Scientific Program

Scientific Program

  • Day 1 : Friday 10th Oct, 2025
  • Day 2 : Saturday 11th Oct, 2025
  • Day 3 : Sunday 12th Oct, 2025
8:00 - 9:00 Registration
Hall A & B
Time Topic Speakers
8:45 - 9:00 Welcome & Opening Remarks Junya Fukuoka, Andrey Bychkov, Norman Zerbe, Rajiv Kaushal
9:00 - 10:00 Symposium 1 : Sharing my journey of DP & AI: Global Perspectives
Chairs: Orly Ardon, Sangeeta Desai, Sujay Prasad
  DP & AI implementation; Perspective from Academic Centre in India Rajiv Kaushal (India)
  DP & AI implementation; Perspective from Corporate world in India Kirti Chadha (India)
  Digital Pathology on the Launchpad: Lessons in Readiness and Resistance Monika Vyas (USA)
  Real world experience of DP implementation from Türkiye Ilknur Türkmen (Türkiye)
10:00 - 10:45 Keynote 1 : Reimagining Pap Test Screening: How AI is Redefining Cervical Cytology
Chairs: Andrey Bychkov, Yosep Chong
Liron Pantanowitz (USA)
10:45 - 11:15 Break, Visit to Exhibits & e-Posters
11:15 - 12:15 Symposium 2 : Allied Society Symposium - ESDIP
Chairs: Junya Fukuoka, Adarsh Barwad
  Driving Integration, Innovation and International Collaboration in Digital Pathology Norman Zerbe (Germany)
  The future of tissue biomarkers Inti Zlobec (Switzerland)
  Structured reporting in non-neoplastic diseases with a focus on nephropathology Sabine Leh (Norway)
12:15 - 13:00 Pre-Luncheon Symposium 1 (3 D Histech)
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
Hall A Hall B
Time Topic Speakers Time Topic Speakers
14:00 - 15:00 Symposium 3 : Generative AI and LLM in Pathology
Chairs: Norman Zerbe, Swapnil Rane, Sangjeong Ahn
14:00 - 15:00 Symposium 5 : Oncology meets Digital & Computational Pathology
Chairs: Tanuja Shet, Santosh Menon
  Breaking Boundaries: LLMs and GenAI Innovations for the pathologist Rajendra Singh (USA)   Clinician's perspective on DP and AI in Oncology Sudeep Gupta (India)
  Bias with AI and LLM Inti Zlobec (Switzerland)   Applications & Challenges of Utilizing Digital Pathology & AI Enabled Workflows in Clinical Trials Manu Sebastian (USA)
  From patches to whole slide images: A story of representation learning in pathology Anurag Vaidya (USA)   Panel discussion : Bringing DP and AI to the Oncology Clinic
Moderator: Kumar Prabhash (India)
Panelists: Harit Chaturvedi, Suyash Kulkarni, Vikas Ostwal, Kunal Sharma, Subhash Yadav, Deepak Mishra
15:00 - 16:00 Symposium 4 : Quality metrics for effective DP and AI
Chairs: Chee Leong Cheng, Niraj Kumari, Pravin Mahajan
15:00 - 16:00 Symposium 6 : ASDP Scientific Commitee Session
Chairs: Andrey Bychkov, Ujjwal Baid
  DP Guidelines in Asia Chan Kwon Jung
(Republic of Korea)
  REG2025 Overview: Collaboration and Discovery in AI-Driven Pathology Sangjeong Ahn
(Republic of Korea)
  Accreditation of Digital Pathology Gurudatt Gupta (India)   Best practice guidelines on Pathology AI Yosep Chong
(Republic of Korea)
  Quality Management System in Clinical Digital Pathology Operations Orly Ardon (USA)   Panel discussion
Moderator: Andrey Bychkov
Panelists: Joe Young, David Ho, Masataka Kawai, Amit Sethi, Rajani Yadav, Ayushi Sahay, Tripti Bameta
16:00 - 16:30 Break, Visit to Exhibits & e-Posters
16:30 - 17:15 Panel Discussion : How to bridge the gap between industry and Academia
Moderator: Norman Zerbe
Panelists: Junya Fukuoka, Rajendra Singh,
Rajiv Kaushal, Industry Representatives
16:30 - 18:00 Oral Platform Presentation
Chairs: Poonam Panjwani, Parikshit Sanyal
17:15 - 18:00 Evening Industry symposium 1 (AWS)    
    18:15 - 19:00 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of ASDP
Time Topic Speakers
Hall B
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:00 Symposium 5 : Oncology meets Digital & Computational Pathology
Chairs: Tanuja Shet, Santosh Menon
Clinician's perspective on DP and AI in oncology Sudeep Gupta (India)
Applications & Challenges of Utilizing Digital Pathology & AI Enabled Workflows in Clinical Trials Manu Sebastian (USA)
Panel discussion: How can DP and AI bridge the gaps in oncology practice
Moderator: Kumar Prabhash (India)
Panelists: Harit Chaturvedi, Suyash Kulkarni, Vikas Ostwal, Kunal Sharma, Subhash Yadav, Indranil
15:00 - 16:00 Symposium 6 : ASDP Scientific Commitee Session
Chairs: Andrey Bychkov, Ujjwal Baid
REG2025 Overview: Collaboration and Discovery in AI-Driven Pathology Sangjeong Ahn
(Republic of Korea)
Best practice guidelines on Pathology AI Yosep Chong
(Republic of Korea)
15:30 - 16:00 Panel discussion
Moderator: Andrey Bychov
Panelists: Joe Young, David Ho, Masataka Kawai, Rajani Yadav, Ayushi Sahay, Tripti Bameta, Faizal Ahmad Fauzi
16:00 - 16:30 Break, Visit to Exhibits & e-Posters
16:30 - 17:15 Free oral Papers
Chairs: Poonam Panjwani, Parikshit Sanyal
18:15 - 19:00 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of ASDP