The 2012 edition of the conference with the theme “working towards recovery” saw the participation of delegates from 20 countries. The conference was co-sponsored by the World Psychiatric association (WPA), and the Indian psychiatric Society (IPS). The conference has over the years successfully managed to bring together the best of international researchers on schizophrenia to India.

The conference facilitated the submission of at least 3 collaborative studies that are currently underway. The proceeding of the conference has also been published and the findings from the papers presented have been widely disseminated both in the scientific journals and also in the general press.