Organizers Jim Fink and Andy Clark, together with visitor John Patton, look back at the 2021 ISAM congress in Boise, Idaho. Which took place in the middle of the SARSCov19 pandemic. Listen how they organized a hybrid event with live visitors from the US (with enough space to stick to the social distancing standards) and a lot of virtual visitors from around the globe. This podcast episode also highlights that for several ISAM members the pandemic was a special period, where many of us engaged in developing medicinal treatments and inhaled vaccines.