Welcome & Introduction
Giorgia Girotto (Trieste, Italy)

Moderators: Isabel Varela-Nieto (Madrid, Spain), Takayuki Nakagawa (Kyoto, Japan)
Synaptic sound encoding in the cochlea: from molecular physiology and pathology to functional restoration
Tobias Moser (Göttingen, Germany)

Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMP) for hearing loss: Developing the use of pluripotent stem cells
Marcelo Rivolta (Sheffield, UK)

Genetics, Epigenetics and Therapy: Advances for Deafness
Karen Avraham (Tel Aviv, Israel)

Closing remarks
Giorgia Girotto (Trieste, Italy)