8:30 AM - 9:10 AM

Registration and Refreshments

9:10 AM - 9:15 AM

Welcome and Introduction

Professor Alistair Burns, University of Manchester
Professor John O’Brien, University of Cambridge

9:10 AM - 9:40 AM

Risk factors and prevention

Professor Craig Ritchie, University of Edinburgh

9:40 AM - 10:10 AM

Palliative care

Professor Liz Sampson, Royal London Hospital

10:10 AM - 10:40 AM

Lived experience of dementia

Colin Capper, Alzheimer's Society

10:40 AM - 11:10 AM

Refreshments and exhibition viewing

11:10 AM - 11:40 AM

Blood biomarkers for diagnosis

Professor Henrik Zetterberg, UCL

11:40 AM - 12:20 PM

Industry symposium

12:20 PM - 12:50 PM

Progress in understanding young onset dementias from a genetic standpoint

Professor Jonathon Rohrer, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology

12:50 PM - 1:40 PM

Lunch, Exhibition and Networking

1:40 PM - 2:10 PM

Driving and dementia: Driverless cars

Anuraj Varshney, Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

2:10 PM - 2:40 PM

Industry symposium

2:40 PM - 3:10 PM

Edon initiative: how early might early detection of dementia be possible?

Zuzana Walker, Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

3:10 PM - 3:30 PM

Refreshments and exhibition viewing

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Prospects for novel symptomatic treatments for AD

Dr Paresh Malhotra, Imperial College London

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Industry symposium

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Clinical trials update

Dr Catherine Mummery, UCL

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Networking reception and close of day 1

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Registration and Refreshments

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Vascular dementia

Hugh Markus, University of Cambridge

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Lewy body dementia

John-Paul Taylor, Newcastle University

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Industry symposium

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Refreshments, Exhibition and Networking

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Technology for supporting people with dementia and carers

Professor Ramin Nilforooshan, Surrey and Borders Partnership

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Panel: Case Studies

Chair: Ross Dunne
Panellists: Ira Leroi, John O’Brien & TBC

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Lunch and exhibition viewing

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Hearing loss and dementia

Professor Ira Leroi, Trinity College

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Brain imaging

Professor John O’Brien, University of Cambridge

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Assessment of capacity

Dr Hugh Series, Oxford Expert Psychiatry

3:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Closing comments and end of conference