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If you had a big event or conference planned for the first half of this year, chances are you’ve gone through a series of stages over the past month or so.

And then suddenly, just like that, we had no choice. Digital meetings are no longer an unusual (and often unpleasant) trial, but for many of us homeworkers, the only way business happens.

Shane discusses the five things we learned at our recent Melting Pot Lunch in Leeds on population health management. The conversation was led by Andi Orlowski as part of NHS England and Improvement's Integrated Care in Action week.

Don't you just love going to an event in the basement of an identikit hotel? The beauty of the unrelenting artificial light. The delight of a day's worth of slides ("don't know why I kept this slide in here, you probably can't see it") in store. The gorgeous feeling that even if you haven't been here physically before, mentally you have many, many times. No, thought not. Does it have to be this way?

What springs to mind when you hear the word 'webinar'?  "I can't wait"?…probably not. Perhaps it's because we humans are innately sociable creatures that we don't enjoy staring at a screen for an hour watching a set of moving slides, but I have friends who will willingly spend time staring at a screen to watch Final Score, so I find that hard to believe.

What’s the best event you’ve ever been to? That’s the question we asked folks at the wonderful WonkComms breakfast club. It was a great conversation, with topics ranging from diversity to the role keynote speakers play (for better and for worse). It also gave me the chance to reflect on our approach to running events at Kaleidoscope