• Opening lecture:
• Purpose, Passion and Pathway in abdominal wall reconstruction - Todd Heniford

• The art of closure: technique, sutures and the fight against incisional hernia - René Fortelny (12min)
• Preoperative optimization. Getting ready for the abdominal wall reconstruction Valentin Oprea (12min)
• When and how I use BTA in abdominal wall surgery Jan Kukleta (12min)
• Anatomy of the abdominal wall. Why is so important to reconstruct linia alba? Yohann Renard (20min)
• Finding hernia - understanding the abdominal wall imaging Eric Pauli (20min)

• From chaos to control: mastering hernia repair in emergency scenarios Tina Gaarder (12 min)
• • VENTRAL HERNIAS
• The pre-peritoneal repair - Todd Heniford (12 min)
• The retro-muscular repair Rives-Stoppa - Yohann Renard (12min)
• • LATERAL HERNIAS - My approach
• Vedra Augenstein (12min) - recorded
• Miguel Angel Garcia Ureña (12min)
• Conrad Ballecer (12min)
• • PARASTOMAL HERNIA - How I do it
• Eric Pauli (12min)
• Frederik Berrevoet (12min)

• IPOM/IPOM+. When and how? - Davide Lomanto (12 min)
• LIRA: indications, contraindications, limits - Salvador Morales Conde (12min)
• Robotic TAPP - Conrad Ballecer (12min)
• PeTEP - Hector Valenzuela (12min)
• PeTEP Madrid - Miguel Angel Garcia Ureña (12min)
• eTEP - Victor Radu (12min)
• Diastasis recti - Henry Hoffmann (12min)
• Subxiphoidian hernia - David Lourié (12min)

• Let’s define the complex hernia. What are the parameters do I need for it? Eduardo Tanaka (15min)
• • My crazy case
• Valentin Oprea (10min)
• Rodney Jacobs (10min)
• Victor Radu (10min)
• Frederik Berrevoet (10min)
• Todd Heniford (10min)

• - Yohann Renard (20 min)
• - David Lourié (20 min)

• - The non-mesh repair - Andreas Koch (12min)
• - Lichtenstein technique - David Chen (12min)
• - TAPP repair - Jan Kukleta (12min)
• - TEP repair - Bernd Stechemesser (12min)
• - eTEP repair - Jorge Daes (12min)

• - MIS + Fascia traction - Eva Barbosa (15min)
• - Peritoneal flap - David Sanders (15min)

• TAR vs ACS

1. Yuri Novitsky (15min) vs Frederik Berrevoet (15min)

• To close vs not to close the posterior rectus sheaths

Igor Belyansky+Hector Valenzuela (15min) vs Jorge Daes+Victor Radu (15min)

• - The bigger the mesh, the greater the surgeon - Todd Heniford (10min)
• - I am a great surgeon, but I really don’t need a big mesh - Yohann Renard (10min)

• - Overcoming obstacles/Avoiding pitfalls in robotic retro-rectus repair Igor Belyansky (15min)
• - Management of the retro-muscular fails - Yuri Novitsky (15min)
• - Management of hernias in contaminated field - Rodney Jacobs (15min)
• - Avoiding pitfalls in robotic parastomal hernia repair - Filip Muysoms (15min)
• - My strategy in lateral herias - Victor Radu (15min)
• - Mesh review: where are we in 2026 - René Fortelny (15min)

• - Groin pain after hernia repair - Henry Hoffmann (15min)
• - How I fix the inguinodynia - David Chen (15min)
• - Robotics for groin challenging scenarios - Igor Belyansky (15min)
• - Inguinoscrotal hernia - more than “just a hernia” - Conrad Ballecer (15min)

• - Tina Gaardner
• - Eric Pauli
• - Fernando Ferreira
• - Miguel Angel Ureña
• - Eduardo Tanaka
• - Heather Bougard
• - Fernando Ferreira
• - Heather Bougard