Programme 2027
The meeting program is under construction.
AVAM 2027
Shaping the Future of Mitral and Tricuspid Therapies
Meeting Directors: Thomas Modine, Fabien Praz
Scientific Advisors: Joao Cavalcante, Lionel Leroux, Rodrigo Estevez-Loureiro, David Messika-Zeitoun, Marta Sitges, Nicolas Van Mieghem
From Integration to Interrogation
Mitral and tricuspid interventions are developing fast and have crossed borders. Transcatheter mitral valve repair is standard of care in many geographies and transseptal mitral replacement is approved on two continents. Tricuspid repair and replacement are reimbursed for an increasing number of patients based on rapidly growing randomized evidence. What was experimental five years ago is now on the shelf.
That is precisely why AVAM 2027 will not be a celebration. With therapy approval, more complex questions have emerged: Do our grading schemes measure disease severity or manufacturer trial eligibility? By the time our guidelines say intervene, is the ventricle already gone? Are we quantifying success, or the regurgitation our devices leave behind? And what about our treatment failure of today? Who will treat these patients in 2035, and how?
At AVAM 2027, nothing is exempted from critical cross-examination and everything will be put into questions again! Is it already the time to reexamine guidelines in the light of the new evidence and adapt cut-offs? The mitral and tricuspid guidelines will be questioned by their own authors. The Heart Team will have to argue for its continued existence. Established grading systems will be challenged by the people who proposed them. And the audience will vote before and after every debate to quantify the impact of mind-changing debates on the audience.
A Think Tank, Not a Podium
AVAM has built its identity as the forum where the mitral and tricuspid community argues productively. In Bordeaux, we will again gather interventional cardiologists, surgeons, heart failure specialists, electrophysiologists, imagers, engineers, and researchers and this year, intentionally, the people who usually stay outside the room. The investors, incubators, and entrepreneurs will open our meeting.
The intimate format remains AVAM's advantage: direct exchange between experts, innovators, industry, and the next generation. The conversations become new trials, devices, and collaborations.
Key themes of AVAM 2027
- Beyond feasibility: durability, reproducibility, and the honest arithmetic of lifetime valve management.
- AV valves and heart failure: controversial questions and new guidelines debated with the most influential heart failure experts. How to better interact with the heart failure community?
- Digital transformation: what AI already decides in our workflows, what robotics has actually proven, and what remains to be achieved.
- The eligibility question: who to select, who should be excluded, and the screen-failed patients the field leaves behind.
- Follow the money: linking clinical research, regulation, investment, and real-world evidence because innovation without a funding path has no realistic future.
Knowledge Under Pressure
AVAM's method is exchange under pressure: live cases from Bordeaux showing real decisions rather than curated perfection, case-based controversies, late-breaking science, and debates structured so that convictions must be defended and justified, not only presented. Ideas that survive this room tend to survive contact with practice.
Building the Future, Honestly
The transformation of mitral and tricuspid care will not be completed by technology alone. It requires evidence we have not yet generated, access most of the world does not yet have, and the discipline to distinguish outcome-driven innovation from technology-driven seduction. AVAM 2027 is committed to that discipline and to the international community adopting this philosophy.
Join Us in Bordeaux
Come prepared to defend and explain what you do in your practice.
Together, we will:
- Stress-test the evidence behind mitral and tricuspid therapies and identify what must be studied next.
- Confront durability, patient selection, and the long-term consequences of today's procedural choices.
- Connect clinicians, engineers, regulators, and investors around what it actually takes to bring a valve therapy to patients.
- Define, and vote on, what the standards of 2030 should be.
The future of mitral and tricuspid intervention is being built today. Join the conversation. Bring your arguments. Be part of AVAM 2027.
On behalf of the Organising Committee,
T. Modine & F. Praz
Registration Fees
Healthcare professional:
1 020€ including VAT
(927.27€ ex. VAT)
Industry representative:
2 750€ including VAT
(2 500.00€ ex. VAT)
These rates include: Participation in the entire meeting, coffee breaks, lunches and access to the partner area.
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Practical Information
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NEW ENTRANCE:
Palais de la Bourse
19 Place de la Bourse
33076 Bordeaux
How to get here?
Located in the heart of Bordeaux, near the river, the Palais de la Bourse benefits from an ideal situation, easily reachable with all types of transports.
The tramway allows a direct access to the rail wail station in 10 minutes (Line C, direction Parc des Expositions / Stade “Matmut Atlantique”, stop « Place de la Bourse ») and a shuttle brings you from the airport in 30 minutes (arrival Tourisme Office, 1-3 allée de Tourny).
By Tramway :
Line C : direct from Station Saint-Jean (10 min), direction Parc des Expositions / Stade “Matmut Atlantique”, stop « Place de la Bourse »
By car :
A10 (Bordeaux-Paris), A62 (Bordeaux-Toulouse), A63 (Bordeaux-Bayonne), A65 (Bordeaux-Pau), A89 (Bordeaux-Clermont-Lyon) et A8 (Bordeaux-Nice)
Parking under the Palais de la Bourse : 1 620 car parks.
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