Panelists go “rapid fire” through posters and oral abstracts presented at ECCMID 2019, including: rapid diagnostics, the influence of leadership in antimicrobial stewardship, iPad technology and patient’s beliefs about antibiotics, imipenem-relebactam, cefiderocol, rezafungin, ibrexafungerp, sulbactam-ETX2514, iclaprim, lefamulin, and tebipenem