Agenda - Day 1

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What does it take to not just manage data, but turn it into a strategic advantage for AI innovation and policy leadership? At VHA Home HealthCare, significant investments in data governance and infrastructure have created the richest and most accurate homecare dataset in Canada—over 1 million high-integrity data points. Walk away with strategic insights and technical know how to:

• Develop your own data cleansing capabilities that deliver quality data
• Build predictive models for hospital readmission risk in homecare patients
• Experiment with AI tools like chatbots and language translation with confidence
• Anticipate and model patterns of absenteeism to inform operational planning

Discover how quality date and robust governance isn’t just compliance—it’s the launchpad for innovation.

As healthcare organizations strive to become more data-driven, modern data and AI platforms are being used to dismantle silos, integrate multimodal patient data, and enforce stringent privacy controls. These platforms are not just about storage — they are about reducing latency, enabling real-time insights, and activating AI/ML to support better decisions across clinical and operational functions. Develop a blueprint to:

• Integrate multimodal patient data, including imaging, text, and structured clinical data, into a unified platform.
• Deploy GenAI, large language models, and machine learning workloads to extract timely insights.
• Operationalize AI-driven insights to improve patient experience, outcomes, and organizational efficiency.

Increase your team’s ability to transform data into intelligence — and intelligence into impact.

The first wave of AI in healthcare was defined by experimentation and proof-of-concept pilots. Today, we’re entering a new era — AI 2.0 — where the focus is shifting from isolated innovation to sustainable, integrated clinical tools that enhance outcomes, reduce burden, and scale impact. Source practical tips to:

• Transition from pilot projects to enterprise-scale implementation.
• Align AI development with clinical governance, safety, and usability standards.
• Integrate AI tools into EHRs and care pathways to reduce friction and enhance adoption.
• Overcome pilot fatigue, ensure clinical buy-in, and achieve measurable improvements.

Improve patient care by positioning AI 2.0 not as a future vision, but as a practical engine for change today.

Agentic AI has the potential to reshape Canadian healthcare—from reducing administrative burden to elevating clinical decision-making. But the reliability of these systems depends entirely on whether AI agents can operate with the same contextual awareness, privacy safeguards, and regulatory discipline as healthcare professionals. Without unified data access and governed context, AI risks inconsistent recommendations, inappropriate data exposure, and a breakdown in clinical trust. Walk away with a blurprint for:

• Creating unified, governed data access that enables AI agents to operate safely across complex healthcare environments.
• Embedding clinical context, privacy rules, and regulatory compliance directly into AI workflows to protect patients and build trust.
• Scale AI agents that support clinicians, strengthen decision-making, and improve system-level performance.

Build reliable, ethical, and high-impact agentic systems that advance patient care and operational effectiveness across the health ecosystem.

Canada doesn’t have a single health system — it has twelve. Each province and territory governs its own healthcare delivery, creating structural fragmentation that challenges national coordination, interoperability, and innovation. Now is the time to invest in provincial and regional data strategies that respect jurisdictional autonomy while enabling pan- Canadian insight, performance measurement, and AI readiness. Master the success factors to:

• Develop decentralized governance that enables localized data strategies.
• Align data priorities across ministries, health authorities, and care providers.
• Enable interoperability and federated data models without centralization.
• Implement data leadership strategies that drive national digital health and AI initiatives.
• Ebed robust privacy safeguards from design to deployment.

Advance patient outcomes with a strategy that bridges Canada’s health data divide.

GenAI is accelerating the need for data unification within organizations. This innovative process unites various data-driven functions — such as enterprise integration, reporting, AI development, and data science — around a shared core of information, despite differing objectives. Central to this strategy is the implementation of a Logical Data Fabric, which is critical for transcending simple centralization. Walk away with an action plan on:

• Enabling enterprise-wide consistent data management practices that are standardized yet flexible enough to meet the specific needs of different departments.
• Fostering cross-functional collaboration by providing a common platform where data from various business functions can be integrated and analyzed cohesively.
• Scaling effectively to accommodate increasing data volumes and complexity, ensuring that data management remains robust, agile, and capable of supporting both current and future business demands.

Perfect your organization’s ability to unify data to enable smarter decisions and greater business impact.

Healthcare organizations often face slow adoption curves for technologies that have sound overall business cases, and that creates a significant opportunity cost to society. Key stakeholders need to collaborate to deliver better outcomes for citizens. Adopt best practices to:

• Support the technology industry in engaging government on new technologies and the change management processes required to execute effectively (including the ongoing debate that, in healthcare, AI may challenge established norms for scaling innovation).
• Enable pharmaceutical and MedTech sectors, which operate in highly regulated environments, to implement key approaches that accelerate innovation.
• Leverage market research firms and pollsters to help governments understand public concerns and monitor change.
• Model the international health systems where there have been notable successes in large-scale modernization efforts, including the Netherlands, the UK, and Australia.

Impact the outcomes of your health system by aligning with international successes and Canadian best practices.

Financial structures shape everything in technology — from the pace of innovation to the strength of your cybersecurity safeguards. Yet for many IT and data leaders, capital vs operational budgeting remains a murky, misunderstood world that slows progress, limits investment, and leads to painful misunderstandings with finance teams. Leave with a plan to:

• Decode financial constraints and unlock momentum by understanding how capital vs operational classifications influence technology planning, lifecycle decisions, cybersecurity spend, and organizational risk appetite.
• Master the finance conversation and how to present IT and data investments in language that resonates with CFOs — value, amortization, ROI, risk mitigation, and total cost of ownership.
• Turn budgeting into a strategic advantage: Discover negotiation techniques, framing tactics, and budget-smart sequencing that help you advance technology goals within real-world financial structures.

Crack the Finance Code to Unlock Faster, Smarter, More Secure IT Delivery

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