Coast to Coast Seminars - The Goals

Testing the technology The main goal of the Coast to Coast Seminar Series is to give an opportunity to scientiﬁc communities from various Canadian universities to collaborate and share their interests. At the same time, the C2C seminars aim to achieve several other equally important goals:

To learn and understand the issues related to the organization and the running of a regular scientiﬁc event attended by a large number of universities in different time zones
To set the standards for this type of event for the future
To test the available technology
To motivate the creation of new technological tools and to encourage the improvement of the existing tools
To provide an opportunity to faculties to gain experience with presenting through a still relatively new medium
To educate the audience attending the seminar about the protocols and etiquette involved
To reduce the costs of inviting distinguished speakers
To justify the investment in the technology and in the people involved
To build a C2C community.