In his final column as ISI President, John Bailer reflects on the work done so far by generations of ISI members and the foundation it provides for future generations.

ISI Director Ada van Krimpen encourages members to join the first ever virtual WSC and thanks the outgoing Executive Committee and Council members as well as Association Presidents for their valuable contribution to the work of the ISI.

Don’t miss out on the amazing WSC programme and register now!

The Board, which advises the ISI on professional ethical issues, is looking for new members and a new chair.

The work and life of Professor Bolfarine will be honored in a ceremonial presentation at the Mahalanobis International Award Session during the ISI WSC 2021.

The International Association for Official Statistics is an active participant of this year’s WSC. Find out about the IAOS sessions included in the programme.

The organizers of the International Statistical Literacy Project (ISLP) invite all of their members and supporters to the 2021 Open Meeting on 19 July.

Maria Eulália Vares has been awarded the inaugural Willem van Zwet Medal for Special Service to the Bernoulli Society as member and chair of the Publications Committee, and editor of Stochastic Processes and their Applications (SPA).

Find out about the journal’s special issue on Blockchain for Logistic Industry and papers recently accepted for publication.

ISBIS is giving a significant contribution to the ISI WSC 2021. Various sessions have been proposed by ISBIS members and accepted by the Scientific Program Committee.

This in-person conference brings a small group together at King's College, Cambridge University, UK, to spend five days in-person thinking about statistics and mathematics education.

SERJ and Teaching Statistics publish peer-reviewed articles about statistics education and have released their recent editions.

Fang Han, Aaditya Ramdas and Anru Zhang win the New Researcher Award 2021.

The special themes of the latest issue of SJIAOS are: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Official Statistics and Assessing Compliance with the UN Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics.

The winners of the 2021 Young Statisticians Prize awards will be officially recognized during the ISI WSC 2021 on 16 July.

Following discussions with the Government of Zambia, it has been agreed to postpone the 17th Conference of the IAOS / 3rd Regional Statistical Conference of the ISI until 2023.

The 18th Conference of the IAOS will be held in Krakow, Poland from 26-28 April 2022. Proposals for Invited Papers close on 26 July 2021.

The Summer School on Survey Statistics 2021 is fully virtual and offers educational sessions in English and Russian. The school is free of charge and is open for anyone interested.

The International Biometric Society (IBS) invites submissions of abstracts for contributed oral and poster presentations for the IBC2022 by 30 September 2021.

Join Esri on 20 July 20 at 7:00 a.m. PDT for this exciting webinar. Given the broad range of types of data and data users today – it is critical that National Statistical Offices and Statisticians consider how to best disseminate data and visually engage their users. In this session Esri will provide an overview of how a National Portal can be created, and share templates and scripts that you can leverage to share your data.

Dr. Melody S. Goodman wins the first Societal Impact Award; 50th Anniversary Reception scheduled during the Joint Statistical Meetings; Happy Hours on the fourth Thursday of every month and much more.

The journal Teaching Statistics announces publication of a special issue “Teaching Data Science and Statistics: foundation and introductory”.

Join us at the 2021 Esri User Conference Virtual event on 12-15 July. View the plenary live and attend the technical sessions and workshops. Register now, and view the StoryMap for a list of curated sessions and presentations for National Statistical Offices.

Join us on 13 July at 14:00 BST for a live workshop on the power of GIS and spatial analysis with Esri. In this exciting session we will look at big data analysis with GIS, data engineering, and advancements in spatial analysis including time series forecasting.

During her 2019 term as ASA President, Karen Kafadar convened a task force to address issues surrounding the use of p-values and statistical significance, as well as their connection to replicability. The report from the task force will appear soon.