Thursday, September 25th, 2025
| 8:15 | Registration |
| 8:45 | Welcoming remarks Prof. Edgars Sūna (Chairman of the Scientific Board, Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis) |
| 8:50 | Presentation of the Paul Walden medal to Prof. Eriks Rozners (University of Binghamton, USA) by Prof. Māris Turks, Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Technology (Riga Technical University) |
| 9:00 | Prof. Eriks Rozners (University of Binghamton, USA) Amide-Modified RNA: Using Protein Backbone to Modulate Function of RNA |
| 9:50 | Prof. Mariola Tortosa (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain) Catalysis to Increase Complexity: Stereoselective Synthesis of sp3-rich Building Blocks |
| 10:40 | Symposium group photo and Coffee break |
| 11:10 | Prof. Kevin Lam (University of Greenwich, UK) Your Chemistry has “Potential” Highly Reactive Intermediates Without the “Bang” |
| 12:00 | Poster Pitches (PhD students) D-2, Ieva Bartkevičiūtė D-4, Kirills Dmitrijevs D-5, Glebs Jersovs D-7, Armands Kazia D-8, Māris Koniševs D-11, Marharyta Laktsevich-Iskryk |
| 12:20 | Lunch |
| 14:10 | Prof. Dr. Frank Glorius (University of Münster, Germany) On Data, Discovery & Sensitivity in (Photo)Catalysis |
| 15:00 | Poster Pitches (PhD students) D-12, Rebeka Ločmele D-16, Reinis Putrālis D-17, Nojus Radzevičiu D-19, Andrejs Savkins D-20, Zanis Sisojevs D-22, Jānis Šadauskis |
| 15:20 | Coffee break |
| 15:50 | Poster Pitches (PhD students) D-23, Emanuels Šūpulnieks D-25, Artjoms Ubaidullajevs D-10, Rasma Kroņkalne D-26, Niklāvs Ūdris D-29, Jonas Žurauskas |
| 16:10 | Prof. Darren Dixon (University of Oxford, UK) Catalyst Control in Complex Molecule Synthesis |
| 17:00 | Poster Session |
| 18:00 | Guided tour of the Paul Walden and Wilhelm Ostwald monuments |
Friday, September 26th, 2025
| 9:00 | Prof. Alois Fürstner (Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Germany) An Inadvertent Excursion into Rhodium Carbene Chemistry |
| 9:50 | Prof. Dr. Franziska Schoenebeck (RWTH Aachen, Germany) Mechanism-Driven and Machine Learning-Enhanced Strategies for Accelerated Molecular Synthesis |
| 10:40 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 | Aleksandrs Čižikovs Development of Novel Methods for the Synthesis of Heterocycles Using Cobalt Catalysis |
| 11:30 | Prof. Cristina Nevado (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Nickel-Catalyzed Asymmetric Difunctionalization of Alkenes |
| 12:20 | Lunch |
| 13:30 | Poster Session |
| 15:30 | Artūrs Sperga Fluorinated Synthon Transfer from Sulfonium Salts |
| 16:00 | Prof. Mark D. Levin (University of Chicago, USA) Replacing Atoms |
| 16:50 | Poster awards and Closing remarks |