Attendance at RSNA24, the annual convention of the Oak Brook, Unwell.-based Radiological Society of North America, held yearly at Chicago’s McCormick Place, is up slight over attendance at RSNA23 final yr. As of Monday afternoon, Dec. 2, an RSNA media relations spokesperson reported that the estimated in-person attendance was 38,000 attendees as of Sunday, and acknowledged that the quantity was anticipated to rise to 40,000 by Tuesday, together with roughly 2,000 digital attendees. Even with out the two,000 digital attendees, the 2024 determine was anticipated to be at the least 11 % greater than the 34,175 confirmed finally yr’s gathering, additionally at McCormick Place.
And 2023’s attendance determine had been primarily equal to that of 2022, with 34,385. The 2022 determine was dramatically greater than that of 2021, with simply 21,300 attendees, within the first yr for the reason that convention had needed to go digital in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the meantime, the variety of technical exhibitors this yr was 715, roughly the identical quantity because the yr earlier than.
Synthetic intelligence continued to be a serious theme at this yr’s convention, because it had been in 2023. In his President’s Tackle on Sunday, Dec. 1, Curtis P. Langlotz, M.D., Ph.D., instructed the radiologists gathered at McCormick Place that “Forming clever connections from machine to machine, human to machine, and human to human will lead us to an thrilling future. Constructing these clever connections will yield wonderful technological improvements, with decreased stress, a extra balanced life, and ample time to nurture essentially the most clever connections of all—those we construct with one another, Dr. Langlotz stated.
