Agenda
Day 1 - Wednesday, March 11th
Networking Breakfast & Coffee
Keynote Address
Keeping It Real: Where ROI Actually Shows Up in VBC and AI Use (and Where It Doesn’t)
A no-spin conversation on what’s truly generating returns in value-based care today, why margins are getting squeezed, how AI is changing the economics in real (not hype-driven) ways, and the hard pivots payers and providers must make for VBC to be economically sustainable.
Breakout Session A: Prompting AI for Real VBC Financial Decisions
An interactive session on how to work with AI that understands VBC context. We will explore how to connect contracts, risk adjustment, utilization, and financial exposure into outputs that make sense to finance, ops, and anyone else who has to explain the numbers later.
Breakout Session B: AI at the Point of Care — From Data to Clinical Decisions
This panel explores what it takes to use AI in real care settings and how AI-driven decision support improves outcomes, where it creates friction, and how clinical AI has to perform when care quality and financial risk are tightly linked.
Networking Break
Owning the Strategy: Who Controls AI as a Healthcare Organization Taking Risk?
When ACOs, risk enablers, and health plans take on risk, AI stops being just another vendor decision. This panel digs into who really controls intelligence across providers, payers, EHRs, and data platforms, and why those choices shape leverage, differentiation, and financial upside down the line.
Lunch
Policy Fireside Chat - Speaker TBA
Policy Landscape: What’s New for 2026
A no-nonsense read on what policy trends are actually changing in 2026. We will separate meaningful shifts from background noise and talk through how providers and payers should be preparing now to stay ahead of upcoming shifts.
Breakout Session A: What It Takes to Win in Specialty Value-Based Care
Specialty value-based care is where complexity and cost collide. Leaders across oncology, MSK, ESRD, and cardiac care break down what is working, where scale starts to wobble, and how they are managing risk in populations that do not forgive sloppy execution.
Breakout Session B: Construction of a Successful VBC Contract
The initial construction of a value-based contract can make or break its success. VBC leaders share lessons learned and discuss key considerations as they break down the construction of a successful value-based contract.
Networking Break
Fireside Chat: The Endgame for Value-Based Care: Who Wins, Who Loses, and What Must Exist to Scale
A big picture closing conversation between Zeev Neuwirth, Author and Host of Creating a New Healthcare Podcast and Juliette Price, Chief Solutions Officer, HSG on why value-based care still has not broken through at scale, despite years of pilots, policy, and tech investment. They will discuss shifting risk dynamics, structural friction, and why shared infrastructure—not more tools—may decide who advances and who stalls.
| 6:00 → 8:00pm |
Welcome Reception |
Day 2 - Thursday, March 12th
Networking Breakfast & Coffee
Keynote Address: How AI, Operating Models, and Governance Are Reshaping the Future of Value-Based Care
Keeping It Real: Where ROI Actually Shows Up in VBC and AI Use (and Where It Doesn’t)
A no-spin conversation on what’s truly generating returns in value-based care today, why margins are getting squeezed, how AI is changing the economics in real (not hype-driven) ways, and the hard pivots payers and providers must make for VBC to be economically sustainable.
Breakout Session A: Prompting AI for Real VBC Financial Decisions
An interactive session on how to work with AI that understands VBC context. We will explore how to connect contracts, risk adjustment, utilization, and financial exposure into outputs that make sense to finance, ops, and anyone else who has to explain the numbers later.
Breakout Session B: AI at the Point of Care — From Data to Clinical Decisions
This panel explores what it takes to use AI in real care settings and how AI-driven decision support improves outcomes, where it creates friction, and how clinical AI has to perform when care quality and financial risk are tightly linked.
Networking Break
Owning the Strategy: Who Controls AI as a Healthcare Organization Taking Risk?
When ACOs, risk enablers, and health plans take on risk, AI stops being just another vendor decision. This panel digs into who really controls intelligence across providers, payers, EHRs, and data platforms, and why those choices shape leverage, differentiation, and financial upside down the line.
Lunch
Fireside Chat with Gov. Tommy Thompson
Policy Landscape: What’s New for 2026
A no-nonsense read on what policy trends are actually changing in 2026. We will separate meaningful shifts from background noise and talk through how providers and payers should be preparing now to stay ahead of upcoming shifts.
Networking Break
Breakout Session A: What It Takes to Win in Specialty Value-Based Care
Specialty value-based care is where complexity and cost collide. Leaders across oncology, MSK, ESRD, and cardiac care break down what is working, where scale starts to wobble, and how they are managing risk in populations that do not forgive sloppy execution.
Breakout Session B: Construction of a Successful VBC Contract
The initial construction of a value-based contract can make or break its success. VBC leaders share lessons learned and discuss key considerations as they break down the construction of a successful value-based contract.
Fireside Chat: The Endgame for Value-Based Care: Who Wins, Who Loses, and What Must Exist to Scale
A big picture closing conversation between Tim Smith, Chief Actuary at Arbital Health and Juliette Price, Chief Solutions Officer at HSG on why value-based care still has not broken through at scale, despite years of pilots, policy, and tech investment. They will discuss shifting risk dynamics, structural friction, and why shared infrastructure—not more tools—may decide who advances and who stalls.
Check Out Last Year's Event
Watch the highlights from our inaugural Arbital Health Summit, hosted in May 2025. Hear from industry pioneers, including keynote speaker Mark McClellan (Director, Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy, Former CMS Administrator, Former FDA Commissioner).