This invitation-only forum brings together thought leaders and industry experts to interactively explore and discuss the critical issues facing and shaping healthcare.
Valley Forum convenes thought leaders, industry experts and disruptive thinkers to shape the future of healthcare. Taking place November 10-13 in Napa Valley, the Forum will foster lively, provocative, and decidedly interactive dialogue on current topics profoundly affecting our industry.
Engage in this unique opportunity to lead pivotal discussions, challenging peers to push boundaries and explore new avenues of innovative thinking. Build relationships and expand your network through meticulously curated experiences crafted to encourage meaningful conversations and collaboration.
Topics
Attendees will engage in interactive discussion around these key themes:
Is the Healthcare Economic Model Still Viable?
Healthcare is under sustained financial pressure. Many systems rely on subsidies to remain viable while cost pressure continues to rise. At the same time, AI and prevention are beginning to reduce or shift utilization, directly challenging the revenue model the system depends on. This session examines which parts of healthcare are structurally viable, which are propped up, and what happens if utilization patterns shift at scale.
Is AI the New Front Door to Healthcare?
Decisions are increasingly made before patients enter the healthcare system. AI, navigation platforms, and benefit design are moving influence upstream and redefining how patients choose where and when to seek care. This session examines who controls those decisions, how demand is determined earlier, and what role providers play if they are no longer the starting point.
The Stack is Not the Strategy
The stack is starting to define the strategy. Not the other way around. As organizations consolidate around the EMR and other platforms, they simplify operations but narrow what they can see and do. The EMR captures known patients inside the system. It does not see demand, influence, or behavior outside of it. Growth does not happen inside closed workflows. It happens before, around, and beyond them. Strategy should define the capabilities required. The stack should follow. Most organizations have that backwards.
Payer vs. Provider: Who Wins in a Cold vs. Hot War
Payer–provider conflict is no longer a back-office negotiation. It is playing out publicly and determining access, steering, and control of the patient relationship. Reimbursement, networks, and benefit design have become tools of influence. This session explores whether this is a temporary battle or a permanent shift in power, and who captures value as it intensifies.
Algorithmic Care vs. the Messiness of Medicine
Healthcare is inherently messy. It does not conform to clean models, predictable pathways, or consistent inputs. AI is built for the opposite. It depends on patterns, repeatability, and scale. The question is not whether AI can scale, but what happens when it does in a system defined by variability and exception.
Trust vs. Attention: Competing Economies
Healthcare has traditionally operated on trust. The broader digital ecosystem runs on attention. Those models are now colliding. Patients are making decisions in environments driven by speed, visibility, and algorithmic ranking, not clinical authority. Trusted sources no longer control the context in which they appear.
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Tucked in the heart of Northern California’s wine country, the Alila Napa Valley Hotel and Spa is set amid vineyards and surrounded by historic wineries. The location provides a retreat for the senses — inspiring innovative thinking by presenting the rare opportunity to slow down, savor the moment, and establish true connections with others.
