Our call for speakers at our Annual Conference 2026 is now open. The conference will take place at the Royal Armouries in Leeds on 28–29 September 2026, bringing together infection prevention and control professionals, microbiologists, epidemiologists, behavioural scientists, and health system leaders to share knowledge, challenge thinking, and inspire practice change.
We invite members and colleagues from all community, acute, and specialist care settings to submit speaker abstracts. This is an opportunity to showcase innovation, research, quality improvement, and real-world experience across the continuum of care. Submissions are welcome from professionals in nursing, medicine, pharmacy, science, education, engineering, and policy-making.
Abstracts should align with one of the following themes:
- Infection Prevention in Practice: Real-World Solutions across Settings. Practical, replicable work from community, acute, long-term, and specialist services. Topics may include outbreak management, surveillance, workforce training, and translating evidence into daily practice.
- Priority Pathogens, Threats & Antimicrobial Stewardship: Identification and Response. Exploring emerging infections or pathogens of importance and strategies for prevention and control through surveillance, diagnostics, antimicrobial stewardship in action, preparedness, and policy integration.
- Decontamination & Reprocessing: Evidence, Standards and Innovation. Focused on cleaning, disinfection, environmental monitoring, and reprocessing of equipment to ensure patient safety.
- Safe Environments, Buildings & Systems: Ventilation, Water, Waste and Climate Resilience/Sustainability. Designing and maintaining safe environments, including ventilation, water safety, waste management, construction controls, climate-related infection risks, and sustainability.
- Behavioural & Implementation Science in IPC: Leadership, Culture & Change. Exploring how human factors, leadership, and behavioural science support sustainable improvement and embed IPC into organisational culture.
- Technical & Digital Innovations: Diagnostics, AI and the Future of IPC. Highlighting emerging technologies that transform infection prevention, including digital surveillance, rapid diagnostics, data analytics, robotics, and artificial intelligence.
Abstract Submission Deadline extended to 28 November 2025.
To submit your abstract complete our application form.
Please note that this invitation is separate from the oral presentation, poster talk, and poster abstract submissions, which will open in early 2026 alongside the official IP2026 conference launch.
