Optometry Tomorrow 2026 - Early bird booking is now open

The College has collaborated with Optometry Tomorrow’s new partners, the Association of British Dispensing Opticians, the Royal College of Nursing and the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, to ensure a truly multidisciplinary perspective for the 2026 programme.   

The two-day conference includes over 50 unmissable sessions, with over 90 CPD points available. Sessions span four themes: clinical confidence and excellence, multidisciplinary working, professional development, education and career growth, and technology and innovation.  

Programme highlights include: 

• keynote from Double Paralympian and England’s most decorated blind footballer Darren Harris 
• changes in global burden of visual impairment and the implications for the UK with Rupert Bourne, Professor of Ophthalmology at the Vision and Eye Research Institute of Anglia Ruskin University 
• the AI-ready optometrist: skills for future practice with Fiona Buckmaster MCOptom, community optometrist and PhD researcher at the University of Huddersfield

• standard two-day tickets are available for members of The College of Optometrists and Optometry Tomorrow’s partners’ members at the early bird are of £200 until 17 April
• newly Qualified College members can take advantage of the early bird rate for standard two-day tickets at £140 until 17 April. Student members can purchase standard two-day tickets for a reduced rate of £100
• standard rate two-day tickets for non-members are £520

Optometry Tomorrow 2026’s media partner is OpchatNews.com and Mylocaloptician.co.uk, published by Primary Health Net.