The second International Glaucoma Symposium—themed Future of Glaucoma Diagnosis and Management—will take place on 31 January 2026 at the University Eye Clinic in Mainz, Germany. The one-day meeting will begin at 10:00 and conclude at 17:00 Central European Time.

According to the symposium organisers, the meeting “will bring together leading experts and clinicians to share essential, practice-ready insights in the morning and highlight the latest advances in both glaucomatous and non-glaucomatous optic neuropathies in the afternoon.”

The programme will focus on the diagnosis and management of optic neuropathies in daily clinical practice, the future of optic neuropathy diagnostics—including artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging trends—and future perspectives in glaucoma surgery.

Scientific programme

All presentations are followed by a discussion period.

Diagnosing and Managing Optic Neuropathies in Daily Practice, moderated by Esther Hoffmann, Univ.-Prof. Dr. med and Luís Abegão Pinto, MD, PhD

10:00 Diagnostic Toolbox for Optic Neuropathies: From RNFL Thickness to Artificial Intelligence—Alexander Schuster, Prof. Dr. med. (GER)

10:20 Early Glaucoma: A Comprehensive Clinical Guide Detecting Pre-Perimetric Glaucoma—Marta Pazos, MD (ES)

10:45 Non-glaucomatous Optic Neuropathies: OCT in Neuro-Ophthalmology and Neurological Diseases—Wolf Lagrèze, Prof. Dr. med. (GER)

11:10 Glaucoma Progression: A Comprehensive Clinical Guide Identifying Fast Progressors—Felipe Medeiros, MD, PhD (US)

11:35 Optic Disc Drusen: Current Clinical Perspective—Steffen Hamann, MD / Prof. med. (DK)

Future of Diagnosing Optic Neuropathies—AI and Other New Trends, moderated by Norbert Pfeiffer, Prof. Dr. med. and Marta Pazos, MD

13:15 How Artificial Intelligence Supports Ophthalmologists Today—Jan Terheyden, MD / Prof. med. (GER)

13:35 Trends and Workflows in Managing Optic Neuropathies: From Artificial Intelligence to Fluid Biomarkers—Ingeborg Stalmans, MD, PhD (BE)

13:55 The Prowess of Deploying AI for Normative Database Collection in a Population-based Setting—Luís Abegão Pinto, MD, PhD (PT)

14:15 Statistics vs Artificial Intelligence from Change Maps to Unsupervised Learning—Simon König, Dr. med. (GER)

14:35 Detecting Fast Progressors in Glaucoma with Artificial Intelligence: Where Are We?—Felipe Medeiros, MD, PhD (US)

Future in Glaucoma Surgery, moderated by Felipe Medeiros, MD, PhD and Ingeborg Stalmans, MD, PhD

15:30 Toolbox for Glaucoma Surgery and Their Pros and Cons—Esther Hoffmann, Prof. Dr. med. (GER)

15:50 Trabeculectomy Revisited—Norbert Pfeiffer, Prof. Dr. med. (GER)

16:10 Revision Glaucoma Surgery—Julia Stingl, Dr. med. (GER)

16:30 Microinvasive Glaucoma Surgery (MIGS) and Other Modern Glaucoma Procedures—Andrew Tatham, FRCOphth / MD (UK)

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