San Diego, CA (14–15 May 2026): Marcus Evans will host the Healthcare CEO & Executive Strategy Summit at the Park Hyatt Aviara Resort, Golf Club & Spa in San Diego, California, bringing together senior healthcare executives and select suppliers and solution providers for two days of strategic discussion, peer learning, and high value collaboration. The Summit is invitation only and designed as a premium forum where hospital and health system leaders can engage with content aligned to current market developments and the practical strategies being adopted by successful organizations.
Attendees can expect a program built around visionary keynote presentations, real life case studies, and interactive forums, led by compelling speakers and experienced moderators. The speaker line up includes distinguished healthcare leaders such as Dr Toby Cosgrove, Former CEO and President of Cleveland Clinic, and Michael Dowling, CEO Emeritus of Northwell Health. Executive perspectives will also be shared by leaders including Jochen Reiser, MD, PhD, President and CEO of UTMB and UTMB Health System; Frank E. Shipp, FACHE, MBA, RRT, Executive Director at Johns Hopkins Medicine; and Alejandro Quiroga, MD, MBA, President and CEO of Children’s Mercy. Interactive sessions will feature senior operators and strategists from organizations such as NYC Health + Hospitals, Evergreen Health, Loma Linda University Health Hospitals, Grady Health, UC San Diego Health, and AdventHealth, among others.
The Summit’s 2026 agenda is organized around key priorities facing healthcare leadership teams:
- Intelligent Enterprise: advancing responsible adoption of AI, strengthening governance, and improving organizational efficiency with measurable return on investment.
- Future proofing the P&L: responding to reimbursement shifts, optimizing capital allocation, and reshaping financial models to support long term solvency.
- From Burnout to Breakthrough: addressing workforce stability through leadership strategy, pipeline development, and initiatives aimed at reducing burnout.
- Mastering Market Growth: enabling profitable service line growth and building a repeatable executive blueprint for capturing and sustaining regional market share.
- Strategic Partnering and Unlocking External Value: exploring partnership structures and complex joint ventures that expand capabilities and unlock new value.
- Operational Resilience: strengthening flow and quality controls to reduce boarding, protect patient safety, and reinforce operational performance.
Marcus Evans, a global media, corporate marketing, and information company with decades of experience producing premium business events, positions the Summit as a platform for strategic connections and powerful alliances. Through ongoing assessments of executive priorities, the organization aims to support more efficient evaluation of relevant solutions and help modernize traditional approaches to partner identification and vendor selection.
For invitation and partnership enquiries, contact Stavros Karelidis, Senior Marketing Manager at stavroska@marcusevanscy.com or 646-741-3059.
