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Turning healthcare innovation into measurable transformation.

Next Event: September 30 – October 2 2026, InterContinental Buckhead, Buckhead, Atlanta
Healthcare Leadership Conference | HPN West & East Coast
 

Healthcare leaders are under increasing pressure to modernise services, implement AI responsibly, strengthen operational resilience and improve patient outcomes while navigating financial constraints and workforce challenges.

HPN East Coast brings together executive leaders from across clinical, digital, technology and operational functions to share practical strategies, benchmark transformation programmes and explore how leading health systems are delivering meaningful change.

Trusted by leaders from leading health systems across the United States

 

 

Healthcare transformation requires every leadership team.

Delivering meaningful change across healthcare no longer sits with one department. Today's transformation depends on collaboration between executive technology leaders, clinical informatics teams, nursing leaders, operational executives and digital innovators working together to improve care, strengthen resilience and prepare health systems for the future.

Through executive discussion, practical case studies and implementation-focused workshops, HPN USA explores how leading organisations are turning strategy into measurable results.


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Learn how leading health systems are transforming care through collaboration, innovation and practical leadership.

  • Invitation-only executive healthcare leadership forum
  • Complimentary overnight accommodation included
  • Chief Officers and executive healthcare leaders
  • Practical agenda covering AI, digital transformation and operational improvement
  • Executive networking with leading U.S. health systems

Why healthcare leaders attend
HPN USA

The conversations at HPN USA reflect the priorities CIOs are actively investing in today—not generic digital transformation, but the practical decisions shaping enterprise healthcare technology over the next five years.
 

Moving beyond AI pilots

Learn how leading health systems are introducing AI safely through stronger governance, organisational readiness and practical implementation.

Delivering more with tighter budgets

Explore how organisations are balancing financial pressure with innovation, prioritising investment and delivering measurable value.

Supporting the healthcare workforce

Discover how digital innovation is improving clinician experience, reducing administrative burden and helping organisations address workforce shortages.

Learning from executive healthcare leaders

Hear directly from CIOs, CMIOs, CNIOs, CTOs and executive leaders delivering transformation across leading health systems.

Strengthening organisational resilience

Compare approaches to cybersecurity, operational resilience, digital infrastructure and healthcare transformation.

Practical implementation

Leave with frameworks, governance models and peer insights that support real-world transformation rather than theory.

Built around the pressures
healthcare leaders are facing

Healthcare organisations are balancing increasing patient demand, financial constraints, workforce shortages and rapidly evolving technology while continuing to improve quality of care.

HPN USA has been built around those realities.

The agenda explores practical approaches to AI adoption, operational improvement, workforce transformation, clinical innovation, enterprise technology and executive leadership.

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  1. The gap between what’s practical and what’s possible: making AI stick
    Keynote Theater
    • Strategy & Leadership
    • Digital, Data & AI
    Everyone has AI pilots. Few have organizational adoption. This session explores why the biggest barriers to AI are rarely technical. Drawing on lessons from large-scale transformation efforts, attende ...
    Alice Locatelli
    Alice Locatelli, Chief Executive Officer - Upportunist
  2. The margin squeeze: effective innovation when budgets are tight
    Keynote Theater
    • Strategy & Leadership
    • Finance & Sustainability

    With most U.S. health systems operating on razor-thin margins, leaders must learn to innovate under financial constraint. This session explores strategies for prioritising investment, sustaining digital innovation, and balancing operational maintenance with strategic transformation, when budgets are tight.

    Joe Avelino
    Joe Avelino, Chief Executive Officer - College Medical Center
  3. Modernizing the digital core: how MaineHealth built a cloud-ready, clinician-centric technology foundation
    Breakout Room 3
    • Digital, Data & AI
    • Operations & Service Delivery

    Facing growing clinical complexity, rising costs, and increasing burnout, MaineHealth embarked on a multi-year transformation to modernize its digital core. Through enterprise-wide standardization and consolidation, spanning Microsoft 365, hybrid multi-cloud infrastructure, unified clinical communications, and a redesigned desktop experience, the organization shifted from legacy, CapEx-heavy IT to a flexible, consumption-based, cloud-smart operating model. This session explores how MaineHealth aligned infrastructure modernization with clinician experience, financial sustainability, and future innovation.

    Thanh Tran
    Thanh Tran, Chief Technology Officer - MaineHealth
  4. AI without the hype: governance, reality, and the future of digital strategy
    Keynote Theater
    • Strategy & Leadership
    • Digital, Data & AI

    AI is everywhere but understanding what is a true value-add, what is hype, and how to ensure safety and effective governance is still a challenge. In this session, leaders will unpack how they are structuring their AI strategy, whilst ensuring clinicians remain central, managing vendor claims and data ownership, consolidating their tech stack and ensuring interoperability, and navigating the explosion of AI tools while ensuring long-term strategic coherence. Expect insights into case examples of clinical applications of AI and real world use cases with outcomes and impacts.

    Chia‑Shing Yang
    Chia‑Shing Yang, Regional President - Sound Physicians
    Eric Poon
    Eric Poon, Chief Health Information Officer - Duke Health
    Muhammad Mamdani
    Muhammad Mamdani, Professor and Director T‑CAIREM - University of Toronto
    Sarah Rahman
    Sarah Rahman, Associate CMIO - Alameda Health System



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Hear from speakers leading
healthcare transformation

Confirmed speakers include:

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Eyal Zimlichman

Prof Eyal Zimlichman

Chief Transformation, Innovation & AI Officer , Sheba Medical Center
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Eric Poon

Eric Poon

Chief Health Information Officer , Duke Health
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Rubin Pillay

Rubin Pillay

Chief Innovation Officer , UAB Medicine

Who should attend?

Executive Healthcare Leadership

  • Chief Executive Officers
  • Chief Operating Officers
  • Chief Transformation Officers
  • Chief Strategy Officers
  • Executive Directors

Digital, Data & Technology

  • Chief Information Officers
  • Chief Technology Officers
  • Chief Digital Officers
  • Chief AI Officers
  • Chief Data Officers
  • Digital Transformation Leaders

Clinical & Operational Leadership

  • Chief Medical Information Officers
  • Chief Nursing Informatics Officers
  • Chief Nursing Officers
  • Chief Medical Officers
  • Clinical Informatics Leaders
  • Operational Improvement Leaders

Built around the pressures
healthcare leaders are facing

Healthcare leaders are being asked to deliver more efficient, resilient and digitally enabled services while balancing financial pressure, workforce challenges and rising expectations around AI.

HPN USA is designed to help executive leaders tackle those challenges through practical discussion, peer benchmarking and implementation-focused learning.

 

  • Turning AI into organisational capability
    Discover how leading organisations are moving beyond pilots to deliver measurable value.
  • Balancing innovation with financial reality
    Explore how executive teams are prioritising investment while maintaining operational performance.
  • Supporting clinicians and patients
    Learn how digital innovation is improving workforce experience and patient outcomes.
  • Building resilient organisations
    Compare approaches to governance, resilience, cybersecurity and sustainable transformation.
  • Learning from executive peers
    Benchmark strategies with leaders responsible for healthcare transformation across the United States.
  • Practical implementation
    Leave with practical frameworks, leadership strategies and implementation lessons you can apply immediately.

Designed for senior leaders
not generic transformation audiences

“Every conference talks about AI.”

HPN USA focuses on what happens after the strategy has been agreed—implementation, governance, adoption and measurable impact.

“I want practical ideas, not theory.”

Every keynote, workshop and discussion is built around real-world transformation programmes led by executives actively delivering change across healthcare.

“Healthcare transformation requires more than technology.”

The programme brings together clinical, operational and technology leaders to explore how successful transformation happens across entire organisations—not individual departments.

 

HPN USA 2026 Registration

Please provide as much detail as you can when completing this form. Your responses directly inform the agenda, discussion topics, and the solution provider selection – ensuring the event reflects the real pressures and priorities across the sector.

Please note that all registrations are subject to approval by our delegate team. 

East Coast

InterContinental Buckhead, Atlanta

September 30 – October 2 2026

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HPN USA 2027 Registration

West Coast

Omni La Costa, San Diego

July 2027

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Frequently Asked Questions

HPN USA is designed for senior leaders across US health systems and healthcare organisations, including Chief Executives, Chief Operating Officers, Chief Financial Officers, Chief Information Officers, Chief Digital Officers, Chief Medical Officers, Chief Nursing Officers, Chief Medical Informatics Officers, Chief Clinical Informatics Officers, and Chief Information Security Officers. If you're driving strategic change across your health system, this event is for you.

No. Senior health system leaders can apply for a complimentary delegate pass, which includes two nights' accommodation at the venue as well as all meals, refreshments, and the welcome drinks reception and dinner – you will never be asked to pay. Simply complete our registration form and we'll review your application.

You'll connect with peers from leading health systems navigating the same pressures, hear senior leaders share real-world case studies and lessons learned, and engage with solution providers offering tools relevant to your current priorities – all in a focused, closed environment designed for candid conversation and practical takeaways you can act on immediately.

One-to-one meetings are pre-scheduled by our sponsors ahead of the event, who select the delegates most relevant to their solutions. When you check in, you'll receive a personalised meeting slip outlining who you're scheduled to meet and when. Beyond your scheduled meetings, you're free to speak with any of the other sponsors throughout the event. Full company profiles for all attending sponsors are available on the website before the event, or in your delegate guide on the day.

HPN USA is not a trade show or a lecture series. It's a closed, invitation-only forum where health system leaders set the agenda. Sessions are shaped by delegate priorities, discussions are peer-led, and every element is designed to produce practical, actionable outcomes – not just conversation. And unlike most conferences, you leave with two nights fully hosted, genuine peer connections, and a clear set of takeaways for your health system.

When you register, you'll be asked about your health system's current priorities and challenges. Your responses directly inform the agenda, session topics, and the solution providers invited to attend – ensuring the event reflects what matters most to you and your peers.

HPN West Coast takes place 8–10 July 2026 at Omni La Costa, San Diego. HPN East Coast takes place 30 September–2 October 2026 in Atlanta. Both events run across three days including a welcome drinks reception and networking dinner on the first evening.

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