UNESCO Room 1
125 avenue de Suffren
75007 Paris
UNESCO hosts a unique symposium, open to all, dedicated to technological advances in the field of hearing health. Among other things, we’ll be talking about the contribution of artificial intelligence to research and care.
The day will bring together researchers and specialists, but will also focus on the inclusion of people with invisible disabilities.
The day will be organized as a series of panels, with Olivier Mariotte as moderator.
10.30am – 10.40am – Opening remarks by Dr Carolina Der, technical manager of the WHO hearing program.
10h40-10h50 – Doctor Michaël Eliezer (Founder of Clinique de l’Oreille), Doctor Yann Nguyen (Clinical Director of Institut reConnect, a foundation under the aegis of Institut Pasteur)
10h50-12h30 – Plateau 1 “La Clinique de l’Oreille” by Dr. Michaël Eliezer.
Background to the project.
Around the table, presentations by several specialists focusing on a specific type of care:
– Cochlear implants, talk by Dr Elisabeth Mamelle (ENT surgeon – otologist)
– On tinnitus, talk by Dr Marie-José Fraysse, (ENT specialist in medical neurology).
– Dr. Charlotte Hautefort (Clinique de l’Oreille, specialist in vestibular and neurosensory disorders),
Videos will be shown to illustrate.
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Opening for contextualization – Docteur Michaël Eliezer/Christian Hugonnet
Plateau 2: IA
With presentations by:
– Luc Arnal (Institut reConnect – head of the “Cognition & auditory communication” team at the Institut de l’Audition): connected health and Artificial Intelligence
– Keith Doelling, (Institut reConnect – head of the “Human & Artificial Perception” team at the Institut de l’Audition, Institut Pasteur’s G5 group): artificial and human perception
– Dr Arnaud Attyé (neuroradiologist, artificial intelligence researcher, director of GeodAIsics), deafness, cochlear implants, hearing recovery and Alzheimer’s disease: what are the answers?
– Nicolas Wallaert: Audioprosthetist D.E. Audiologist M.Sc, PhD in Cognitive Sciences, CIO of IAudiogram, on automated audiometry validated in four scientific publications.
– Ms Célia Belline: CEO of Cilcare on the drug candidate (with presentation and objectives of the organization) – Technological advances.
4:00 – 4:30 pm – Plateau 3: Inclusion
Rose Paynel, speaker, actress, health ambassador for La Semaine du Son 2026, author of Vivre avec une surdité published by Mango.
4:30-4:45 p.m. – Break
4.45pm – 5.15pm: Stage 4: Hearing aid
– Opening by Alain Londero, ENT doctor and Institut reConnect: Patient, doctor, ENT specialist, hearing aid specialist or “how to optimize the management of deafness by humanizing care”.
– Presentation by Arnaud Coez (audioprosthetist, PharmD, PhD, consultant at Institut de l’Audition-CeRIAH): Reconnecting patients, doctors, researchers, audioprosthetists and healthcare industries: a major breakthrough in hearing care.
– Speech by Christophe Micheyl (Senior Researcher at Starkey) on innovations in hearing aids.
17h15-17h30 – Questions from the audience
17:30-18:30 – Closing:
– Sound overcompression and hidden deafness by Professor Paul Avan (Institut reConnect – CeRIAH, Institut de l’Audition, Institut Pasteur center).
– Advances in gene therapy by Professor Christine Petit (Institut reConnect and Institut de l’Audition, Institut Pasteur center)
Subtitling courtesy of Acceo Tadeo
