LECTURES: **Combination Medical & Endoscopic Treatments for Obesity - A viable intervention to manage the Obesity Pandemic? - Professor Silvana Perretta (France) **Combination Medical & Endoscopic Treatments for Type 2 Diabetes - A viable intervention to manage the Diabetes Pantemic? - Professor Manoel Galvao Neto (Brazil) **The Perfect Metabolic Surgery Operation: a Future Prototype - Professor Miguel Herrera (Mexico) Expert Discussion Panel: Professor Amit Maydeo (India) Professor John Wilding (UK) Professor Pradeep Chowbey (India) Professor Aayed Al Qahtani (Saudi Arabia) Professor Scott Shikora (USA) Professor Guy-Bernard Cadière (Belgium) Dr. Anna Carolina Hoff (Brazil) Professor Jacquesd Bergman (The Netherlands) Dr. Christine Stier (Germany) Professor Barham Abu Dayyeh (USA)

LECTURES: **The Origins of the MGB: The Benefit of Serendipity - Dr. Robert Rutledge (USA) **Refining the MGB to Minimize Complications and Learn from Complications - Mr. Chetan Parmar (UK) **Ensuring High Standards of MGB Surgery Globally - Dr. Helmuth Billy (USA) Expert Discussion Panel: Professor Rui Ribeiro (Portugal) Dr. Sonja Chiapetta (Italy) Miss Jennifer Darrien (UK) Professor Imran Abbas (UAE) Dr. Marc Focquet (Belgium) Professor Osama Taha (Egypt) Professor Mario Musella (Italy) Professor Sergio Verboonnen (Mexico) Dr. Bhandari Mohit (India) Professor Nasser Sakran (Israel)

LECTURES: ** The Chinese FDA- How does it regulate the quality of stapling technology? - Dr. Wah Yang (China) ** The Ezisurg stapler in action - Professor Giovanni Dapri (Belgium) ** Innovation of Surgical Stapling Technology in China - Professor Peng Zhang (China) Expert Discussion Panel Chairs: Professor Antonio Claudio Jamel Coelho (Brazil) Professor Peng Zhang (China) Panel: Dr. Ken Loi (Australia) Dr. Lilian Kow (Australia) Dr. Patrick Noel (UAE/France) Dr. Ben Clapp (USA) Professor Cunchuan Wang (China) Dr. Wah Yang (China) Dr. Asim Shabbir (Singapore) Mr. Chetan Parmar (UK) Professor Hui Liang (China) Professor Andre Teixeira (USA)

LECTURES: **The Metabolic Surgery Operating Room of the 22nd Century - Professor Salman Al-Sabah (Kuwait) **Standardizing the Sleeve Gastrectomy and Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass and Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning - Professor. Santiago Horgan (USA) **Cardio-Metabolic Centers of the 22nd Century -  Professor Ariel Ortiz Lagardere  (USA/Mexico)

LECTURES: Indication: Acute Leak from Gastrojejunal Anastomosis - Professor Karl Miller (Austria) Indication: Chronic Marginal Ulcer - Dr. Adriana Rotundo (UAE) Indication: Inractable Bile Reflux -  Professor Rudolf  Weiner (Germany) Expert Discussion Panel: Dr. Matthew Kroh (UAE/USA) Mr. Amir Khan (UK) Professor KS Kular (India) Dr. Diana G. Maldonado (Mexico) Dr.  Bassem Safadi (Lebanon/Qatar) Professor Jaydeep Palep (India) Dr. Sonja Chiappetta (Italy) Professor Maud Robert (France) Dr. Helmuth Billy (USA) Professor Dieter Birk (Germany)

LECTURE: **The History of Endoscopic Sutured Gastroplasty: Procedure evolution from first-in-man cases through current technique - Professor Manoel Galvao Neto (Brazil) **Deficiencies of POSE that gave birth to POSE-2 - Professor Roman Turro (Spain) **DEBATE: POSE-2 will Supersede Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty (ESG) globally in the Future  Moderator: Dr. Eduardo Grecco (Brazil) *FOR: Professor Barham Abu Dayyeh (USA) *AGAINST: Professor Reem Sharaiha (USA) Expert Discussion Panel: Dr. Christine Stier (Germany) Dr. Eric Vargas (USA) Professor Christopher Thompson (USA) Professor Diogo Moura (Brazil) Professor Andrea Formiga (Italy) Professor Mousa Khoursheed (Kuwait) Dr. Matthew Kroh (UAE) Dr. Austin Chiang (USA) Dr. Devinder Bansi (UK) Professor Karl Miller (Austria) Dr.  Amny Acosta Then (Dominican Republic) Professor Gontrand Lopez-Nava (Spain)

LECTURES: **Video Presentation: Major Vascular Complications in SADI-S - Professor Laurent Biertho (Canada) **Video Presentation: Pancreatic Complications in SADI-S - Dr. Helmuth Billy (USA) **Video Presentation: Duodeno-ileal Anastomotic Leak in SADI-S - Professor Francisco Campos (Mexico) Expert Discussion Panel: Dr. Marina Kurian (USA) Dr. Bhandari Mohi (India) Professor Andres Sanchez Pernaute (Spain) Dr. Mitchell Roslin (USA) Professor Andrei Keidar (Israel) Professor Alaa Abbass Moustafa (Egypt) Dr. Phil Lockie (Australia) Mr. Shafiq Javed (UK) Professor Karl Miller (UAE) Professor Jacques Himpens (Belgium)

LECTURES: **Leadership in Surgery - Professor Steven Wexner **Operation Lindbergh: How we did it? - Professor Jacques Marescaux **How does Obesity Increase the Risk of Death from Covid-19? - Professor John Wilding

LECTURES: **How can we ensure consistently high standards of Bariatric & Metabolic Surgery care in our hospitals? -  Dr. Javed Ahmed Raza (UAE/UK)  **Long term Outcomes of Sleeve Gastrectomy in South Asian Patients with Type 2 Diabetes - Professor Ghulam Siddiq (Pakistan)  **The Technical Challenges of Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy in a 500kg patient - Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala (India) **Bariatric Surgical Decision Making in Patients with Severe Obesity & NAFLD - Dr. Aparna Govil Bhasker (India) **Transplantation for NASH Cirrhosis - A Liver Transplant Surgeon's Perspective - Professor John Fung (USA)

LECTURES: **Esophageal adenocarcinoma after sleeve gastrectomy: Actual or poptential threat? Italian series and literature review - Professor Alfredo Genco (Italy) **The rise and fall of  Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy in Israel is this pattern that will be seen globally? - Professor Nasser Sakran (Israel) Expert Discussion Panel: Dr. Hayssam Bouchra Fawal (Lebanon)  Dr. Helmuth Billy (USA)  Professor Alaa Abbass Moustafa (Egypt) Dr. Emma Patterson (USA) Professor Gerhard Prager (Austria) Dr. Dino Spaniolas (USA) Dr. Emilio Mano (Italy) Professor Andre Teixeira (USA) Dr. Samuel Szomstein (USA) Professor Paulina Salminen (Finland)