Programme for ALPS 2020 Meeting (2021 will be available later in the year)

Date	Time	ACTIVITY  / TOPIC	Session Title	Speaker Name
Thursday 6th February	07.30 – 08.00	Registration and Speaker Check-In
	08.00 – 08.15	Liver Function and Regeneration	Preoperative measurement of liver function	Joris Erdmann
	08.15 – 08.30		Regenerative liver surgery: Methods to improve the function of a small liver remnant	Erik Schadde
	08.30 – 08.45		Liver regeneration in the treatment of colorectal liver metastasis: The LIGRO trial	Per Sandström
	08.45 – 09.00		The DRAGON trial: progress from LIGRO	Marc Bemelmans
	09.00 – 09.15		Colorectal Liver Metastases: Novel Assessment Tools for Technical Resectability (The CoNoR study)	Kat Parmar
	09.15 – 09.20		Free Paper (FP01)
	16.30 – 17.00	Coffee and Poster Session 1	E-Posters (AB01 – AB08)
	17.00 – 17.20	Improving Quality	Standardising high-quality pancreatic surgery across a large healthcare system	Matthew Weiss
	17.20 – 17.40		Centralisation in HPB surgery: Easy to say, hard to do	Alice Wei
	17.40 – 18.00		Why we need outcome studies in colorectal cancer liver metastases surgical research?	Peter Naredi
	18.00 – 18.20		Should we follow up colorectal cancer to detect colorectal liver metastasis	Andrew Renehan
	18.20 – 18.25		Commentary on colorectal cancer follow up	John Primrose
	18.25 – 18.35		Free Papers (FP02, FP03)
	19.15- 00.00		Mountaintop Party Night at Chalet Fiat (Separate booking and pre-payment required)

Programme for ALPS 2020 Meeting (2021 will be available later in the year)

Date	Time	ACTIVITY  / TOPIC	Session Title	Speaker Name
Friday 7th February	07.30 – 08.00	Speaker Check-In
	08.00 – 08.20	Translational science in HPB disease	Gall bladder carcinoma: From bench to bedside	Philip de Reuver
	08.20 – 08.40		Unbiased genetic characterisation of the PSC-CC transition	Rachel Guest
	08.40 – 09.00		Strengths and pitfalls with pancreatic cancer pdx models	Peter Naredi
	09.00 – 09.20		Organoid personalised therapeutics: An integrated translational platform	Fieke Froeling / Dennis Plenker
	09.20 – 09.40		Pancreatic tumour organoids to study cancer cachexia and its link with chemotherapy resistance	Sander Rensen
	09.40 – 09.45		Free Paper (FP04)
	13.00 – 15.00		Rifugio Stoppani Lunch (Separate booking and pre-payment required)
	16.00 – 17.00	Coffee and Poster Session 2	E-Posters (AB09 – AB22)
	17.00 – 17.10	ILLS/MIS Liver	Introduction	Go Wakabayashi
	17.10 – 17.30		Robotics v laparoscopy for major liver resection: Are we comparing apples and oranges?	Alice Wei
	17.30 – 17.50		Robotic liver surgery	Matthew Weiss
	17.50 – 18.10		For a safe wider implementation of laparoscopic liver surgery	Mo Abu Hilal
	18.10 – 18.30		Why we needed another association: The story of the International Laparoscopic Liver Society (ILLS)	Nick O’Rourke
	18.30 – 18.40		Free Papers (FP05, FP06)
	19.30 – Late		Dinner in the hotel

Programme for ALPS 2020 Meeting (2021 will be available later in the year)

Date	Time	ACTIVITY  / TOPIC	Session Title	Speaker Name
Saturday 8th February	07.30 – 08.00	Speaker Check-In
	08.00 – 08.20	New approaches and concepts in HPB disease	Building a robot assisted pancreatic programme	Quintus Molenaar
	08.20 – 08.40		Microbiome and IPMN	Peter Allen
	08.40 – 09.00		Diagnostic and intraoperative targeted molecular imaging for pancreatic cancer	Rutger-Jan Swijnenburg
	09.00 – 09.10		Value of intraoperative ultrasound in liver surgery compared to preoperative imaging	Gregor Stavrou
	09.10 – 09.25		A great imitator: IgG4 disease in the management of perihilar cholangiocarcinoma	Eva Roos
	09.25 – 09.40		Free Papers (FP07, FP08, FP09)
	16.00 – 17.00	Coffee and Poster Session 3	E-Posters (AB23 – AB35)
	17.00 – 17.30	Eclectic Mix	Is the liver male and the pancreas female?	Nick O’Rourke
	17.30 – 18.00		Surgical innovation: Where we have gone wrong	Karen Nugent
	18.00 – 18.30		Understanding the new genomics	David Tuveson
	18.30 – 19.00		Colorectal cancer in Africa	Peter Kingham
	19.00 – 19.15		Reflections	Various
	19.30 – Late		ALPS Farewell Dinner and 2020 Recap