Shyamanta Das, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) is chairing distinguished lectures by Rebecca Brendel, the President of the American Psychiatric Association and Ramaswamy Viswanathan, the President Elect of the American Psychiatric Association on ‘A roadmap for the future of psychiatry’ and ‘Cultural issues in physician-patient communication’ respectively during the World Psychiatric Association’s Regional Congress (WPARC) 2023 at ITC Royal Bengal, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.