October 22-23, 2026

Lyon, France

Program

Check the program of the previous edition HERE

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

End of Day 1

- Plenary