The Arab Health Exhibition and Congress is an annual healthcare event held in Dubai, UAE. Now in its 41st year, this was the largest the event has ever been, with 4,000 exhibitors from 63 countries, 500 speakers for conference talks and workshops, and over 130,000 visitors. It is certainly the largest professional event I have ever attended. As with a lot of things around Dubai, the scale of it is huge. I went for one day, to meet up with research university representatives

Following last year’s successful conference in London, I will continue to sit on the organising committee for the International Society of Managing and Technical Editors’ 9th Annual European conference. The conference will be held on the 31 October - 1 November 2016 at the Brussels Downtown Sheraton, Belgium. Booking details are available on the ISMTE website here. Details of the agenda will be posted on the site in due course, as we begin to finalise details. I will kee

The 13th EASE Conference will be held on the 10-12 June, 2016, at the School of Medicine in central Strasbourg, France. The main theme will be “Scientific integrity: editors on the front line”, along with many other hot topics. There will also be pre and post-conference practical workshops. I will be moderating the parallel session on Editor certification and raising standards. I have posted the programme outline below. Full details of the event, along with booking info