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2025 Annual Healthcare Summit – Leadership Rewired: Building Capacity for AI, Automation, and Innovation in Healthcare
Friday, October 23, 2025
8:00 AM – 6:00 PM ET
Cross Insurance Club, Gillette Stadium
Foxborough, MA
REGISTER TODAY AT EARLY BIRD RATES HERE!
ACHE of MA’s 2025 Annual Healthcare Summit
Leadership Rewired: Building Capacity for AI, Automation, and Innovation in Healthcare
Held again this year at the Cross Insurance Club at Gillette Stadium, the 2025 Healthcare Summit will explore how healthcare leaders can harness emerging technologies—particularly AI and automation—to advance patient-centered care while effectively managing risk and complexity. This premier event features dynamic panel discussions with industry experts, interactive poster sessions, and curated engagement opportunities designed to deliver strategic insights for today’s decision-makers.
Reasons to Join Us!
Participants will engage with leaders at the forefront of innovation and leave with actionable strategies, expanded networks, and the confidence to lead responsibly in an increasingly digital healthcare landscape. Whether you’re shaping policy, driving operations, or guiding clinical transformation, this summit offers the tools and connections needed to lead healthcare forward. You will leave the Summit equipped to:
- Assess High-Value AI Opportunities
Review AI deployment across clinical, operational, and administrative domains to identify use cases that align with system goals and deliver measurable ROI.
- Ask the Right Questions to Guide AI Investments
Establish a leadership-driven framework for evaluating AI tools and vendors—addressing key strategic, ethical, operational, and financial considerations.
- Navigate the Regulatory and Ethical Landscape
Stay ahead of evolving regulations, data privacy requirements, and ethical considerations, and integrate these factors into decision-making and risk management.
- Strengthen Organizational Capacity for Innovation
Identify strategies to build a culture of innovation and digital agility across the organization, aligning talent, resources, and leadership around scalable AI initiatives.
- Lead with Confidence in AI Strategy Conversations
Leverage shared language and structured messaging to drive informed, forward-looking discussions with boards, clinical leaders, IT teams, and external partners.
REGISTER TODAY AT EARLY BIRD RATES HERE!
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
NETWORKING BREAKFAST
WELCOME – ACHE of MA PRESIDENT
KEYNOTE SPONSOR- Novo Nordisk
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Brian R. Spisak, PhD
Senior Partner / Program Director of AI and Leadership
Csuite Growth Advisors / Harvard University
POST-KEYNOTE PANEL
Harvard School of Public Health National Leadership Preparedness Initiative
Moderated by:
Ali Raja, MD, MBA, MPH, FACHE
Past President, ACHE of MA
Executive Vice Chair
Dept of Emergency Medicine at MGH
Professor, Harvard Medical School
NETWORKING BREAK
PRESENTING SPONSOR – Medicus
CONCURRENT MORNING SESSIONS
AI Literacy at the Top: Rethinking Leadership in the Age of Intelligent Healthcare
Moderated by:
Danielle Solar
Program Director
Bentley University
Panelists:
Dean Cimini, MBA – Microsoft
Ja-Nae Duane, PhD – Serial Entrepreneur; Author, Brown University
Bill Schiano, DBA – Professor, Computer Information Systems, Bentley University
From Hype to Health Outcomes: Evaluating AI’s True Value
Moderated By:
Asif Shah Mohammed, FACHDM
Partner
ECG Management Consultants
Panelists:
Dan Caron –Founder and CEO of Health Universe
Brian Manning– Health Tech Exec and Angel Investor
Sheila Phicil, MPH, MS, PMP, FACHE – “Phicil-itate Change”
LUNCH
AFTERNOON PANEL – Hosted by Intuitive
The Digital Frontier: Transforming the Future of Healthcare with Da Vinci 5
Hospital executives and clinical leaders will join senior leadership from Intuitive — the makers of the Da Vinci and Ion robotic systems — for a panel discussion on how innovation, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are reshaping patient care and surgical education.
CONCURRENT AFTERNOON SESSIONS – facilitated by Slalom
Pacing Change & Technology Adoption
This panel will explore how organizations can balance the urgent need for technological change with careful evaluation, long-term planning, and sustainable investment. Panelists will discuss how to manage short-term demands without compromising strategic direction and offer practical insights for aligning rapid innovation with long-term value. Panelists forthcoming.
Financial Pressures & Technology in Healthcare
This session will explore the financial implications of the One Big Beautiful Bill (BBB) Act and how hospital systems are adapting in response. Panelists will discuss the challenges of adopting new technologies under budget constraints, the critical need to drive efficiency through innovation, and strategies for reallocating investments to mitigate financial pressure while advancing care delivery. Panelists forthcoming.
WRAP UP AND NETWORKING RECEPTION
