Review of the 23rd International Colloquium Tribology – 25-27 January 2022

Our 23^rd International Tribology Colloquium took place for the first time as a completely virtual event. The restrictions caused by the corona pandemic left us no choice. But we made the best of it and used a professional, virtual event platform.
Three conference days with more than 300 participants and 140 contributions in 6 parallel live streams required a lot of organizational talent and technical support.

Just to give you some numbers: we trained a producer team of 10 TAE staff-members to oversee one of six live stream studios, we organized dry runs for 140 speakers on 5 different days. We managed to upload our programme, speaker list and attendee data to a whole new platform in just 6 weeks and fixed all the issues that arose before and during the event.
We would like to thank everyone who shared and supported our virtual concept to make our colloquium the best possible virtual event.

Instead of a crowded TAE foyer and fully occupied halls, our building seemed pretty deserted during the conference - only the workplaces of our production team looked busy... We look forward to seeing you again at the 24th International Tribology Colloquium in 2024 - definitely back on site and face to face!