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Executive Summit 2026
Executive Summit 2026
Following a highly successful 2025 event, the Siemens Healthineers Executive Summit will return in 2026, once again bringing together healthcare leaders from around the world to exchange strategic perspectives on shaping the future of healthcare.
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Conference Date: 19 - 20 October 2026
Location: Frankfurt (Main), Germany
Venue: Hotel Meliá Frankfurt City
Executive Summit 2026
Key Topics at a Glance
Topics, session formats, speakers, and timings are currently work in progress and may be adjusted over the coming months.
Elevating access to care: Access delayed is care denied
Timely access to care remains one of the most pressing global healthcare challenges. The discussion will focus on practical solutions, new care models, and collaborations that help improve patient access while addressing workforce and capacity constraints.
Unlocking efficiency: AI’s role in modern healthcare operations
Healthcare organizations are under pressure to manage growing demand with limited resources and workforce shortages. This session examines how AI can support operational efficiency, enable more personalized care, and help systems navigate increasing complexity.
The future of care: Prioritizing prevention and early detection
Prevention and early detection are essential to improving outcomes and reducing long-term healthcare burden. This panel explores how leading organizations are scaling preventive care initiatives and embedding prevention into sustainable healthcare strategies.
Reimagining cancer care: Transforming care pathways through innovation
As cancer increasingly becomes a long-term condition, healthcare systems must rethink how care is coordinated, financed, and delivered. This panel explores how leading health systems are driving transformation through innovation, addressing financing, workforce challenges, collaboration, and integrated care delivery.
Executive Summit in numbers
Connecting global healthcare leaders
The Siemens Healthineers Executive Summit is an exclusive, invitation-only event and community that brings together the world’s leading healthcare minds to share their strategies, experiences, and forward-thinking ideas. By connecting influential CEOs from healthcare systems around the world, we create a network of knowledge sharing; and by gathering in one place, we build the momentum to influence decisions and truly change the future of healthcare.
220+ C-suite attendees
40+ countries represented
10+ hours of networking
Executive Summit 2025
To the limit. And going beyond.
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The Siemens Healthineers Executive Summit 2025 opened with a clear message: pushing beyond limitations is not optional in healthcare – it is essential. More than 160 participants from over 40 countries gathered in Munich to tackle the pressing challenges of global health systems. The Summit emphasized that while the issues may be immense, we are privileged to be in a position to solve them, turning constraint into shared purpose and action.
Read the summary and access the recordings below.
Watch the recordings from Siemens Healthineers
Executive Summit 2025
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Lu Jiade on “Aligning clinical and executive leadership to redefine patient care”
Lu Jiade, emphasizes that true alignment comes from equipping physicians with financial and managerial skills so they can allocate resources wisely, manage budgets, and lead departments efficiently.
Marjolein de Jong on “Aligning clinical and executive leadership to redefine patient care”
Marjolein de Jong, shows how designing care around patient voices rather than legacy structures enables faster access, better outcomes, and higher satisfaction scores.
Designed for impact: Scaling cancer care with purpose
The cancer challenge cannot be solved by money, training, and teamwork alone ...
Nick Stravros on “From innovation to impact: Making healthcare work at scale”
Nicholas Stavros, a healthcare leader in the U.S., shares that leaders should support clinicians by automating administrative and data tasks, allowing them to focus fully on patient care.
Katie Kaney on “From innovation to impact: Making healthcare work at scale"
Katie Kaney, author and founder of the Whole Person Index in the United States, highlights the importance of whole-person health by addressing patients’ behaviors, environments, and social support, not just clinical measures.
Malene Fischer on “Navigating complex change through adaptive and human-centered leadership”
Malene Fischer explains how shifting care beyond hospitals and focusing on the full patient journey can make health systems more sustainable and patient-centered.
Eric Conley on “Navigating complex change through adaptive and human-centered leadership”
Eric Conley shares how clear structures and transparent leadership help health systems change the way care is delivered while keeping staff engaged and trusted.
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Executive Summit 2024
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Executive Summit 2023
Charting a Sustainable, Scalable, and Equitable Strategy for Healthcare
Executive Summit 2022
Affordable and accessible healthcare for everyone and everywhere
Why join us?
Shaping the future of healthcare together
A rare haven for reflection
There are moments that feel different — forcing
a pause, a reckoning, a glimpse beyond the immediate. This event is a place where time slows down. It offers a unique chance to step back, gain clarity, think critically and look further.
Connect deeply
Connect deeply with a selected group of influential healthcare executives, industry experts, and transformational leaders from around the world.
Get inspired by conversations that spark new
ideas and unexpected encounters that lead to fresh perspectives.
Shape the future — together
Discover the drivers propelling healthcare's next chapter and get prepared on what lies ahead –
with a program and discussions that address prevailing topics and evoke mindful solutions to shape the healthcare of tomorrow.
Speakers who joined us at the previous
Executive Summits
Wright Lassiter
CEO, CommonSpirit Health, United States
Karen Oldfield
Interim President and CEO, Nova Scotia Health, Nova Scotia
Alison Santore
Chief Administrative Officer, Providence, United States
Fola Laoye
Co-Founder and CEO, Iwosan Investments, Nigeria
Aldo Rolfo
Chief Executive Officer, Icon Europe, United States
Ronald Lavater
Chief Executive Officer, International Hospital Federation, Switzerland
Caroline Justich
Patient Advocacy, Be Accepted, Austria
Adrienne Boissy
Chief Medical Officer, Qualtrics, United States
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