BIRD 2023 Second Annual Congress

BIRD is offering high-profile key lectures, live Q&A sessions, plus workshops, interspersed with a delicious food with a view over the medieval city and world heritage site of Bruges.

BIRD and BINAstoria are also bringing you 2 educational training sessions in the morning of Friday 17^th November before the start of the congress.  These training sessions are open to all healthcare professionals participating in the Congress and to the sponsors of the educational training sessions.  Please note that due to space limitations, the BIRD educational training session is limited to the first 80 people to register for this session.  

Have a look at the full program. The list of speakers can be found here.

We have built some time into the Friday program from 5:15PM - 7:00PM to enable you to digest the lectures and to have some free time before the networking meeting at De Halve Maan on Friday evening. 

Registration for the BIRD 2023 Second Annual Congress is open to general gastroenterologists, trainees in gastroenterology and internal medicine, IBD scientists, IBD ideologists, nurses interested in IBD, and study coordinators. We listened to your feedback from last year, and have created an even more attractive BINAstoria program for 2023. BINAstoria will follow the BIRD program across the two days, as well as BINAstoria-specific lectures, workshops and round table discussions on hot topics.

Note: BIRD and BINAstoria Members save money on their registration fee. Become a BIRD or BINAstoria member now! After registering to become a member, please allow 1 working day before registering as a BIRD Member for the Congress.

Registration to become a BIRD member to benefit from the reduced member fee is only possible until November 15.

Trainees who are BIRD members can also register for free! Become a member now!

Register until September 30 to benefit from the Early BIRD fee.

Registration fees

* The Networking Meeting will take place at 7pm at the brewery De Halve Maan.  Registration is limited to the first 175 people: FULL

**Due to space limitations, the BIRD educational training session is limited to the first 80 people to register for this session. This session is FULL.  

*** A no show policy is in place: if you are no longer able to attend the Congress and/or networking event, we respectfully ask you to let us know by September 15. If no notice is received, an invoice of €200 will be sent to you to cover the costs of the catering at the congress.

Registration fees include:

• Admittance to the BIRD/BINASTORIA congress plenary sessions
• Participation in workshops and roundtable discussions on Saturday morning for Physicians, Nurses/Trainees/Study Coordinators only
• Access to the networking dinner on Friday 17^th November for Physicians, Nurses/Trainees/Study Coordinators only (an additional fee will be requested from pharmaceutical companies)
• Welcome coffee(s), coffee breaks, lunch on Saturday 18^th November
• Admittance to the exhibition area
• Certificate of attendance
• BIRD Congress bags

Registration fees do NOT include:

• The networking dinner for Pharmaceutical companies. Please select this option from the dropdown on the Registration page.
• Participation in Saturday morning workshops for BIRD and BINAstoria
• Hotel accommodation. Please read here for a list of suggested hotels
• BIRD will not reimburse any parking costs incurred. Please read here for a list of suggested car parks in the vicinity of the BMCC.

Cancellation Policy

We will reimburse 70% of the registration fee upon written cancellation before 15 September.  After that date no refund will be made.

Accreditation & Certificate of attendance

Certificates of attendance will be given at the welcome and registration desk.

A RIZIV/INAMI accreditation for both the BIRD 2023 Second Annual Congress and the Educational Training has been requested. The activity numbers are:

• BIRD Educational Training: Unraveling a published clinical trial from A to Z: ethics, biostatistics, and other methodological aspects:
  23018011 granted 2 credit points
• BINAstoria Educational Training: Framework for an IBD clinic in Belgium: 23019515 granted 2 credit points
• BIRD Congress Day 1: 23018007 granted 3 credit points
• BIRD Congress Day 2: 23018010 granted 2.5 credit points

Virtual Viewing

Registration is only for the live event.