It is a huge honour for us to take over as joint presidents of the 15th World Congress on Endometriosis to be held in Edinburgh from 3 to 6 May in 2023. WCE2021 was an outstanding conference – too many excellent lectures and presentations to pick out any for a special mention. We wholeheartedly congratulate Sun Wei Guo, Cong-Jian Xi, Lone Hummelshoj, Neil Johnson, Luk Rombauts, and colleagues – and in particular the young WES board – for delivering such a successful online meeting in the circumstances; we have heard nothing but positive comments about it. WCE2021 is going to be a hard act to follow but we have assembled a diverse and committed WCE2023 organising committee, who we are confident will have learnt from all of the positive aspects of this virtual meeting to enable us to deliver a hybrid (largely face-to-face) meeting in Edinburgh in 2023 that will appeal to and be accessible to everyone with an interest in endometriosis.