The Vista 2023 Scientific conference organizing team visited Cairo last week in preparation for holding the International Paralympic Conference from31 October to 3 November 2023.
The IPC inspection committee included Ms. Judith Van der Veen, Medical Manager and Ms. Ekaterina Kutina, Protocol, Hospitality and Events Manager. During the visit, Dr. Heba Hafez, VISTA 2023 Cairo Conference Manager accompanied them during the three-day visit to Egypt. .The team visited the New Administrative Capital , the expected host for the conference in addition to a number of hotels around the area. They were dazzled by the available facilities there and the conference rooms expected to host the conference session in addition to the modern architecture and the novelty of the new capital. The IPC officials were fascinated by the New Capital design, buildings and the Olympic City in particular. In addition to that, they paid a visit to the premises of the Egyptian Paralympic Committee meeting with Dr. Ashraf El-Ougeil, EPC board member and Dr. Howayda Mondy, the EPC Executive Director and EPC employees. Both El-Ougeil and Mondy expressed their gratitude to the IPC for honoring Egypt to host the first VISTA Scientific Conference outside Europe promising the delivery of an outstanding conference that will attract prominent scholars and researchers from across the globe.
EPC President, Dr. Hossam Eldin Mostafa, commented on the visit saying,” We as Egyptians are very proud to be chosen by the IPC to host such a huge and effective scientific conference that will witness the attendance of 400 professors and doctors from all over the world in addition to the IPC president. It is an honor bestowed on us and it proves that Egypt has become an attraction for all international events and conferences.” He also added,” With the help of the Ministry of Youth and Sports we will deliver a marvelous edition of the VISTA Conference that will never be forgotten. We have started preparing for this conference very early and we are exerting our utmost efforts to make it a successful one meeting the expectations of the participants and the IPC.”
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) is organising the first post-lockdown in-person meeting of its VISTA Conference in Cairo, Egypt from 31 October to 3 November 2023.
A scientific conference designed to promote and advance the mission, goals, objectives, and reputation of the IPC, VISTA 2023 will celebrate its 30th anniversary with a theme of “Developing Para Sport: inclusion, transformation, and performance”. It will be hosted by the Egyptian Paralympic Committee in collaboration with the Egyptian Ministry of Youth and Sports.
VISTA was first developed by the IPC in 1993 when it was felt that there was an urgent need to increase knowledge pertaining to elite sport for athletes with an impairment in the international arena. As a result, the concept of VISTA, which means a lengthy series of events, emerged.
VISTA provides an important international platform for scientists to exchange the latest current information, research, development, and expertise related to sport for persons with disabilities and the Paralympic Movement.
It promotes cross-disciplinary interaction among practitioners such as sport science scholars, disability inclusion scholars, sport managers, officials, coaches, athletes, sport medicine practitioners, classifiers, and sport administrators.
This will be eleventh version of the VISTA Conference. The first VISTA Conference took place in Jasper, Canada in 1993. The success of this conference led to further conferences in Germany (1999), Sweden (2003), Germany (2006, 2011, 2013), Spain (2015), Canada (2017) and The Netherlands (2019).
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 VISTA Conference was held virtually and hosted by the KU Leuven, Belgium in collaboration with the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa; The Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden; School of Kinesiology; Western University, Canada; University of Pittsburgh, USA; and Yonsei University, South Korea. 
