The XXIII World Veterinary Poultry Association Congress 2025 (WVPAC 2025) was organized at Boneo Convention Centre, Kuching, Malaysia from 6-10 October 2025. A global Forum where nearly 1800 Scientist/Researchers/Academician/Veteran Industry Professionals and Subject Matter Specialist attended this World Veterinary Poultry Congress 2025.
The 5 days long Congress started with WVPA Bureau Meeting and Pre-Congress Workshop on Immunosuppression was organized on 6 October. More than 60 countries WVPA office bearers attended the Bureau Meeting and presented their reports. WVPA XXV Global Congress was voted and announced to be held at Sydney Australia. Dr Jeetendra Varma, President and Dr B. Barman attended Bureau Meeting on behalf of WVPA India and presented the branch report and detailed planning of upcoming 7th ASIA WVPA Meeting to be held at New Delhi from 9-10th October 2026. A special gift in the form of a fridge magnet made as souvenir for the upcoming meeting was distributed among all the WVPA regional and global branches office bearers for their support and participation in Oct 2026.
In the inaugural opening ceremony, Prof. Dr. Abdul Rahman Omar, Organizer-cum-Congress Chair of WVPAC 2025 and Prof. Dr. Sjaak de Wit, the president of World Veterinary Poultry Association (WVPA) officially announced opening of the congress on 7 October 2025. Total 1800+ participants from 70+ different countries attended the congress. There were 19 Key note Speakers from throughout the globe, more than 700 research abstracts were submitted, more than 1200 delegates attended Pre conference workshop, there were 168 oral presentations and 412 E Poster presentations. More than 80 Scientist and Industry Professionals attended the event from India and many scientists and researchers and presented their research works. WVPA India Branch arranged travel grants for the scientist whose abstracts were accepted for the Congress.
Prof. Dr. Sjaak de Wit, the president of World Veterinary Poultry Association (WVPA) presented several awards to many scientists and researchers and presented WVPA Hall of Honour Award to 5 eminent researchers for their incredible contribution for Poultry health, disease diagnosis and vaccinology. Indian Scientist and Professionals should be aware and apply for all these awards/travel grants and opportunities in the upcoming congresses/meetings of Regional and Global WVPA events. To apply and know more about these awards, please log on to www.wvpa.in or email to dr.barman@gmail.com
All the sessions, which included keynote and oral presentations covering various aspects of poultry production, strategies for disease prevention and control, and genomic approaches for developing disease-resistant poultry. The e-Posters were accessible across 20 e-poster kiosks grouped into four color-coded zones (blue, orange, red and green). The congress was for five days and on 9 October 2025, there was award distribution for the winners in various categories given by the World Veterinary Poultry Association.
In the business meeting with all the participants of WVPA Congress videos of upcoming events were displayed. Special attraction of the congress was small exhibition. Exhibitors of more than 30 international companies displayed their new technology, interventions, products on various aspects of poultry diagnostics, adjuvants, equipments, nutritional supplements, farm equipments etc.
The closing ceremony was on 10 October 2025 and it was the moment reflected the achievement of congress, celebrated the scientific and professional exchanges. The next WVPA Congress in 2027 was announced to be held in Brussels, Belgium from 30 August to 3 September 2027. Also, announcement was made for the 7th WVPA Asia Meeting to be held at New Delhi, India from 9-10 October 2026.