Event

CMF Innovation Summit 2025

September 25 – 26, 2025

Leuven, Belgium

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A large skull model with personalized implants attached in a meeting room with a presenter standing in front of a screen and event attendees sitting in seats at tables

About this event

Over two inspiring days, the CMF Innovation Summit showcased the power of personalized CMF solutions, 3D surgical planning and printing, augmented reality, and more.​

With insights from leading CMF experts across Europe and beyond, the summit was a hub for collaboration, innovation, and new ideas — all aimed at advancing the future of patient care.

Key takeaways

  • Personalization is becoming the norm​: What began as innovation is now an everyday practice. From oncological reconstruction to TMJ surgery, speakers showed how 3D planning and personalized implants have become increasingly routine. The discussion also highlighted a new challenge: scaling personalization to meet broader clinical demands without compromising precision.​
  • Minimally invasive techniques are setting new standards: Guided orthognathic surgery and minimally invasive orthognathic surgery (MIOS) can deliver shorter recovery times, less pain, and more predictable outcomes. The keynote presentations underlined that the MIOS approach can combine accuracy with patient comfort, making minimally invasive methods a promising standard in CMF surgery.​
  • The future is digital — and collaborative​: Augmented and extended reality (AR/XR) can move beyond hype, supporting surgical planning and visualization. At the same time, the summit emphasized the importance of collaboration: clinicians, researchers, and industry working together to build scalable, evidence-driven ecosystems for personalized care.​

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  • A screen showing a slide with the words "Materialise Innovation Summit" and a skull model with personalized implants attached in front of a crowd of event attendees
  • Dr. Thomas Kofod on stage presenting at the Materialise CMF Innovation Summit
  • A panel of CMF surgeons sitting on stage at the Materialise CMF Innovation Summit
  • Two Materialise CMF Innovation Summit attendees smiling and taking a picture of a large skull model with personalized implants in a large meeting room
  • Two Materialise CMF Innovation Summit attendees holding coffes and chatting
  • A group of Materialise CMF Innovation Summit attendees standing around a man holding a metal 3D printing build plate with various 3D-printed parts attached
  • A woman at the Materialise CMF Innovation Summit in a room full of attendees, looking at a 3D-printed model of a skull
  • Three Materialise CMF Innovation Summit attendees wearing extended reality goggles

    • Meet the speakers

    Koen Peters

    Koen Peters, Vice President — Materialise Medical

    Dr. Thomas Kofod

    Chair of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Rigshospitalet, Denmark

    Prof. Max Heiland

    Medical Director of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Charité Berlin

    Dr. Valerio Ramieri

    Maxillofacial Surgery Specialist, Ortognatica Roma

    Dr. Hetty Mast

    CMF Surgeon and Head and Neck Oncologist, Erasmus MC

    Prof. Thomas Schouman

    CMF Surgeon, APHP-Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital

    Dr. Vladimír Machoň 

    Temporomandibular Joint Surgeon

    Mr. Sherif Bayoumi

    Consultant Oral & Maxillofacial and Facial Plastic Surgeon, Spire Manchaster Hospital and Spire Regency Hospital Macclesfield

    Dr. Javier Gutierrez

    Director, Facialteam Barcelona

    Dr. Diego Rossi

    Senior CMF Surgeon, IRCCS Fondazione Policlinico Mangiagalli e Regina Elena Milano, Italy

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