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The Norwegian Network for Implementation Research (NIMP)`s fifth annual conference was held on February 5th, 2025, at Quality Hotel 33 in Oslo hosting a total of 123 attendees. The participants came from both academia and the practice field, with the majority being consultants, advisors or similar affiliations. This year’s conference included five keynote speakers, three of them were included in a panel discussion, reflecting on 30 years of experience within the field, and what should be considered in the future. In addition, there were two tracks of parallel sessions, where each track consisted of two parallel sessions. Each of these sessions had three oral presentations, yielding a total of 12 presentations. Six of the presentations had a research orientation, four were integrated, whereas two presentations were from the practice field. Four of the presentations were from secondary care (e.g. hospitals or psychiatric clinics), four from school, two from primary care (e.g. municipal services for elderly) and one from kindergarten and child welfare. The keynotes and presentations from the different parallel sessions highlighted the importance of building capacity for change in organizations using implementation support practitioners (ISP), focusing on developing infrastructure to monitor internal progress and addressing a need to strengthen implementation competence among professionals. One way to build competence and capacity for change, is including knowledge about implementation processes more specifically into the education programs. Although policy implementation was part of the call for abstracts, this topic was not addressed and should receive more attention in the future.