Developing the ISSCR Annual Meeting program has been both a privilege and a responsibility. Together with an incredible team of dedicated colleagues we have committed to highlight the entire breath of our field in partnership. The annual meeting is a time during which the ISSCR community comes together to be nourished by meaningful content and to learn from colleagues who may be at different stages of their careers, have different personal histories, come from different parts of the world, or come from different subfields of interest within the regenerative and stem cell field. Creating an Annual Meeting to make this possible involved recruiting program chairs and a program committee that complemented and expanded my view and embraced the process of working together as a team to reach our aspirations.