AAGL Global Congress 2026: Shaping the Future of Women’s Healthcare
Why Boston 2026 May Be the Most Ambitious Congress in AAGL History
Empowering Women’s Voices: Surgical Excellence, Digital Transformation & Outcomes-Driven Care. Advancing Awareness, Access & Autonomy Worldwide.
This is more than a theme. It is a call to action for our specialty.
Every year, the AAGL Global Congress brings together the brightest minds in minimally invasive gynecologic surgery. This November in Boston, we will do more than gather—we will challenge ourselves to define the future of women’s healthcare.
Technical excellence alone is no longer enough. The future belongs to healthcare professionals who combine exceptional surgical skill with innovation, evidence-based decision-making, technological advancement, and an unwavering commitment to improving outcomes for women around the world.
The Scientific Program Committee has worked tirelessly to create what I believe will be one of the most ambitious, forward-looking, and inclusive programs in AAGL history. Registration is now open! I invite you to join us, November 13-16, 2026, at the Hynes Convention Center in historic Boston, Massachusetts.
Attendees can expect cutting-edge education in advanced gynecologic surgery, endometriosis, fibroids, hysteroscopy, chronic pelvic pain, urogynecology, fertility preservation, robotics, artificial intelligence, digital health, surgical outcomes, and emerging technologies that are rapidly transforming our specialty. We are building a program that celebrates technical mastery while embracing the innovations that will define the next generation of gynecologic care.
This year’s Congress will feature dynamic debates, surgical tutorials, hands-on workshops, best-in-class educational sessions, groundbreaking research presentations, inspiring keynote speakers, and opportunities for meaningful engagement with experts from around the world. Throughout the program, we will emphasize surgical excellence, evidence-based practice, innovation, and measurable outcomes—with the shared goal of improving the lives of the women we serve.
We are also introducing several exciting new initiatives.
For the first time in AAGL history, we will host a dedicated Main Stage Patient Course, bringing patients, surgeons, multidisciplinary experts, advocates, and healthcare professionals together for a shared learning experience. Through patient stories, expert discussions, educational presentations, panel conversations, and live Q&A sessions, we hope to elevate the patient voice and strengthen the partnership between patients and those who care for them.
We will celebrate the pioneers and trailblazers whose vision helped build our specialty while creating new opportunities for Rising Stars—the next generation of surgeons, educators, researchers, and innovators who will lead us into the future.
Recognizing that the most important advances in healthcare increasingly occur at the intersection of disciplines, we are expanding opportunities for collaboration with colleagues in colorectal surgery, urology, interventional radiology, reproductive endocrinology, pain medicine, radiology, physical therapy, behavioral health, and other specialties that share our commitment to advancing women’s health.
Beyond the convention center, we are creating opportunities for attendees to engage with some of the world’s leading innovators and thinkers. As part of our vision for Boston, we are exploring unique experiences that foster collaboration between surgeons, scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, and researchers who are shaping the future of healthcare.
Among these initiatives is a planned engagement with researchers and innovators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where attendees will have the opportunity to explore how advances in engineering, artificial intelligence, data science, robotics, and biotechnology can accelerate the discovery of new diagnostics, treatments, and solutions for women worldwide.
The future of women’s healthcare will not be built by surgeons alone—it will be built through collaboration across disciplines, institutions, and continents.
Boston itself provides the perfect backdrop for these conversations. As the birthplace of American innovation and home to some of the world’s most influential academic and medical institutions, Boston offers a unique environment where ideas flourish and collaborations begin. Whether reconnecting with mentors, meeting future collaborators, exploring historic neighborhoods, walking the Freedom Trail, experiencing its renowned culinary scene, or engaging in conversations that continue long after the sessions end, attendees will experience the energy that emerges when passionate people gather around a common mission.
This Congress is not simply about presenting data or demonstrating surgical techniques. It is about building relationships, challenging assumptions, discovering new ideas, and creating opportunities that will ultimately improve the lives of women worldwide.
Whether you are a surgeon, fellow, resident, advanced practice provider, nurse, researcher, industry partner, administrator, patient advocate, or patient, there will be something at this Congress for you.
Join us this November in Boston. Come to learn. Come to teach. Come to challenge conventional thinking. Come to connect with colleagues from around the world. Most importantly, come shape the future of minimally invasive gynecologic surgery and women’s healthcare.
The next era of women’s healthcare will be defined by those bold enough to imagine it—and determined enough to create it.
“Patients inspire us, challenge us, and propel us forward. The future of women’s healthcare will be shaped when patients, surgeons, scientists, engineers, and innovators unite around a shared purpose — and work together to create what none of us could achieve alone.”
-Nash S. Moawad, MD, MS, FACOG, FACS
