Strategies for "Socially Distant": University-Company Collaborations.

In the early months of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic abruptly transformed the way the world works and collaborates. With most workrelated travel curtailed and many knowledge workers constrained to work-from-home, face-to-face interaction was replaced by a world of virtual communication and collaboration. In 2021, workflows continue to evolve for universities, corporations, and governments to support "socially distant" R&D, education, and organizational infrastructure. This paper reports on a ICSE 2021 workshop panel focused on how COVID-19 has inspired changes to university-company collaborations, for better or worse. The panel was organized and moderated by Steven Fraser (Innoxec) with invited panelists Sheri Brodeur (MIT), Randy Katz (UC Berkeley), Xue [Steve] Liu (McGill), Stefanie Molthagen- Schnöring (HTW-Berlin), and Sheng-Ying [Aithne] Pao (NTHU Taiwan).