U3 Explore panel discussion - technologies and communication in virtual organizations

U3Explore is now one year old, and here are the highlights of our first year. U3 stands for Unlocked, Untold, Unfiltered stories of people with exploratory mindsets. These people have analytical and determined personalities. They like to collect information and figure out the meaning of their observations. They are proactive in preserving and communicating years of institutional knowledge in the integrated project delivery.‍

During our Virtual Panel conversation on the formats and the challenges of external collaboration and participation in virtual industry meetings and networking in 2020 led us to discover a new term: participants of the virtual industry conferences found that they are missing an "accidental discovery" that occurred during in-person large scale events.

In our panel discussion, there were exciting ideas shared while answering how much importance we place on face-to-face meetings. Here are few opinions on the subject.