ICFP LIVE: The Heartbeat of ICFP
Live from ICFP 2025 in Bogotá, the ICFP LIVE Stage broadcasted over 75 segments featuring community-led innovations, dynamic conversations, and bold personal stories shaping the future of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR).
What is ICFP LIVE?
ICFP LIVE is a dynamic platform designed to connect global audiences with the people, ideas, and conversations driving SRHR.
In 2025, the SRHR community submitted over 240 segment proposals for ICFP LIVE from 56 countries around the world. Selected segments showcased diverse voices across regions and languages.
Building on this foundation, the ICFP LIVE team also curated flagship programming—ICFP Today, Frontline Report, Media Hook, Sex O’Clock News, and the Jacarandas Social Media Show—delivering real-time reporting at the conference.
Open to all, ICFP LIVE has always been free, virtual, and accessible from anywhere in the world.
Explore all the content from the 2025 ICFP LIVE below.
ICFP LIVE Featured Voices
The 2025 ICFP LIVE Stage brought together influential voices from around the world, showcasing a dynamic mix of lived experience, policy, art, and evidence.
Across the program, key themes emerged:
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Equity and inclusion: centering the firsthand experiences of communities often excluded from SRHR spaces or facing structural barriers—including young people, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ individuals, migrants, and sex workers
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From commitments to real-world delivery: spotlighting how global promises translate into impact, through community-based care, youth-led solutions, and innovative financing that shifts power to the frontlines
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Bodily autonomy in a shifting landscape: from unsafe abortion and the gap between legal rights and real access, to growing threats driven by stigma, policy, and digital censorship
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Storytelling and narrative change: how journalism, digital media, and emerging technologies expand access to information, counter misinformation, and drive policy attention
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Culture, creativity, and joy: using art, performance, and candid conversations on pleasure, consent, and identity to challenge stigma and shift norms
Overall, the 2025 ICFP LIVE Stage welcomed in perspectives beyond traditional research. It reinforced a critical truth: SRHR is not just science, but lived experience, culture, and power—and broadening that lens is key to driving real change.
Advocates & Community Leaders
Sharing powerful local actions and lessons from implementation and experience
Researchers & Practitioners
Bringing innovations, insights, and breakthroughs to life
Artists & Creators
Using storytelling, spoken word, and various art forms to spark dialogue
Video Highlight:
From Division to Dialogue on Gender Equality
Watch this featured ICFP LIVE segment featuring Colombian journalist Claudia Palacios reflecting on how the goals of feminism have become increasingly polarized and misunderstood with the rise of anti-rights movements. In this video, Claudia lays a clear path forward for us all to come together through genuine conversations.
ICFP LIVE in the Interactive Library
View the complete list of ICFP LIVE Stage segments in the ICFP 2025 Interactive Library below. Explore segment recordings, descriptions, speakers, moderators, sponsoring organizations, and key takeaways.
ICFP LIVE Is Built To Be
Bold
Advancing new ideas, unfiltered stories, and courageous voices across areas of work
Inclusive
Centering underrepresented perspectives and amplifying community-led change
Community-driven
Elevating practical insights from the field that can shift thinking and improve lives
Formats
ICFP LIVE accepted proposals for 10-minute segments in formats including:
- Solo talks (TED Talk–style presentation)
- 1:1 conversations or interviews
- Performance or spoken word
- Panel conversation
- Art or entertainment
- Debates
Topics
ICFP LIVE was different from the ICFP 2025 scientific program and did not have set thematic tracks. Instead, ICFP LIVE’s topic areas fit into broad categories related to SRHR experiences:
- Research: sharing findings, data, innovations, or methodologies
- Programs: highlighting implementation, services, or delivery models
- Advocacy: focusing on movement-building, storytelling, or influencing change
- Creative Expression or Storytelling: using art, performance, or narrative formats to convey powerful messages
Think bold. Think equitable. Think impact!
Where Segments Aired
ICFP LIVE segments aired on-stage at ICFP 2025 in Bogotá, Colombia (1–6 November 2025).
The ICFP LIVE Stage was positioned at a central location within the conference venue, making it easy for all ICFP 2025 participants to stop in and attend segments throughout the conference.
Recordings of the segments are now available in the ICFP LIVE on-demand video library for global viewing anytime.
Find ICFP 2022 LIVE Stage segments here.
Have Questions About ICFP LIVE?
Explore all 2025 ICFP LIVE content here.
Visit ICFP’s frequently asked questions page to answer questions you have about ICFP LIVE.
Thank you to everyone who made the ICFP 2025 LIVE Stage possible!
