"Scalpel to Software – an Evolution"

The Law Society, 113 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1PL

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Day 1 – Monday, 5th October 2026

08:20 onwards	Registration Opens
08:50 - 09:00	BASO~ACS Presidential Address
09:00 - 10:00	SESSION: Ronald Raven Proffered papers Presenters will be announced shortly.
10:00 – 11:00	SESSION: State of the Art Lectures – How AI and Data Science are Engineering a more Efficient Surgical Future
10:00 - 10:20	TALK1: AI and Detection of Breast Disease Speaker: Professor Mark Halling-Brown Head of Scientific Computing, Royal Surrey County Hospital, UK
10:20 - 10:40	TALK 2: Engineering Precision in Surgical Oncology: Digital Surgery, AI and Human Expertise Speaker: Professor Alberto Arezzo Distinguished Full Professor of Surgery, University of Torino, Italy
10:40 – 11:00	Q&A
11:00 - 11:30	TEA/COFFEE BREAK + Poster Viewing + Exhibitors
11:30 – 12:30	SESSION: Precision before Incision: 3D modelling, AI and personalised surgical planning
11:30 - 11:50	TALK: Anatomical modelling for precision surgery Speaker: Mr Jordan Fletcher Colorectal General Surgery Specialist Trainee, Yorkshire and Humber
11:50 - 12:10	TALK: Precision in surgical oncology: from scan to scalpel Speaker: Dr Marcel den Dulk Assistant Professor HPB Surgery, Maastricht University Medical Center +, The Netherlands
12:10 - 12:30	TALK: Precision before incision: 3D Modelling, surgical planning and reconstruction Speaker: Professor Anastasios Kanatas Professor in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Leeds Teaching Hospital,UK
12:30 - 13:10	Lunch \| Poster Viewing \| Exhibitors
13:00 – 14:00	BASO AGM
13:00 - 14:00	[Parallel Session] SESSION: BASO Trainees - Networking Session
14:00 – 14:30	SESSION: Rare Cancer Bill
14:00 - 14:20	Speaker: Dr Scott Arthur , MP
14:20 - 14:30	Questions from the floor
14:35 - 14:45	TALK: New Randomised Data on young women with breast cancer Speaker: Professor Jayant Vaidya Professor of Surgery and Oncolocy, UCL, UK
14:45 – 15:45	BASO~ACS PLENARY AWARDS & ORATIONS
14:45 – 15:05	BASO Raven Lifetime Achievement Award Professor John Primrose Professor of Surgery, Southampton General Hospital, UK BASO~ACS Honorary Member
15:05 - 15:25	Geoff Oates Achievement Award Miss Nicola Fearnhead Past President ASGBI \| Consultant Colorectal Surgeon Cambridge University Hospitals, UK
15:25 – 15:45	Uccio Querci della Rovere Award Professor Michael Baum Professor Emeritus of Surgery & Visiting Professor of Medical Humanities, University College London, UK BASO~ACS Honorary Member
15:45 – 16:15	TEA/COFFEE BREAK + Poster Viewing + Exhibitors
16:15 – 16:45	BASO Trainees Paper Presentation Session Presenters will be announced shortly.
16:45 – 16:55	SESSION: Presentation on Cancer Clinicians with Cancer Speaker: Miss Leena Chagla Consultant Surgeon and Head of Breast Services MWL \| Immediate Past President, ABS \| Council member RCSEd
16:55 – 17:40	SESSION: Scalpel meets machine: Data-enhanced performance in surgical training
16:55 – 17:10	TALK: Automated skill metrics in robotic surgery: How AI is changing the way we train Speaker: Mr Nicholas Raison Clinical Senior Lecturer \| Consultant Urological Surgeon, King’s College Hospital, UK
17:10 -17:25	TALK: Credentialling the Future Surgeon: What UK Trainees Need from Robotics Training Pathways Speaker: Mr Aidan Bannon Robotics Lead, ASiT \| General Surgery Registrar, Manchester , UK
17:25 - 17:40	TALK: Precision Surgery and Digital Decision Support: The Next Frontier in Surgical Training Speaker: Professor Niki Rashidian Professor of Innovative Computer-Assisted Surgery, Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgeon, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium
19:00 Onwards	*BASO Annual Dinner (venue: The Atheneaum Club, London)*

Day 2 – Tuesday, 6th October 2026

08:30 – 09:30	BASO Trainees Session: Speed Mentoring
09:30 – 10:30	SESSION: BASO~ACS Proffered Papers Presenters will be announced shortly.
10:30 - 11:00	Tea/Coffee Break (DEMO TBC)
11:00 – 11:40	SESSION: Seeing Trouble Early: Trustworthy Machine Learning for Surgical Risk and Complications
11:00 – 11:20	Talk 1: Beyond Risk Scores: Machine learning for surgical outcome prediction Speaker: Dr Ganesh Vigneswaran A/Professor of Interventional Radiology and Medical AI Consultant Interventional Radiologist (UHD) \|AI lead for the Innovation for Translation Research Group Cancer Sciences \| Faculty of Medicine \| University of Southampton, UK
11:20 – 11:40	Talk 2: Digital Transformation in Cancer Surgery: What UK Policy need next Speaker: Dr Zubir Ahmed Ex-Minister of Health Innovation and Safety, Department of Health and Social Care, NHS Transplant Surgeon, Glasgow,UK
11:40 – 12:30	SESSION: The New Diagnostic Alliance: Radiomics, Digital Pathology and AI Integration in Surgical Oncology
11:40 - 12:00	TALK 1: Impact of AI in Surgical Oncology Speaker: Mr Hassan Malik Past-President BASO~ACS and Incoming President ESSO Consultant Hepatobiliary Surgeon and Clinical Lead for Digestive Surgery, University Hospital Aintree, UK
12:00 – 12:20	TALK 2: AI for Early Breast Cancer Detection: Lessons from Validation in the NHS Speaker: Professor Fiona Gilbert Professor of Radiology, Head of Department of Radiology, The University of Cambridge, UK
12:20 - 12:30	Q&A
12:30 -13:30	Lunch – Trainees AGM
13:30 - 14:00	BASO KEYNOTE LECTURE: Smarter Scalpel: Building Learning Systems for Future Surgical Oncology Speaker: Professor Tony Young OBE National Clinical Director for Innovation, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Southend University Hospitals NHS FT, UK
14:00 – 14:30	SESSION: BASO Medical Students Paper Presentation Presenters will be announced shortly.
14:30 - 15:00	EJSO - BASO SESSION: “EJSO in the AI Era: Guiding the Evolution of Surgical Oncology Publishing”
14:30 - 14:40	Introduction: Showcase the journal, our year of research, how we are performing in the market Speaker: EiC / Deputy Editor
14:00 - 14:45	EJSO and AI: Showcase how EJSO are handing AI papers and summarizing what makes a good/bad/relevant topic Speaker: Mr Pietro Mascagni
14:45 - 14:50	Discussion Section Speaker: TBC
14:50 - 15:00	Questions from the Floor
15:30 - 15:30	Tea/Coffee Break
15:30 - 15:50	BASO ROSETREES Grants – REPORTS + 2026 Awards
15:50 – 16:30	SESSION - Personalised Surgery in the Digital Era: From Selection to Recovery
15:50 - 16:05	TALK 1: AI and Cancer MDTs Speaker: Mr Shazad Ashraf Consultant Colorectal Surgein, University of Birmingham, UK
16:05 - 16:20	TALK 2: Talk Title TBC Speaker: Mr Saladin Sawan Consultant in Gynaecological Surgical Oncology and Robotics President, Emirates Gynaecology Oncology Working Group, EOS, UAE \| Vice Chair, Scientific Advisory Committee, RCOG, London \| Honorary Lecturer, University of Manchester, UK
16:20 - 16:30	Announcement of Awards and CLOSING of the MEETING