Scientific Program

Preliminary program

as of April 10, 2025

Day 1 (May 18)Day 2 (May 19)Day 3 (May 20)

  Day 1 (Sunday, May 18, 2025)
09:30–10:30 Opening Ceremony and Introduction
  Chairs: Josef Kautzner (Prague), Petr Neužil (Prague)
• 09:30–10:00 Introduction, Opening Ceremony
Josef Kautzner (Prague)
• 10:00–10:15 An Overview of Cases from 2024 (IKEM)
TBD (Prague)
• 10:15–10:30 An Overview of Cases from 2024 (HOMOLKA)
TBD (Prague)
10:30–11:40 General Lectures
  Chairs: Josef Kautzner (Prague), Petr Neužil (Prague)
• 10:30–10:50 The Sad Story of the Human Anatomy Atlas
Kalyanam Shivkumar (Los Angeles)
• 10:50–11:10 J Evangelista Purkyně (Purkinje) – A Man of Many Trades
Josef Kautzner (Prague)
• 11:10–11:40 Why Intracardiac Echocardiography Should Be in the Armamentarium of an Electrophysio­logist?
Fermin Garcia (Philadelphia)
11:40–12:45 Lunch Break
12:45–14:15 VT Lectures
  Chairs: Dan Wichterle (Prague), Fermin Garcia (Philadelphia)
• 12:45–13:00 Current Experience with PFA in VT Ablation
Petr Peichl (Prague)
• 13:00–13:15 Ultralow Cryoablation – Can It Compete with PFA?
Tom de Potter (Aalst)
• 13:15–13:30 How to Optimally Assess the Arrhythmogenic Substrate?
Ivo Roca-Luque (Barcelona)
• 13:30–13:45 VT Ablation with Field Technology – Can We Go Transmural?
Vivek Reddy (New York)
• 13:45–14:15 Discussion
14:15–16:30 Live Cases 1 (5 VT Cases Simultaneously, 1 of them Prerecorded)
  Chairs: Dan Wichterle (Prague), Tom de Potter (Aalst)
16:30–17:00 Coffee Break
17:00–18:30 VT Lectures 2
• 17:00–17:15 Fascicular Ventricular Arrhythmias
Akihiko Nogami (Tokyo)
• 17:15–17:30 Complications of VT Ablation
Josef Kautzner (Prague)
• 17:30–17:45 Autonomic Modulation to Treat Ventricular Arrhythmias
Kalyanam Shivkumar (Los Angeles)
• 17:45–18:00 Radiotherapy for VT – Results of the STAR VT Trial
Jana Hašková (Prague)
• 18:00–18:30 Discussion
  Day 2 (Monday, May 19, 2025)
08:00–09:00 AF Ablation – New Technologies
  Chairs: Paul Gould (Brisbane), Robert Čihák (Prague)
• 08:00–08:15 Pulse Select (Medtronic)
Atul Verma (Montreal)
• 08:15–08:30 Varipulse (Biosense Webster)
Massimo Grimaldi (Bari)
• 08:30–08:45 Globe (Kardium)
Petr Neužil (Prague)
• 08:45–09:00 Sine-Burst (Arga Medtech)
Ante Anić (Split)
• 09:00–09:15 ElePulse (Biotronik)
Paul Gold (Brisbane)
• 09:15–09:30 ElePulse (Biotronik) – Zero Fluoro Experience
Pierre Qian, Stuart Thomas (Sydney)
• 09:30–10:00 Discussion
10:00–12:00 Live Cases 2 (6 AF Cases Simultaneously, 1 from Split, 1 Prerecorded)
  Chairs: Paul Gould (Brisbane), Robert Čihák (Prague)
12:00–12:15 Coffee Break
12:15–13:45 AF Ablation – Different Strategies
  Chairs: Dan Wichterle (Czechia), Serge Boveda (Toulouse)
• 12:15–12:30 Farapulse (Boston Scientific) Guided by Fluoroscopy
Melanie Gunawardene (Hamburg)
• 12:30–12:45 Farapulse (Boston Scientific) Guided by EA Mapping
Philipp Sommer (Bad Oyenhausen)
• 12:45–13:00 Farapulse (Boston Scientific) Guided by Intracardiac Echocardiography
Josef Kautzner (Prague)
• 13:00–13:15 Farapulse (Boston Scientific) Guided by Rotational Angiography
Tom de Potter (Aalst)
• 13:15–13:30 Ablation of Persistent AF Using Cryoballoon Arctic Front (Medtronic)
Serge Boveda (Toulouse)
• 13:30–14:00 Discussion
14:00–15:00 Lunch Break
15:00–17:00 Live Cases 3 (Simultaneously 4 AF Cases – Farapulse and LAA Closure)
  Chairs: Dan Wichterle (Czechia), Serge Boveda (Toulouse)
17:00–17:30 Debate- AF Ablation and Left Appendage Closure in a Single Procedure?
PRO: Claudio Tondo (Milan)
CONTRA: Dhiraj Gupta (Liverpool)
17:30–18:00 Coffee Break
18:00–19:30 AF/AT Ablation – New Technologies
  Chairs: Elad Anter (Tel Aviv), Petr Peichl (Prague)
• 18:00–18:15 Affera Sphere 9 (Medtronic) for AT Ablation
Elad Anter (Tel Aviv)
• 18:15–18:30 Affera 360 (Medtronic) for AF Ablation
Petr Peichl (Prague)
• 18:30–18:45 OptiShot (CardioFocus)
Vivek Reddy (New York)
• 18:45–19:00 ST/SF PFA Catheter (Biosense Webster) for AF Ablation
Gabor Széplaki (Dublin)
• 19:00–19:30 Discussion
  Day 3 (Tuesday, May 20, 2025)
08:30–09:00 Pulse Field Energy in General
  Chairs: Josef Kautzner (Prague), Atul Verma (Montreal)
• 08:30–08:45 All PFA Platforms Are Not the Same – Impact of Waveform on Biological Effects
Atul Verma (Montreal)
• 08:45–09:00 PFA-Induced Hemolysis – How Much to Worry About?
Predrag Stojadinović (Prague)
09:00–11:00 Live Cases 4 (4 AF Cases Simultaneously + 2 Prerecorded)
  Chairs: Josef Kautzner (Prague), Atul Verma (Montreal)
11:00–11:30 Coffee Break
11:30–12:15 AF Ablation – New Technologies
  Chairs: Petr Peichl (Prague), Petr Neužil (Prague)
• 11:30–11:45 EasyPulz (BTL)
Petr Neužil (Prague)
• 11:45–12:00 Nanosecond Pulsed Field Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation
Vivek Reddy (New York)
• 12:00–12:15 Volt (Abbott)
Roland Tilz (Lübeck)
• 12:15–12:30 Quick Shot (CardioFocus)
Ante Anić (Split)
• 12:30–12:45 Discussion
12:45–13:30 Cardioneuroablation
  Chairs: Dan Wichterle (Prague), Giulio Falasconi (Barcelona)
• 12:45–13:00 CT-based Strategy of Identification of Ganglionated Plexi
Giulio Falasconi (Barcelona)
• 13:00–13:15 Cardioneuroablation in 2025
Dan Wichterle (Prague)
• 13:15–13:30 Discussion
13:30–14:30 Lunch Break
14:30–17:00 Live Cases 5 (6 Cases Simultaneously – 4 AF, 2 Online, 2 CNA)
  Chairs: Josef Kautzner (Prague), Robert Čihák (Prague)
17:00–17:05 Adjourn
Josef Kautzner (Prague)