The SICB President, Beth Brainerd, will introduce the SICB 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting and demonstrate some features of the online meeting platform. The meeting will begin with live symposia, plenary events and student prize presentations from January 3-7. Then it will continue for all of January and February with pre-recorded contributed papers and posters, live discussions for the contributed paper and poster sessions, social events, divisional business meetings, committee meetings, workshops and social events. All content will be recorded for viewing and text chat throughout all of January and February. President Brainerd will demonstrate the powerful features of the virtual platform for professional networking and catching up with friends and colleagues. This is still your familiar SICB meeting, just with more flexibility, more access to the scientific content and opportunities for broader participation from scientists and students everywhere.