• Six international speakers will provide most recent advances in the topics of neonatal care and how best to optimize mother´s own milk volumes in at-risk populations.
• Bridging towards a perspective of care after discharge, four European experts will discuss firstly, on the need to strengthen specialized lactation support in small and sick newborns and secondly, on how to support the journey from the hospital to home from three different perspectives.  
• Three panel discussions will allow attendees to ask questions on-site and via our virtual platform and actively participate during the live sessions. A detailed agenda with speaker information will be available closer to date. Stay tuned!

Target audience: neonatologists, experts on breastfeeding, lactation, donor human milk, healthcare policy makers, midwives, nurses, scientists

PRELIMINARY AGENDA*

Time: 9:45 – 17:30 (TBC)

Language: lectures and discussion sessions will be held in English. In addition, registered attendees will have access to live-audio interpretation in Portuguese, French, German, Italian and Spanish via our virtual platform.

*Subject to change

• A diverse group of healthcare experts, representing a range of disciplines involved in perinatal care will be assembled to participate on-site in Lisbon. 
• A group of well-known experts will lead active discussions in smaller and interdisciplinary groups during three in-person workshops. The main goal is to explore practical and feasible solutions to overcome the most recurring barriers/challenges that prevent tracking and increasing provision of own mother´s milk in neonatal units.
• The main conclusions of these expert workshops will be summarized and presented to a wider audience during virtual events following the two-day European Symposium.