JASMEE 2026

JASMEE's first dedicated conference app

For 29 years the Japan Society for Medical English Education (日本医学英語教育学会) has run an annual conference for researchers and educators working on English for Medical Purposes (EMP) across Japanese medical schools and clinical settings. The 2026 edition — hosted by Kansai Medical University in Osaka under the theme Toward an EMP Model Core Curriculum — Balancing Standardization and Personalization — marks the first time the society has shipped a dedicated mobile companion app alongside its online abstract submission and registration site. HEPCon is the platform powering that first.

Bilingual content out of the box

JASMEE runs bilingually in Japanese and English. HEPCon's content model handles parallel-language titles, abstracts, and speaker bios without forcing the LOC to maintain two separate datasets — the bilingual fields ingest directly from the Indico Global timetable and render side-by-side on each session card.

Sourced from Indico Global, not CERN

JASMEE's Indico instance is hosted on indico.global, the society-hosting Indico service operated outside CERN. HEPCon's sync layer works with any Indico instance — CERN-hosted, Indico Global, or institutionally-deployed — so societies do not need to migrate their event-management workflow to fit the conference app.

After the meeting: what shipped and held

The meeting ran July 11–12 with 54 contributions from 44 speakers in 22 sessions across two rooms. In the run-up, the organisers verified on their own devices that contribution PDFs attached in Indico appeared in each talk's Materials card, that abstract paragraph formatting survived the trip to the phone, and that contributions listed chronologically inside every session. A venue-detail correction made days before the meeting propagated live to installed apps — no reinstalls, no cache clearing.

Designed for the EMP audience

JASMEE attendees are medical educators, clinicians, and English-for-Medical-Purposes specialists working across hospitals and medical schools. HEPCon's no-mandatory-login model, offline-first agenda, and bilingual session pages match the access expectations of this audience without imposing the social-networking patterns built into generic event apps.