In 2008, the Institute of Health Sciences came forward with the idea of bringing the different stakeholders together on a single platform to provide comprehensive professional services to people with hearing impairment. Thus the experts in ear and hearing had to be roped in together for a professional event International Society on Audiological Medicine (ISAM). That gave the first ISAM its punch line of…. “Where Ear meets Hearing”. Soon afterwards, the symposium became an annual event.