DAY 2
February 27
Venue: Oude Vismijn
Two parallel program channels took place, allowing attendees to switch between sessions freely.
08:00 - 08:30 | WELCOME
08:30 - 10:00 | SESSION 5
TRACK A: Surgical AI
Session 5A: Cross-Industry Playbooks
Chair: Axel Krieger & Alberto Arezzo
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Designing for Trustworthy Automation: What Cities, Cars, and Clinics Have in Common - William Riggs (USFCA | US)
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If it Works in Space, Can it Work in Surgery? - Shane Farritor (Virtual Incision - USA)
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Precision from Above: Lessons from Sensor Fusion in Drone Applications - Hiep Luong (Imec | Belgium)
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From Pilots to Production: Managing Vision AI at Scale in Semiconductor Manufacturing - Jonathan Berte (Robovision | Belgium)
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Planning & scheduling of surgery rooms – What can we learn from industry? - Wouter Favoreel (Flanders Make | Belgium)
TRACK B: Surgical AI
Session 5B: No Metrics, No Proof
Chair: Kapil Sahnan & Alexandre Mottrie
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Data Driven Robotic Liver Surgery - Mathieu D'Hondt (AZ Groeninge | Belgium)
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Turning Simulation into Surgical Metrics - Flemming Bjerrum (University of Copenhagen | Denmark)
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The Engineering POV: measuring algorithmic performance - Bart Elen (VITO | Belgium)
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The Clinical POV: Tracking Skills, Proving Proficiency Based Progression - Edoardo Beatrici (Orsi Academy | Italy)
10:00 - 10:30 | BREAK
10:30 - 12:00 | SESSION 6
TRACK A: Surgical AI
Session 6A: From Code to Control
Chair: Tony Belpaeme & Mathias Unberath
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From Seeing to Doing: Vision-Language-Action Models - Mahdi Azizian (Nvidia | USA)
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Inside the Body: The Road to Autonomous Endoluminal Surgery - Manu Vander Poorten (KU Leuven | Belgium)
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From Assistance to Automation in Surgery - Axel Krieger (Johns Hopkins University | USA)
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Simulation as a roadmap towards automation - Raimundo Sierra (VirtaMed | Switzerland)
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Smaller, Smarter and More Autonomous - Alan Kuntz (Virtuoso Surgical | USA)
TRACK B: Surgical AI
Session 6B: From Lab to Launch
Chair: Rien De Wachter & Dan Stoyanov
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Bringing Medical AI to the Market - Tom Kimpe (Barco | Belgium)
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Surviving the Regulatory Maze - Leon Doorn (MedQAIR | The Netherlands)
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Free your Teams from Compliance Overhead - Yve de Buysscher (Qity | Belgium)
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The EU Regulatory Playbook for AI Startups - Osman El-Koubani (Scarlet Notified Body | UK)
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From Startup to Exit in Surgical AI: My Story - Siddarth Satish (Stryker | USA)
12:00 - 13:30 | LUNCH
13:30 - 16:00 | SESSION 7
Session 7: Live from the OR: AI-guided Surgery in Action
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Robot-Assisted Partial Nephrectomy (RAPN) - AZORG Hospital (BE)
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Chair: Pieter De Backer, Nadim Daher & Jean-Christophe Bernhard
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Surgeon: Prof. Dr. Alexandre Mottrie
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Tele-proctored Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy - AZORG Hospital (BE)
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Chair: Marcio Moschovas, Pietro Pasquini, Karl-Friedrich Kowalewski, Ozanan Meireles
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Surgeon: Dr. Edward Lambert
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Teleproctor: Dr. Geert De Naeyer
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16:00 - 16:30 | BREAK
16:30 - 17:00 | BEST ABSTRACT SESSION
Best Abstract Session
Chair: Stefanie Speidel, Mahdi Azizian, Mahendra Bhandari & Alberto Arezzo
During the Best Abstract Session, a selection of authors were invited to present their abstract on the main stage. One abstract was selected as the winner and awarded an NVIDIA DGX Spark supercomputer.
17:00 - 19:00 | NETWORKING RECEPTION WITH DRINKS AND BITES
Included for Full Congress and 2-Day Ticket holders.
END OF DAY 2
