On 21st September, The Faculty of Dental Trainers was delighted to host its annual meeting at the College. Entitled 'Educating the dental team – can simulation really be the future?', this was the first in-person event for the Faculty since the start of the pandemic. We welcomed speakers representing university, hospital, primary care, the armed forces, medical defense and surgery to speak on the value of webinars, blended learning, didactic teaching, robotics, simulation and the reliability of online educational content. Delegates joined in a lively debate at the end of the day on the relative merits of these different methods of teaching.