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Health Evolution Summit is an invitation-only intimate convening of prominent CEOs from health system, health plan, and life science organizations, as well as select policymakers, committed to the transformation of health care. We gather for three days in Laguna to candidly debate ideas, build relationships and inspire creative solutions essential to the industry’s future.

Future Summit dates
April 8-11, 2025
April 22-24, 2026
April 7-9, 2027

BENEFITS

Why Join the Summit

As the most influential thought leaders in health care, our community needs inspiration,
connection and rejuvenation to continue driving progress. When this caliber of leaders comes
together – connecting to share strategies, experience and ultimately solutions – the outcome
can be truly game-changing.

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Exclusive Connections

Access to a highly curated group of CEOs from across the health care industry

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Candid Discussions

CEO-to-CEO provocative discussions to reveal insights, identify market opportunities and debate strategies to activate leaders to make impact on the industry’s most pressing challenges.

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Lasting Impact

CEOs leave the Summit with exciting ideas and new connections to further maximize the impact their organizations have in the rapid transformation facing our industry in the months and years to come

INVITATION-ONLY RETREAT

What to Expect

RETREAT TO LAGUNA

Components of the Summit

Exclusive Connections

For leaders of companies deeply involved in the transformation of health care, having a dedicated place and time to meet with peers, learn new approaches and focus on the future is invaluable. The Summit is a rare gathering that enables the most prominent executives, innovators, policymakers and investors from across health care services, IT and life science to work through critical issues facing the industry today.

Exceptional Locations

Summit is held at the stunning Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel and Waldorf Astoria Monarch Beach Resort in Dana Point, California. Perched high on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, these coastal paradises inspire out-of-the box thinking. The sea does not like to be restrained; nor do the minds that gather at this event, creating an environment ripe for innovation.

APRIL 8–11, 2025

2025 Summit—the 15th Summit—will be an extraordinary gathering of the Health Evolution community. To commemorate this momentous milestone, Big Discussions will reflect on the most important lessons of the past 15 years and explore the major changes cross-industry CEOs are striving to realize across the next 15 years. New for 2025, the program will begin on Tuesday afternoon with the “Summit Intensive,” a focused set of interactive conversations on leading through the AI revolution.

The Summit XV agenda will focus on defining and advancing our top leadership priorities for the next 15 years, including discussion topics such as:

  • Special Summit Intensive: Leading Through the AI Revolution
  • Health Policy in the Wake of the Election: The ACA at 15, Second Trump Administration, and Newfound Uncertainties
  • Health Care 2040: Predicting the Major Contours of the Future Health Care Ecosystem
  • Future-Proofing the Delivery System: Confronting Our Intertwined Workforce and Affordability Crises
  • (Re)Defining Our Lane: How Far Should Health Care Extend into Daily Life—and Societal Flashpoints?
  • Changing of the Guard: Inside Health Care’s Transition to the Next Generation of National Leaders
  • Titans of Our Industry: Celebrating the Impact of Pinnacle CEOs Entering the Next Chapter
  • Health Care Meets Higher Education: Lessons in Leading Complex Institutions Amid Turmoil
  • Chronic Disease in the Spotlight: Renewed Focus on Affordability, Equity, and Innovation
  • Confab for Advancing Women in Leadership: Big Discussion + Get Real Breakouts

Change in health care is made together, and it starts here at the Summit.
Apply now to join health care luminaries leading change across the industry.

2025 Summit Discussion Leaders

Amy Perry

Amy Perry

President & CEO, Banner Health
David Cordani

David Cordani

President & CEO, Cigna
John Doerr

John Doerr

Chairman, Kleiner Perkins, Founding Investor, Amazon and Google
Karen Ignagni

Karen Ignagni

CEO, EmblemHealth Family of Companies
Ken Young

Ken Young

President & CEO, Medecision
Larry Jameson, MD, PhD

Larry Jameson, MD, PhD

Interim President, University of Pennsylvania; Dean, Perelman School of Medicine
Mark McClellan, MD, PhD

Mark McClellan, MD, PhD

Director, Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy; former Commissioner, FDA
Martha Wofford

Martha Wofford

President & CEO, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island
Nancy-Ann DeParle

Nancy-Ann DeParle

Partner and Co-Founder, Consonance Capital Partners; Former Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy to President Barack Obama
Peter Orszag, PhD

Peter Orszag, PhD

CEO & Board Director, Lazard
Rod Hochman, MD

Rod Hochman, MD

President & CEO, Providence
Warner Thomas

Warner Thomas

President & CEO, Sutter Health

TESTIMONIALS

From Our Community

INTENTIONAL DIRECTION

Our Focus Areas

CARE DELIVERY REDESIGN


What is the future of how and where we engage consumers in their health and care?

PAYMENT REDESIGN


Can we design and adopt new incentive models that yield long-term value?

COMMUNITY-FOCUSED
HEALTH


How do we confront systemic barriers to good health?

INNOVATION & DISCOVERY


How do we harness data, leverage technology, and fuel medical breakthroughs?

MENTAL & BEHAVIORAL
HEALTH


How do we build a robust and sustainable mental health care system?

ORGANIZATIONAL
TRANSFORMATION


How do we contend with today’s most critical challenges and prepare for those on the horizon?

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