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Program & Schedule

2026 Annual Meeting Schedule

May 3 - 7 | Denver, Colo.

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 All-Access Saturday — 8am - 5pm

One registration fee; access to all Saturday sessions (includes breakfast and lunch)

  • Education Sessions
    • Bench to Bedside — Nonclinical development and new approach methodologies (NAMs)
    • Artificial Intelligence (AI) — Data science, real-world implementation, setting up an AI lab and AI-aided research
  • Imaging in the Eye — Poster and paper sessions discussing new techniques and methods, and their clinical and vision research applications 

 

ARVO Foundation Gala — 7:30 - 10pm (tickets required)

8 - 9:45am — Posters

8 - 10am — Symposia

8:30am - 5pm — Exhibits Open

10:15 - 11:45am — ARVO+Genentech Keynote Session: Thomas R. Cech, PhD

Noon - 1pm — Break/Special Events

1 - 2:45pm 

  • Papers/ Minisymposia
  • Posters

3:15 - 5pm

  • Papers/ Minisymposia
  • Posters

5:15 - 6:15pm — All Posters

7:30 - 10:30pm — ARVO Sunday Social

8 - 9:15am — Proctor Award Lecture: José-Alain Sahel, MD, FARVO

8:30am - 5pm — Exhibits Open

9:15 - 10am — Friedenwald Award Lecture: Val C. Sheffield, MD, PhD; Edwin M. Stone, MD, PhD, FARVO

10:15 - 11am — Section Business Meetings

11:15am - 1pm 

  • Papers/ Minisymposia
  • Posters

1:15 - 2:45pm — Break/Special Events

3 - 4:45pm

  • Papers/ Minisymposia/Crosssectional Group
  • Posters

5 - 6pm — All Posters

6:15 - 7:45pm — Travel Grant Social

7 - 8:30am — Breakfast with the Experts

8:30 - 10:15am 

  • Papers/ Minisymposia
  • Posters

8:30am - 5pm — Exhibits Open

10:30 - 11:15am — General Business Meeting

11:30am - 1pm

1:15 - 3pm

  • Papers/ Minisymposia/Crosssectional Group
  • Posters

3:30 - 5:15pm

  • Papers/ Minisymposia
  • Posters

5:30 - 6:30pm 

6:30 - 7:15pm — Champalimaud Award Lecture

6:30 - 8:15pm — Eye Pitch

8:30 - 9:15am — Weisenfeld Award Lecture: Nisha Acharya, MD

8:30am - 5pm — Exhibits Open

9:15 - 10am — Cogan Award Lecture: Cecilia S. Lee, MD, MS; Aaron Lee, MD, MSC

10:15am - Noon 

  • Papers/ Minisymposia
  • Posters

12:15 - 1:45pm — Break/Special Events

2 - 3:45pm

  • Papers/ Minisymposia/Crosssectional Group
  • Posters

4 - 5pm — All Posters

5:15 - 6:30pm — Special Session

8pm - Midnight — ARVO Karaoke (tickets required)

8 - 9:45am — Posters

8 - 10am — Symposia

10:15 - 11:30am — ARVO+Genentech Keynote Session: Sally Temple, PhD

11:45am - 1:30pm 

  • Papers/ Minisymposia
  • Posters

2 - 3:45pm

  • Papers/ Minisymposia
  • Posters

4 - 5pm

  • All Posters
  • San Diego 2027 Kickoff

Lectures

Lectures