Host: The Generation Study • Location: London, England • Dates: October 23 - 24, 2025
Meet a few of this year’s presenters
Join us at the Historic IET London: Savoy Place
This historic central London event venue on the River Thames offers cutting edge technology, improved capacity and outside space in a location that’s easily accessible by rail, tube and river.
ICoNS’25 Organizing Committee
Nicolas Encina
Executive Director, ICoNS
Harvard School of Public Health
Nidhi Shah
Dir. of Operational Development, ICoNS
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Rose Heald
Project Manager, Special Projects, ICoNS Brigham & Women's Hospital
David Bick
Co-Chair, ICoNS
Principal Clinician, Generation Study
Alice Tuff-Lacey
Programme Director, Generation Study
Owner, Monx Design House
Monique Johnson
ICoNS ANNUAL MEETING
Annual Convening of Global Thought-Leaders and Stakeholders in Newborn Sequencing
Representatives Across the Entire Healthcare Ecosystem From Over 50 Countries
Clinicians • Researchers • Policy Makers • Technology • Therapeutics • Advocacy • Diagnostics • Ethics • Hospital Systems • Laboratories
click to expand
Day 1 October 23
Morning Session
Opening Chair: David Bick
Session II Chair: Heidi Rehm
Moderator: Nidhi Shah
Panelists: Pranesh Chakraborty (Canada), Aimé Lumaka (DR Congo), Laurence Faivre (France), Fowzan Alkuraya (Saudi Arabia), Jeffrey Himmel (Ecuador)
Mattia Gentile, MD, Director, Medical Gentic Unit ASL BARI
The progress of genomic newborn sequencing around the world
Nidhi Shah
Panel: UK Newborn Genomic Screening
Moderator: Alice Tuff-Lacey, The Generation Study
Panelists: Sue Hill, Kirsty Hoyle, Amanda Pichini
Title:NHS Genomic Medicine Service supporting national initiatives
Speaker: Dr Sue Hill. Chief Scientific Officer, England
Lunchtime Seminars
Presenter(s): Madhuri Hegde: Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer at Revvity. Ephrem Chin: VP Global OMICS Services Strategy, Technical Operations & Commercial at Revvity
Topic: A streamlined and flexible workflow for implementation of newborn sequencing to complement newborn screening
(in-person ONLY)
Presenter: Kevin Hall, VP, Distinguished Scientist, Head of Applications and Customer Enablement for Illumina
Title: Newborn Genomes: An Integrated end-to-end WGS Workflow from DBS
(in-person ONLY)
Afternoon Session
Session I Chair: Ammira Akil
Workshop Moderator: Laurence Faivre
Learning from the Field: Concrete Lessons from Pilot Projects on Genomic Newborn Screening
(Moderator) Laurence Faivre, CHU Dijon France
Robert Green, Harvard Medical School - Lessons learned from BabySeq
Wendy Chung, Boston Children’s Hospital - Lessons learned from GUARDIAN
David Bick, Genomics England - Lessons learned from Generation Study
Sebastian Lunke, The Royal Children’s Hospital - Lessons learned from BabyScreen
Laurent Servais, CHU Liège - Lessons learned from BabyDetect
Workshop Sessions
click to expand
DAY 2 — AFTERNOON SESSION
Public health impacts of genomic newborn sequencing
Presenters:
(Moderator) Emma Baple, University of Exeter
David Elliman
Prof. Martina Cornel, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Netherlands Health Council (specifically Population Screening and Council Group committees) - Public health considerations in population screening – a European perspective
Dr. Amicia Phillips, University of Exeter - Defining actionability within an expanded newborn genome screening context
Dr. David Bick, Genomics England - Readying health systems to handle expanded newborn genome screening
Dr. Aimé Lumaka, University of Kinshasa - Public health considerations in population screening - a African perspective
plus Sebastian Lunke and Fowzan Alkuraya for panel
DAY 2 — MORNING SESSION
Valuing genomic newborn sequencing: an educational session for non health economists
Presenters:
(Moderator) James Buchanan, Queen Mary University of London, - Challenges when estimating value in the context of genomic newborn sequencing
Martin Vu, Queen Mary University of London - An introduction to economic evaluation for non health economists
Miranda Bailey, Rocket Pharmaceuticals - Current evidence on the value of genomics
Hadley Stevens Smith, Harvard University - Determining value when an intervention impacts multiple conditions simultaneously: An example from the BabySeq Project
Aditi Satija-Green, Genomics England - Determining value when an intervention impacts multiple conditions simultaneously: An example from the Generation Study
DAY 1 — PLATFORM PRESENTATION, AFTERNOON
Learning from the Field: Concrete Lessons from Pilot Projects on Genomic Newborn Screening
(Moderator) Laurence Faivre, CHU Dijon France
Robert Green, Harvard Medical School - Lessons learned from BabySeq
Wendy Chung, Boston Children’s Hospital - Lessons learned from GUARDIAN
David Bick, Genomics England - Lessons learned from Generation Study
Sebastian Lunke, The Royal Children’s Hospital - Lessons learned from BabyScreen
Laurent Servais, CHU Liège - Lessons learned from BabyDetect
DAY 1 — AFTERNOON SESSION
Scaling Genomic Newborn Screening: International Strategies and Service Delivery Innovations
Presenters:
(Moderator) Yvonne Bombard, University of Toronto Unity Health Toronto - Implementing genomic newborn screening: opportunities and challenges in delivering gNBS at scale
Lilian Downie, BabyScreen+, Victorian Clinical Genetics Service, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute - Supporting parental decisions about genomic newborn screening at scale in the digital age: experience from the BabyScreen+ study
Saquib Lakhani, Early Detection Program, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center - Starting from Scratch: Key considerations in building a scalable multi-disciplinary gNBS program
Amanda Pichini, Generation Study, Genomics England - The Generation Study – implementing genomic newborn screening in a national public health context
Liz Jalazo, Early Check, RTI - Building the Bridge: Scalable Digital Infrastructure for Returning Newborn Genomic Sequencing Results
DAY 1 — MORNING SESSION
Genomic newborn sequencing gene and variant curation workshop
Presenters:
(Moderator) Lilian Downie, Victorian Clinical Genetics Service - PanelApp Australia training session
Jessica Hunter, University of North Carolina - Gene-disease validity and actionability - the work of ClinGen
Emma Baple, Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, - curation moderator
Katrina Stone, St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - curation moderator
Sebastian Lunke, Victorian Clinical Genetics Service - Variant curation in the genomic newborn sequencing context
click to expand
Fast Track Sessions
click to expand
Day 2 October 24
Morning Session
Session I Chair: Amy Ponte
Session II Chair: Robert Green
Moderator: Robert Green
Panelists: Heidi Rehm, Kate Tatton-Brown, Mei Baker, Madhuri Hegde, Mimi Lee
Title: Tackling the VUS Problem
Speaker: Heidi Rehm. Investigator, Full Prof (M), Center for Genomic Medicine, Mass General Research Institute. Chief Genomics Officer, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital. Institute Member, Broad Institute. Co-Director, Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute. Chief Medical Officer and Clinical Laboratory Director, Broad Clinical Laboratories, Broad Institute. Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School. Associate Laboratory Scientist, Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Lunchtime Seminars
Presenter: Dr Prabhu Arumugam MBBS PhD FBCS
Topic: Accelerating population health innovation at scale
(in-person ONLY)
Afternoon Session
Session I Chair: Wendy Chung
Closing Chair: Nicolas Encina
The Moments That Matter: Human Stories from a New Era of Screening
Moderator: Amanda Pichini
Participants: Joseph Abbott, Steve Tyler, Kerry Miller, Angela Lightfoot
Patient Readiness
Steve Tyler, Director of Assistive Technology and Transformation at Leonard Cheshire
Involving people in genomics & health: Five pieces of practical advice
Suzannah Kinsella, Hopkins Van Mil
Building public support for evidence generation, in a context of mistrust
Tracey Brown OBE, Director of Sense about Science
What does it take to be trustworthy with genomic data? Insights from an ethics perspective
Natalie Banner, Director of Ethics, Genomics England
Advancing National Genomic Initiative: Abu Dhabi's Model for Newborn Genetic Screening and Lifelong Precision Medicine
Mohamed AlAmeri, Acting Director of Genome and Biobank Division @ Department of Health Abu Dhabi
click to expand
Poster Sessions
Presenting Author: Laurence Faivre
Presenting Author: Fabio Passetti & Andreia Suzukawa
Presenting Author: Saskia G Smits
Presenting Author: Sebastian Lunke
Presenting Author: Francois BOEMER
Presenting Author: James Fasham
Presenting Author: Mirjam de Pagter
Presenting Author: Petros Tsipouras
Presenting Author: Sarah Norris
Presenting Author: Jessica Lu
Presenting Author: Bruno Kotska Rodiño-Janeiro
Presenting Author: Mohamed Al Ameri
Presenting Author: Clarissa Berardo
Presenting Author: Wonhoo Yoo
Presenting Author: Alexander D Rowe
Presenting Author: Gulcin Gumus
Presenting Author: Yong Kiat Wee
Presenting Author: Junghyun Lee
Presenting Author: Keerthana Krishnan
Presenting Author: Aimee Dudley
Presenting Author: Paula L. Hedley
Presenting Author: Laurence Faivre
Presenting Author: Hadley Stevens Smith
Presenting Author: Jose Manuel Gonzalez de Aledo Castillo
Presenting Author: Michael Gelb
Presenting Author: Harriet Etheredge
Presenting Author: Nicole Kelly
Presenting Author: Brenna Boyd
Presenting Author: Estela Carrasco
Presenting Author: Amber Salisbury
Presenting Author: Sung-Mi Shim
Presenting Author: Annelotte Duintjer
Presenting Author: Saskia G Smits
Presenting Author: Mi-Hyun Park
Presenting Author: Timothy S Hall
Presenting Author: Veroniqa Lundbäck
Presenting Author: Anna Lewis
Presenting Author: Neal Sondheimer
Important Announcements
-
Must use booking code: ICONS25
October 22-25, 2025. (Reservation must be made by Aug 31, 2025)
Club Quarters Trafalgar Square
October 22-25, 2025. (Reservation must be made by September 21, 2025)
October 22-25, 2025. (Reservation must be made by September 21, 2025)
Must use booking code: ICONS221025
October 22-25 (Reservations must be made by August 25, 2025)
-
As of 2025, the UK has introduced a digital ETA system for short-term visits. If coming from a visa-exempt country (such as the USA, Canada, Australia, most EU/EEA members, and others), an ETA is required for stays up to six months for tourism, business, visiting family, or short study courses. The ETA does not permit working or long-term residency and costs £16, valid for multiple entries over two years or until your passport expires, whichever is sooner. Download the UK ETA App from your phone app store.
-
Special note to exhibitors, speakers and delegates.
ICoNS is NOT affiliated or related to any travel agencies or destination management companies and will never solicit you for flights or accommodations.
It is important to be aware that you may be contacted by phone, fax, or email by third party companies that act as travel agencies, wholesalers or destination management companies to solicit you with aggressive or deceptive tactics for room reservations. Room poachers and pirates may also misrepresent themselves as the official conference housing bureau and may illegally use the conference name or logo, however these companies are neither related nor affiliated with ICoNS and its meetings in any way.
-
First Colour Limited
15 Newman Street
London
W1T 1PA
Telephone 020 7636 2571
Sponsors

