Discuss the market forces leaders should watch and the strategic bets leaders should make to navigate the industry’s future dynamics.

Goal: Understand and prepare for the biggest changes happening in healthcare right now.

Explore innovative solutions to nursing’s biggest workforce challenges, with the goal of identifying strategies that help nurses thrive.

Goal: Highlight practical solutions that improve retention, well-being, and workforce sustainability.

Equip your leaders with an understanding of artificial intelligence (AI), the potential benefits these technologies offer, the unique challenges AI presents in healthcare, and how organizations, leaders, and teams should respond to AI today.

Goal: Understand the future implications of technology and get ahead of the curve.

This dialogue will clarify what VBC is, what it looks like in practice, and how it affects provider organizations. It will also delve into current and future trends.

Goal: Understand and implement value-based care (VBC).

Learn how health systems can identify sustainable, defensible growth opportunities by aligning strategy, margin performance, operational capacity, and market dynamics.

Goal: Strengthen leaders' ability to prioritize growth initiatives that create long-term organizational value.

In this session, we’ll examine why the traditional growth playbook is breaking down — and how margin pressure, changing demand patterns, and rising expectations from employers and patients are forcing health systems to rethink where growth comes from and what “good” growth looks like. We’ll share our take on why this new definition for growth needs to move from “growth at all costs" to a sustainable growth mentality.

In this session, you will gain actionable insights on how successful health systems moved from being VBC dabblers to VBC powerhouses by dissecting the strategies of four organizations that are deep in their VBC journey, highlighting the practices key to their success.

In this session, we will explore why traditional leadership practices are no longer enough in today's volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous operating environment. You'll learn about the shifts required to increase enterprise leadership capacity.

Explore the top priorities for health plans today and how plans are positioning themselves for future success. These presentation materials are constantly being updated based on Advisory Board’s latest research to capture the pulse of the health plan market. In addition to big picture priorities — such as corporate strategy, member experience, provider relations, etc. — presentation materials detail the latest in:

• Employer-sponsored insurance
• Medicare Advantage
• Medicaid managed care
• Individual market

There’s a $100 billion national cost savings opportunity in reducing unwarranted care variation, but most health systems haven’t fully tapped into this opportunity. In this session, we’ll delve into the reasons executives cite for not committing to care variation reduction (CVR) and present alternative ideas. We’ll highlight the financial, operational, and strategic upsides of pursuing CVR at scale, and outline next steps for tapping into this saving opportunity.

As care delivery evolves across diverse sites of care, providers and their partners are planning their future ambulatory footprints. This session will review varied ambulatory network models that contribute to new market ambitions while enhancing patient care.