Seventeen years of involvement with the International Forum has made me come to realise that improving healthcare means learning from beyond your own organisation, city or country. For 30 years, BMJ Group and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) have convened improvement teams from more than 80 countries, creating a space for open exchange about what has worked, what has not, and the realities of implementation. My huge thanks go to the International Forum community - all our speakers, improvers, clinicians and partners - whose willingness to share their experience is what has sustained the conference for the past three decades. Ashley McKimm Director of partnership development, BMJ Group, editor, BMJ Innovations , former director of the International Forum powerful it was to be among people so committed to improving care. I longed for more colleagues from Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, and across the region to experience that same sense of belonging and shared purpose. At the International Forum, Paris 2014, I explored whether it could come to Asia and connected with Ashley McKimm, discovering BMJ Group felt the same. Together, we made it happen, and when it arrived in Hong Kong in 2015 and later in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Melbourne, and Taipei, it opened the door for hundreds more to join this global community. Siu-Fai Lui Adjunct professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care; Hong Kong Since 2008, I have attended the International Forum, often as one of very few participants from Asia, each time feeling how
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