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After 1969 in Madrid and 2001 in Vietnam, the two IUGG Associations IAGA and IASPEI are meeting the 3rd time for a Joint Scientific Assembly. Initial efforts for the planning of the IAGA-IASPEI Joint Scientific Assembly 2021, to be held at Hyderabad, hosted by CSIR-NGRI and INSA (the National Adhering body of IUGG) started as early as 2019 during the IUGG General Assembly at Montréal, Canada. In February of 2020, the General Secretaries of IAGA and IASPEI made a physical tour of the venue, accommodation, entertainment and transport facilities in Hyderabad to optimize arrangements for delegates, who would attend the conference in August 2021. These preparations came to a grinding halt when the global pandemic situation started spreading like wildfire from March 2020. It was only in the second half of the year that the decision to not postpone the Joint Assembly, but rather turn it into a virtual one, could be taken. The re-oriented preparations started in earnest again from October 2020. After hundreds of meetings and long days of work, we are now ready for the virtual conference, which will spread over 21 – 27 August, 2021. The 5th IAGA and 1st IASPEI Schools and the GIFT Workshop precede it, the week before. 30 doctoral students will be attending each of the Schools, and more than 50 school teachers will be trained in recent developments in the Earth systems from India and neighboring countries in the GIFT Workshop. 827 scientists and researchers have registered for the conference. 778 abstracts were submitted for presentations during the 53 symposia: 8 Joint symposia, 1 Diamond Jubilee symposium commemorating 60 years of CSIR-NGRI, 27 IAGA symposia and 17 IASPEI symposia, including one from the Asian Seismological Commission (ASC). A major advantage of organizing a joint Assembly is of course the opportunity for interdisciplinary discussion and exchange of research results. Therefore, we are in particular emphasizing that ~20% of all contributions has been submitted to the Joint Symposia. The 217 poster and 562 oral contributions including 121 invited talks will be presented in virtual mode from all over the world, making optimum time scheduling a big challenge. Three Plenary lectures on topics of interest both for IAGA and IASPEI are scheduled. The Inaugural and Valedictory sessions include participation of policy makers from the Government of India, who will receive a glimpse of the science and its application for human society, which is being deliberated during the conference. The Scientific Programme Committee has worked hard to balance the parameters of world time zones, overlap of sessions and themes, and preferences of conveners, who have so carefully structured their symposia. Business Meetings, Poster Halls slots had to be accommodated to come up with a best compromise. The journey of transitioning into this new mode has been one of many challenges and learning opportunities. We hope that all delegates make the best of the congregation through virtual sharing of science and casual chats. Virtual conferences are here to stay but we also look forward to meeting each other in person on another scientific occasion. Kusumita Arora On behalf of the Scientific Programme Committee