Events

 Olav Toornend has been president of the International Association of Orthopaedic Footwear Technicians (IVO) since October 2021. We asked him about his expectations regarding the IVO Congress in Cologne on October 14-15, 2022.

The Pedorthic Association of Canada (PAC) is hosting its 2020 Symposium in Halifax, NS at the Halifax Convention Centre. More than 250 Pedorthists, Podiatrists, Chiropodist, Orthotists and others concerned with the neurobiology of pedorthics are expected to attend North America’s largest Pedorthic event, which will be held April 23 – 25.

The Pedorthic Association of Australia (PAC) and the Pedorthic Association of Canada (PAA) have postponed their 2020 conferences until next year.

The French Association of Pedorthists (FFPO) will hold their “Journées de l’Appareillage du Pied" (Foot Fitting Days), originally scheduled for May, inDecember 9 and 10, 2021 in Clermont-Ferrand.

The city of Cologne in Germany will be the venue of the next IVO Congress on 22/23 October 2021. Main topics will be the diabetic foot and the biomechanics of the foot.

On October 14 and 15, 2022, the city of Cologne in Germany will be the place to present and discuss new results from science and from the daily practice of pedorthics. All scientists and professionals involved in the therapy of foot problems are cordially invited to contribute to the congress.For the first time, the trade fair and congress ORTHOPÄDIE SCHUH TECHNIK will be held together with the congress of the International Association of Pedorthists (IVO).

For the IVO Congress 2022 on October 14-15 in Cologne, the two journals "foot&shoe" and "Orthopädieschuhtechnik" together with the International Pedorthic Association (IVO) are launching a project with which they want to make pedorthists around the world more visible and bringing them together.

Due to the actual international COVID 19–situation and the current hygienic restrictions, CONNECT 2021 will be held as an Online-Congress. After two successful congresses at the University of Ulm, the third CONNECT congress will be hosted by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) on  March 26-27, 2021.

2022 will be a special trade fair year for pedorthics: The whole industry waits in the wings to finally meet again in person on 14 and 15 October 2022, after the postponement the year before. After 22 years, the IVO World Congress will take place in Germany again. A highlight that will beckon many international visitors to Cologne.

ORTHOPÄDIE SCHUH TECHNIK - International Trade Fair and Congress and the associated Congress of the International Pedorthic Association  (IVO) will be postponed by one year to October 14 and 15, 2022. The originally planned date was October 22 and 23, 2021.

The IVO Congress 2022 on October 14-15, 2022 in Cologne will also have many features in store for international visitors. In addition to the multilingual congress program, several seminars will also be offered in English.

OT-World 2022 (10-13 May 2022) is dedicating a special show to the supply of foot orthotics. The exhibition will show the complexity of optimal orthotic care at five stations. Guided tours of the show will be offered several times a day.

According to the status of 10 March 2020, Messe Leipzig reports that OTWorld will take place on schedule from 12 to 15 May 2020.

After the purely digital OTWorld.connect 2020, the world's leading trade fair and congress will return to Leipzig as a presence event with supplementary digital offerings from May 10 to 13, 2022.

The Pedorthic Association of Australia (PAA) invites its members, the wider foot related network and allied health colleagues to the first face-to-face PAA conference since their pre-pandemic event in 2019.

The PAC Symposium scheduled for April 23 – 25, 2020 in Halifax has been cancelled and will not be rescheduled for this year.

This year, the symposium of the Pedorthic Association of Canada will be entirely digital. On April 16, 2021, the Symposium will welcome a curated program of expert speakers including keynote speaker Tom Michaud, DC. All presentations will reference the symposium's theme: A Balanced and Pragmatic Approach to Pedorthics.

PAC is pleased to announce the 2022 Symposium with options to attend both in person in Winnipeg, MB through real-time streaming. Over two days, 11 speakers will present on a variety of topics around this year’s theme: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Chronic Pain and Pedorthics.

The Pedorthic Association of Australia invites pedorthists to join this years Pedorthics conference to be held from 22 to 24 October 2020. The theme for the conference this year is “Pedorthics – Stepping to the West!”