33rd EAES International Congress, Belgrade - 17th to 20th June 2025
2025-06-17 08:30 - 2025-06-20 17:00 (Europe/London)
For further details, please click on the image below. Registration is now open

British Association of Day Surgery (BADS) Annual Conference, Manchester - 19th & 20th June 2025
2025-06-19 08:00 - 2025-06-20 17:00
To learn more, and register, please click on the image immediately below
This year’s conference will include sessions on sustainability, robotics, surgical safety, local anaesthetic techniques, safe sedation and human factors in surgery. Workshop sessions will be held on simulation training in regional anaesthesia, fostering psychological safety in the workplace, and complex day case surgery. The full line up of expert speakers includes a number of Professors and a former BADS President.
The conference will also feature the ever-popular free paper sessions and the opportunity to showcase your work in the poster competition. Submit your abstract before the deadline on Friday 11th April.
The first day will finish with an evening networking drinks reception at the conference venue.
We look forward to welcoming you to this event which will take place on Thursday 19th & Friday 20th June 2025
BADS President, David Bunting
Early bird discounted registration fees are available until 2nd May 2025.
Full details of the conference, including how to register, submit an abstract, and an overview of the programme can be found on the BADS website
https://bads.co.uk/conference/

5th World Congress of the International Laparoscopic Liver Society & 3rd International Conference on Minimally Invasive Liver Resections, Seoul - 24th to 27th June 2025
2025-06-24 08:00 - 2025-06-27 17:00
To learn more, and register, please click on the image immediately below. Pre-registration, with reduced rates, is available until May 23.

WE INVITE YOU TO ILLS 2025!

ILLS 2025 will be hosted in Korea for the first time since the establishment of the IIternational Laparoscopic Liver Society (ILLS) in 2016. As the world’s premier event in the field of liver resection, ILLS 2025 will bring together over 1,000 surgeons, academics, and industry experts from 30 countries worldwide.

✔️Conference Overview

Title
The 5th World Congress of the International Laparoscopic Liver Society &
The 3rd International Consensus Conference on Minimally Invasive Liver Resections

Date
June 24 (Tue) – 27 (Fri), 2025

Venue
COEX, Seoul, Korea

Scale
1,000 participants from 30 countries

Host
International Laparoscopic Liver Society (ILLS)

Support
Korean Association of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery (KAHBPS)

Official Language
English

Website
https://ills2025.com

Program
Pre-congress (Consensus) Meeting, Hands-on Seminars
Invited Symposium, Sponsored Symposium, Oral/Video/Poster Session
Opening/Closing, Welcome Reception, Gala Dinner, Exhibition

Key Dates
Abstract Submission Deadline: February 28, 2025 (Go submit)
Early-registration Deadline: February 28, 2025

Contact
[ILLS 2025 Secretariat]
Tel.: 02-557-8422, 8423 l E-mail: info@ills2025.com

✔️Abstract Topic Categories

Abstract Submission Deadline: February 28, 2025
Presentation Type: Oral / Poster / Video Presentation
Abstract Topic

· Pushing Technical boundaries of MILS
· Robotic assisted liver surgery

· Role of MIS in liver tumours
· Allied Technologies in liver tumours

· Navigation systems in MILS
· Minimally Invasive Donor Hepatectomy

· MILS and Gender equity
· MILS in emerging countries

· Teaching and training in MILS
· Updates in trials and registries

· Definition of minimally invasive hepatectomy
· Defining difficulty of minimally invasive hepatectomy

· Short-term outcomes after minimally invasive hepatectomy
· Long-term outcomes after minimally invasive hepatectomy

· Others

Travel Grants & Awards

Please visit our website for more details.
(Additional information will be updated soon – https://ills2025.com/customize.asp?Gidx=118&Sidx=298)

✔️ Preliminary Program

ACPGBI Annual Meeting, Harrogate - 30th June to 2nd July 2025
2025-06-30 08:00 - 2025-07-02 17:00
For further details, please click on the image below.

IAGES-ALSGBI WEBINAR: Evolving Strategies in Rectal Prolapse Surgery - 19th July 2025 at 15:30 hours BST
2025-07-19 15:30 - 17:30
To take part, please click on the image below

AfPP Annual National Conference, Warwick - 8th & 9th August 2025
2025-08-08 08:00 - 2025-08-09 17:00
For further details, please click on the image below. Registration is now open.

Procedures using Versius WEBINAR - 4th September 2025 at 7:30 PM BST
2025-09-04 19:30 - 21:00
Please join at 7:15pm to test connection

Speaker topics:

Mr Day – Versius for low anterior resection

Ms Grey – Versius for completion proctectomy and rectopexy

Mr Pal – Versius for multi-quadrant surgery

Please click HERE to register

South-West Hernia & Abdominal Wall Repair (AWR) Symposium, Torquay - 11th & 12th September 2025
2025-09-11 09:00 - 2025-09-12 15:00
A 2-day symposium platforming current updates and techniques in abdominal wall reconstruction, parastomal hernia, inguinal hernia, emergency and robotics is taking place in the beautiful English Riviera town of Torquay on September 11th -12th. This event is accredited by ALSGBI, the Roux group and ASGBI with CPD points.
To find out more, and book, please click on one of the images below

This symposium is aimed at consultants as well as higher surgical trainees who have an interest in the advancing field of abdominal wall reconstruction, incisional hernia repair and difficult emergency abdominal closure. We also dedicated a session to groin hernia repair issues such as non-mesh repair, chronic pain and guidelines. The symposium will be delivered by a faculty of experts in the field who will be providing delegates with the latest updates, tips and tricks and techniques for this surgery.

Abstracts welcome on any of these topics (AWR, parastomal hernia, inguinal hernia, emergency hernia repair and robotic hernia).
Format: Introduction, Method, Results, Conclusion. Submission via email to tsdft.swhernia@nhs.net before 1st July.

North-West Colo-Gynae Symposium, Oldham - 19th September 2025
2025-09-19 15:30 - 18:45
To register, please email surgicalcourses@nca.nhs.uk

Advanced Surgical Approaches in Paediatric Surgery WEBINAR - 20th September 2025 at 3:30 PM BST
2025-09-20 15:30 - 17:30
To find out more, and book, please click on the image below

Surgical Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Online Masterclass - 2nd October 2025
2025-10-02 09:00 - 18:00
To learn more, and register, please click on the image immediately below

Please click HERE for the course programme

AUGIS Annual Scientific Meeting, Glasgow - 8th to 10th October 2025
2025-10-08 08:00 - 2025-10-10 17:00
For further details, please click on the image below. Registration is open.

3rd Midlands Colorectal Symposium, Northampton - 9th & 10th October 2025
2025-10-09 08:30 - 2025-10-10 17:30
The registration fee is GBP 200, less a discount of 25% for ALSGBI members. In addition, the sponsors are generously funding 40 places for Trainee Surgeons, although to secure these places Trainee delegates will need to send a cheque for GBP 50 payable to Medical Education Department, Northampton Hospital. These funds will returned on attendance.
To book, please email dani.furness@nhs.net

Please click HERE for the programme in pdf format

British Hernia Society (BHS) Virtual Workshop: Hernia Fundamentals - 10th October 2025
2025-10-10 08:00 - 17:00

11th Northern Laparoscopic & Robotic GI Symposium, Darlington - 17th October 2025
2025-10-17 09:00 - 16:00
This event is FREE to attend and places are expected to be taken quickly, so please apply promptly to guarantee your place.
To book, please first click HERE to create your free account and then on the image below to proceed.

If you have any further queries, please contact michelle.leahy1@nhs.net or telephone 01642 282801 Ext 52801.

ASGBI Emergency General Surgery (EGS) Symposium, Birmingham - 12th November 2025
2025-11-12

IAGES-ALSGBI WEBINAR: Anastomotic Leak in Colorectal Surgery - 15th November 2025 at 15:30 hours BST
2025-11-15 15:30 - 17:30

EAES Symposium on Innovation in Surgery, Porto - 22nd to 24th January 2026
2026-01-22 08:00 - 2026-01-24 17:00
For further details please click on the image below. Registration will open in October 2025

ASGBI International Surgical Congress, Brighton - 12th to 14th May 2026
2026-05-12 08:00 - 2026-05-14 17:00
For further details, and to register, please click on one of the images below

10th Portsmouth Colorectal Congress, 10th to 13th June 2026
2026-06-10 08:00 - 2026-06-13 17:00
Further details to follow

34th EAES International Congress, Athens - 23rd to 26th June 2026
2026-06-23 08:00 - 17:00
For further details please click on the image below. Registration will open in February 2026
