Warsaw CTO Symposium

AGENDA

Room 1

08:00-10:45

Morning Session 1: CTO Genesis: The First Spark

Chairs: Carlo di Mario (Florence), Maksymilian Opolski (Warsaw) Provoker: Alex Nap (Amsterdam) Panel: Piotr Kwiatkowski (Warsaw), Mateusz Tajstra (Zabrze), Aleksander Zeliaś (Nowy Sącz)

08:00-08:10

New Compass for 2026: Hybrid Algorithm 2.0 Reinvented

Carlo di Mario (Florence)

08:10-08:20

Minority Report: Plugging AI into Your Strategy

Konrad Pieszko

08:20

Live Case 1 (Military Clinical Hospital in Lublin) – East Flank with MI6

Simon Wilson (London), Grzegorz Sobieszek (Lublin), Bartosz Zięba (Lublin)

09:00

Live Case 2 (National Institute of Cardiology) – Samurai & Scudo

Yoshihisa Kinoshita (Aichi), Umberto Barbero (Savigliano), Filip Kiljański (Warsaw)

09:40

Live Case 3 (Kardiologické centrum AGEL – Pardubice) – Operation Anthropoid

Vojtěch Novotný (Pardubice), Aleš Král (Pardubice)

10:45-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:45

Morning Session 2: Clash of the Titans

Chairs: Ilya Litovchik (Be'er Ya'akov), Dirk Pretorius (Durban, South Africa) Provoker: Sylwia Iwańczyk (Poznań) Panel: Arkadiusz Pietrasik (Warsaw), Marek Radomski (Inowrocław), Piotr Wańczura (Rzeszów)

Battle talk

11:00-11:07

One Inch Punch: the “Mongo” takes it all!

Ilya Litovchik (Be'er Ya'akov)

11:07-11:14

It’s Not Over till It’s Over: you need other wires, bro!

Jakub Drozd (Lublin)

11:20

Live Case 4 (Military Institute of Medicine in Warsaw) – Dutch Pistols

Alex Nap (Amsterdam), Paul Knaapen (Amsterdam), Piotr Kwiatkowski (Warsaw)

12:00

Live Case 5 (Military Clinical Hospital in Lublin) – East Flank with Carabinieri

Grzegorz Sobieszek (Lublin), Gianantonio De Michele (Caserta), Bartosz Zięba (Lublin)

12:45-13:30 Lunch and Industry Sponsored Sessions

13:30-16:15

Afternoon Session 1: Quantum Leaps in CTO PCI

Chairs: Umberto Barbero (Savigliano), Jakub Drozd (Lublin) Provoker: Marek Radomski (Inowrocław) Panel: Grzegorz Horszczaruk (Łomża), Grzegorz Mężyński (Białystok), Wojciech Zimoch (Wrocław)

13:30

Live Case 6 (National Institute of Cardiology) – Flamenco from ANIN

Ignacio Amat-Santos (Valladolid), Maksymilian Opolski (Warsaw), Artur Dębski (Warsaw)

14:10-14:15

HDR in 2026: “Ti amo”

Piotr Pawluczuk (Grodzisk Mazowiecki)

14:15-14:20

The Samurai’s Tip: 3D Wiring for Dummies

Yoshihisa Kinoshita (Aichi)

14:20-14:25

Seeing is Believing: TD-ADR & TD-HDR

Umberto Barbero (Savigliano)

14:25-14:30

My “Swiss Army Knife”: The VECTOR Procedure

Anas Noman (Atlanta, USA)

14:30

Live Case 7 (Linhares, Brasil) – Brazilian Jiu-jitsu

João Tinoco (Linhares), Breno Falcão (Fortaleza)

16:15-16:30 Coffee Break

16:30-17:15

Afternoon Session 2: Masterclass: Grandmaster's Insights

Chairs: Sang Kim (Seoul), Paul Knaapen (Amsterdam) Provoker: Flavius Gherasie (Bucharest) Panel: Piotr Pawluczuk (Grodzisk Mazowiecki), Daniel Rzeźnik (Cracow), Sławomir Surowiec (Warsaw)

16:30-16:37

“Managing my ego”: when should I stop? (joint session with DANUBE CHIP&CTO 2026)

Paul Knaapen (Amsterdam)

16:37-16:43

Case 1: “Buy one, get two”: From TD-HDR to Retrograde Strategy

Rafał Wyderka (Wrocław), Łukasz Osuch (Wrocław)

16:43-16:49

Case 2: “The Great Escape”: Difficult Retrograde from the ADRENALINE Study

Grzegorz Sobieszek (Lublin)

16:49-16:55

Case 3: “The Perpetual Check”: Redo CTO PCI – When the Game Continues

Aleksander Zeliaś (Nowy Sącz)

16:55-17:01

Case 4: “The more I practice, the luckier I get”: Traveling between Warsaw & Amsterdam

Flavius Gherasie (Bucharest)

17:01-17:05

Case Competition Results

Paul Knaapen (Amsterdam)

17:05-17:12

Keynote lecture: “Top Gun: Blueprint for Preventing Disasters”

Special Guest

17:12-17:15

Closing remarks and adjourn

Maksymilian Opolski (Warsaw)