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* 75 Synchronous & Asynchronous COPE Credit Hours
* 4 Live/Synchronous events
* All lectures also available On Demand from Feb 2, 2026 to Dec 1, 2026
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Hi everyone, please use this thread to ask any pre-registration questions you might have about CEwire2026. Or if you don't want to ask publicly, feel free to send me a private message with your questions.
(Once you've registered for the event, the private CEwire2026 forum will be available to you. You can ask questions of individual speakers about their courses in that space, as each course will have its own discussion thread.)
About the 2026 Event!
2025 flew by, thanks to everyone who participated this past year.
In 2026, CEwire has all-new talks that you won't see anywhere else. We ask the speakers to come up with new stuff every year, and I personally usher all the material through the COPE approval process to ensure all courses have new course IDs in the OE Tracker. So you can be sure when you take a course you won't be re-taking something you've already gotten credit for or seen somewhere else.
The full course list is now available.
Our Philosophy / About CEwire
For those who've never taken part in a CEwire event, here's a quick reminder of how we operate, and why CEwire is a [very] different kettle of fish compared to other online events:
1) The Model. Unlike literally every other CE conference, the production of CEwire's education is NOT substantially underwritten by industry. We don't live-or-die with grants, advertising, or user surveillance.
CEwire is by docs, for docs, with minimal outside influences dictating what we can and can't do. Even if we lost every single corporate sponsor [yikes! ouch!], the event would still continue. Which, again, is very different from any other CE conference, online or off.
This gives us the greatest degree of flexibility and freedom to give you the talks you want (vs. what industry wants produced, which, again, is the business model of 'free' CE... with all the potential ethical complexities that brings. That is a minefield I'm not strong enough to walk across. So we sidestep it entirely by not even approaching companies until after the curriculum is in place.)
In fact, the genesis of the conference was us 10 years ago just asking a question: could a small group of clinicians put together an educational event, harnessing both the internet and our understanding of eye care. Cutting out as many wasteful/expensive layers and outside influences as we could, putting the bulk of our resources right back into the lectures themselves, and the tech behind it. The answer so far is "yes".
2) The Curriculum. We take all the course feedback we get from you - the CEwire attendees - to directly create the course roster for the subsequent year's event.
Our laser-like focus is on attendees -- this is YOUR conference. You are our primary customer. Not any other outside influence. Again, we have the luxury to do this because CEwire isn't a "free" conference. And if the conference is bad, you won't be back [just about everyone who attends CEwire is a small business person, so intuits this concept.] Thus we do whatever we can to make the event what you want it to be.
So when attendees tell us "There's too much contact lens!", we can back it off as needed. And we did.
... Or when you tell us "We need more glaucoma!", we can easily add more. We don't need to scramble to find a corporate "grant" to make it happen, or have to worry about adjusting the mix of topics at an event -- we just do it.
... Or when you tell us "yikes! The DEA says I need 8 narcotic hours!"... Whoomp -- there it is.
This is one of the major benefits of paying a nominal fee for your CE directly vs. how other "edutech" companies generally produce events, relying on corporate "grants" or advertising to produce their education.
In addition to being stressful as hell to produce an event that way [I'm getting an ulcer just thinking about it], the indirect financing model - in my opinion - is not sustainable or healthy in the long-run. It creates a situation where perverse incentives can come into play, or even worse (if regulators are taking a nap), enshittification.
Fortunately, the companies that do sponsor CEwire understand our position and philosophy, and we're grateful for them and their willingness to buy into what we are attempting to produce. They help us defray some of our fixed costs.
But having them completely distance themselves from our curriculum yields a better educational experience for everyone. Send them a shout-out and patronize them where possible
To be clear: CEwire runs completely counter to the way many (most?) conferences are run today. "Pay for Play" - implicit or explicit - is endemic in healthcare education [not eye care specifically], and has become more so as restrictions on pure marketing activities have ramped up over the past 30 years.
That sounds harsh, but I don't mean it to be. It is just my observation after working with industry and accredited education over the past several decades.
Marketing dollars are sort of like a kid's water snake toy -- if the flow is restricted in one direction, they'll just redirect to another. It is an organic process.
You may think "who cares?". But ultimately, we all should -- in a universe where wholly industry-supported/indirectly-financed accredited CE is all that exists, disease processes that have commercially-available treatments will be over-represented in education.
And those that don't -- or whose treatments are low-margin or low-cost, or are rare - will get lesser coverage. Which skews what you learn. And ultimately how patients are treated. This isn't a sinister plot by "big pharma" or whatever the current conspiracy theory du jour is, it is just capitalism 101, and a natural consequence of how the incentives are structured in this model.
But we want to avoid this as best we can, so that we never have to worry about being constrained and unable to provide you with topics that might seem unusual, or that have less corporate interest.
Again, we want the event to be a reflection of the things that you are telling us we should provide.
3) The Price. More importantly, we've done our best to combat inflation over the 10+ year run of CEwire. We've held the price essentially flat since the pandemic, even though our costs have risen dramatically. We've been able to do this by keeping the organization relentlessly lean.
ODwire regulars know how 'hands on' I tend to be operationally, this is partially for practical reasons, but mostly because I'd rather allocate as many dollars as possible to our speakers and the tech underlying the conference (ie, those things which directly impact user experience) vs. spending on marketing, or managing an army of people.
We're a small organization, and we probably always will be -- and that's just fine by me. As long as we can continue to make a service that people like, that's OK. I have no desire to build an empire. That way lies madness....
4) In fact, CEwire is 100% marketed by word-of-mouth (!)
We rely on our attendees to help us get the word out, which keeps costs down. Which in turn lets us keep prices down. This creates what business types call a 'virtuous circle'. And frankly, it is how things should be -- this conference is for you and your peers. The fewer extra layers we add, the better it is for everyone.
QUESTIONS?
Hopefully that provides some context for CEwire -- what it is, and how it works. I know most people don't give this stuff a second thought (any more than I think about, say, how my dishwasher works) but when you live with it every day, you start to pick up on nuances that are otherwise invisible, and I'm happy to share.
If you have any questions, please include them in this thread.
-- Adam
