ICFP LIVE is open to everyone.
The highlights below feature our community-led segments—and the LIVE Stage also includes the ICFP Morning Show and FPNN Primetime. All LIVE Stage programming is free of charge and streamable from anywhere with an internet connection, reflecting our commitment to accessibility and equity.
This year’s line-up spans formats (solo talks, one-on-ones, panels, performances), fields (advocacy, programs, research), and geographies across Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, and the Middle East. Below is a taste of the diversity you’ll find—along with the people bringing it to life.
Creative Expression & Artivism
Expect movement, music, and spoken word alongside message-driven storytelling:
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Debanjana Choudhuri (Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights) blends panel dialogue with performance in Artivism: Expression of angst in turbulent times; a call for SRHR for all.
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Komugisha Olivia (Reproductive Health Uganda) and Rita Puri (WOSSO/YoSHAN) bring performance and youth leadership to the fore.
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Namkeen Peshawri (Trans Support Group) offers a trans-affirming set mixing regional dance and live poetry on stigma, autonomy, and resilience.
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Erin Jorgensen (Shout Your Abortion) shares Positive Propaganda!—grassroots creativity as a catalyst for change.
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Akriti Saronwala (MTV Staying Alive Foundation) spotlights Storytelling To Change Lives.
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SAWADOGO Djamila (Association Gender Impact) presents Beyond Shame: The Courage of a Testimony.
Youth Power, Leadership & Participation
Young advocates are debating, designing, and delivering solutions:
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ISABELLA MICHAEL (SAYWHAT) mobilizes peers through debate in Speak and Solve.
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Genelis López (EmpoderaMIA ┊ G.López Foundation) shows community science and tech for social justice.
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Selma Bichbich (Together for Blue and Green & MENA Youth Network) highlights youth advocacy and climate justice.
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Everlyne Bowa (AWOCHE Foundation) delivers a survivor-led, community-rooted TED-style talk on period poverty and SRHR justice.
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Dakshitha Wickremarathne (ICFP Advocacy & Accountability Subcommittee) joins a regional panel on closing Asia’s unmet need.
Disability Inclusion & Leaving No One Behind
Concrete tools and testimonies reframe access and dignity:
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Susan Sabano (UCPNA & Liliane Fonds) shares a youth advocate’s path in Susan’s Journey for Disability Inclusion and Change.
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Nona Yabloy (Liliane Fonds) introduces Body Talk—a disability-inclusive SRHR training manual.
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Efe Johnson (Xari Africa) offers practical steps in How to actually leave no one behind.
Digital Rights, Data & Media for SRHR
From censored content to photovoice and viral myth-busting:
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Venny Ala-Siurua (Women on Web) addresses Banned and censored: how internet shapes abortion access.
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Rachel Lawerh (University of Ottawa) uses photovoice in When Participants Take the Camera.
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Babirye Aidah Nakanjako (Reproductive Health Uganda) brings a live, interactive segment: Rumour, Camera, Action!
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Amarachi Ijeoma (W.H. Gates Sr. Institute) connects screens to real-world advocacy in From Screens to Real-World Change.
Science, Research & Innovation
New evidence and technologies—clear, practical, and people-centered:
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Kevin Eisenfrats (FHI 360) hosts The Exchange: What’s Exciting the Experts About Contraceptive Science.
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Margo Warren (Access to Medicine Foundation) explores pharma’s role in sex- and gender-specific medicines.
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Doris Omao (APHRC) shows how strategic comms turned one study into a government inquiry.
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Edgard Narvaez (RHSC) joins a panel on breaking bottlenecks to expand immediate post-event contraception in LAC.
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Leah Ogada-Wanaswa (Tiko) shares lessons from the world’s first ASRH development impact bond.
Programs & Implementation—Community First
Local leadership, participatory grantmaking, and new partnership models:
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Leslie Marily Mejía Castellanos (AMA Association) on Safe Futures—sports, life skills, and economic empowerment for pregnant adolescents and young mothers in Guatemala.
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Sofia Peters (Global Fund for Women) on what participatory grantmaking means for SRJ.
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Tasnima Iqbal (BRAC) on youth-led AI tools for gender justice.
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Sonali Silva (EngenderHealth) rethinks INGO partnerships with youth-led movements.
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Ivana Montenegro (Cemoplaf) centers sexual and mental health for youth and those deprived of liberty.
Rights, Justice & Changing Norms
Law, faith, migration, and the climate crisis meet SRHR realities:
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Manuela Tironi (Catholics for Choice) on faith-rooted support for abortion care.
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Gracia Violeta Ross Quiroga (World Council of Churches) links HIV, faith leadership, and youth advocacy.
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Isabel Adriana Garcia (Climate and Health Diplomacy) examines abortion, the climate crisis, and financing in LAC.
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Aminata Dia (Elles du Sahel) hosts Let’s Be Real – A Sister Talk with the Elles.
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Lucy Esquivel (RedTraSex) breaks myths about sex work—first-person and global.
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Dr. Joia Crear-Perry (National Birth Equity Collaborative) reframes family planning through reproductive justice and power building.
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Maria José Corvalán (ADEM) documents feminist resistance under Argentina’s regressive context.
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Zongo Abdoul Ismaël (Ouagadougou Partnership) urges action for displaced youth.
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Efe Johnson and Fernanda Doz Costa (Amnesty International) spotlight defending abortion rights defenders.
Health Systems, Access & Accountability
From menopause to pharmacies—meeting people where they are:
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Taiwo Hassanat Bawa-Muhammad (Abuja Municipal Area Council) exposes the “black market of menopause” and the costs of drug prohibition.
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Ana Karina de la Vega Millor (Mexfam) brings evidence from pharmacies and community services to measure safe abortion access beyond the clinic.
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Marcelo Echeverría (La Incre S.A.) unpacks Gafas para ver la realidad—a VR-powered advocacy case.
Mental Health, Dignity & Safety
SRHR is inseparable from mental health and human rights:
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Alba Lucía Reyes Arenas (Sergio David Urrego Reyes Foundation) calls for institutional change after tragedy—centering family acceptance and youth mental health.
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Mamadou Diop (Espace Ado) shares an audio story on family planning in climate-displaced communities.
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Jo Johnson (IPPF A&C) looks Between the Headlines at Caribbean SRHR realities.
Power, Policy & the Global Agenda
Big systems, honest conversations:
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Rosemary Komolafe (WHGI) on why FP2030 must do what FP2020 couldn’t—power, providers, and policy in Nigeria.
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Dakshitha Wickremarathne and colleagues map Asia’s policy pathways.
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Traci L. Baird (EngenderHealth) convenes What the World Lost when USAID Shut Down.
Formats you’ll see on stage
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🎙️ Solo talks: concise, focused, personal.
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🤝 One-on-one interviews: deep dives with implementers, advocates, and researchers.
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🧑🤝🧑 Panels: multiple lenses on shared challenges.
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🎭 Performances & 🎨 Art/entertainment: poetry, dance, music, and visual storytelling.
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🧩 Program spotlights & 📊 research shares: hard-won lessons, new methods, and usable evidence.
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🧾 Interactive/other: debates, live media, photovoice, and audio storytelling.
Join us—on-site or online.
Be part of the conversation—live in Bogotá or virtually. Don’t miss the LIVE Stage moments that move policy, shift norms, and accelerate progress.
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