The session was about building an endovascular service, and generated interesting and important processes to be successful, no matter what specialty is building this. Collaboration and teaching the next generation appropriately seemed to be on all of our minds! I saw the empty chair on the panel and wished I was there in person to see my old friends and make new ones, in DC. Most importantly it was a good session with good presentations that I learnt a lot from, so congrats to the organizers for a successful start to a mostly in person meeting.