Sicht.Kontakte 2024

ByGlobalCONTACT 27. September 20242. October 2024

Today Sicht.Kontakte 2024 start in Essen, Germany. VDCO, IVBS and ZVA, three contact lens and optometry associations, are jointly inviting from September 27 to 29. The audience can expect a varied lecture program with over 30 specialist lectures and 21 workshops from around 50 speakers. Under the roofs of the “Ruhrturm”, the three-day event will once again be the hub for optical knowledge transfer and networking during the simultaneous industry exhibition with 25 partners.

As usual, the program of Sicht.Kontakte 2024 is also varied: visitors can choose between lectures and workshops on the topics of soft contact lenses, rigid lenses, scleral lenses, binocular vision or glaucoma, and speakers will also offer insights into the latest research and findings in the fields of myopia, paediatric optometry and dry eye. Parallel to the VDCO program, a large meeting of contact lens lecturers from the D-A-C-H region will take place on Saturday afternoon. The three-day event will conclude with the Day of Optometry on Sunday, which will once again offer further thematic highlights. www.sichtkontakte.de

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