This year the ELAINE 2020 conference was to be held at the University of Rostock, Germany. However, in light of the current COVID-19 situation across the world, the ELAINE conference 2020 will be held virtually from 9:00 a.m. on 29-30 September 2020 using the platform Hopin. Hopin unifies video conferencing, online sessions, networking, meetings, polls, and group messaging into single user friendly platform.