FIDO Challenge Agenda

MICCAI Challenge — Thematic Day on Ophthalmology
Agenda is subject to change.
Challenge website: https://syntheseyes.com/blog/miccai-challenge-2026/
MICCAI 2026 · Strasbourg, France
Thursday, October 1, 2026 (Day 5)
Room Dresden (G)
13:30 – 15:30
MICCAI, SynthesEyes, ZEISS, CAMP, Het Oog Ziekenhuis Rotterdam — supported by NVIDIA and robo.innovate
5 min
Introduction & Welcome
30 min
Opening Keynotes
Two 15-minute talks
15 min
Christian Kungel (ZEISS)
From Seeing to Understanding to Assisting: Multimodal AI for intraoperative ophthalmology
15 min
Dr. Koorosh Faridpooya
Optimising Operating Room Workflow
10 min
Challenge awards and a few highlights from NVIDIA
Zhijin Li (NVIDIA)
10 min
Challenge Introduction
Overview of the challenge
Covering the dataset, multi-modality, fusion approach, and tasks.
15 min
Top 3 Challenge Winners (Task 1, Task 2, Innovative Approach)
Prizes sponsored by NVIDIA: GPU and cloud credits
3 × 5 min
Team presentations
Brief summary of each winning paper.
35 min
Panel Discussion
Moderated by Shervin Dehghani (SynthesEyes)
From Decision Support to Autonomy in Retinal Surgery
Koorosh Faridpooya
Rotterdam Eye Clinic
Christoph Spuhler
AcuSurgical
Christian Kungel
ZEISS
Nassir Navab
TUM
Michael Sommersperger
SynthesEyes
15 min
Closing & Summary
Led by Prof. Dr. Nassir Navab