Programme

ESCRS iNovation® Day 2023 Programme Overview

Friday 8 September 2023 | 07:45 – 16:00 | Plenary A1 | 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 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 Disorders
  • 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
Review of iNovation attendee pre-meeting survey and topline ESCRS delegate survey trends: Brad Fundingsland
8:40

SESSION #1: Managing presbyopia from early stage to cataracts

Session Chairs: Thomas Kohnen and Arthur Cummings
Doctor Panelists: Francesco Carones and Ramin Khoramnia
Industry Panelists: Raj Rajpal (Johnson & Johnson), Rajaraman Suryakumar (Alcon), Yehia Hashad (Bausch + Lomb)

  • 25 minute panel discussion on Presbyopia ESCRS delegate clinical opinion and practice pattern data trends
  • Presbyopia Emerging company technology presentations and panel discussion
    • 2 Eyes Vision - Susana Marcos 
    • Atia Vision - Dee Stephenson 
    • CustomLens AI - Milind Pande
    • LensGen Inc. - Eric Donnenfeld
    • DEZIMAL GmbH - Olivier La Schiazza
9:35

SESSION #2: Future of the digital operating room

Session Chairs: Burkhard Dick and David Chang
Doctor Panelists: Damien Gatinel and Roger Zaldivar
Industry Panelists: Seba Leoni (Alcon), Frank Seizinger (Zeiss), Benedikt Wurm (Heidelberg)

  • 30 minute panel discussion on ESCRS delegate clinical opinion and practice pattern data trends
10:10Networking break (20 minutes)
10:30

SESSION #3: Cornea disorders and Refractive IOLs

Session Chairs: Beatrice Cochener and Eric Donnenfeld
Doctor Panelists: José Guëll and Cathleen McCabe
Industry Panelists: Tim Clover (Rayner), Andreas Kuehnel (VSY), Greg Kunst (Aurion)

  • 25 minute panel discussion on ESCRS delegate clinical opinion and practice pattern data trends
  • Emerging company technology presentations and panel discussion 
    • Glint Pharmaceuticals - Chris Adams
    • W. L. Gore & Associates – Anuraag Singh
    • Epion Therapeutics - Mike Webb 
11:25

SESSION #4: The reemergence of refractive surgery

Session Chairs: Filomena Ribeiro and Pavel Stodulka
Doctor Panelists: Walter Sekundo and Rohit Shetty
Industry Panelists: Tobin Island (Johnson & Johnson), Mark Smythe (Alcon), Scott Barnes (STAAR Surgical), Dirk Muehlhoff (Zeiss), Domenic von Planta (Schwind)

  • 35 minute panel discussion on ESCRS delegate clinical opinion and practice pattern data trends
  • Emerging company technology presentations and panel discussion 
    • EyeMed Technologies Ltd - Nir Shimoni 
    • Ophtec
12:20Break (20 minutes)
12:40LUNCH SESSION #5: Funding innovation in Europe

Session Chair: Paul Rosen and Michael Knorz
Panelists: Stephen McLeod (AAO), Kristen Ingenito (MarketScope), Joanna Gould (Visusnano), Diana Saraceni (Panakes), Victor Chua (Mansfield Advisors), Sheraz Daya
  • 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 – Kristen Ingenito, MarketScope
  • 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 and Verena Prokosch-Willing
Doctor Panelists: Andrew Tatham and Karsten Klabe
Industry Panelists: Rafael Chan (Alcon), Ramin Valian (Allergan)

  • Glaucoma Market Overview - Ike Ahmed
    • 25 minute panel discussion on ESCRS delegate clinical opinion and practice pattern data trends
  • Emerging company technology presentations and panel discussion 
    • Olleyes - Jorge Fernandez
    • Vialase - Rick Lewis
    • Sanoculis Ltd - Nir Israeli
14:20

SESSION #7: Myopia: The next pandemic?

Session Chairs: Ken Nischal and Jim Mazzo
Doctor Panelists: Stephen McLeod (AAO), Ramesh Kekunnaya (WSPOS), and Ronald Yeoh (APACRS)
Industry Panelists: Xiao Yu Song (Johnson & Johnson) and Olga Prenat (EssilorLuxottica)

  • Why all the interest in Myopia Management – Ken Nischal
  • Overview of the Myopia Market – Jim Mazzo
  • 25 minute panel discussion on ESCRS delegate clinical opinion and practice pattern data trend
  • Overview of WSPOS Myopia Guidelines – Ken Nischal
15:00

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

Session Chair: Vance Thompson
Judges: Oliver Findl, William Link, and David Ford
  • Introduction to the Innovators Den – Vance Thompson
  • 3 presentations by doctor/scientist-led innovations as selected by panel of judges
16:05

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

Session Chairs: Oliver Findl and Rudy Nuijts
Industry Panelists: Jacqueline Henderson (Johnson & Johnson), Sunil Vasanth (Alcon), Kfir Azoulay (Heidelberg), Warren Foust (STAAR Surgical), Ramin Valian (Allergan), Andreas Kuehnel (VSY)

  • 30 minute panel discussion
16:40Summary of key highlights, next steps and concluding remarks
16:45

Conclusion