Pre-Congress Workshops

08:45 - 09:00	Welcome Remarks	Mina Alikani, USA
Session 1	Opening Lecture CHAIR: Mina Alikani
09:00 - 09:45	Recasting Life in an Age of Radical Biotechnology	Jamie Metzl (US)
09:45 - 10:15	Coffee Break
10:15 - 11:00	Satellite Symposium 1
Session 2	Keynote Lectures 1 & 2 CHAIR: Alison Campbell
11:00 - 11:30	The future of human embryo culture	David Gardner (Aus)
11:30 - 12:00	"Uncovering the early stages of life" with new imaging techniques	Nicolas Plachta (US)
12:00 - 12:15	Q & A
12:15 - 13:15	Lunch
13:15 - 14:15	Satellite Symposium 2
Session 3	Gamete and Embryo Selection CHAIR: Sharon Mortimer
14:15 - 14:40	The 'good' egg	Laura Rienzi (Italy)
14:40 - 15:05	The 'good' embryo	Tom Bamford (UK)
15:05 - 15:30	The 'good' sperm	Mónica Marques (Portugal)
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee Break
Session 5	RBMO SESSION CHAIR: Juan Garcia-Velasco
16:05- 16:15	RBMO RGE Prize Paper Winner Presentation	Nuno Costa-Borges
16:15 - 16:25	RBMO RGE Prize Paper Runner up Presentation	Begum Mathyk
16:25 - 16:35	2024 CFAS Prize Paper	Ola Davis (Canada)
16:35 - 18:00	SELECTED FREE COMMUNICATIONS CHAIR: Başak Balaban & Juan Garcia-Velasco
16:35 - 16:50	Clinical validation and experiences of the microfluidics sperm preparation device ZyMot™	Emma Adolfsson
16:50 - 17:05	Using simulation to optimize IVF lab resources and meet physiological time constraints	Aida Kaffel
17:05 - 17:20	The use of direct swim-up technique in the IVF lab: a less invasive and more efficient sperm preparation method. A randomized prospective study of an alternative to the gold-standard techniques	Rebeca Bravo Martin
17:20 - 17:35	A cytogenetic comparison of a trophectoderm biopsy on day 5 and the corresponding in vitro extended cultured embryo on day 8	Effrosyni Chavli
17:35 - 17:50	The effect of different pipette types and pipetting techniques on oil volumes in culture dishes	Kristina Schildauer
17:50 - 18:00	Testicular sperm processing in HIV positive men: assessing viral contamination and reproductive outcomes	Ileana Mateizel
18:00 - 18:30	General Assembly	Mina Alikani (US) Alison Campbell (UK)
18:30 - 20:00	Welcome Reception

Session 6	Keynote Lecture 3 CHAIR: Alison Campbell
09:00 - 09:30	Take a walk on the wild side: Preserving endangered species	Tullis Matson (UK)
Session 6 continued	Cryopreservation CHAIR: Alison Campbell
09:30 - 10:00	Oocyte vitrifcation outcomes: What impacts them?	Maria Jose de Los Santos (Spain)
10:00-10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:15	SELECTED FREE COMMUNICATIONS CHAIR: Christophe Blockeel & Maria Jose de Los Santos
10:00 - 10:15	The effects of vitrification on the ultrastructure of human embryos at 4, 10 and 24 hours post warming	Konstantina Pappa
10:15 - 10:30	Beyond traditional ICSI: assessing the promise of piezo-assisted ICSI	Daria Davydova
10:30 - 10:45	Rescue of embryos identified as chaotic by Next Generation Sequencing-based (NGS-based) preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy (PGT-A). Is re-biopsy and re-testing a valid option?	Yosu Franco Iriarte
10:45 - 11:00	Three-dimensional assessment of the inner cell mass is more effective at predicting implantation and live birth than Gardner grading	Rufus Morgan
11:00 - 11:15	Bringing the IVF laboratory into the digital age	Andrew Thomson
Session 7	Keynote Lecture 4 CHAIR: Jamie Metzl
11:15 - 11:45	The Next Big Thing in IVF	Jacques Cohen (US)
Session 7 continued	Automation
11:45 - 12:15	The internet of things in the IVF laboratory	Giles Palmer (UK)
12:15 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 14:15	Satellite Symposium 3
Session 8	Laboratory Management CHAIR: Xavier Pollet-Villard
14:15 - 14:30	Leadership in the IVF laboratory	Dean Morbeck (NZ)
14:30 - 14:45	How to embrace change	Sharon Mortimer (Canada)
14:45 - 15:00	How clinical decisions affect laboratory KPIs	David Mortimer (Canada)
15:00 - 15:15	Excelling at Excellence: Quality and Compliance in Andrology	Unika Alexander (USA)
15:15 - 15:40	Q & A
Session 9	Laboratory Sustainability CHAIR: Giles Palmer
15:40 - 16:00	Sustainability in the IVF lab: What, when, why, and how!	Fran Farlie (UK)
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee Break
Session 10	Preimplantation Genetics & Emerging Technologies CHAIR: Nathan Treff
16:30 - 16:50	PGT-A: efficacious or not?	Mireia Sandalinas (Spain)
16:50 - 17:10	The enigma of euploid embryo loss	Danilo Cimadomo (Italy)
17:10 - 17:30	Ready or Not: Somatic and Synthetic Embryology	Peter Rugg-Gun (UK)
17:30 - 18:00	Q & A

Session 11	Regulating ART Chair: Laura Rienzi, Hasan Burjaq
10:00 - 10:20	Add on' and on and on…	Tim Child (UK)
10:20 - 11:00	PANEL / AUDIENCE DISCUSSION
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee Break
Session 12	Final Session: Global challenges for reproductive scientists Chair: Mina Alikani, Alison Campbell
11:30 - 12:00	Film Premiere
12:00 - 12:30	PANEL / AUDIENCE DISCUSSION
12:30 - 13:00	Closing Remarks:	Mina Alikani (US) Alison Campbell (UK)