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Who had a backup plan to get around the problems a rogue volcano in Iceland caused to their training events?  Tuesday I learned about an annual international conference this weekend in Washington DC where many speakers and attendees were coming from Europe and the Middle East. I don’t know yet how it turned out, but I do know that next year computer and communications technology will play a bigger role to ensure that important training is delivered even if all long distance travel is shut down. Of course this means arranging to webcast the conference to the audience but also to bring in the speakers from different locations via video and visual presentations over the Internet. If travel is available the physical conference can go on because people still prefer to learn in groups, but not all speakers have to travel to the conference location which saves their time and reduces costs.  Such conferences can be recorded and delivered as elearning for many months after the live event.