Professor Joseph Mikhael, MD from Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ talks to us about the use of social media during medical congresses, focussing on his experience from #ASCO16. He discusses the importance of expanding the conversation to those who can’t make it to congress and highlights that introducing new opinions will improve the content that comes out of these meetings. Patients are becoming a bigger part of things these days and with many data and presentations being published or presented online, in an open-access format where anyone can contribute, are we risking diluting ‘expert’ conversation? Prof. Mikhael tells us what he thinks.