I’d like to thank everyone for your extraordinary hard work and commitment over the past year. It hasn’t been easy. The world has faced and is facing some enormous challenges and that is affecting all our lives and our work. At times, I’m conscious that we’ve asked an enormous amount of you. But we’ve also continued to have real success - from Dubai, which reminded everyone of how important it is to meet in person, to the biggest World Sight Day ever; from continuing to embed eye health across the development agenda whether it’s road safety or the world of work to developing a really impressive and comprehensive knowledge hub. And much, much more in between, including tangible progress across the regions and some really successful member meetings both in person and virtually. Thank you!

The NNN thrives on the engagement and leadership of our various disease and cross cutting groups, task groups, and we are grateful for your service and the expertise you bring to these groups and to the community overall. Putting a conference of this calibre requires a concerted teams’ effort. A hybrid conference especially is essentially two conferences running simultaneously. This truly was a colossal mission. I would like to acknowledge the contributions of those that made it possible. First and foremost, I would like to express my profound gratitude to Janine Lancaster, Hazel Dupont, Debbie Jackson-Cole, Debbie Bielby and the entire Maximize Your Time team in-person and online for your incredible and unwavering support to pull this one-of a-kind conference together.

Maximize Your Time (MYT) was hired to help us navigate the technical aspects of setting our event from in-person to virtual. They built an event website and registration experience using software we currently had in place that was beyond anything we have ever had for the face to face experience. Having technical rehearsals with presenters and meeting chairs, prior to and the morning of the event made for seamless presentations and a professional final product that resulted in a very successful event. We do not have words to express our gratitude to their technical team whose professionalism, attention to detail, responsiveness and patience is above and beyond expectations.

Thank you for your never-ending support of us and the event. The biggest compliment I think I can pay you is to reflect a conversation I had towards the end of the event, when someone said how great The Foundation’s events team were in the UK. To integrate so smoothly into our ways of working and feel like team members is the ultimate in contracted event management. Thank you so much and I hope you all have a restful weekend when it comes.

Just to say a huge thank you from myself and the team for the last few days in Brighton - all went really well thank you, and thanks for all your support.

I have worked with MYT for 7 years & it’s always been a pleasure working with them. It makes things a lot easier and it’s always fun working with them.The team is always exceptionally responsive and efficient, helping us get ready in the months before the conference. MYT’s unending capacity to manage crises reassured us all. So all I can say is: I would like to express my thanks to the staff of Maximize Your Time for all their hard work and impressive professionalism in organizing our conference. Working with a professional conference planner like Maximize Your Time, enabled us to put together a successful conference for the participants, whilst Maximize Your Time made sure that everything ran smoothly during the event. I will strongly recommend the services of Maximize Your Time to any company willing to organize an outstanding conference or workshop.

I have worked with Maximize Your Time for many years now and don’t know what I would do without them! Their industry knowledge, efficiency and attitude are truly second to none. They respond to our venue finding needs with the same professionalism and enthusiasm whether it’s a meeting for two people or a congress for 900. When faced with difficult situations MYT always seem to come up with the solution and they make my busy working life so much easier…they are a joy to work with. Their on-site skills in delivering an event are exceptional. They remain calm under pressure and use their diplomacy and experience to ensure a smooth running event for all. I really can not recommend them highly enough.