Programme

ESCRS iNovation® Day 2023 Programme Overview

Friday 8 September 2023 | 07:45 – 16:00 | Messe Wien Exhibition & Congress Centre, Vienna, Austria

The full programme will be released here in 2023.

ESCRS iNovation® Day 2023 Programme Committee

  • Oliver Findl
  • Roberto Bellucci
  • Burkhard Dick
  • José Güell
  • Thomas Kohnen
  • Rudy Nuijts
  • Filomena Ribeiro
  • Paul Rosen

Meeting Itinerary (subject to change)

  • 8 sessions with expert panel discussions
  • Presentations from approximately 25 emerging technology companies
  • Networking breakfast, lunch, reception and several breaks
  • Guest speaker lectures
  • Prevailing trends survey of pre-registered attendees

Main Session Topics (with discussions by doctors and industry leaders)

  • Presbyopia
  • Diagnostics and Artificial Intelligence
  • Cornea / OSD
  • Funding Innovation
  • Glaucoma / MIGS
  • Myopia Management
  • Executive Leadership
  • The Winning Pitch

Preliminary Programme

HourProgramme
7:45General Attendee Networking Breakfast and Registration
8:30

Welcome and overview of the annual ESCRS iNovation Day
Welcome address – Oliver Findl
8:40

SESSION #1: Managing presbyopia from early stage to cataracts

  • 30 Minute panel discussion on Presbyopia ESCRS delegate clinical opinion and practice pattern data trends
  • 5 Presbyopia emerging company technology presentations and panel discussion (4 minutes presentation + 2 minutes discussion)
9:35

SESSION #2: Future of the digital operating room: Integrated diagnostic information, artificial intelligence decision making support, digital visualization and robotic surgery

  • 30 Minute panel discussion on ESCRS delegate clinical opinion and practice pattern data trends
  • 5 emerging company technology presentations and panel discussion (4 minutes presentation + 2 minutes discussion)
10:30Networking break (25 minutes)
10:55

SESSION #3: New approaches to managing cornea disorders: From ocular surface health to modern therapeutic cornea procedures

  • 30 Minute panel discussion on ESCRS delegate clinical opinion and practice pattern data trends
  • 5 emerging company technology presentations and panel discussion (4 minutes presentation + 2 minutes discussion)
11:50

SESSION #4: The reemergence of refractive surgery

  • 30 Minute panel discussion on ESCRS delegate clinical opinion and practice pattern data trends
  • 5 emerging company technology presentations and panel discussion (4 minutes presentation + 2 minutes discussion)
12:25Lunch Break (1 hour)
12:35SESSION #4: Funding innovation in Europe
13:15

SESSION #5: Earlier management of glaucoma in the cataract practice: New drugs, sustained release and intraocular/bleb MIGS

  • 30 Minute panel discussion on ESCRS delegate clinical opinion and practice pattern data trends
  • 5 emerging company technology presentations and panel discussion (4 minutes presentation + 2 minutes discussion)
14:10

SESSION #6: Myopia: The next pandemic?

  • 30 Minute panel discussion on ESCRS delegate clinical opinion and practice pattern data trends
14:52

Networking Break (25 minutes)
15:10SESSION #7: Surgeons’ Innovations for ESCRS needs
15:50

SESSION #8: European industry leadership roundtable: Visions for the next 5 years

  • 30 Minute Panel Discussion
16:25Summary of key highlights, next steps and concluding remarks
16:30

Conclusion networking reception