AIG LIVE 2026

Day 1 · Friday, 4 December 2026

Hall A

1. 9.00–10.40 AM Endoscopic Skills – A Must for ALL
   • 9.00–9.12 Standardization of Upper GI Endoscopy – Systematic Examination, Early Detection — Noriya Uedo
   • 9.12–9.24 Mastering the Art of Colonoscopy — Michal Kaminski
   • 9.30–9.42 The Art of Side-Viewing Endoscopy — Mahesh Goenka
   • 9.42–9.54 How to Be WISEr at EUS? — Dong Wan Seo
   • 10.00–10.12 Practical Tips to Stop Acute Non-Variceal Bleeding — Ajay Kumar
   • 10.12–10.24 Basics of Colonoscopic Polypectomy — Nalini Guda
   • 10.24–10.36 Foreign Bodies – Tips and Tricks for Safe Removal — Sandeep Nijhawan
2. 10.40–11.00 AM Rising Stars in Endoscopy — Awards for the 3 best publications
3. 11.00–11.15 AM Tea Break
4. 11.15–1.00 PM Live Endoscopy — Transmitted live from the AIG Endo Suites
5. 1.00–2.00 PM Lunch Break
6. 2.00–3.00 PM Master’s Secrets in ERCP
   • 2.00–2.15 My Top Tips for Successful Biliary Cannulation — Horst Neuhaus
   • 2.15–2.30 My Strategies to Prevent Post-ERCP Pancreatitis in Everyday Practice — Jacques Devière
   • 2.30–2.45 An Expert’s Guide to Approaching Benign Biliary Strictures — Guido Costamagna
7. 3.00–4.45 PM Live Endoscopy — Transmitted live from the AIG Endo Suites
8. 4.45–5.00 PM Tea Break
9. 5.00–7.00 PM Live Endoscopy — Transmitted live from the AIG Endo Suites
10. 7.00–8.00 PM An Evening of Art, Science & Wisdom
    • 7.00–7.30 Less is More in Endoscopy — Jacques Bergman · Commentary: Thomas Rösch
    • 7.30–7.50 Journey of Electrosurgery – A Conversation — Horst Neuhaus
    • 7.50–8.00 Endoscopy Award Ceremony — Awardees: Noriya Uedo, Thomas Rösch, Haruhiro Inoue

Hall B

1. 10.00–11.00 AM The “Decision Point” – Choose Your Next Step?
   • 10.00–10.12 Patient with Symptoms of GERD, Refractory to PPI — Prateek Sharma
   • 10.12–10.24 Incidentally Detected Barrett’s at Endoscopy — Krish Raghunath
   • 10.30–10.42 Routine Endoscopy for Dyspepsia, Incidentally Found: Sub-Epithelial Lesion in Stomach — Sonmoon Mohapatra
   • 10.42–10.54 Routine Endoscopy for Dyspepsia, Incidentally Found: Duodenal Nodule — Nilay Mehta
2. 11.00–11.15 AM Tea Break
3. 11.15–11.45 AM EUS Primer: The First Steps for Intervention
   • 11.15–11.27 EUS Tissue Acquisition: Needles, Target and Technique — Vipul Aggarwal
   • 11.27–11.39 WON Drainage: Patient Selection, Timing and Strategy — Surinder Rana
4. 11.45–12.20 PM Therapeutic Dilemmas – What Would You Do Next?
   • 11.45–11.55 Chronic Pancreatitis with Head Mass – Am I Missing Malignancy? — Deepak Gunjan
   • 11.55–12.05 Asymptomatic Patient with Cystic Lesion (3 cm) in Pancreas — Sudipta Dhar Chowdhury
   • 12.05–12.15 Elderly Female, Severe Comorbidities with Acute Calculous Cholecystitis — Shannon Chan
5. 12.20–1.00 PM Advanced EUS – Expert Decisions & Perspectives
   • 12.20–12.45 Case-Based Panel Discussion: Obstructive Jaundice, Failed ERCP – What Next? — Panelists: Vinay Dhir, Dong Wan Seo, Abed Allehibi, Sanjay Kumar, Jagadeesh R
   • 12.45–1.00 Keynote Lecture: A to Z about EUS-Guided Gastroenterostomy (GJ) — Shyam Thakkar
6. 1.00–2.00 PM Lunch Break
7. 2.00–2.40 PM Image Enhanced Endoscopy Master Class
   • 2.00–2.08 Normal First – The Foundation for Lesion Detection — Amit Dutta
   • 2.08–2.16 Atrophic Gastritis, Intestinal Metaplasia — Mohnish Chhabra
   • 2.20–2.28 Early Esophageal Cancer — Shrihari Anikhindi
   • 2.28–2.36 Early Gastric Cancer — Ashutosh Mohapatra
8. 2.40–3.15 PM EMR – Learn the Right Technique for the Right Lesion
   • 2.40–2.50 How to Decide the Right EMR Technique for the Lesion? — Pankaj Desai
   • 2.50–2.57 Hot EMR — Sawan Bopanna
   • 2.57–3.04 Cold EMR — Vikas Singla
   • 3.04–3.11 Under-Saline EMR — Biswa Ranjan Patra
9. 3.15–4.15 PM ESD Decoded: From Basics to Mastery
   • 3.15–3.28 Fundamentals for the Beginner — Noriya Uedo
   • 3.28–3.40 ESD – Newer Innovations — Pradeep Bhandari
   • 3.45–3.57 Traction Techniques in ESD — Xiaobei Luo
   • 3.57–4.10 Closure Methods in ESD — Amol Bapaye
10. 4.15–4.45 PM Third Space Endoscopy – Keynote Lectures
    • 4.15–4.27 My Top Tips for Optimal Outcomes in POEM — Haruhiro Inoue
    • 4.27–4.39 G-POEM – Right Patient for the Right Outcome — Torsten Beyna
11. 4.45–5.00 PM Tea Break
12. 5.00–6.00 PM How I Do It?
    • 5.00–5.12 Minor Papilla Cannulation & Sphincterotomy — Amit Maydeo
    • 5.12–5.24 Ampullectomy — Randhir Sud
    • 5.30–5.42 EUS-Guided PD Drainage — Rajesh Puri
    • 5.42–5.54 EUS RFA — Saurabh Mukewar
13. 6.00–7.00 PM What Went Wrong & How Would You Rescue This?
    • 6.00–6.12 Perforation during Colonoscopy — Mathew Philip
    • 6.12–6.24 Perforation during ERCP — Srisha Hebbar
    • 6.30–6.42 Post-Polypectomy Bleed — Naresh Bhat
    • 6.42–6.54 Post-Sphincterotomy Bleed — Rakesh Kochhar

Day 2 · Saturday, 5 December 2026

Breakfast Sessions · 8.00–9.00 AM · eight parallel tables

1. 8.00–9.00 AM Table 1: Women Shaping the Future of Gastroenterology Discussants: Jeanin van Hooft, Shannon Chan, Sigh Pichamol Jirapinyo, Xiaobei Luo, Asma Al Kandari
2. 8.00–9.00 AM Table 2: Mastering Electrosurgery in the Endoscopy Suite Expert discussants: Horst Neuhaus, Pradeep Bhandari
3. 8.00–9.00 AM Table 3: LAMS – Everything You Need to Know Shyam Thakkar, Barham Abu Dayyeh, Torsten Beyna
   • LAMS: Know Your Device (Designs & Engineering)
   • Getting LAMS Deployment Right
   • Applications in Daily Practice – Practical Tips
4. 8.00–9.00 AM Table 4: Scope and Social Media: Building Your Voice in the Digital Age Zubin Dev Sharma, Jahnvi Dhar, Robin Chatterjee
5. 8.00–9.00 AM Table 5: Endo-Pathology – How Endoscopists Can Maximise the Yield Noriya Uedo, Anuradha Sekharan
6. 8.00–9.00 AM Table 6: EUS for Beginners – A Roadmap to EUS Anatomy Speakers: Jimil Shah, Piramanayagam, Monika Jain, Nikhil Sonthalia
   • Pancreato-Biliary Anatomy – Stomach Station
   • Pancreato-Biliary Anatomy – Duodenum Station
   • Mediastinal Anatomy (10 min)
   • Rectal Anatomy (10 min)
7. 8.00–9.00 AM Table 7: How to Master Third Space Endoscopy? Speakers: KK Rawal, Gaurav Patil, Harshal Mandavdhare
   • How to Train in POEM: From First Case to Independent Operator
   • The POEM I Don’t Want at 8 AM: Sigmoid Esophagus, Previous Myotomy and Severe Fibrosis
   • Beyond Achalasia (Z-POEM, D-POEM and STER): When Should You Enter the Third Space?
8. 8.00–9.00 AM Table 8: New Devices
   • RIVOS – EUS Access Device
   • Hemostatic Powders
   • Novel Clips
   • SutuArt

Hall A

1. 9.00–10.00 AM Endoscopy Champions League — Six finalists present their best GI endoscopy videos
2. 10.00–11.30 AM Live Endoscopy — Transmitted live from the AIG Endo Suites
3. 11.30–11.45 AM Tea Break
4. 11.45–1.15 PM Live Endoscopy — Transmitted live from the AIG Endo Suites
5. 1.15–2.15 PM Lunch Break
6. 2.15–3.00 PM Metabolic Endoscopy in the GLP-1 Era
   • 2.15–2.27 Duodenum: The Next Metabolic Target — Barham Abu Dayyeh
   • 2.27–2.39 GLP-1RA vs Endobariatrics: The Battle for Metabolic Supremacy — Sigh Pichamol Jirapinyo
   • 2.39–2.50 Pancreatic GLP-1 Gene Therapy — Jacques Bergman
7. 3.00–5.30 PM Live Endoscopy — Transmitted live from the AIG Endo Suites

Hall B

1. 9.00–10.00 AM Common but Complex ERCP – Which Way Forward?
   • 9.00–9.12 50-Year-Old Male, Post-Cholecystectomy, Difficult Biliary Stone — TS Chandrasekhar
   • 9.12–9.24 Post-Lap Cholecystectomy with Jaundice and CHD Cut-Off during ERCP — Sanjay Rajput
   • 9.30–9.42 Young Male with Chronic Pancreatitis and Obstructive Pancreatic Duct Stone — Pramod Garg
   • 9.42–9.54 Elderly Male, Altered Anatomy with CBD Stone — Rajkumar Wadhwa
2. 10.00–10.50 AM Guidelines or Gut Feelings — Debates
   • 10.00–10.25 EUS First or ERCP First: The Biliary Drainage Debate for Distal Malignant Biliary Obstruction — Jayanta Samanta, Praveer Rai
   • 10.25–10.50 Trans-Pancreatic Sphincterotomy vs Conventional Precut for Biliary Access — Chalapathi Rao, Pankaj Dhawan
3. 10.50–11.30 AM The Voice of Experts
   • 10.50–11.05 Endoscopy Nightmare – When Everything Goes Wrong? — Thomas Rösch
   • 11.10–11.25 Regenerative Endoscopy: A New Frontier in Therapeutic Endoscopy — Guido Costamagna
4. 11.30–11.45 AM Tea Break
5. 11.45–12.35 PM Malignant Hilar Strictures – The Complete Journey
   • 11.45–11.55 Diagnostic Difficulty: Imaging — Tharani Putta
   • 11.55–12.05 Diagnostic Difficulty: Tissue Acquisition — Prakash Zacharias
   • 12.05–12.20 Approach to Drainage – Routes & Stents — Jeanin van Hooft
   • 12.20–12.30 Biliary RFA – Is It Prime Time? — VG Mohan Prasad
6. 12.35–1.15 PM AI-Powered Endoscopy: From Diagnosis to Workflow
   • 12.35–12.47 AI for Colonic Polyps – Hype or Reality — Michal Kaminski
   • 12.47–12.59 AI for Endoscopy Workflow Solutions — Jacques Bergman
   • 12.59–1.11 Future-Proofing the Endoscopy Suite for the AI Era — Prateek Sharma
7. 1.15–2.15 PM Lunch Break
8. 2.15–2.50 PM Innovations in Endoscopy
   • 2.15–2.30 Emerging Innovations in Endoscopy — Venkat Akshintala
   • 2.30–2.45 Robotic Endoscopy – Current Status — Philip Chiu
9. 2.50–3.25 PM Endo-Hepatology – One Scope, Complete Liver
   • 2.50–3.00 EUS-Based Liver Assessment: Fibrosis, Fat and the Future — Vikram Bhatia
   • 3.00–3.10 EUS-Guided Liver Biopsy: Technique, Safety and Yield — Sandip Pal
   • 3.10–3.20 EUS-PPG: Techniques and Utility — Cosmos Rinaldi
10. 3.25–4.00 PM Bleeding Challenges in Endoscopy
    • 3.25–3.35 Anatomy-Driven EUS Management of Gastric Varices – Feeders, Shunts and Perforators — Radhika Chavan
    • 3.35–3.45 EUS-Guided Vascular Interventions – Beyond Varices — Malay Sharma
    • 3.45–3.55 Anticoagulants and Antiplatelets – Stop, Continue or Bridge? — Anil Arora
11. 4.00–4.35 PM Trouble Shooting in EUS Interventions
    • 4.00–4.10 EUS-Guided Hepaticogastrostomy — Vinay Dhir
    • 4.10–4.20 EUS-Guided Choledochoduodenostomy — Abed Allehibi
    • 4.20–4.30 EUS-Guided WON Drainage — Samir Mohindra
12. 4.35–5.10 PM How I Do It?
    • 4.35–4.43 EndoFLIP-Guided POEM — Asma Al Kandari
    • 4.43–4.51 Device-Assisted EFTR — Sukrit Sud
    • 4.51–4.59 Endovac Therapy for GI Fistulae — Shiran Shetty
    • 4.59–5.07 PEG & PEJ Placement — GS Lamba
13. 5.10–5.30 PM Redefining Small Bowel Endoscopy
    • 5.10–5.18 My Algorithmic Approach to Obscure GI Bleed — AS Puri
    • 5.18–5.26 Interventional Endoscopy in IBD — Arshdeep Singh

The Endo–Lap Interface · for practising GI surgeons

1. 2.00–4.00 PM The Endo–Lap Interface — For practising GI surgeons
   • 2.00–2.12 Endoscopy-Assisted Surgery — M Kanagavel
   • 2.12–2.24 Endoscopic Full-Thickness Resection — Pankaj Desai
   • 2.30–2.42 Post-Operative Leaks – Endoscopic Rescue — Amol Bapaye
   • 2.42–2.54 When Endoscopy Fails – Surgical Rescue — Roy Patankar
   • 3.00–3.15 Endoscopy–Surgery Interface – GERD, Achalasia — Haruhiro Inoue
   • 3.20–3.35 Laparoscopic Endoscopic Cooperative Surgery (LECS) – A Way Forward — Philip Chiu
   • 3.40–3.55 How Surgeons Can Become Good Endoscopists? — Guido Costamagna