Titipat AchakulvisutTulakan RuangrongPatrick MineaultTim P. VogelsMegan A.K. PetersPanayiota PoiraziChristopher RozellBrad WybleDan F.M. GoodmanKonrad Paul KordingInstitute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)School of Electrical and Computer EngineeringFoundation for Research and Technology-HellasImperial College LondonMahidol UniversityUniversity of California, IrvineUniversity of PennsylvaniaPennsylvania State University2022-08-042022-08-042021-04-01Trends in Cognitive Sciences. Vol.25, No.4 (2021), 265-2681879307X136466132-s2.0-85101340173https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/78900Legacy conferences are costly and time consuming, and exclude scientists lacking various resources or abilities. During the 2020 pandemic, we created an online conference platform, Neuromatch Conferences (NMC), aimed at developing technological and cultural changes to make conferences more democratic, scalable, and accessible. We discuss the lessons we learned.Mahidol UniversityNeurosciencePsychologyTowards Democratizing and Automating Online Conferences: Lessons from the Neuromatch ConferencesNoteSCOPUS10.1016/j.tics.2021.01.007