Over the past months BirdEyes researcher Wouter Vansteelant together with Jose Alves of the Portuguese EcoFlyway team led the development of a scientific committee and program for the upcoming BOUsci23 Global Flyways virtual conference, on November 21st-22nd. Over the course of 3 back-to-back 8h sessions the conference will synthesise bird migration research in the Africa-Eurasia, Americas and Asia Pacific flyways, respectively. By forming sub-committees for each flyway the team was able to attract a diverse set of keynote speakers working on varied topics, including BirdEyes’ very own Mohamed Henriques who will lay the groundwork for a panel discussion on building equitable, flyway-scale research networks. The full program is online and registrations are open.