A Big Win For WCI, And For Workers’ Comp

Finally, life felt normal again. No video conferences. No remote meetings. Just a smattering of masks.

This year for the Workers’ Compensation Institute in Orlando, their behemoth of an educational conference rose like a Phoenix from the desolate ashes of a detested pandemic.

And not only did they manage to pull off a successful in-person event; they appear to have assembled what was probably the best WCI conference held to date.

WCI took a calculated risk with this conference. Normally held in Florida in August, managers made the decision to push the 2021 Conference back to December, in what can best be described as an attempt to get as far away from Covid as they could while still conducting a worthwhile in-person event.

It was a gamble that paid off. Even though they reported slightly fewer exhibitors and about 200 less registrants than the last in-person conference in 2019 (2020 was postponed and then went virtual), you couldn’t tell by walking the floors of the massive Orlando World Marriott Convention facility.