We are looking to the future: 2020 and three years beyond the end of the project, to how tools and knowledge provided through EUPATI could make a difference to patients, advocates, patient organisations and the public.We want this conference to focus on ‘real world’ healthcare hot topics; which you as conference delegates could relate to.The conference program has been structured around three key topics: patient involvement in medicines research and development; patients’ voice in access to new medicines; increasing the public awareness of benefits and risks of new treatment development.