Our lives as EM trainees are challenging and our environments complex. We invite you to join us in discussing the difficulties many trainees face, but moreover to celebrate the very privileged world of shared learning, camaraderie and team spirit we enjoy. Over two days this is the energy we want to harness; to allow a space and opportunity to speak candidly and realistically but also a chance to create solutions and to explore the realities of how we work best, train best, and how best we tackle the complexities we face. We hope that our world class speakers and the alternative style of the conference leave delegates proud to be EM trainees and engaged in the future of the specialty.