Conference program

08:30 - 09:15: Registration and welcome coffee
09:15 - 09:30: Opening Remarks
09:30 - 10:30: Infant sleep after the NICU | keynote

Speaker: Madeleine Grigg-Damberger (Professor of Neurology, University of New Mexico School of Medicine)
10:30 - 11:00: Neonatal sleep in various patient cohorts | talk

Speaker: Anneleen Dereymaeker (Neonatologist, University Hospitals Leuven)
11:00 - 11:20: Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:50: Infant sleep in the NICU | abstract presentations
- Leonie Paciello: Sleep in children born preterm – A report from Tuebingen’s follow up-cohort study
- Aoife Walsh: A Pilot Study: Using Electroencephalography (EEG) to Assess the Impact of Encephalopathy on Sleep Architecture in Newborn Infants
- Alisha Blum: Influence of the environment (intensive care unit versus intermediate/normal care unit) on the sleep of preterm infants
- Viviana Marchi: Sleep Spindle Features and Motor Outcomes in Infants with Perinatal Brain Injury: A Retrospective Study

12:50 - 14:00: Lunch
14:00 - 14:30: TBD | talk

Speaker: Renée Shellhaas (Pediatric Neurologist, Washington University School of Medicine)
14:30 - 15:30: Soothing and sleeping | abstract presentations
- Margreet Harskamp: Similarities and Differences Between Fathers and Mothers in Needs, Experiences, and Application of Soothing & Sleeping
- Rachel Howard: Kangaroo Care and Its Effect on Sleep in Preterm Infants: A Scoping Review
- TBD: Monitoring the Effects of Kangaroo Care

15:30 - 16:30: Poster session with coffee
- Ömer Gürkan Dilek: AI Technologies in Neonatal Brain Health Monitoring
- Margreet Harskamp: Usage of Snoo smart cribs by families on medical advice by Youth Health Care
- Jovana Kljajic: Forecasting Individual Seizure Risk in Neonatal Hypoxic-ischemic Encephalopathy Using Machine Learning
- John O’Toole: AI detection of neonatal EEG abnormalities
- Sofie de Sena: Infant Sleep Position as a Predictor of Motor Development: A Smart Wearable Approach
- Magdalena Smolková: Opinions of healthcare professionals on the integration of machine learning enabled devices in neonatology

16:30 - 18:00: Towards a NICU sleep bundle | Interactive workshop & white paper co-creation
- Juliane Köberlein-Neu (Professor of Health Services Research and Health Economic Evaluation, University of Wuppertal)
- Christy Gliniak (Neonatal Occupational Therapist, MultiCare Deaconess Hospital, Washington)
- Jeroen Dudink (Neonatologist, Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital, Utrecht)
- Eline de Groot (Postdoc at Early Childhood Community of Dynamics of Youth, Utrecht University)

09:00 - 10:00: Apnoea and infant brain development | keynote

Speaker: Caroline Hartley (Associate Professor Paediatric Neuroimaging, University of Oxford)
10:00 - 10:30: Federated learning for neonatal brain monitoring | talk

Speaker: Sampsa Vanhatalo (Professor in Physiology, University of Helsinki)
10:30 - 11:00: Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:20: AI for neonatal brain monitoring | abstract presentations
- Péter Földesy: Intelligent Surveillance and Behavioral Analysis Systems for Neonatal Care: Database Development, Device Innovation, and AI-Assisted Monitoring
- Tamara Skoric: AdaBoost for neonatal seizure detection using single-channel EEG
- Jürgen Graf: Towards unobtrusive sleep stage classification in preterm infants using machine learning
- Saeed Montazeri: Emergence of Brain State Fluctuations during recovery from birth asphyxia: Revisiting the concept of Sleep-Wake Cycling

This program is subject to updates. Please check back regularly for the latest information.