Confirmed keynotes

  • The importance of REM sleep behaviour disorder for defining subtypes of Parkinson's disease

    Per Borghammer, MD, PhD, DMSc, Clinical Professor, Department of Clinical Medicine - PACE - Lundbeck Foundation Parkinson's Disease Research Center, Aarhus University, Denmark.

  • Sleep as a Pathway to Mental Health: Transdiagnostic Treatments and Implementation Innovation

    Alison Harvey, Professor of Clinical Psychology and Director of the Golden Bear Sleep and Mood Research Clinic, UC Berkeley, California, US.

  • Circadian Regulation of Sleep & Wakefulness

    Christian Cajochen, Professor and Head of Centre for Chronobiology, University of Basel, Switzerland.

  • Use of melatonin in pediatric populations

    Paul Gringas, Professor of Sleep Medicine, Kings College London and Consultant in Paediatric Neurodisability and Sleep Medicine, at the Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.

  • Sleep Revolution: reshaping diagnosis and management of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Europe"

    Erna Sif Arnardóttir,  Associate Professor and head of Sleep Revolution. President of the European Sleep Research Society. Department of Engineering and Department of Computer Science, Reykjavik University, Iceland

Confirmed invited symposia speakers

Bjørn Bjorvatn, Professor, Department of global public health and primary care, University of Bergen, Norway. " Insomnia, adolescents and mental health"

Mats Lekander, professor of health psychology at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Instituttet, Sweden. "Sleep, inflammation, and Immunity"

Etienne Challet, Senior research director, CNRS, University of Strasbourg , France. "Metabolism, Sleep and Circadian rhythms" 

Christian Benedict, Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Uppsala University, Sweden " Sleep to stay slim"

Marta Celmina, Sleep Specialist - Paeditrician. Chair of Latvian Sleep Medicine Society, Epilepsy and Sleep Medicine Centre, Riga, Latvia. "Parental perception of sleep vs. real symptoms"

Gintare Liaikaite Oboleviciene, Resident Doctor of Pediatric Pulmonology, Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Lithuania. "TBD".

Lisa M. Wu, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, University of Aarhus, Denmark " Targeting Circadian Rhythms to Improve Fatigue and Sleep in Cancer Rehabilitation"

Frederic Gachon, Professor of Medical Chronobiolog, Institut for Biomedicin, University of Aarhus, Denmark " Molecular Clock Disruption and Disease"

Tone Henriksen, Psychiatrist, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Norway " Dark therapy, Light, Circadian rhythms, and Psychiatry"

Cecilie Paulsrud, PhD-student, Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, Denmark " How to measure sleep in children and adolescents?"

Celia Kjærby, Associate professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. "Sleep pressure–driven brainstem hyperactivity disrupts sleep-dependent memory in aging"

Poul Jennum, Professor, Rigshospitalet, Denmark. "Sleep disturbances as early markers of neurodegenerative disease"