The overall goal of the conference is to highlight best practices in pain management from both health professional and client perspectives. The conference will include plenary sessions on pain assessment, self-care management, bioethics, nutrition and pain, pain catastrophizing, and a client perspective. Concurrent sessions will address topics such as opioid safety, palliative pain management, pain management in the emergency, perioperative pain management, effective communication with clients in pain, aging and pain, mobile device apps for pain, a provincial networking session and much, much more.