The Waterford Institute of Technology, Department of Applied Arts hosted the 2019 Annual European SPES Conference in May 16-18, 2019 in Waterford, Ireland. Collaborative partners were the European SPES Institute and the Spirituality Institute for Research and Education, Ireland. The topic of the conference was “Spirituality in Society and the Professions” which is related to the Routledge International Handbook of Spirituality in Society and the Professions edited by Laszlo Zsolnai and Bernadette Flanagan.