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Respected Seniors, Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Greetings from Namma Bengaluru!

The Karnataka Orthopaedic Association is honoured to host the 69th Annual Conference of the Indian Orthopaedic Association - IOACON 2024 Bengaluru from the 2nd to 7th of December 2024.
The Indian Orthopaedic Association is one of the largest professional organisations with more than 15000 active life members. It is a vibrant organisation with focus on academics, research and social networking. From the time of its formation in 1955, in these 60 years the association has evolved into a strong professional body with many speciality committees and regional committees.
The annual conference IOACON is being hosted in Bengaluru after a gap of sixteen long years and making this conference memorable is the priority for the motivated Organising team.
The Organising Committee of IOACON 2024 Bengaluru is striving hard to surpass hitherto conferences with a scientific programme to keep the delegates engaged with an academic spectacle. To break the monotony of academics there shall be Guest Talks by celebrities, Gala Evenings with families, Cultural Events, Spouse Activities, and sumptuous Cuisine to give each delegate a memorable experience. We promise that IOACON 2024 Bengaluru will be a stimulating, instructive and therapeutically rejuvenating conference.
Bengaluru Bengaluru is India's third-largest city enjoys a salubrious climate throughout the year. It has evolved gradually from being the Garden City with spacious parks to the Silicon Valley of India, one of the 10 hottest global IT Bengaluru Bengaluru is renowned for its eateries, street food corners, quirky cafes, coffee roasters and pubs dotting every corner of the city, serving cuisines from all over the world.
Famed for its health care infrastructure which is on par with the best in the world, Bengaluru is a leading “Health Tourism” destination which is well connected by Air, Railways and Road with rest of India and world.
The venue of IOACON 2024, Bengaluru Palace is a regal architectural masterpiece modelled on the Windsor Castle in England. It is situated in the heart of the city, in the Palace Gardens with easy access from all parts of the city and ample parking space.
IOACON 2024 Bengaluru awaits you with open arms - do come, indulge in the academics, experience our hospitality, make new friends, catch up with old ones and cherish the memories for a lifetime.