This is an upcoming curated, in-person scientific meeting being organized under the Special Academic Research Cooperative (SpARC) initiative of the Ignite Life Science Foundation, in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru. Scheduled for 6–7 March 2026 at IISc, Bengaluru, the meeting will bring together a small, carefully selected group of researchers working on epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) in cancer, with a particular focus on head and neck cancers, to foster deep interdisciplinary discussions across experimental biology, computational approaches, clinical pathology, clinical oncology, and developmental biology.