At the international meeting of the European Sleep Research Society (ESRS), Marijke Gordijn participated in a panel discussion organised by the boards of the ESRS and of the Society for Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms (SLTBR). SLTBR announced that it changed their name. The society will continue as the Society for Light, Rhythms, and circadian health. For a full room with more than 200 participants, each panel member gave a 5 min pitch discussing the future of chronomedicine and/or sleepmedicine. After the 6 pitches, the audience participated in a lively discussion on how progress can be made to let society benefit from the scientific knowledge obtained in the fields, of sleep, chronobiology, and health. How to translate the scientific knowledge to the public, how to apply healthy environments with good light, what do we already know to optimise shift work settings and how do shift workers obtain the knowledge, what is a simple way to measure the phase of the biological clock and can personalised medicine based on this phase, improve treatments? Both academic institutes, clinicians, as well as innovative companies will work on these topics, and need to collaborate to support the future of these important fields of knowledge.