The European Lung Cancer Conference is organised by top academic experts in lung cancer and thoracic malignancies. The European Lung Cancer Conference (ELCC) will become an annual meeting as of 2015 and most importantly, it will enlarge cooperation with the most important societies representing thoracic oncology specialists: ESMO and IASLC as conference organisers, and partner societies from ESTRO, ESTS, and ETOP. This partnership will ensure a truly multidisciplinary programme which will offer state-of-the-art education and practice-changing science for all participants; reinforcing the exceptional practice of lung cancer across Europe and beyond.