DAY 1
February 26
Venue: Oude Vismijn
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Two parallel program channels will take place, allowing attendees to switch between sessions freely.
You can choose between 'TRACK A - Surgical AI' or 'TRACK B - Telesurgery'
08:00 - 08:30 | WELCOME
08:30 - 10:00 | SESSION 1
TRACK A: Surgical AI
Session 1A: The Big Picture
Chair: Pieter De Backer & Mahendra Bhandari
TRACK B: Telesurgery
Session 1B: Laying the Groundwork by Orsi Principles & Orsi Alumni
Chair: Alexandre Mottrie & Edoardo Beatrici
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Surgical AI in 2026: Hype, Hope or Hard Reality? - Alberto Arezzo (University of Turin | Italy)
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Data in the Heat of the Moment: AI Intra-Op - Alexander Seitel (DKFZ German Cancer Research Center | Germany)
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Beyond the OR: AI after surgery - Jean-Christophe Bernhard (University Hospital of Bordeaux | France)
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Garbage in, Genius out? Why Data Quality Rules - Thibault Sys (Orsi Innotech | Belgium)​​
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Telesurgery Today: Promise vs Reality - Marcio Moschovas (AdventHealth | USA)
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The Telesurgery Toolbox: Robots compared - Geert De Naeyer (AZORG Hospital Aalst | Belgium)
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Does Telesurgery pay off? - Ikram Kashif (MicroPort | UK)
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Clinical Validation of Telesurgery: First-in-Man Cases Across Multiple Surgical Disciplines - Pietro Pasquini (IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero - University of Bologna | Italy)
10:00 - 10:30 | BREAK
10:30 - 12:00 | SESSION 2
TRACK A: Surgical AI
Session 2A: How AI sees the OR
Chair: Jin Yueming & Nicolas Carl
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Structured Surgical World Models - Anirban Mukhopadhyay (Technische Universität Darmstadt | Germany)
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Seeing More by Combining it all - Stefanie Speidel (National Center for Tumor Diseases Dresden | Germany)
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Beyond RGB: Synthetic & Hyperspectral Vision - Stamatia Giannarou (Imperial College London | UK)
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Augmenting the Surgeon's Reality - Sharib Ali (University of Leeds | UK)
TRACK B: Telesurgery
Session 2B: Challenges for telesurgery
Chair: Pietro Pasquini & Marcio Moschovas
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Can Surgery Trust the Network? - Robin Leblon (Citymesh | Belgium)
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The Influence of Latency in Telesurgery - Gene Wang (Sovato | USA)
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The Role of AI in Telesurgery - Richard Carter (Proximie | UK)
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The AI Act Demystified - Tom Goffin (UGent | Belgium)​
12:00 - 13:30 | LUNCH
13:30 - 15:00 | SESSION 3
TRACK A: Surgical AI
Session 3A: From Data to Decisions
Chair: Filippo Filicori & Anirban Mukhopadhyay
TRACK B: Surgical AI
Session 3B:​ Crossing IT borders in the hospital - Panel discussion
Chair: Ozanan Meireles & Kenny Knecht
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Can General AI Really Understand Surgery? - Karl-Friedrich Kowalewski (University Medical Center Mannheim | Germany)
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Creating Data When Reality Isn't Enough - Dan Stoyanov (University College of London | UK)
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Speaking Images, Seeing Words: Vision-Language Models - Jin Yueming (NUS | Singapore)
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The Rise of the Surgical Digital Twin - Mathias Unberath (​Johns Hopkins University | USA)
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Transforming data into clinical insights - Xi Liu (Intuitive | USA)
Topic: Crossing IT borders in the hospital​
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Panelists:
Steven Latré (OpenChip | Belgium)
Frank Callewaert (Microsoft | Belgium)
Bart Moens (Barco | Belgium)
Frank Staelens (AZORG Hospital | Belgium)​
15:00 - 15:30 | BREAK
15:30 - 17:00 | SESSION 4
TRACK A: Surgical AI
Session 4A: Agentic Surgical AI
Chair: Stamatia Giannarou & Jacques Kpodonu
TRACK B: Telesurgery
Session 4B: Surgical training & teaching in the era of AI & telesurgery
Chair: Mahendra Bhandari & Francesco Prata
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What is agentic AI in surgery? - Jonas De Vylder (Orsi Innotech | Belgium)
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Going Beyond Pixels: Agents for Patient Info - Steven Thill (Infor | USA)
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Anesthesia Meets Agentic AI - Henri Van Overmeire (Pointcarré | Belgium)
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Autonomous Eyes: AI Agents Watching Surgical Video - Matthew Blaschko (KU Leuven | Belgium​)
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How to integrate all agents in real-time - David Noonan (Moon Surgical | USA)
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Learning Surgery at Digital Speed - Nader Francis (The Griffin Institute | UK​)
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Would You Let AI Be Your Mentor? - Simon Bach (University of Birmingham | UK)
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Speaking, Teaching: VLMs in Surgical Education - Niki Rashidian (Medical Director of Orsi Academy | Belgium)
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Latency and teaching - how far can we go? - Alex Mottrie (CEO of Orsi Academy | Belgium)
END OF DAY 1
Please note that the program is subject to change as we approach the event.
