2025 forums

Ophthalmology Futures Forums 2025
France & Denmark

Registration to attend is now open, Register for both European and Retina forums and save €200 on registration fees

Ophthalmology Futures Forums

A global series of clinician-led events spotlighting innovation across the ophthalmic healthcare sector. Each Forum connects leading voices from clinical practice, research, industry, and investment to explore emerging technologies, evolving market dynamics, and the commercialisation of new solutions in eye care.

 

This year, our Forums will once again bring together international decision-makers and innovators to address critical topics in both front- and back-of-the-eye diseases, surgical technologies, diagnostics, and funding trends. Whether you’re focused on retina advancements, anterior segment breakthroughs, or strategic investment in ophthalmology, these events are designed to inform, challenge, and connect.

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Retina Forum
(Building ICON) Pavillon d'Armenonville, Paris, France (calendar ICON) 3 September 2025
From gene and cell therapies to AI-driven surgical technologies, the Retina Forum will address major therapeutic frontiers and the evolving investment outlook in retinal diseases.

  • Geographic Atrophy Therapeutics: Lessons Learned from Glaucoma & Other Chronic Diseases
  • Neovascular AMD: Are the Novel Extended Interval Therapies Truly Making a Difference?
  • Is Diabetic Retinopathy the Overlooked Elephant in the Room?
  • Gene & Cell Therapies for Rare and Common Retinal Diseases: Hype Vs Progress
  • The Future of Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors and Other Adjunctive Agents for AMD: Exits or Bust?
  • Robotics & Other Surgical Advances for Back of the Eye Diseases
  • The Retina Investment Landscape: Optimism or Fatigue?
European Forum
(Building ICON) Hotel d’Angleterre, Copenhagen, Denmark (calendar ICON) 11 September 2025
Focusing on the latest in cataract surgery, corneal therapies, glaucoma innovation, and early-stage European biotech, the European Forum dives into where clinical needs meet commercial opportunity.

  • Light Adjustable IOLs: Paradigm Shift or Not Worth the Trouble?
  • What Will be the Next Big Thing in Cataract Surgery?
  • Will MIGS Stents be Replaced by Lasers?
  • Drugs & Biologics for Front-of-the-Eye Diseases
  • Can Devices & Cell Therapies Both Succeed for Corneal Disease?
  • European-Based Biotech & Medtech Investment: Is the Appetite Growing?
  • Back of the Eye Opportunities for Anterior Segment Surgeons
  • What Keeps Public Eye Company CEOs up at Night?
  • Myopia

Retina Forum

European Forum