2026 Ropeless Consortium Annual Meeting

 

 

Meeting Format
The 2026 Meeting will take place at the Halifax Convention Center in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada starting early afternoon on Wednesday, November 18.  The 2026 North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium annual meeting will take place BEFORE the 2026 Ropeless Annual meeting on November 16-17, 2026. 

The Annual Meeting will feature pre-recorded and live presentations by both onsite and remote participants.

All registered participants (in-person and remote) will have a unique login to the meeting site which will allow for access to view all of the pre-recorded presentations that should be viewed in advance of the meeting. Participants will also have an opportunity to submit questions/comments in advance of the meeting as well as live during the meeting. 

For the 2026 meeting, we will use Zoom as an interface for remote and onsite participants to interact onscreen and audibly. 

The live meeting will consist of a few live introductions and Q&A sessions with all presenters (both live and pre-recorded/viewed) in each of the topic sessions. All presenters from each session will be live on stage and/or on screen to take questions that were submitted in advance of the meeting, as well as those asked live by remote and in person participants. Each Q&A session will be moderated by a Board member.

Remote Participants: You will have opportunities to ask your question(s) live during the meeting. Simply raise your virtual hand and you will be put into the queue. The session moderator will alternate between in person and remote questions. You should be on mute until the moderators calls you in for your questions. You should NOT use the zoom chat for questions directed at presenters given the number of remote participants and how busy the chat is likely to be. You have the option to be on or off camera. Please know that on camera participants will be visible to onsite participants.

Onsite Participants: We will have standing microphones in the meeting room. Participants wishing to ask a question should form queues at the mics and wait to be acknowledged by the session moderator. There will be an onsite participant camera so that remote participants can view questions and discussions from those onsite.