The Courage to Launch: Redefining Readiness for the Future of Healthcare
About this Event
The Learning Health System Leadership Centre Conference brings together senior leaders from across Canada and around the world — the executives, clinicians, and system leaders shaping the future of health care. Across a full day, the program moves from the intelligence and infrastructure that let a system learn, to the community innovation that keeps people well, to the catalysts that turn evidence into action, grounded throughout in global proof points of what works. It is a day about readiness: what it takes to lead with courage, move without mandates, and build under pressure.
Agenda
🕑: 08:30 AM - 09:00 AM
Registration & Breakfast
🕑: 09:00 AM - 09:30 AM
Feedforward: Creating the Conditions for Launch
Host: Dr. Laura Desveaux
🕑: 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Keynote: Mission-Level Readiness Under Constraint
Host: Charlie Blackwell-Thompson
Info: Charlie Blackwell-Thompson leads the launch of NASA's Artemis missions, commanding the moment when years of preparation meet the decision to go. Her keynote brings that perspective to health care: how leaders build readiness, hold their nerve under pressure, and make the call when it counts.
🕑: 10:30 AM
Break
🕑: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
System Intelligence: Data, AI, and Accelerating Potential
Host: Dr. Laura Rosella
🕑: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Lunch + Networking
🕑: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Health Beyond the Hospital: Upstream Solutions to Reduce Hospital Pressures
Info: A panel of expert voices at the forefront of system transformation will explore bold, upstream solutions that are redefining how we reduce hospital pressures and reimagine care beyond the hospital walls
🕑: 02:00 AM - 02:30 AM
Break
🕑: 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM
What Moves a System: Sparks and Levers for Driving Change
Info: A panel of experienced changemakers will examine the practical levers, catalytic moments, and leadership actions that move systems from intention to measurable, sustained change
🕑: 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Global Proof Points: Implementation at Scale
Host: Professor Helena Teede
🕑: 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Closing: From Diagnosis to Commitment
🕑: 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Networking Reception
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
CAD 600.00 to CAD 800.00
