ASAIO is the ideal home for visionaries with innovative ideas and young investigators eager to advance their careers. The Annual Conference provides a venue for young investigators to present early-stage research to an international audience receptive to new concepts in each of these fields. The Annual Conference also offers a one-of-a-kind opportunity to present new concepts to a seasoned audience to get real-time clinical, engineering and regulatory feedback on the viability of novel technology. The society takes pride in having “respect for all ideas”, and in creating a culture that encourages interdisciplinary, mixing, blending, and out-of-the-box thinking.