On behalf of pédiatrie suisse, the Swiss Society of Paediatrics (SSP), and the Swiss Academy for Psychosomatic and Psychosocial Medicine (SAPPM), we kindly welcome you to the virtual annual conference on June 10-11, 2021. Special circumstances require special measures – and so we are pleased that, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we can now hold the congress carefully prepared for June 2020 at least as a virtual meeting.