Gili Band: The People Are What Stay With Me After Day 1 at ASRM 2026
Gili Band, Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Egg Donation Network (EDN), shared on LinkedIn:
“Day 1 at American Society for Reproductive Medicine – ASRM, 2026.
It started at 7am with coffee at Penn Station and a train to Baltimore for the 82nd ASRM Scientific Congress and Expo.
This year’s theme, ‘Discovery, Innovation and Advancement’, is all over the Expo floor, from new genetic-screening approaches to AI tools built around clinic workflows.
I also caught the Ken Ryan Ethics Symposium with Glenn Cohen, Reproductive Medicine for Sale? More on that in a separate post.
The people are what stay with me after Day 1.
I reconnected with colleagues from my 20+ years in cryobanks, and I met new ones whose work overlaps with what we’re building at EDN.
The evening took me to the Four Seasons for events hosted by Natera and Everleap Fertility, with our clinical operations and donor journey consultant, Kim Schamroth.
If you’re in Baltimore this week and work in donor programs, cryobanking or fertility care, let’s connect.
Message me here.”

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