Program

Conference program

Day 1: Wednesday, 3 September 2025

Morning
  • 08:30 - 09:15: Registration and welcome
  • 09:15 - 09:30: Opening Remarks
  • 09:30 - 10:30: Impact of Sleep and Sleep Disorders in Infancy on Neurodevelopment | keynote

    Speaker: Madeleine Grigg-Damberger (Professor of Neurology, University of New Mexico School of Medicine)

  • 10:30 - 11:00: Data-driven interpretation of EEG in different patient cohorts | talk

    Speaker: Anneleen Dereymaeker (Neonatologist, University Hospitals Leuven)

  • 11:00 - 11:20: 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
Afternoon
  • 12:50 - 14:00: Lunch
  • 14:00 - 14:30: Infant position and sleep-disordered breathing in the NICU | talk

    Speaker: Renée Shellhaas (Pediatric Neurologist, Washington University School of Medicine)

  • 14:30 - 15:30: Soothing and sleeping | abstract presentations
    • Margreet Harskamp: Soothing & Sleeping for infant crying involves both parents
    • Rachel Howard: Kangaroo Care and Its Effect on Sleep in Preterm Infants: A Scoping Review
    • Jeroen Dudink: Sleep and kangaroo care: first results
  • 15:30 - 16:30: Poster session with coffee
    • 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
    • Christy Gliniak (Neonatal Occupational Therapist, MultiCare Deaconess Hospital, Washington)
    • Jeroen Dudink (Neonatologist, Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital, Utrecht)
    • Alisha Blum (Tübingen University, Germany)
    • Leonie Paciello (Tübingen University Hospital, Germany)
Evening
  • 18:30 - 21:00: Conference Dinner

Day 2: Thursday, 4 September 2025

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

    Speaker: Caroline Hartley (Associate Professor Paediatric Neuroimaging, University of Oxford)

  • 10:00 - 10:30: Extended federated learning for infant sleep 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
    • Miklós Szabó: 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
  • 12:20 - 12:30: Closing Remarks
  • 12:30 - 13:30: Lunch

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