Clementine Calba works at Santé Publique France, particularly within the Direction des Régions. She plays a key role in regional public health management, focusing on the implementation of epidemiological surveillance and health risk prevention strategies. Her work involves addressing regional health challenges, especially those related to infectious diseases and environmental health risks. Through this position, she ensures the alignment of public health measures with local needs, contributing to the broader public health landscape in France.

Romeo Bellini is former Director of the Sanitary Entomology & Zoology Department at the Centro Agricoltura Ambiente (CAA) “G. Nicoli” in Italy and former leads of the IAEA Collaborating Centre. He has 35 years of experience in mosquito ecology and control. His research focuses on mosquito surveillance and innovative control strategies, such as the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT), particularly for Aedes species. He has participated in EU projects under LIFE, FP7, and Horizon 2020 programs. He has also served as a director for the Society for Vector Ecology and the European Mosquito Control Association. He provides expert consultations to international bodies like WHO, ECDC, EFSA, and IAEA.

Sophie Vanwambeke is a medical geographer, who graduated with a PhD in Sciences (geography) in 2005 in UCLouvain. She is a professor in the School of Geography and Earth & Life Institute in UCLouvain. Her research focuses on the geography of infectious diseases as a manifestation of spatial interactions between human societies and their environment. She has worked on mosquito-, tick- and rodent-borne diseases in temperate and tropical regions, both in the field of human and animal health

Keynote speaker to be specified by IVCC

IVCC is the only Product Development Partnership focused on solutions for vector control. IVCC partners with different stakeholders across industry, scientific institutions and endemic countries to facilitate the development and availability of novel and improved public health insecticides and formulations which can combat the rapidly growing problem of insecticide resistance. IVCC has implemented catalytic market access projects, such as NgenIRS and the New Nets Project, which support the rapid and scaled deployment of vector control tools.