4. Virtual poster sessions and online conferences

A lot of academic conferences planned for 2020 were cancelled due to the outbreak. These cancellations have the potential to harm the pace of scientific advancement this year. Pace that is usually accelerated by the cross-pollination of ideas coming from face to face interactions at large events. While the benefits of a physical, offline face-to-face meeting cannot be fully replaced by most online forums, there are ways to convene in an online fashion.
Here's some ideas  to complement and replace conference attendance: