OPTOM, the sector’s most important scientific and professional event, will create synergies with the ExpoOptica'18 trade fair
It will be held on 13, 14 and 15 April 2018, at the North Convention Centre at IFEMA, coinciding with the 32nd edition of this event, whose fair concept has been updated significantly in recent years, and which has become established as the leading business trade show for the sector in the Iberian market
OPTOM Congress, the leading national scientific and professional event in the field of optometry and ophthalmic optics, and one of the most significant in the world, will take place in the framework of the EXPOOPTICA International Optics, Optometry and Audiology Exhibition, organised by IFEMA.
The 25th edition of the OPTOM congress, organised by the General Council of Colleges of Opticians-Optometrists, will take place on 13, 14 and 15 April 2018, at the North Convention Center at IFEMA. It has been scheduled to coincide with the 32nd edition of the trade show, whose exhibition concept has been updated significantly in recent years, and which has become established as the leading business show for the sector in the Iberian market (Spain and Portugal).
OPTOM has been scheduled to coincide with EXPOOPTICA in order to strengthen synergies between both, and to offer professionals scientific advances in both optometry and ophthalmic optics, and the latest innovations from the brands participating in the show, all under one roof, at IFEMA.
According to Juan Carlos Martinez, president of the General Council of Colleges of Opticians-Optometrists "Holding the congress and trade fair on the same dates is the result of an institutional arrangement that is renewed every two years, and which benefits the entire industry with the synergies that generates; enhancing the opportunities and demands faced by a sector that is becoming increasingly specialised and which is gaining social weight in the health field.
Matters of the utmost interest
An initial preview of the seminar programme for the OPTOM Congress in 2018, reveals that there will be some highly interesting topics of discussion. For three days, and simultaneously, OPTOM 2018 will offer four plenary sessions on the subjects of dry eye, simultaneous vision, and myopic and mblyopia treatment. The congress will also include master lectures, sponsored lectures, 18 monographic courses, as well as more than 100 oral communications, four clinical courses, papers and a long list of contents that make up an attractive comprehensive training programme for attendees.
Each edition of OPTOM features world-renowned researchers and experts, and is attended by almost 1,300 professionals. This time, the inaugural conference will be given by Francisco Martínez Mojica, Tenured Professor of Microbiology at the University of Alicante, winner of the US Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine, and candidate for Nobel prizes in Medicine and Chemistry, as the father of the CRISPR/Cas 9 genetic editing technique.
ExpoOptica'18 will be take place in Hall 9 at IFEMA, where visitors will find an extensive offer, adapted to the needs of companies and professionals from the worlds of vision, business, trends, training, innovation and fashion.