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3,500+ Hospital and Health System Executives Shaping the Future of Healthcare Delivery

Hospital and health system leaders accountable for strategy, finance and operations gather to share bold ideas, discuss their next big investments, and forge valuable relationships driving future growth.

More hospital and health system executives attend this conference than any other.

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Focus Areas

What's Driving the Conversations

Led by CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, and health system leaders, these sessions focus on how organizations are prioritizing investment, navigating pressure, and making decisions across strategy, financial performance, and transformation. Leaders move between conversations based on organizational priorities, rather than following a fixed path.

AI Strategy & Innovation

For leaders governing strategy, measuring ROI, and aligning teams around decisions that cut across finance, technology, and operations.

Sample topics: Strategic Planning Frameworks, Capital Allocation, Growth, Technology Adoption, Workforce

Finance and Revenue Strategy

For finance leaders working through margin pressure, capital strategy, and the operational decisions that define performance right now.

Sample topics: Revenue Cycle, Capital Strategy, Payer Contracting, Cost Management

Digital and Clinical Transformation

For clinical and technology leaders making decisions about how transformation takes shape across systems and patient care.

Sample topics: AI Adoption, EHR Optimization, Interoperability, Digital Engagement

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Monday, April 19

TimeTrackTypeSession
7:00 AM—GeneralRegistration Opens
8:00 AM01Keynote PanelHealth System Growth Strategies and Edge to Win the Next 5 Years
8:00 AM02Semi-Keynote PanelHow Top CFOs Are Protecting Margin Without Sacrificing Mission
8:00 AM03Semi-Keynote PanelThe Real ROI on AI in Healthcare
8:00 AM04Semi-Keynote PanelHow Top COOs Are Building Operations That Can Absorb Constant Change
8:00 AM12PanelWhat It Takes to Lead HR in a Health System Under Financial Pressure
8:50 AM01PanelThe Bright Spots, Pressure Points and Walk-Away Moments When the Payer Environment Works Against You
8:50 AM03PanelHow to Reach the Modern Patient as Both a Patient and a Consumer
8:50 AM04PanelAfter Ambient Documentation: The Next Frontier in Clinical AI
8:50 AM07PanelWhere the Smartest CEOs Are Focusing Capital Spend and Investments
8:50 AM08PanelThe Pediatric Care Gap: Staffing Strategies across Credentials
8:50 AM09PresentationPresentation with Dr. Bob Carter, CEO of University of Utah Health
8:50 AM10PanelCapital Discipline in an Era of Competing Priorities
8:50 AM11PanelStrategic Planning for a Wave of Newly Uninsured Patients
8:50 AM14PanelThe Multi-Generational Workforce: Leading Teams with Radically Different Expectations
8:50 AM15PanelInside the Homegrown Models Redefining Healthcare Pipelines
9:40 AM06PanelHow the Best HR Leaders Are Redesigning Rewards and Driving Organizational Change
9:40 AM07PanelMargin, Mission and What Has to Give: The Hard Questions CEOs Face Today
9:40 AM08PanelOrganizing and Implementing Quality Infrastructure for Outpatient Settings
9:40 AM09PanelGetting Clinicians to Use AI Well
9:40 AM10PanelUnlocking Growth Strategies for Outpatient and Ambulatory Services
9:40 AM11PanelThe ROI on AI Agents in Healthcare
9:40 AM12PanelThe Workforce Crisis Is Not Over – How Organizations are Changing Their Approach
9:40 AM14PanelWhen Everything Is a Priority: How Leaders Are Making the Impossible Calls
9:40 AM15PanelFrom Reactive to Resilient: Building Risk-Ready Health Systems
10:20 AMNetworking OpportunitiesNetworking OpportunitiesNetworking Break in the Exhibit Hall
10:45 AM01Keynote PanelThe Future of Health Systems: Economics and Care Model Reboot
10:45 AM02Semi-Keynote PanelHow to Manage Third-Party Risk in a Connected Health System
10:45 AM03Semi-Keynote PanelBuilding Agile Organizations That Can Pivot without Starting Over
10:45 AM04Semi-Keynote PanelHow C-Suite Teams Are Rewriting the Playbook in Uncertain Times
10:45 AM05Semi-Keynote PanelCapital Allocation in an Era of Competing Priorities
10:45 AM06PanelTop Strategies to Boost Workplace Safety and Reduce Violence
10:45 AM07Semi-Keynote PanelWhat Great CEO and Board Relationships Actually Look Like
10:45 AM08Semi-Keynote PanelGoverning Clinical AI: Preventing Drift, Protecting Judgment and Ensuring Safety
10:45 AM12PanelWhat the Next Generation of Healthcare Workforce Strategy Has to Get Right
11:35 AM01PanelThe Modern Capital Strategy for Access Expansion
11:35 AM04PanelRetention without the Raises and What Actually Works
11:35 AM08PanelQuality Under Pressure: How Clinical Leaders Are Raising the Bar
11:35 AM09PresentationProactive by Design: How Montefiore Einstein Redesigned Cancer Screening
11:35 AM10PanelTop Strategies for Specialty Care Access under Pressure
11:35 AM11PanelHow the CFO Role Has Evolved Beyond the Numbers
11:35 AM12PanelHow CHROs Are Building Retention-obsessed, Burnout-proof Cultures
11:35 AM14PanelFrom Zip Code to Bedside: Operationalizing SDOH Screening at Scale
11:35 AM15PanelHow COOs Are Turning Workforce Instability Into a Redesign Opportunity
12:25 PMNetworking OpportunitiesNetworking OpportunitiesNetworking Lunch in the Exhibit Hall
1:30 PM01PanelHow Leading Health Systems Are Winning the Competition for Clinical Talent
1:30 PM02PanelUnder Pressure and Pursuing Perfection: How Top Systems Are Closing the Gap on Harm
1:30 PM07PanelRethinking the Health System Business Model Before It's Too Late
1:30 PM08PanelAligning Physician Incentives and Building a Winning Medical Staff Strategy
1:30 PM09PanelThe Investments Defining the Future of Top Health Systems
1:30 PM10PanelAcquisition Is the Easy Part: The Operational and Cultural Work That Follows
1:30 PM11PanelHow Leaders Stay Strategic When Day-to-Day Pressures Never Let Up
1:30 PM12PanelHow Apprenticeship Programs Are Reshaping Workforce Culture and Operations
1:30 PM14PanelHow Forward-Thinking Systems Are Building What Comes Next
1:30 PM15PanelRethinking Talent Development: How to Build Your Workforce From the Inside Out
2:20 PM01Keynote PanelThe Next Wave of AI in Healthcare
2:20 PM02Semi-Keynote PanelHow Top Health Systems Turn Transformational Strategy into Action
2:20 PM03Semi-Keynote PanelThe CEO Guide to Building Resilient Organizations
2:20 PM04Semi-Keynote PanelBeyond the Framework: The Real Work Behind Zero-Defect Culture
2:20 PM05Semi-Keynote PanelRedefining Performance: What High-Functioning Health Systems Look Like Now
2:20 PM08Semi-Keynote PanelWhat Our Patients Told Us and How It Changed Everything
3:00 PMNetworking OpportunitiesNetworking OpportunitiesNetworking Break in the Exhibit Hall
3:20 PM02Semi-Keynote PanelWhat Comes after the Acquisition Phase
3:20 PM03Fireside ChatSurviving the Present While Inventing the Future
3:20 PM04Semi-Keynote PanelCreating a Culture of Innovation and Resilience
5:00 PMNetworking OpportunitiesNetworking OpportunitiesOpening Happy Hour in the Exhibit Hall

April 19–22, 2027 · Hyatt Regency Chicago

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