or poster to visually attract people.
For presenters, it’s even worse:
First, never trust machines: they can smell fear, and they like it. @waldoe was presenting when someone tried to pair the phone with the screen, and her plot disappeared behind a pairing message (she brilliantly asked the audience to imagine the plot).
Second, there’s no way to engage random people. During traditional sessions, you can kidnap passersby and talk. This virtual format killed the spontaneous networking. Forget about chats about methodology, the small talk with your neighboring presenter, or the surprise of realizing the person you’re talking to is a legend in the field.
If poster sessions are going to stay this way, they might as well just ask people to record short videos and create another video challenge: Abstract Video Challenge.
The coffee break was just coffee (the break was not included), and the poster area felt like 10 screens of people doing ASMR into microphones, while others scanned QR codes to listen. I will not mention the bizarre experience of two people presenting related topics simultaneously.
I hope they bring the traditional poster section
