HIMSS SoCal Annual CXO Event

Healthcare is at a pivotal point. As interoperability expands, cybersecurity risks evolve, and workforce pressures grow, executive leadership is critical to navigating what comes next.

Join fellow healthcare CXOs for a one-day executive summit focused on the strategies and decisions shaping the future of healthcare delivery. This program will explore interoperability and data sharing, privacy and security challenges, and the transformation required to prepare the healthcare workforce for a more connected ecosystem.

The summit features a keynote from the Surgeon General of California, along with executive panels and interactive discussions examining how organizations are translating policy and strategy into real-world execution. Designed for senior leaders across technology, operations, security, legal, privacy, and clinical domains, the event offers an opportunity for candid dialogue and meaningful peer engagement.

Why You Should Attend

• Gain strategic insight into the future of interoperability, security, and healthcare connectivity
• Hear directly from senior healthcare leaders navigating policy change and operational complexity
• Participate in executive-level discussions on privacy, contracting, and data sharing in an interoperable ecosystem
• Explore approaches to reskilling and preparing today’s healthcare workforce for emerging technologies
• Connect with peers across technology, operations, legal, security, and clinical leadership

This summit is intentionally designed as a peer-driven forum—focused on shared learning, practical takeaways, and collaboration among healthcare executives.

Join us for a day of strategic discussion, actionable insight, and executive networking.

Space is limited. Register early to secure your seat.

Info: Attendees are invited to check in, connect with fellow Southern California health IT leaders and explore sponsor exhibits. Coffee and breakfast will be available.

Info: California's population health priorities, the interoperability imperative and what it demands of health system leaders.

Info: A structured dialogue on California's health data agenda. This session will be moderated by Midori Kondo, Pharm D, MHA, VP of Applications, UCSF Health. Session contributors: Josh Emperado, Enterprise Sales Director, Rhapsody Health | Timi Leslie, President, BluePath Health, Executive Director at Connecting for Better Health | Richard Kwong, Head of Product, BluePath Health | John Helvey, Chief Executive Officer at SacValley MedShare | Bridgett Bell, Vice President of Business Development at Cardamom Health

Info: Moderated by: Midoro Kondo & Josh Emperado. This session transfers the floor to attendees, inviting health system executives to bring their most pressing organizational questions directly to the keynote speaker. Structured as a candid open exchange, this segment reflects the Summit's commitment to peer-driven dialogue over one-directional content delivery. Attendees are encouraged to draw on their own strategic challenges, unresolved implementation questions and emerging policy concerns.

Info: Attendees are invited to visit sponsor exhibits and continue informal conversations.

Info: How CXOs are planning connectivity strategies: partnerships and the good, the bad and the complex. Moderator: Tiffani Ghere, Transformation Team Initiatives, CHOC Children's

Info: Attendees are invited to continue conversations over lunch. Roundtable seating is arranged to encourage cross-organization dialogue among peers.

Info: As federal and state legislators accelerate their focus on health data privacy and cybersecurity, health system executives face a compliance and risk landscape that is shifting faster than most organizations are currently prepared to address. This keynote examines the legislative proposals advancing at both the federal and state level, with particular attention to implications for health information technology governance, patient data rights and organizational liability exposure. Drawing on deep expertise in health privacy policy, Tina Grande will help attendees distinguish between near-term compliance obligations and the longer-term structural changes these proposals signal for how health systems must approach data stewardship, vendor accountability and enterprise risk management. Executives will leave with a clearer view of what is coming, what they should be doing now and where the most significant areas of legal and operational exposure lie.

Info: Executive perspectives on HTI-5 and the future of data sharing agreements. Moderated by: John Stanley, Chief Growth Officer, Impact Advisors

Info: Attendees are invited to visit sponsor exhibits and continue informal conversations.

Info: Reskilling strategies for an integrated, AI-enabled health system

Info: Defining what comes next for Southern California health IT leadership

Info: Attendees are invited to close the day in conversation on the grounds of the rose garden. Light refreshments will be served.

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