From early detection to lifelong hearing health, WCA 2028 brings together global expertise:

• Effective low-cost health innovations: learning from the global south
• Service users as active partners in shaping education, research and practice
• Across the lifespan – from newborn hearing screening to healthy ageing, including co-morbidities
• Invited topics from early career researchers and people with lived experience
• Prevention to rehabilitation – reducing risk, improving outcomes
• Science to practice – basic, translational and clinical research
• Quality and outcomes – measuring what matters in hearing health

Innovation & Technology:
AI in audiology, big data, implantable and self-fitting devices.

Quality & Outcomes
Meaningful outcome measures, real-world impact, value-based care, and benchmarking across services.

Global & Public Health
Prevention, epidemiology, WHO priorities, underserved communities and hearing difficulties in the context of co-morbidities.

Future Practice
Teleaudiology, service delivery models, implementation science.

Clinical Excellence
Hearing loss, tinnitus, vestibular care, auditory rehabilitation.

Lived Experience
Clients shaping research, care, and education.

For those students who cannot travel, we will include sessions that are virtual and aimed at our education colleagues to engage their classroom groups with our speakers.

To cover three distinct time zones, we plan to offer virtual classroom sessions, for example:

• 7 am UK = 3 pm in Tokyo, 4pm in Sydney/Melbourne
• 1 pm UK = 2pm Cape Town
• 7 pm UK = 2pm in New York and Toronto

With both in-person and enhanced virtual engagement, we aim to make this Congress more accessible and impactful than ever.