ISAPS: POWERING LEARNING AND ENGAGEMENT THROUGH HYBRID EVENTS

Meet ISAPS

The International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS) is the world’s leading professional body that represents plastic surgeons who specialize in aesthetic (cosmetic) and reconstructive plastic surgery. Founded in 1970 ISAPS has three main goals.

First, they aim to educate their members on the latest procedures and techniques in plastic surgery. Second, they strive to provide the public with accurate and unbiased information about plastic surgery. Finally, ISAPS is committed to promoting patient safety by developing and promoting standards of care and advocating for safe practices. By achieving these goals, ISAPS hopes to ensure that patients receive the highest quality of care and that the field of plastic surgery continues to advance.

Bringing a global community together to meet and learn

Aesthetics is a fast-moving and innovative segment of clinical practice. ISAPS, the representative body for the profession, therefore must be seen to be innovative, cutting edge and delivering value for its global membership.

BeThere Global has worked with ISAPS on virtual events organisation since the onset of COVID-19 in 2020.

We were commissioned to provide the organisation with a rock-solid, universally available and highly scalable platform for monthly courses and masterclasses for e-learning purposes; particularly as Covid had taken face-to-face learning opportunities off the table. We provided the interface and functionality, storage, live streaming and on-demand replay for ISAPS to keep its promises to members, despite the impact of COVID-19.

Worldwide hybrid event organisation

As with so many of our clients, our reputation for delivery without compromise meant that in 2021 we were invited to provide services to ISAPS’ prestige annual event, the World Congress. We made it our business to ensure that, even with rapidly changing circumstances caused by the pandemic, the event would go ahead and all attendees would see value. Held across three days in Vienna, we managed the live streaming of multiple conference tracks. Many sessions featured remote contributors as many speakers were prohibited from travelling due to the virus. As a truly global hybrid events agency, we handled the whole process, allowing remote speakers to simultaneously engage with in-person attendees and the audience online.

In 2022 an ISAPS Masterclass, took place in Phuket, Thailand; as a hybrid event. In order to minimise the expense and risk of travel at this time, our virtual events team worked with a local partner in Thailand to implement resilient feeds from the conference venue to our UK studio, and then back out to the world. Indeed, with the threat of COVID, some speakers chose at the last minute not to travel. With little notice, we allowed these speakers to beam in to Phuket, and back out to the ISAPS community online. Even with these challenges, the event was delivered faultlessly.

The ISAPS 2022 World Congress was staged in Istanbul. We provided streaming using the same methodology adopted for Vienna one year earlier, although on this occasion there were no remote speakers as travel restrictions had been lifted.