Address an audience with the power to make a real difference
The International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare has a rich history of supporting and energising the international movement for health and care improvement. We connect health and care leaders, practitioners and those with lived experience to collaboratively improve outcomes for our communities.
Call for Speakers is an invitation to submit a proposal to showcase an innovative project, run an interactive workshop or inspire a new way of thinking.
By speaking at the conference, you will be part of a global movement to ignite change across healthcare networks and inspire an audience with the power to make a real difference.
You will be sharing strategies, your experience and thinking about improvement methodologies and approaches to driving sustainable transformation. This will give you the opportunity to inspire, lead and teach as well as reflect and offer peer support to healthcare improvers, including the next generation of health and care leaders. You will:
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Raise your profile as an improvement leader
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Bring attention to projects with a robust evidence base and reliable results
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Share fresh ideas that have the potential to change the status quo
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Start conversations with an engaged community that can contribute to your thinking and strategies
What are we looking for?
We welcome applications from across the healthcare sector and beyond, including non-clinicians, patients and carers, voluntary/social sector employees, students and first-time presenters.
Call for Speakers closes on 9 July 2025.
We have a strong preference for content that:
- Is co-designed and co-produced with or led by patients or service users
- Illustrates ways to facilitate interdependent approaches for achieving improvement within and across settings and systems
- Contains new, innovative, and fresh ideas that challenge established practices
- Can demonstrate impact sustainability and scalability through quantitative data over time and authentic narratives
- Results in meaningful real-world impact for patients and communities
Speaker submissions topics for Oslo 2026
Our programme theme for Oslo 2026 is Resilience.
Over the coming months, we will work with our Programme Advisory Committees to develop the theme in more detail and aim to create a programme that will tackle the big questions in global health and care, and come up with solutions that have real-world impact.
We want to hear about projects and initiatives that show impactful results under these six streams/topics: Safety, People, Populations, Change, Science, and Leading.
Patient representation and lived experience
Submissions are expected to be co-produced with patients, service users, citizens and carers wherever possible. We have representatives on these groups in all our planning committees, and are working to increase the representation of these groups as speakers and delegates.
Contact us
You will be notified of the outcome of your submission by email in September 2025.
Please note that the email address that you supply on the Submitter Details page when submitting your proposal will be the email address used to correspond the results of your submission. If you change email addresses during this time, please let us know by emailing events@bmj.com so we can update our system.