What if tomorrow's hospital could be invented in a single weekend?
The Surgical Innovation Weekend (WIC) is a gathering where people from all walks of life come together to imagine new ways of thinking about surgery and hospital practice.
A multidisciplinary gathering in the service of innovation
Physicians, healthcare professionals, engineers, researchers and experts from different backgrounds bring their perspectives together to imagine new hospital practices. WIC creates a space away from the everyday, fostering creativity, exchange and the emergence of new ideas.
A setting built for ideation
WIC is not like a traditional conference. Its deliberately relaxed setting fosters informal exchange, creativity and the emergence of new ideas.
A breath of fresh air where a more innovative, more human and more collaborative hospital takes shape, together.
From WIC to the birth of BOPA
The 2019 edition of the Surgical Innovation Weekend sparked a lasting momentum that led, in 2020, to the creation of the BOPA Chair: bringing different fields of expertise together to turn innovation into concrete progress for surgery and for patients.
WIC in pictures
Step into the latest editions of the Surgical Innovation Weekend.
Want to see more?
All WIC editions, in video, on the BOPA Chair official channel.