DAY 1 – Thursday, November 20, 2025
08:15-08:30 Introduction
Carlos Simon, Spain and Zeev Shoham, Israel
08:30-09:00 Keynote lecture
Personalized Nutrition in the Management of Female
Infertility
Gemma Fabozzi, Italy
09:00-10:30 SESSION 1: CHALLENGES IN OVARIAN STIMULATION
Chair: Bart Fauser, The Netherlands
09:00-09:30 Personalizing ovarian stimulation in aging/low response patients. Where are we now?
Nicolas Polyzos, Spain
09:30-10:00 Artificial Intelligence is really helping us?
Bart Fauser, The Netherlands
10:00-10:30 What is new in monitoring and home-monitoring?
Dennis Vaughan, USA
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-13:00 SESSION 2: CHALLENGES IN OOCYTE RETRIEVAL AND FERTILIZATION
Chair: Denny Sakkas, USA
11:00-11:30 How to get more oocytes after oocyte pick-up
Denny Sakkas, USA
11:30-12:00 Innovating devices, microfluidics, and robotics in andrology
Craig Niederberger, USA
12:00-12:30 Automated and remote ICSI
Nuno Costa-Borges, Spain
12:30-13:00 Oral presentations
13:00-13:30 Industry Symposium
13:30-14:30 Lunch Break
14:30-16:00 SESSION 3: CHALLENGES IN TRANSLATING RESEARCH TO CLINICAL APPLICATION
Chairs: Guillermo Ferrando, Spain and Fernando Rodríguez , Spain
14:30-15:00 From research to business. How to create the UNICORN
TBA
15:00-15:30 To do´s and not to do´s creating a biotech start-up
Guillermo Ferrando, Spain
15:30-16:00 Creating an ecosystem to foster entrepreneurship
TBA
16:00-16:15 Coffee Break
16:15-17:00 FEMTECHS Biotech start-up
17:00-17:15 Biotech, Inc
Patty Bernal, Canada
17:15-17:35 Aura System, Conceivable
Alejandro Chavez, Mexico
17:35-18:05 Investment funds. What are you looking for other than ROI?
Fernando Rodríguez , Spain
18:05-18:35 Funds session
18:35-20:30 Welcome reception
DAY 2 – Friday, November 21, 2025
08:30-10:30 SESSION 4: CHALLENGES IN THE IVF LABORATORY
08:30-09:00 Challenges in human embryo development. The real one
Nicolas Plachta, USA
09:00-09:30 Deep learning versus manual morphology-based embryo selection in IVF
David Gardner, Australia
09:30-10:00 My dream IVF lab in 2030
Laura Rienzi, Italy
10:00-10:30 Artificial embryos. PROS AND CONS
TBA
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:30 Industry Symposium
11:30-12:00 Oral presentations
12:00-13:30 SESSION 5: CHALLENGES IN HUMAN EMBRYO GENETICS
12:00-12:30 Non-invasive PGT-A
Carmen Rubio, Spain
12:30-13:00 Embryo whole genome sequencing is coming
Antonio Capalbo, Italy
13:00-13:30 Embryo Polygenic Health Scores
Nathan Treff, USA
13:30-14:30 Lunch Break
14:30-17:00 SESSION 6: CHALLENGES IN UTERINE HEALTH
Chair: Linda Giudice, USA
14:30-15:00 Endometrial receptivity tests. Clinical results
Damian Glujovsky, Argentina
15:00-15:30 Single-cell Technologies and Innovative Endometriosis and Adenomyosis Care
Linda Giudice, USA
15:30-16:00 Recurrent Implantation Failure at the microbiome level
Inma Moreno, Spain
16:00-16:30 Decoding the origin of uterine fibroids
Aymara Mas, Spain
16:30-17:00 Asherman syndrome and thin endometrium
Xavier Santamaria, Spain
17:00-17:30 Coffee Break
17:30-19:00 SESSION 7: CHALLENGES IN EMBRYO TRANSFER and BEYOND
Chair: Carlos Simon, Spain
17:30-18:00 Transfer Direct versus Manual transfer in IVF
Carlos Simon, Spain
18:00-18:30 Decidualization resistance in the origin of early onset preeclampsia and endometriosis
Tamara Garrido, Spain
18:30-19:00 Science quality metrics and Science integrity
Bart Fauser, Netherlands and Craig Niederberger, USA
19:00 Closing
Carlos Simon, Spain and Zeev Shoham, Israel