SpOvum Technologies proudly participated in ISAR 2024, held from February 2-4, 2024, at Mayfair Lagoon, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India. The Indian Society for Assisted Reproduction (ISAR) Annual Conference brought together leading experts, clinicians, and innovators in the field of fertility and assisted reproductive technology (ART).
At our booth, we engaged with industry professionals, demonstrating our commitment to advancing ART through cutting-edge technology. The event provided an excellent platform to exchange insights, explore new collaborations, and showcase how SpOvum is supporting fertility clinics with innovative solutions.
Our directors, Dr. Ramnath Babu T J and Dr. Santosh Bhargav D B, shared their expertise, presenting key advancements and discussing the future of ART in India. Their sessions sparked meaningful conversations on improving clinical efficiency, lab management, and patient outcomes.
We thank everyone who visited our booth and interacted with our team. As we move forward, SpOvum remains dedicated to driving technological progress in fertility care and supporting clinics in delivering better treatment outcomes.
Medicall is India’s largest hospital equipment expo.
Each year, Medicall recognises promising Made in India, made for the world intentions every year through the Medicall Innovation Awards.
SpOvum’s RoboICSI was recognised at the Medicall 2021 Innovation awards in the Medical Equipment category.
This was an opportunity to present our innovation to a panel of experienced Jury and diverse audience at the Medicall 2021, helping get valuable inputs, apart from improving our outreach.
Our team was at ACE 2019 held in Chennai, at the Leela Palace on 20th-21st July 2019. There were two-parallel sessions held on both days. The event was well-attended by Doctors, Clinicians, Embryologists, Medical Technologists, Manufactures etc. The SpOvum® team had a stall for 2 days (from 20th – 21st July 2019). The products highlighted on our stall were the RoboICSI® Dashboard and the RoboScope time-lapse imaging system. Stall visitors were gifted our customized SpOvum® pens!
Our team at ACE 2019, Leela Palace, Chennai
Some of the noteworthy talks of ACE 2019 were
“Unraveling the Secrets of Embryo Implantation” By Dr. Deepak Modi from NIRH, Mumbai
“Doing ART legally” by Hitesh Bhatt
“Is time lapse monitoring of embryos the future of embryo culture?” by Suresh Kattera
“Can KPIs help programs identify shifts in quality?” by Dean Morbeck
“Using artificial intelligence (AI) and time-lapse to improve human blastocyst morphology evolution” by Marcos Meseguer
There were also several interesting panel-discussions including one on “Real case scenarios in ART and management” and on “When good embryos fail…why and what next?”.
There was an engaging debate session on “Time-lapse imaging and incubation” wherein Dr.Keshav Malhotra spoke in favor of the technology and Dr. Pranay Ghose debated against it.
Interaction with Dr. Deepak Modi and Dr. Keshav Malhotra
Take home messages from ACE 2019
Views on Time-lapse imaging studies on embryos
Most clinicians/doctors were of the opinion that Time-lapse imaging of embryos, currently offered by commercially available devices, may not add much value to the existing ART procedures. One of the main hindrances, they believe, is the high cost involved in investing in a Time-lapse imaging system when it is possible for an embryologist to manually record/monitor the embryo development at various stages.
Most clinicians do not prefer being burdened with the additional amount of data obtained through Time-lapse imaging systems. Clinicians/doctors are also not particularly convinced about what additional value is delivered by Time-lapse imaging systems to an existing ART procedure especially when it is offered as an extra payable service to patients.
However, clinicians/doctors showed willingness to invest in Time-lapse embryo imaging systems, if:
It is offered at a lower cost
Some amount of automation and pre-processing of
the image-data, which will enable the embryologists to look at only
relevant/selected images
We believe this will be an advantage for us to effectively market the our own time lapse imaging system which aims at providing a cost-effective means to obtain time-lapse images of the developing embryo after IVF procedure. The TLM also has automated ability to monitor multiple embryos and there is promising scope to include image-processing and AI to the system.
Views on RoboICSI® Dashboard
There are many EHR and EMR handling systems. The RoboICSI® Dashboard features a distinct advantage wherein it offers ART related specialized data management to all the stake-holders involved in the ART procedure. The stake-holders include the Patients, the Doctors, the Clinicians, the Embryologists etc. They were particularly impressed that the Dashboard® does not require multiple entering of the same data and automated report generation.
Another important highlight was, more doctors presenting algorithms and more comfortable and pliant in handling large amounts of data.
Overall, our team had a great time at ACE 2019 and it was great opportunity to learn from other experts, connect with several doctors, clinicians, technologists and IVF service providers. We also got numerous constructive feedback on our products and many visitors also requested an early access to the RoboICSI® Dashboard.
Our team also had wonderful time trying out the local cuisine and also visited the famous Marina Beach in Chennai. After the event of ACE 2019, we bid farewell to one of our team members, Shubham who had worked with us since 2018. We wish him the best for his future endeavors.
RoboICSI was at ACE Goa 2018 from 17th-19th August at Holiday Inn resort. We had a 3 day stall were many embryologist, clinicians, distributors, freelancers, students, manufacturers, IVF product suppliers visited to know about the technology and the working of the product. We had a live demo setup for the visitors to get a feel of it.
RoboICSI Soft Demo at the stall
There was a poster presentation by the team as well which was on ” Mechanics based characterization of oocytes using grippers” that explains about how bio-mechanical properties helps us to distinguish good and bad oocytes .
Poster presentation on ” Mechanics based characterisation of oocytes using grippers”
Dr Keshav Malhotra had presented a talk on “Automation in IVF” where he had talked about RoboICSI under Automation of ICSI on the 3rd day of the conference.
Clinics/ embryologists who were interested for a free demo of RoboICSI signed up with us at the stall to get to know more about the product.
There is a free signup for hands on training on RoboICSI at world-class Santaan-Origio Academy. To sign-up please do visit our blog post Hands on Training on RoboICSI
RoboICSI Team at the stall in ACE Goa 2018
Santosh Bhargav giving a demo at the stall to the visitors
Dr Ramnath Babu & Dr Santosh Bhargav explaining how the product works
Happy to be at ACE Goa 2018
RoboICSI Team had a wonderful stay and experience at ACE Goa conference 2018. We got to meet many embryologists, Clinicians, Companies who were ready to connect and get to know about the product even further.
If there are any enquiry regarding the product, dashboard or any other information please visit our website RoboICSI Website
Yet another opportunity for the people who have missed to meet RoboICSI and the team behind it.
Where? : 7th Annual congress, ACE Goa 2018 at Holiday Inn resort
When? : Aug 17- 19th 2018
There are three segments at the conference where you can interact and know about the device and its interesting features.
A 45 mins workshop on the device RoboICSI – Get to know about technology, benefits and many other interesting information.
Stall– To have a hands on experience of the device, we are having a stall at the conference. You can walk into the stall to have a feel of the device and meet the team behind this device.
Poster presentation of RoboICSI on the topic – “Mechanics based characterization of oocytes using Grippers”
RoboICSI Team was at KISAR 2018 at Hotel Le Meridien, Bangalore on July 14th and 15th. There was a presentation and a two day stall at the venue for RoboICSI. A soft-demo setup of the device was kept at the stall were anyone could have a hands on experience of the device.
Many keen doctors, embryologists, clinicians, scientists visited the stall and used the device to get a feel of the product. Lot of questions, suggestions, feedback were given by the visitors.
There was also a quiz conducted by the team for the visitors. The quiz was very simple were they had to grade a given oocyte image. The idea behind the quiz was to make them understand that how easy it will be to grade the oocytes using the RoboICSI Dashboard. A special goody was given to all participants. It was a Petri dish holder, which also works in the same principle as RoboICSI – “compliant mechanism”.We had 20 enthusiastic visitors who took up the quiz.
RoboICSI team had a very attractive offer of providing the Dashboard free for first 6 months for all the visitors who had signed up with RoboICSI at KISAR. There was a total of 35 people who had signed up for the free Dashboard. The username passwords were sent to them the very next day.
These are few photos from the event:
Dr. Santosh Bhargav presenting about RoboICSI at KISAR 2018
RoboICSI Team at the stall
Dr. Ramnath Babu at the stall, explaining about the device
At ESHRE 2018, RoboICSI team had a wonderful experience by presenting in front of the enthusiastic audiences. After the presentation there was a soft-demo session of the device ,were many keen audiences came forward to explore and have a Hands on experience of the product.
These are few images from ESHRE 2018 Barcelona, Spain
Dr. Santosh Bhargav, interacting with the audiences at the soft-demo session
Dr. Ramnath Babu presenting about RoboICSI at ESHRE 2018
RoboICSI will be featured in a presentation during this ESHRE 2018 conference from July 1st – 4th. You are invited to our session as well as the soft-demo of RoboICSI :