08:00-10:00 WELCOME SESSION chaired by Cristina Hickman
Inside the IVF Clinic Bottleneck: Structural Barriers to Better Outcomes The AI Inflection Point in Fertility: What Works, What Does Not, and What Is Missing
- Chair Welcome
Cristina Hickman - Clinical View
Carole Gilling-Smith - Employer’s View
Sydni Meyrowitz - Embryology View
Nikica Zaninovic - Entrepreneurial View
David Sable - Data Specialist View
Cecilie Jakobsen - Patient’s View
Andreia Trigo - Panel led Discussion
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-11:40 SESSION 2: chaired by Vinesh Gadhia
AI: from Buzzword to Business Strategy
- Asian Perspective
Hyejun Lee - Latin American Perspective
Chris Rego - Indian Perspective
Kshitiz Murdia - Middle Eastern Perspective
Eduardo Gonzalez - Panel led Discussion
11:40-12:10 SESSION 3: chaired by Andrew Khair
Ferring Symposia
- The AI Roadmap for Fertility Clinics: From Hype to Value
Eduardo Hariton
Imran Akram
12:10-13:00 SESSION 4: chaired by Eduardo Hariton
Debate: RCT is the best way to evaluate AI
- Audience Vote
- For
Ying Cheong - Against
Rabi Odia - Audience Questions
- For rebuttal
Ying Cheong - Against Rebuttal
Rabi Odia - Audience Vote
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:10 SESSION 5: chaired by Juan Jose Fraire
AI: Healthcare implementation challenges
- Lessons from Implementing AI across the UK National Health Service (NHS)
Karina Malhotra - From Idea to Impact: Designing Research That Survives Peer Review – The Academic challenges
Iman Hajirasouliha - Integration challenges in the real world IVF clinic
Jonas Malmsten - Cybersecurity in Fertility Clinics: Protecting the Most Sensitive Data in Healthcare
Chloe He - Panel led Discussion
15:10-15:40 Coffee break
15:40-17:10 SESSION 6: chaired by Halil Ruso
AI: Gamete Assessment
- Fernando Prado
- Daniela Braga
- Dan Nayot
- Sperm Selection using AI and Robotic Technologies
Betty Meiri - Sperm Intelligence: Turning Sperm Data into Actionable Decisions
Halil Ruso - Sperm identified and selected using AI assistance resulted in improved outcome
Saeed Fathi - Panel led Discussion
17:30 Sunset welcome drinks – Meet outside in front of hotel
08:00-09:30 SESSION 7: chaired by Frida Polli
Advanced Imaging and Bio-engineering
- Seeing the Unseen: Holotomography and the Future of Cell Imaging
Daria Iliev - Bioengineering: Female and Male embryos diverging response to AMH
Frida Polli - Hyperspectral Imaging: Unlocking Biochemical Signals Without Touching the Embryo
Samuel Ojos Negros - FLIM based metabolic imaging of blastocysts to predict polidy
Chris Helriger - 3D microscopy combined with AI
Paul Balondrade - AI use of natural language to describe embryo morphology
Florian Kromp - Panel led Discussion
09:30-10:00 Coffee break
10:00-11:30 SESSION 8: chaired by Semra Kahraman
AI: Embryo Assessment
- Consistency in Embryo Ranking
Jorgen Berntsen - Reducing cost to baby with AI embryo assessment
Semra Kahraman - The Global Adoption Gap in Time- Lapse IVF: What Is Really Limiting Uptake? What can AI implementation learn from this
Serdar Coskun - Time-Lapse: Evaluating efficacy, safety and outcomes in human IVF
Toni di Berardino - Panel led Discussion
11:30-13:00 SESSION 9: chaired by Dan Nayot
AI for clinicians
- Digital Genetics with PGT-P: Enhancing Genetic Assessment beyond PGT-A and PGT-M
Tobias Wolfram - AI assisted identification of poor responders who would benefit from dual stimulation
Ihor Pachkiv - Smarter Clinics, Better Outcomes: Using AI to Optimise IVF Operations
Simon Lumsdon - Making Reproductive Surgery Smart
Aleksandra Goch - Measuring the Invisible: Data-Driven Monitoring of Stress in Fertility Care
Paulina Valpas - Advancing Gynaecological ultrasound through automation and AI assisted prediction system to predict reproductive pathologies
Helen O’Neill - Panel led Discussion
13:00-13:50 Lunch
13:50-15:10 SESSION 10: chaired by Santiago Munne
Machine Data Capture, Human Data Verification
- SAMA: automating the front office
Sarthak Sawarkar - Implementing an AI copilot with patient facing avatar
Sergei Gorlovetsky - Automating KPIs in the Lab: Using RFID to Turn Workflow into Intelligence
David Chrimes - Traceability, Time-lapse and AI
Morten Raaschou-Jensen - Panel led Discussion
15:10-16:10 SESSION 11: chaired by Gaurav Singhal
Robotics & Automation
- Conceivables: Validating automation with live births
Stephanie Kuku - Enabling modular automation in the lab
Sasha Sadowy - Cryostorage in the Age of Robotics: Automation, Traceability, and Risk Reduction
Cynthia Hudson - Structured Data and Agentic AI
Gaurav Singhal - AI-Driven Communication Agents to Improve Patient Engagement and Operational Efficiency Overture
Meena Mahil - Panel led Discussion
16:00-16:25 Coffee break
16:25-17:00 SESSION 12: chaired by Cristina Hickman
Closing Session
- From resistance to readiness: Helping Healthcare teams and patients embrace AI for better care
Elizabeth Grill - AI in IVF: the missing piece of the regulatory puzzle
Christine Allen - AI, Fertility, and Society: AI as a sustainable tool to humanitarian healthcare
Kazem Nouri - Conference summary and close
Cristina Hickman
Nikica Zaninovic
Zev Rosenwaks
17:15 Beach Activities – Meet outside in front on Hotel
08:00-12:00 Consensus statement on the responsible integration of AI in fertility clinical practice
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25
SUNSET CRUISE
Traditional Portuguese Vessel EVORA
18:30-20:30
MEETING POINT – 17:45 In front of Hotel Cascais Miragem
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
BEACH & WATER ACTIVITIES
17:30-19:00 PORTUGUESE WINE & SNACKS
From 19:00
MEETING POINT- 17:15 In front of Hotel Cascais Miragem