Program
8:30 am - 10:30 am - 27 August 2026
Plenary 1: Official Opening Ceremony & Keynote Presentations
10:30 am - 11:00 am - 27 August 2026
Morning tea with industry
11:00 am - 12:30 pm - 27 August 2026
Concurrent Session: HNCIG - Multi-Disciplinary Lessons for Designing and Running Large Clinical Studies
11:00 am - 12:30 pm - 27 August 2026
Concurrent Session: Management of the Older Patient with Head and Neck Cancer
11:00 am - 12:30 pm - 27 August 2026
Concurrent Session: Oral Health, Prosthetics and Rehabilitation
11:00 am - 12:30 pm - 27 August 2026
Concurrent Session: Paranasal sinus tumours
11:00 am - 12:30 pm - 27 August 2026
Concurrent: Translational & Biomarker Research in Head and Neck Cancer
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm - 27 August 2026
Lunch with industry
12:45 pm - 1:30 pm - 27 August 2026
MSD Lunchtime Symposium: A New Paradigm: Integrating Immunotherapy into the Surgical Management of LA-HNSCC
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm - 27 August 2026
Concurrent Session: Allied Health Abstracts
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm - 27 August 2026
Concurrent Session: Head and Neck surgery & Reconstruction Abstracts
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm - 27 August 2026
Concurrent Session: Immunotherapy Abstracts
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm - 27 August 2026
Plenary 2: Optimising outcomes for HPV-Mediated Oropharyngeal Carcinoma
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm - 27 August 2026
Society Session: European Head and Neck Society - New Frontiers in Head and Neck Oncology
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm - 27 August 2026
Afternoon tea with industry
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm - 27 August 2026
Concurrent Session: Larynx Abstracts
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm - 27 August 2026
Concurrent Session: Salivary Abstracts
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm - 27 August 2026
PLENARY 3: OPTIMISING THE CARE PATHWAY (ALLIED HEALTH/NURSING MULTIDISCIPLINARY)
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm - 27 August 2026
Society Session: Indonesian Head and Neck Society: Sarcoma and Rare Head and Neck Tumours
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm - 27 August 2026
Society Session: Singapore Head Neck Society - Salivary Gland Tumours
4:45 pm - 6:30 pm - 27 August 2026
Concurrent Session: Beyond Surveillance: Optimising Head and Neck Cancer Survivorship
4:45 pm - 6:30 pm - 27 August 2026
Concurrent Session: Lifehouse and Melanoma Institute Australia - Neoadjuvant therapy for Melanoma: State of the art in 2026
4:45 pm - 6:30 pm - 27 August 2026
Concurrent Session: Perineural and Peritemporal Squamous Cell Carcinoma
4:45 pm - 6:30 pm - 27 August 2026
Concurrent Session: Radiation Oncology Abstracts
4:45 pm - 6:30 pm - 27 August 2026
Society Session: Chinese Head and Neck Group - Cancer of the Hypopharynx
4:45 pm - 6:15 pm - 27 August 2026
Society Session: FHNO: Recent Advances in management of Oral Cancer - Indian Experience
4:45 pm - 5:45 pm - 27 August 2026


