Online Congress Program
Find out more about content and details of the diverse sessions of the program.
ONLINE CONGRESS PLANNER - Wednesday, July 20 »
ONLINE CONGRESS PLANNER - Thursday, July 21 »
ONLINE CONGRESS PLANNER - Friday, July 22 »
Opening hours of the congress secretariat for registration to the World Congress:
Tuesday, July 19 from 15:00-19:00h
Wednesday, July 20 from 7:30h-12:00h
Thursday, July 21 from 7:30h-12:00h
Program overview: 16th World Congress of Bioethics
Wednesday, 20th July, 2022 | Thursday, 21st July, 2022 | Friday, 22nd July, 2022
Wednesday, 20th July, 2022
| 07:30 onwards | Door opening / Registration |
| 08:30 - 10:00 | Parallel Sessions 1 (oral papers, short presentations, panels) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee break |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Parallel Sessions 2 (oral papers, short presentations, panels) |
| 12:00 - 13:15 | Lunch break |
| 13:15 - 16:00 | LIVE SESSION 1: Inclusive ethics: how everyone matters in the bioethics dialogue A: Welcome Address WCB |
| B: FAB-IAB Cross-over KEYNOTES Disability Bioethics: Mapping the Rough Ground - Prof. Christine Wieseler Bioethics as if Everybody Matters - Dr. Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra |
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| C: PANEL Discussion 1: Inclusive dialoge, policies and practices: the WHO Genome Editing Governance Framework Prof. Jantina De Vries Dr. Katherine Littler Prof. Britta van Beers |
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| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 - 18:00 | Parallel Sessions 3 (oral papers, short presentations, panels) |
| from 18:00 | Welcome Apéro |
Thursday, 21st July, 2022
| 07:30 onwards | Door opening / Registration |
| 08:30 - 10:00 | Parallel Sessions 4 (oral papers, short presentations, panels) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee break |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Parallel Sessions 5 (oral papers, short presentations, panels) |
| 12:00 - 13:15 | Lunch break |
| 13:15 - 16:00 | LIVE SESSION 2: The Ethics of Covid-19: from pandemic management to creating a post COVID world A: Welcome message |
| B: 16th WCB KEYNOTE: Bioethics after COVID-19 - Prof. Ezekiel J. Emanuel | |
| C: Panel Discussion 2: Facing the pandemic: roles and responsibilities of ethicists in COVID-19 Task Force and Ethics Committees Prof. Alena Buyx Prof. Angus Dawson Prof. Samia Hurst Prof. Florencia Luna Prof. Jerome Singh |
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| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 - 18:00 | Parallel Sessions 6 (oral papers, short presentations, panels) |
| 18:30 - 21:00 | WCB Dinner |
Friday, 22nd July, 2022
| 07:30 onwards | Door opening / Registration |
| 08:30 - 10:00 | Parallel Sessions 7 (oral papers, short presentations, panels) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee break |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Parallel Sessions 8 (oral papers, short presentations, panels) |
| 12:00 - 13:45 | STUDENT NETWORKING LUNCH BREAK |
| 13:45 - 16:30 | LIVE SESSION 3: "Bettering" Ethics: Mentorship and Leadership for the future of Bioethics |
| A: Panel Discussion 3: Building bioethics leadership: academic work environment and ethics Prof. Bjoern Morten Hofmann Prof. Julian Savulescu Prof. Catherine Mills Prof. Alexander Capron |
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| B: Closing Ceremony IAB: IAB Presidential Address IAB Award for Bioethics service in the face of Challenges IAB announces the host of the 17th WCB C: Thank you note from the Institute for Biomedical Ethics Basel |
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| 16:30 - 18:00 | "Good-Bye" Ice Cream |