| DAY 1 – Thursday, November 20, 2025 | |
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| 08:15-08:30 | Introduction Carlos Simon and Zeev Shoham |
| 08:30-09:30 | SESSION 1: MICROBIOME AND NUTRITION IN REPRODUCTION Chair: Inmaculada Moreno, Spain |
| 08:30-09:00 | Keynote lecture Personalized Nutrition in the Management of Female Infertility Gemma Fabozzi, Italy |
| 09:00-09:30 | Round table Inmaculada Moreno, Spain; Yolanda Sanz, Spain; and Daniel Ramon Vidal, Spain |
| 09:30-10:30 | SESSION 2: CHALLENGES IN OVARIAN STIMULATION Chair: Bart Fauser, The Netherlands |
| 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? Denis Vaughan, USA |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break, Poster viewing and exhibition visit |
| 11:00-12:30 | SESSION 3: 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 presentation Chairs: Xavier Santamaria, Spain and Tamara Garrido, Spain |
| 12:30-12:40 | Evaluation of single-strand DNA damage in sperm using the novel sperm repair-assisted damage detection (SRADD) method Presenting author: Dror Meirow |
| 12:40-12:50 | Micro magnetic resonance spectroscopy (micro-mrs) for non-invasive metabolic assessment of individual mammalian oocytes and embryos Presenting author: Marco Grisi |
| 12:50-13:00 | Assessing gamete and embryo via novel non-invasive metabolic imaging, lab on-a-chip & artificial intelligence technologies Presenting author: Fabrizzio Horta |
| 13:00-13:30 | Industry symposium |
| 13:30-14:30 | Lunch Break, Poster viewing and exhibition visit |
| 14:30-15:40 | SESSION 4: 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 Borja Aznar, Spain |
| 15:00-15:20 | To do´s and not to do´s creating a biotech start-up Guillermo Ferrando, Spain |
| 15:20-15:40 | Creating an ecosystem to foster entrepreneurship Marcia Riboldi, Brazil |
| 15:40-16:30 | SESSION 5: INVESTMENT FUNDS Chair: Fernando Rodriguez, Spain |
| 15:40-16:00 | Investment funds. What are you looking for other than ROI? Fernando Rodriguez, Spain |
| 16:00-16:30 | Investment Funds Round table: Amadeus Capital, Perman Jorayev Inveready, Antonio Herce Pictet, David Braga Ysios, Guillem Laporta |
| 16:30-16:50 | Coffee Break, Poster viewing and exhibition visit |
| 16:50-18:30 | SESSION 6: FEMTECH PITCH SHOWCASE & COMPETITION Chair: Nasser Al-Asmar, Spain |
| 16:50-17:00 | Aura System, Conceivable Alejandro Chavez, Mexico |
| 17:00-17:10 | Betterfit Ltd Zeev Shoham |
| 17:10-17:20 | Biotech, Inc Jorge Parra, Canada |
| 17:20-17:30 | Fertilis David Gardner, Australia |
| 17:30-17:40 | NeoGenix David Gardner, Australia |
| 17:40-17:50 | OWLO Paul Balondrade, France |
| 17:50-18:00 | Somos Ovum Einar Tribuci, Brazil |
| 18:00-18:10 | U-Ploid Biotechnologies Alexandre Webster, UK |
| 18:10-18:20 | Verso Biosense Kate Rowley, England |
| 18:20-18:30 | CSF Femtech competition award |
| 18:30 | Welcome Reception & CSF headquarters visit Round-trip transportation will be provided for participants |
| DAY 2 – Friday, November 21, 2025 | |
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| 08:30-10:30 | SESSION 7: CHALLENGES IN THE IVF LABORATORY Chair: David Gardner, Australia |
| 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 Nicolas Rivron, Austria |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break, Poster viewing and exhibition visit |
| 11:00-11:10 | Education Department Introducing the New Educational Platform of the Carlos Simon Foundation |
| 11:10-12:00 | Oral presentations Chairs: Felip Vilella, Spain and Aymara Mas, Spain |
| 11:10-11:20 | Modeling embryonic adhesion at cellular resolution within a microfluidic endometrium-on-a-chip Presenting author: Sofia Zaragozano |
| 11:20-11:30 | From physics to IVF: developing a non-invasive 3D imaging modality for embryo assessment Presenting author: Nicolas Guigui |
| 11:30-11:40 | Endometrial analysis by artificial intelligence: predicting assisted reproductive technology outcomes with focus on patient care Presenting author: Jorge Suarez Meyer |
| 11:40-11:50 | Endothelial cell subpopulations in endometriosis and adenomyosis associated vascularization Presenting author: Sebastian Zuniga Norman |
| 11:50-12:00 | Q&A |
| 12:00-13:30 | SESSION 8: CHALLENGES IN HUMAN EMBRYO GENETICS Chair: Antonio Capalbo, Italy |
| 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, Poster viewing and exhibition visit |
| 14:30-16:30 | SESSION 9: CHALLENGES IN OVARIAN and UTERINE HEALTH Chair: Xavier Santamaria, Spain |
| 14:30-15:00 | Personalizing ovarian stimulation in aging/low response patients. Where are we now? Nikolaos Polyzos, Spain |
| 15:00-15:30 | Endometrial receptivity tests. Clinical results Demián Glukovsky, Argentina |
| 15:30-16:00 | Endometriosis and Adenomyosis at single-cell level Linda Giudice, USA |
| 16:00-16:30 | Decoding the origin of uterine fibroids Aymara Mas, Spain |
| 16:30-17:00 | Coffee Break, Poster viewing and exhibition visit |
| 17:00-18:30 | SESSION 10: CHALLENGES IN EMBRYO TRANSFER and BEYOND Chair: Carlos Simon, Spain |
| 17:00-17:30 | Transfer Direct versus Manual transfer in IVF Xavier Santamaria, Spain |
| 17:30-18:00 | Decidualization resistance in the origin of early onset preeclampsia and endometriosis Tamara Garrido, Spain |
| 18:00-18:30 | Science quality metrics and Science integrity Bart Fauser, The Netherlands and Craig Niederberger, USA |
| 18:30 | Closing Carlos Simon and Zeev Shoham |
