In 2010, IASP held the thirteenth World Congress on Pain in Montreal, Canada. This was the first time IASP utilized digital technology to support the meeting and the only time that IASP returned to a city where it had held a congress previously (1976). 

Immediately after the World Congress, IASP hosted 280 Delegates from 68 countries in an International Summit on Pain. This Summit produced the Declaration of Montreal, proclaiming access to pain management to be a fundamental human right. 

In 2012, IASP held the fourteenth World Congress on Pain in Milan. It was well attended, attracting 5,852 delegates and 618 exhibitors. During this World Congress on Pain, attendees were surveyed on ways to improve the meeting. The overarching feedback was the desire to use less paper for information. This led to an increase in the use of technology at subsequent World Congresses.

In 2014, IASP held the first Pain Camp in Latin America. Pain Camps are inter-professional residential educational events aimed at promoting interdisciplinary pain management by improving the knowledge and skills of young healthcare professionals in low-and-middle-income countries. 

In 2016, IASP held the 16th World Congress on Pain in Yokohama, Japan. This was the first World Congress on Pain in Asia and was attended by 4,400 delegates. Based on feedback from previous World Congresses, the Yokohama Congress introduced the first mobile app to communicate and share information with attendees. Read reviews from the 16th World Congress on Pain > 

In 2017, nine pain curriculum guidelines for professionals were revised by the IASP Educational Initiatives Working Group under the leadership of Deb Gordon. IASP encourages the use of these curricula for adoption in medical and health professional education as well as for research purposes. The following year, the American Physical Therapy Association voted to endorse and promote the integration of the IASP pain curriculum guidelines for physical therapy programs across the United States. 

In 2017, IASP held the first North American Pain School (NAPS). NAPS was developed under the leadership of Jeff Mogil. NAPS programs have been held yearly in Canada since 2017 and have been hugely successful in training early-career pain researchers. 

In 2017, an IASP Presidential Task Force, chaired by Karen Davis, published a consensus statement on the capabilities of brain imaging in the diagnosis of chronic pain and the ethical and legal implications of its use. The task force emphasized that the use of brain imaging in this context is in a discovery phase and proposed standards of evidence that must be satisfied before brain imaging measures can be considered suitable for clinical or legal purposes.   

In 2018, IASP held the seventeenth World Congress on Pain in Boston, United States, where we hosted 4,626 attendees. The next World Congress on Pain was supposed to be in 2020 in Amsterdam but was changed to a virtual event because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read reviews from the seventeenth World Congress on Pain >

In 2019, the 11th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) was approved. This revision includes a new classification of chronic pain developed by an IASP task force led by Rolf-Detlef Treede and Winfried Rief. Prior to this revision, diagnoses for chronic pain were not categorized systematically or based on actual epidemiology. The new classification was designed to be useful in primary and specialized pain care settings. 

In 2019, IASP launched the Pain Education Research Center (PERC) to provide a digital, on-demand platform of educational resources, including World Congress lecture recordings and webinars.