One stage. Every specialty. Boundaries broken.
This is not another meeting where each specialty talks only to itself. RISEUK26 puts the pioneers, clinical heavyweights and next-frontier innovators of robotic surgery on one stage — together, for the first time.
Hear what urology can teach TORS, what spine can teach reconstruction, and how breakthroughs in plastics, microsurgery, gynaecology and colorectal surgery could change your own practice. Two days. One room. Conversations you will not hear anywhere else.
The pioneers who built robotic surgery — sharing one stage
Spine, TORS, plastics, urology, gynaecology, colorectal surgery and microsurgery
Real clinical firsts, hard-won lessons and ideas that cross specialty boundaries
A live international telesurgery connection exploring surgery without borders
Bookable hands-on robotics, immersive simulation and live technology experiences
Direct access to surgeons, educators, innovators and decision-makers shaping what comes next
Book before the price rises — and before the best access is gone.
RISEUK26 is built around one room, one shared programme and limited hands-on experiences. Secure your ticket now and be part of the conversations that will be repeated long after the conference ends.
Choose your ticket. Secure your seat.
Choose the pass that fits you. For the full pan-surgical experience — and the conversations that connect both days — the two-day ticket delivers the greatest value.
Healthcare Professional
For the clinicians and teams who will adopt, deliver, lead or be changed by robotic surgery — from consultants and trainees to theatre teams, AHPs and hospital leaders.
- Choose Day 1, Day 2 or the complete two-day experience
- Access every keynote, panel, live feature and exhibition showcase
- Leave with ideas, contacts and practical insight for your own service
Student
For students who do not want to wait until training to understand where surgery is heading — or to meet the people already building it.
- Heavily reduced access to an international surgical faculty
- See emerging career paths before they become mainstream
- Build contacts across surgery, research and medtech
Industry Delegate
For organisations that need to understand what surgeons need next — and build relationships across multiple robotic specialties in one place.
- Meet clinical pioneers, adopters and hospital decision-makers
- Hear unmet needs directly from multiple surgical specialties
- Build relationships beyond the confines of a single-specialty meeting
Robotic surgery does not advance in neat specialty boxes.
The biggest gains often appear when one field sees what another has already solved. RISEUK26 is designed to create those collisions — between pioneers and trainees, established specialties and emerging frontiers, clinical need and enabling technology.
A faculty worth travelling for
Hear directly from the people who pioneered robotic surgery, built national training, introduced new clinical applications and continue to push the field forward.
Ideas your specialty has not heard yet
See how access, navigation, dexterity, reconstruction, simulation and remote collaboration are being solved elsewhere — then bring those lessons home.
Clinical firsts, not empty futurism
The programme is built around real procedures, real adoption journeys and the surgeons who have already moved robotics into new territory.
Technology you can actually experience
Move beyond slides with live telesurgery, robotic platforms, imaging, navigation and bookable immersive simulation sessions.
These are not predictions. They are the people and procedures changing surgery now.
RISEUK26 brings landmark innovation journeys and emerging clinical applications into the same room — so delegates can hear what worked, what failed, what changed practice and what is coming next.
From the first surgical robots to MRI-compatible intervention
Professor Jonathan Sackier shares the decisions, setbacks and breakthroughs behind a lifetime spent turning improbable ideas into medical technology.
A pioneer’s journey — told first-handTransoral robotics leaves its silo
Professor Bindy Sahota and Mr Asit Arora explore how TORS is reshaping access, training and multidisciplinary treatment in head and neck cancer.
TORS · Head & neck · Team transformationPlastic surgery enters the robotic era
Miss Francesca Ruccia brings robotic DIEP reconstruction and microsurgical anastomosis onto the main stage — showing what becomes possible when specialties share technology.
Reconstruction · DIEP · MicrosurgeryLearn from the specialties that went first
Leaders in urology, gynaecology, colorectal and spinal surgery reveal the lessons behind adoption, training and scale — including the mistakes newer specialties do not need to repeat.
Hard-won lessons you can take homeYou can read about these advances afterwards. Or you can hear the people behind them challenge one another in the room.
Secure your place at RISEUK26If robotic surgery will touch your career, service or specialty — yes.
Whether your specialty is already robotic, just beginning its journey or still deciding where the value lies, the choices being made now will shape training, teams, technology and patient care for years.
RISEUK26 gives you access to the people who have already made those choices — and the specialists now applying their lessons in entirely new fields.
Most conferences update you on one specialty. RISEUK26 changes how you see all of them.
The technology is not behind glass.
Book guided access to surgical robotics, immersive simulation and next-generation training technology. Sessions are deliberately limited so delegates receive meaningful time with the systems — not a rushed demonstration from the back of a crowd.
Get hands-on with advanced robotic platforms
Enter realistic XR, VR and team-based surgical scenarios
Ask the technology teams the questions that matter to your practice
The pioneers who built robotic surgery. The surgeons taking it somewhere new.
Professor Prokar Dasgupta OBE. Professor Jonathan Sackier. Professor Kevin Barry. Professor Gary A Ford CBE. Professor Bindy Sahota. Mr Asit Arora. Miss Francesca Ruccia. Dr Robert Masson. Mr Thomas Ind. Ms Nuha Yassin. One stage — and a programme designed to make them learn from one another as much as you learn from them.
Join us at the ICC Birmingham
RISEUK26 takes place at the International Convention Centre in central Birmingham — bringing the full pan-surgical robotics community together at one of the UK’s leading conference venues.
The International Convention Centre
ICC Birmingham, Broad Street, Birmingham, UK.
Be in the room when robotic surgery stops thinking in specialties.
Two days. One shared stage. The pioneers, the new frontiers, the live technology and the conversations that only happen when the right people are finally brought together.
