International Faculty 2026
A world-class panel of experts who joined us in Ghent to shape the future of Surgical AI.
Ahmed Abbas
ImFusion | Germany
Sharib Ali
University of Leeds | UK
Alberto Arezzo
University of Turin | Italy
Mostafa A. Atalla
University Twente | The Netherlands
Mahdi Azizian
NVIDIA | USA
Simon Bach
University of Birmingham | UK
Edoardo Beatrici
Orsi Academy | IT
Steve Bell
How to Startup in MedTech | Italy
Tony Belpaeme
UGent | Belgium
Jonathan Berte
Robovision | Belgium
Mahendra Bhandari
Vattikuti Foundation | USA
Jean-Christophe Bernhard
University Hospital of Bordeaux | France
Flemming Bjerrum
University of Copenhagen | Denmark
Matthew Blaschko
KU Leuven | Belgium
Frank Callewaert
Microsoft | Belgium
Nicolas Carl
Orsi Academy | Germany
Richard Carter
Proximie | UK
Nadim Daher
Nvidia| France
Pieter De Backer
Orsi Innotech | Belgium
Yve De Buysscher
Qity | Belgium
Geert De Naeyer
AZORG Hospital Aalst | Belgium
Jonas De Vylder
Orsi Innotech | Belgium
Mathieu D’Hondt
AZ Groeninge | Belgium
Leon Doorn
MedQAIR | The Netherlands
Bart Elen
VITO | Belgium
Osman El-Koubani
Scarlet Notified Body | UK
Shane Farritor
Virtual Incision | USA
Wouter Favoreel
Flanders Make | BE
Maximilian Fehruentz
Technical University Munich | Germany
Filippo Filicori
Northwell Health | USA
Nader Francis
The Griffin Institute | UK
Stamatia Giannarou
Imperial College London | UK
Tom Goffin
UGent | Belgium
Yueming Jin
NUS | Singapore
Ikram Kashif
MicroPort | UK
Tom Kimpe
Barco | Belgium
Kenny Knecht
Orsi Innotech | Belgium
Karl-Friedrich Kowalewski
University Medical Center Mannheim | Germany
Jacques Kpodonu
Harvard Medical School | USA
Axel Krieger
Johns Hopkins University | USA
Alan Kuntz
Virtuoso Surgical | USA
Steven Latré
OpenChip | Belgium
Robin Leblon
Citymesh | Belgium
Xi Liu
Intuitive | USA
Hiep Luong
Imec | Belgium
Tiago Marques
Champalimaud Foundation | Portugal
Ozanan Meireles
Duke University School of Medicine | USA
Bart Moens
Barco | Belgium
Marcio Moschovas
AdventHealth Global Robotics Institute | USA
Alexandre Mottrie
AZORG Hospital | Belgium
Anirban Mukhopadhyay
Technische Universität Darmstadt | Germany
David Noonan
Moon Surgical | US
Niki Rashidian
Orsi Academy | Belgium
Pietro Pasquini
IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero - University of Bologna
| Italy
William Riggs
University of San Francisco| USA
Siddarth Satish
Stryker| USA
Alexander Seitel
DKFZ German Cancer Research Center| Germany
Raimundo Sierra
VirtaMed | Switzerland
Stefanie Speidel
National Center for Tumor Diseases Dresden | Germany
Frank Staelens
AZORG Hospital | Belgium
Dan Stoyanov
University College of London | UK
Thibault Sys
Orsi Innotech | Belgium
Steven Thill
Infor | UK
Mathias Unberath
Johns Hopkins University | USA
Henri Van Overmeire
Pointcarré | Belgium
Manu Vander Poorten
KU Leuven | Belgium
Gene Wang
Sovato | USA