Thursday 19 September

08:15–08:30 Opening of the Congress

08:30-10:00 First Session – Advances in fetal surgery and treatments
08:30–09:00 Alexandra Benachi, Paris, FETO: past, present and future
09:00-09:30 Martin Meuli, Zürich, Open Spina Bifida Repair before birth: Key results from the Zurich cohort of 220 fetal surgery cases
09:30-10:00 William Peranteau, Philadelphia, In utero gene editing as a potential future avenue for fetal interventions

10:00-10:30 Coffee/tea

10:30-12:00 Second Session  – Update on regenerative medicine 
10:30-11:00 Paolo de Coppi, London, The role of tissue engineering in esophageal replacement
11:00-11:30 Augusto Zani, Toronto, Stem cell-derived extracellular vesicles as a regenerative therapy for hypoplastic lungs:
                                                                    Translational studies in CDH lamb fetuses
11:30-12:00 Magdalena Fossum, Copenhagen, A one-staged strategy for vaginal tissue engineering- a translational approach

12:00-13:00 Lunch

13:00-14:30 Third Session – Update on clinical pediatric surgery
13:00-13:30 Atsuyuki Yamataka, Tokyo, Robotic-assisted pediatric surgery: our experience
13:30-14:00 Mikko Pakarinen, Helsinki,  Intestinal transplantation – where are we today?
14:00-14:30 Jörgen Thorup, Copenhagen, The spectrum of cryptorchidism – clinical aspects

14:30-15:00 Coffee/tea

15:00-16:00 Fourth Session – Focus on personalized medicine
15:00-15:30 Agostino Pierro, Toronto, Stroma cell therapy for necrotizing enterocolitits
15:30-16:00 Petter Brodin, Stockholm, Establishing healthy immune-microbe interactions early in life

16:00-16:30 Fifth Session – KI and the Nobel Prize
16:00-16:30 Tobias Degsell, Stockholm, Behind the scenes of the Nobel festivities

Friday 20 September

08:30-10:00 Session 1 – Free papers

10:00-10:30 Coffee/tea

10:30-12:00 Session 2 – Free papers

12:00-13:00 Lunch

13:00-14:30 Session 3 – Free papers

14:30-15:00 Coffee/tea

15:00-16:30 Session 4 – Free papers

Saturday 21 September

08:30-10:00 Session 1 – Free papers

10:00-10:30 Coffee/tea

10:30-12:00 Session 2 – Free papers

12:00-13:00 Lunch

13:00-14:30 Session 3 – Free papers

14:30-15:00 Coffee/tea

15:00-16:30 Session 4 – Free papers

16:30-16:45 Closing remarks

The program is subject to changes.