Programme

ESCRS iNovation® Day 2023 Programme Overview

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

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)

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

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

  • Presbyopia
  • Digital Operating Room
  • Cornea Therapeutics / Cross Linking / OSD
  • Refractive Surgery
  • Funding Innovation
  • Glaucoma / MIGS
  • Myopia Management
  • Executive Leadership Roundtable

Programme (subject to change)

HourProgramme
7:45General attendee networking breakfast and registration
8:30

Welcome and overview of the annual ESCRS iNovation® Day
Welcome address: Oliver Findl and Brad Fundingsland
8:40

SESSION #1: Managing presbyopia from early stage to cataracts

Session Chairs: Thomas Kohnen and Arthur Cummings
Doctor Panelists: Gerd Auffarth and Francesco Carones
Industry Panelists: TBD

  • 30 minute panel discussion on Presbyopia ESCRS delegate clinical opinion and practice pattern data trends
  • 5 emerging company technology presentations and panel discussion (3 minutes presentation + 3 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

Session Chairs: Burkhard Dick and David Chang
Doctor Panelists: Damien Gatinel and Roger Zaldivar
Industry Panelists: TBD

  • 30 minute panel discussion on ESCRS delegate clinical opinion and practice pattern data trends
  • 5 emerging company technology presentations and panel discussion (3 minutes presentation + 3 minutes discussion)
10:30Networking break (20 minutes)
10:50

SESSION #3: New approaches to managing cornea disorders: from ocular surface health to cross linking and modern therapeutic cornea procedures

Session Chairs: Filomena Ribeiro and Eric Donnenfeld
Doctor Panelists: Beatrice Cochener and Jose Guell
Industry Panelists: TBD

  • 30 minute panel discussion on ESCRS delegate clinical opinion and practice pattern data trends
  • 5 emerging company technology presentations and panel discussion (3 minutes presentation + 3 minutes discussion)
11:45

SESSION #4: The reemergence of refractive surgery: lenticule extraction and phakic IOLs

Session Chairs: Pavel Stodulka and TBD
Doctor Panelists: Walter Sekundo and Rohit Shetty
Industry Panelists: TBD

  • 30 minute panel discussion on ESCRS delegate clinical opinion and practice pattern data trends
  • 5 emerging company technology presentations and panel discussion (3 minutes presentation + 3 minutes discussion)
12:40Break (10 minutes)
12:50LUNCH SESSION #5: Funding innovation in Europe

Session Chair: Paul Rosen
Panelists: Kristen Ignacio, Stephen McLeod and others TBD
  • Keynote lecture: Future of value based healthcare: Dr. Stephen D. McLeod, CEO of the American Academy of Ophthalmology
  • Current trends for funding innovation in Europe
  • 30 minute panel discussion on funding innovation in Europe
13:30

SESSION #6: Earlier management of glaucoma with MIGS in the cataract practice

Session Chair: Ike Ahmed
Doctor Panelists: Andrew Tatham, Verena Prokosch-Willing and others TBD
Industry Panelists: TBD

  • 30 minute panel discussion on ESCRS delegate clinical opinion and practice pattern data trends
  • 5 emerging company technology presentations and panel discussion (3 minutes presentation + 3 minutes discussion)
14:25

SESSION #7: Myopia: The next pandemic?

Session Chairs: Ken Nischal and Jim Mazzo
Doctor Panelists: TBD
Industry Panelists: TBD

  • 30 minute panel discussion on ESCRS delegate clinical opinion and practice pattern data trends
14:55

Networking Break (20 minutes)
15:15SESSION #8: The innovators den: eyecare pioneers (submit your idea here)

Session Chair: Vance Thompson
Judges: Oliver Findl and others TBD
  • 3 presentations by doctor-led innovations as selected by panel of experts
15:50

SESSION #9: European industry leadership roundtable: visions for the next 5 years

Session Chairs: Oliver Findl and Rudy Nuijts
Industry Panelists: TBD

  • 30 minute panel discussion
16:20Summary of key highlights, next steps and concluding remarks
16:25

Conclusion