The 10th World Glaucoma Congress (WGC) in Rome was the largest yet, with 3,000 attendees and 1,000 abstracts accepted. The Eternal City was hot, sunny and heaving with tourists as we arrived at La Nuvola (The Cloud), the award-winning, 30m-high, glass-and-steel masterpiece hosting this year’s WGC. Its huge, organically shaped auditorium is seemingly suspended from the ceiling of the structure with entry via three long parallel escalators. The welcoming ceremony saw the faculty individually introduced onto the stage, with lights flashing in time to DNCE’s ‘Cake by the Ocean’ (thank you Richard Johnson for identifying the score). The welcome concluded with a beautiful, if incongruous, operatic rendition of ‘Time to Say Goodbye’.
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