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Credit union professionals have always presumed webinars, online education courses and other virtual events would never be able to replace the in-person conferences that yield so many benefits such as networking with, listening to, and learning from industry experts and colleagues.

And then came the COVID-19 crisis, which led to the cancellation of dozens of industry conferences following the state-by-state declarations of emergency and lockdowns that began taking place less than a month after CUNA's 2020 Governmental Affairs Conference concluded on Feb. 27.

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