OBJECTIVES: To assess for gender disparity among invited moderators and speakers at two major sports medicine conferences in Japan. METHODS: The moderators and invited speakers of the Japanese Society of Clinical Sports Medicine (JSCSM) (2008-2023) and the Japanese Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (JOSSM) (2007-2023) were categorized by gender. Gender was determined by searching the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare physician website and then confirmed using a Google search. Fisher's exact tests were used to evaluate the gender distribution. Cochran-Armitage trend tests were used to evaluate changes in gender distribution over time. RESULTS: In the past 17 years, neither JSCSM or JOSSM had a woman moderator or speaker in Program Chair's lectures. Between 2018 and 2023, the number of women moderators ( CONCLUSION: Although both Japanese orthopedic sports medical societies showed increasing trends in the percentage of women in prominent speaking roles, women speakers and moderators are still rare at the Japanese sports conferences.