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About Plenara Summits

Plenara runs one-day online summits for practitioners, researchers and students. We started with healthcare and finance, two fields changing quickly where good information is hard to find.

Two women at a wooden library table in Oregon looking at a laptop together

Why one day, online

Most professional events ask for a plane ticket, two days away from work and a registration fee before you have heard a single idea. Many online alternatives swing the other way: hours of sponsored content with little you can use.

Plenara sits between the two. A single planned day. Speakers who did the work and can show what happened. Time for questions. Free to attend live, so cost is never the reason someone misses out.

The name comes from the plenary session: the part of a conference where everyone is in the same room, hearing the same ideas at the same time. That is what we build online.

How we run the summits

  • The program comes first

    Sessions are chosen for what attendees can learn. Sponsors support the event; they don't write the program.

  • No inflated numbers

    We don't publish attendance figures we can't show, testimonials we didn't receive, or logos of organizations we haven't worked with.

  • Your data, your choice

    We share attendee details with sponsors only when you tick a box that is unticked by default. Every email has an unsubscribe link.

  • Free to attend live

    Every summit has a Free Pass with live access to every session. Paid passes add a certificate and recordings.

  • Built for US schedules

    Summits run during the US working day, with times shown in Eastern and Pacific.

  • Open to new voices

    We welcome first-time speakers and help them prepare. Expertise matters more than a big title.

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Photograph credits

The photographs on this site come from Wikimedia Commons. They show the kinds of rooms, workplaces and sessions our summits are about; none of them shows a Plenara speaker or attendee. Each was resized and cropped to fit its frame.

  • Rows of attendees listening closely at a technology conference in San Francisco. By TechCrunch, CC BY 2.0, source.
  • A bright auditorium in Washington, D.C. with people listening to a talk on stage. By U.S. Department of Agriculture, Public domain, source.
  • The sunlit atrium of the National Institutes of Health clinical research hospital in Maryland. By Duane Lempke, CC0, source.
  • The front rows at a health research summit, people following the talk on their laptops. By National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIH), Public domain, source.
  • Hands typing on a laptop with a stethoscope on the desk. By Daniel Sone, National Cancer Institute, Public domain, source.
  • The New York Stock Exchange trading floor from above, crowded with traders and bright screens. By Central Intelligence Agency, Public domain, source.
  • Traders in coloured jackets in a trading pit at the Chicago Board of Trade under walls of prices. By Richie Diesterheft, CC BY 2.0, source.
  • Two women at a wooden library table in Oregon looking at a laptop together. By Kallie Hagel, CC BY-SA 4.0, source.