Following the success of this year’s sold-out IHCAN Conferences in collaboration with the British Association for Applied Nutrition and Nutritional Therapy (BANT), organisers Target Publishing have signed a three-year agreement to continue the collaboration.
The new deal will see Target, publishers of CAM magazine, working with BANT on a minimum of five events each year.
With more than 185 practitioners and students attending each event, the IHCAN Conferences in collaboration with BANT have established themselves as essential educational events. All this year’s events have been sellouts, and November’s CAM Conference on the Gut/Brain Axis was fully-booked four months in advance. Leading speakers, question and answer sessions, time for networking, specialist mini-expos and excellent catering have proved an extremely popular formula.
CAM editor Simon Martin, education director for the IHCAN Conferences, said: “CAM and BANT are obviously a winning combination and the CAM Conference team, in collaboration with BANT, have created something special. So it’s great that we have BANT’s backing long-term so we can build on the success and deliver the leading speakers and most up-to-date and effective clinical ideas on a regular basis. The success is founded on the principle of sharing information and experiences that can be put to clinical practice the very next day.”
Miguel Toribio-Mateas, chairman of BANT, explains why the IHCAN Conferences are important to them: “The mutually supportive links that BANT and Target Publishing/IHCAN Conferences have forged during the last three years have enabled ongoing learning and appreciation of the educational needs of Registered Nutritional Therapists.
“Simon Martin, the Education Director of the Conferences, and myself are working very closely together to ensure that the speakers and subjects are of absolute stellar quality, which is hugely exciting.
“I am very much looking forward to continuing to cultivate the relationship between BANT and the IHCAN Conferences team for the next three years and thank the whole Target team for their ongoing support of BANT and of Registered Nutritional Therapists.”
Graham Botfield, BANT Director for Business Development, commented: “By working in collaboration with the IHCAN Conferences we work on events that work in parallel with our goals – to provide Registered Nutritional Therapists with the latest nutritional protocols, which, when put into practical clinical use, grow the UK’s knowledge and understanding of nutrition.”
Education doesn’t stop with the lectures. At every CAM Conference we invite 15 leading natural health suppliers to exhibit in the networking area. Delegates tell us how much they appreciate being able to speak to relevant, specialist practitioner-only suppliers in an environment dedicated to learning. Suppliers love the opportunity to showcase their special offers and share their latest research with the people who really matter.
Jayne Tooke, BSc (Hons),
DipION, a nutritionist for Cambridge Nutritional Sciences and exhibitor at the IHCAN Conferences, explains what they think of the events: “One of the best organised conferences we have attended. It was an interesting day with a very friendly and relaxed atmosphere; we look forward to the next one’’.
