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