The series

Doctors are people too

Physicians spend their working lives being addressed as a specialty. The rest of the time they are people who play sport, talk to their friends and scroll the same feeds as everyone else. Our conference events are built on that second fact — a real pickleball competition, alongside the medical meetings you already attend, with the people you already work near.

How the series is arranged Concentric rings on a pickleball court: physicians at the centre, industry around the perimeter, and Equals 5 forming the connection between the two. HCPs at the centre INDUSTRY PERIMETER
Doctors at the centre

The clinicians are the event. They play, they set the tone, and the evening is built around whether they enjoyed it — not around anything anyone wants to say to them.

Industry at the perimeter

Everyone else — brand teams, agencies, media — is on the court, in the rotation, in the same shorts. Present and playing, rather than presenting.

Equals 5 connects the A game

We host it, run play and match the games, so the two sides meet over something worth doing. Bring your A game; we will handle the rest.

HOW A NIGHT RUNS

Held alongside a national medical meeting, on an evening that does not fight the programme. You do not need to have played before.

01
Turn up

Paddles and balls are provided, courts are booked, and there is nothing to bring but flat-soled shoes. Play runs in short rotations, so nobody sits out.

02
Play a real bracket

Games are matched to experience by a former professional racquets player, so a first-timer and a tournament regular both get a competitive game — just not against each other.

03
Stay for the drinks

The part everyone actually remembers. No presentation, no booth, no badge scan — just the room, after a couple of hours of not talking about work.

WHERE WE’RE PLAYING

Each of these sits alongside a national meeting. Dates are being locked in — pick the ones you would enter and we will send yours first.

Tell us which one

Pick an event above, then leave your address. One email when it has a date. Nothing else.