Prof. Christos J. Markopoulos, MD, MPhil (UK), PhD, FEBS, CEBS is a distinguished Breast Oncoplastic Surgeon and Emeritus Professor of Surgery at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He currently directs the Breast Unit at Athens Medical Center. After graduating from Athens University Medical School, he obtained a PhD and an MPhil in Oncology–Breast Cancer from the University of London and trained at leading UK institutions including St. George’s Hospital, The Royal Marsden Hospital, and the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research. Prof. Markopoulos is the founder and former President of the Hellenic Society of Breast Surgeons and served as President of the UEMS-EBS Division of Breast Surgery (2016–2024).

Professor and Chair, Multi-Modality Medical Imaging (M3I) research group and Chair of the Biomedical Imaging & Sensing Department of the University of Twente. He has pioneered research into photoacoustic imaging of breast cancer. Prof. Manohar’s research spans technology development to early clinical assessment.

Ritse M. Mann is a dedicated breast and interventional radiologist at Radboud University Medical Center. He is an expert in breast imaging, with a particular focus on breast MRI, and is the leader of the Breast Imaging Group (BIG) that aims at clinical validation of novel strategies for breast cancer detection and treatment.

Associate Professor in the Division of Emergency and Trauma Imaging in the Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences with joint appointment in the Department of Biomedical Informatics of the Emory University School of Medicine. As co-director of the HITI Lab, his research areas include the application of machine learning (artificial intelligence) to solve problems in radiology, most recently developing algorithms to improve breast cancer screening.

Elisa Konofagou is the Robert and Margaret Hariri Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Professor Radiology as well as Director of the Ultrasound and Elasticity Imaging Laboratory at Columbia University in New York City. Her main interests are in the development of novel theranostic and therapeutic ultrasound methods for the advancement of therapeutic ultrasound. Elisa is a Member of the National Academy of Medicine (US), an Elected Fellow of the International Society of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE), the American Institute of Biological and Medical Engineering (AIMBE) and the Acoustical Society of America (ASA).