Program will be added once finalised.
DAY 1
Thursday, 22 October 2026
8h00
Registration & welcome coffee
8h30
Welcome Address
10h00
Opening Keynotes
- Plenary
Chairman
8h45
Title to be announced
Prénom NOM
Fonction
Entreprise, Pays
9h00
Title to be announced
Jamila Louahed
CDO
Minervax - Denmark
9h30
Title to be announced
Regina Bach
Coordination Lead Pandemic Alliance Munich
BioM Biotech Cluster Development - Germany
9h45
From Sequences to Systems in Public Health and Pandemic Preparedness in Bangladesh
Senjuti Saha
Deputy Executive Director
Child Health Research Foundation (CHRF) - Bangladesh
10h15
Coffe Break - Exhibition Hall
10h45
Track 1: Learning from experience to strengthen pandemic preparedness
- Plenary
Chairman
10h45
Mathematical Modeling to Advance Infectious Disease Research
Jérémie Guedj
Research scientist in biostatistics/pharmacometrics
INSERM - France
11h05
Viral Dynamic Models During COVID‐19: Are We Ready for the Next Pandemic?
Maria Zambon
Head of Respiratory Virology
UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) - United Kingdom
9h30
Title to be confirmed
Jamila Louahed
Deputy Executive Director
Child Health Research Foundation (CHRF) - Bangladesh
10h00
Title to be confirmed
Jamila Louahed
Deputy Executive Director
Child Health Research Foundation (CHRF) - Bangladesh
12h00
Lunchbreak - Exhibition Hall
14h00
Track 2: Innovations in human vaccines
- Plenary
Sponsored by Sanofi
14h00
Accelerating Vaccine Development Through Controlled Human Infection Models
Meta Roestenberg
Infectious Diseases clinician and professor in Human Models for Vaccine Development
Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) - Netherlands
14h20
AI/ML-Driven mRNA Vaccine Development: From Design to Clinical Translation
Tod Strugnell
Head of mRNA Research Data Science, mRNA Center of Excellence
Sanofi - USA
9h30
Title to be confirmed
Jamila Louahed
Deputy Executive Director
Child Health Research Foundation (CHRF) - Bangladesh
15h00
Q&A session
15h15
Coffe Break - Exhibition Hall
15h45
Track 3: Global Challenges in Animal Infectious Diseases
- Plenary
Sponsored by Sanofi
15h45
Title to be announced
Meta Roestenberg
Infectious Diseases clinician and professor in Human Models for Vaccine Development
Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) - Netherlands
16h05
Title to be announced
Vincent Legros
Associate professor
VetAgro Sup - France
9h00
Title to be confirmed
Senjuti Saha
Deputy Executive Director
Child Health Research Foundation (CHRF) - Bangladesh
9h30
Title to be confirmed
Jamila Louahed
Deputy Executive Director
Child Health Research Foundation (CHRF) - Bangladesh
16h45
Q&A session
17h00
Track 4: One Health Approach to Tackling Infectious Diseases
- Plenary
Sponsored by Sanofi
17h00
Advancing Vaccine Development for Leishmaniasis
Thouraya Boussoffara
Head of the team “Immunobiology of Infections”
Institut Pasteur de Tunis - Tunisia
17h20
Deciphering Host–Vector–Pathogen Interactions to Combat Infectious Diseases
Valérie Choumet
Researcher
Institut Pasteur - France
17h40
Title to be announced
Meta Roestenberg
Infectious Diseases clinician and professor in Human Models for Vaccine Development
Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) - Netherlands
18h00
Q&A session
18h15