The South and West Asia Chapter of Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (SWAC ELSO) has the great pleasure to welcome you to its Third Annual Conference, being held from the 16th to the 19th of March 2016 in Abu Dhabi, the dynamic capital of the United Arab Emirates. ECMO is a rapidly evolving technique, supported by an ever-increasing body of knowledge and technology. To some extent, and due to the extending range of applications, it is still an art form which requires constant attention and exchanges between its practitioners.