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Human collaboration is fundamental to sustaining and progressing essential economic, scientific and cultural activity. The precipitous governmental and social response to COVID19 enforces physical distancing, and effective climate action relies on making significant shifts towards sustainable commuting. Large parts of the "knowledge" workforce have adapted by scaling and expanding use of existing remote collaborative technologies so that these are ubiquitous, fundamental, and sometimes sole channels of communication. For science, this amplifies and emphasises existing problems in running remote participant inclusive, semi-distributed meetings and conferences.

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Specific and urgent reflection and research is required to optimise distributed meetings and conferences to maximise generated value and minimise harms. Dual concerns of future meetings include "how do we make best use of existing and emerging collaborative technologies" and "what culture and practices are there and could there be that would help"? How do we maximise contributions and creativity, while minimising negative interactions or outcomes?

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