Across four days, the programme moved from a keynote by Baroness Sheila Hollins through four themed sessions — each pairing a major presentation with on-site working groups in breakout rooms. The conference closed with the Friday Academic Day, a platform for exchange between practitioners and researchers.

A distinctive feature of ISC 2024 was its preparatory groups, which met in advance to surface lived-experience perspectives on each session. Cristina Gangemi wove this work into the conference itself, so that on-site discussions were grounded in voices gathered well before delegates arrived in Rome.