Keynote presentations will take place from Monday, September 8 through Wednesday, September 10, 2025. All content will be presented in person in Singapore.
Learn more about our invited keynote speakers and the speaking schedule below!
Presentation titles subject to change. Last updated September 3, 2024.
Monday, September 8, 2025
Russell Foster, PhD
Head of Oxford’s Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology
Founder, Director of the Sleep and Circadian Research Institute
University of Oxford
United Kingdom
Presentation title
Light, circadian rhythms and sleep: Fundamental mechanisms to new therapeutics
Thomas Penzel, PhD
Scientific Chair of the Interdisciplinary Center of Sleep Medicine
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Germany
Presentation Title
Innovations in sleep technology: Advancing diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders
Tiina Paunio, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychiatry
University of Helsinki
Finland
Presentation Title
Sleep and development: Exploring the impact of sleep on mental health in children
Hiroki R. Ueda, MD, PhD
Laboratory Head, Laboratory for Synthetic Biology, RIKEN
Professor, Graduate School of Medicine
University of Tokyo
Japan
Presentation Title
Towards human systems biology of sleep/wake cycles: The role of calcium and phosphorylation in sleep
Tuesday, September 9, 2025
Lauren Hale, PhD
Professor of Family, Population, and Preventative Medicine
Program in Public Health, Renaissance School of Medicine
Stony Brook University
United States
Presentation Title
Social determinants and sleep health equity
Bei Bei, PhD
Research Lead and Clinical Psychologist, Monash University Health Sleep Clinic
Associate Professor, School of Psychological Sciences
Monash University
Australia
Presentation Title
Behavioral sleep interventions in women across the lifespan
Mary Ip, MBBS(HK), MD(HK)
Emeritus Professor, Respiratory Medicine
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Presentation Title
Cardiometabolic consequences of obstructive sleep apnea: Are we making progress?
Célyne Bastien, PhD
Professor, School of Psychology
Researcher, CERVO Brain Research Centre
Laval University
Canada
Presentation Title
Sleep misperception: A waking perspective
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Takafumi Kato, DDS, PhD
Professor, Graduate School of Dentistry, Department of Oral Physiology
Osaka University
Japan
Presentation Title
Advances in dental sleep medicine: Understanding and managing sleep bruxism
Ronald Postuma, MD
Professor of Neurology
McGill University
Canada
Presentation Title
REM sleep behavior disorder: Gateway to early diagnosis and therapy in synucleinopathies
Björn Rasch, Dr. rer. nat
Professor of Cognitive Biopsychology and Methods
University of Fribourg
Switzerland
Presentation Title
Sleep and memory: Current state of research and future needs
Joshua J. Gooley, PhD
Associate Professor
Neuroscience and Behavioural Disorders Programme
Principal Investigator, Chronobiology and Sleep Laboratory
Duke-NUS Medical School, National University of Singapore
Singapore
Presentation Title
The hard facts supporting later learning start times