  The COVID-19 pandemic has by-and-large prevented in-person meetings since
March 2020. While the increasing deployment of effective vaccines around the
world is a very positive development, the timeline and pathway to "normality"
is uncertain and the "new normal" we will settle into is anyone's guess.
Particle physics, like many other scientific fields, has more than a year of
experience in holding virtual meetings, workshops, and conferences. A great
deal of experimentation and innovation to explore how to execute these meetings
effectively has occurred. Therefore, it is an appropriate time to take stock of
what we as a community learned from running virtual meetings and discuss
possible strategies for the future. Continuing to develop effective strategies
for meetings with a virtual component is likely to be important for reducing
the carbon footprint of our research activities, while also enabling greater
diversity and inclusion for participation. This report summarizes a virtual
two-day workshop on Virtual Meetings held May 5-6, 2021 which brought together
experts from both inside and outside of high-energy physics to share their
experiences and practices with organizing and executing virtual workshops, and
to develop possible strategies for future meetings as we begin to emerge from
the COVID-19 pandemic. This report outlines some of the practices and tools
that have worked well which we hope will serve as a valuable resource for
future virtual meeting organizers in all scientific fields.
