Since its inaugural conference in 1963, the British Academic Conference of Otolaryngology (BACO) has become the UK’s largest academic ENT event, and the primary showcase of developments and advances in British and Irish Otolaryngology. BACO 2020 will be held in Birmingham, and will bring together some 2,000 ENT doctors, nurses, specialist consultants and care professionals for an exciting three-day programme of keynote, plenary and instructional, and live cadaveric sessions. Each of these events will be delivered by a rollcall of fantastic speakers and participants from across the UK and around the world, including the University of Cape Town’s Johan Fagan, Gigi Ostler of the University of Manitoba, Markus Hess from the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Luiz Kowalski of Universidade Federal do São Paulo, Harvard Medical School’s Reza Rahbar, Eben Rosenthal of the Stanford Cancer Center, and Sarah Wise of Emory University, Atlanta.