Practicalities

WCN organizers will provide a safe and welcoming environment where participants can share information and ideas in a professional, positive, and friendly way. Individual opinions might not reflect ISN's position. All attendees, including speakers, sponsors, vendors, partners and staff are expected to adhere to the following code of conduct on the Virtual WCN’22 congress platforms and conference-related social media:
  • Be considerate, respectful, collaborative, and inclusive.
  • Participate in an authentic and active manner (please remember to update your profile).
  • Refrain from demeaning, discriminatory, prejudicial, or harassing behavior and speech.
  • Do not use inappropriate language and images.
  • Do not engage in harm or threats of any kind.
  • Do not inappropriately disrupt presentations, talks and the virtual congress in general.
  • Do not make audio or visual recordings of slides, Q&A, oral or poster presentations, forums/chats without presenter/author's permission.
Attendees can report inappropriate behaviour to the congress organizers by emailing [email protected] .
During congress program hours you are able to speak live with the WCN’22 team through our chat box, available on the platform homepage. You can also contact WCN staff by email at [email protected] and [email protected]
Registered participants will have access to the WCN’22 platform and all on-demand content until May 31st, 2022. After this date the content will be accessible via the ISN Academy.
Should you have any hotel inquires please contact [email protected].
Please note that rules and restrictions might change. It is the sole responsibility of the participants to verify the conditions and restrictions applied to access the country.
    • The Malaysian government has set the opening for international travel to Malaysia for January 2022. Changes may be announced and borders for countries in the region may be open before. Participants should check their government’s website dedicated to travel information or restrictions, or the sites listed below.
    • Considering the world-wide situation, participants interested in attending the live event are strongly advised to make their own arrangements regarding health and travel insurance including loss of fees/deposit for travel and accommodation due to travel restrictions.
    • The organizers of the ISN World Congress of Nephrology do not take any responsibility for any participant failing to check latest updates or arrange their own insurance.
    • For more information please visit the websites of your embassy. Information is also available at https://www.malaysiaairlines.com/mhapp/hq/en/important-notice/malaysia.html, or https://safetravel.mida.gov.my/one-stop-centre-2/
If you are not receiving emails regarding WCN’22, please be sure to check your spam / junk mail folder. If these cannot be found in either folder you will need to ensure all emails from [email protected], IP address: 91.183.188.144, are allowed in your inbox. This is something you may need to ask your IT to set this up.
There is no need to download or install any software to access the WCN congress platform. All you need is a good internet connection and your computer/laptop. Tip: If you experience problems accessing the platform, refresh your browser cache by clicking CTRL+F5. In order to have access to WCN’22 virtual platform please make sure your internet browser is updated to its latest version. Recommended browsers: Google Chrome Microsoft Edge Mozilla Firefox Safari 5+ (Mac) Please note that certain functions of WCN’21 virtual platform will not run on Internet Explorer.
The official language of the congress is English. Presentations will only be delivered in English.
The livestream runs on Kuala Lumpur time (MYT).
To reset your password please go to the link here. Once on the site, please use the box "Forgot your password", and put in your username or email used for registration. An automatic e-mail will be sent to reset the password  
 If this email does not appear, please be sure to check your spam / junk mail folder. If these cannot be found in either folder you will need to ensure all emails from [email protected], IP address: 91.183.188.144, are allowed in your inbox. This is something you may need to ask your IT to set this up.