Headline Sponsor
Virginia Mason Institute
Virginia Mason Institute is a mission-driven not-for-profit education and training company specialising in partnerships that enable organisations worldwide to create, accelerate, and sustain their own patient-centred management system and embed a culture of continuous improvement.
Our multi-disciplinary team has extensive health care leadership experience and are experts in strategic planning, innovation, large-scale change, and process improvement.
Whether you are getting started on an improvement journey, facing a significant challenge, or looking for a comprehensive system-wide transformation, we have the experience and proven models and methods to help you dramatically elevate your patient experience, eliminate waste and sustain excellence long-term.
Sponsor
Said Business School
Healthcare Leadership at Oxford
Saïd Business School is a vibrant and entrepreneurial business school embedded in the University of Oxford, and offering a range of programmes that empower professionals to lead with impact. Delivered in-person, online, blended, and bespoke, these programmes combine academic excellence with practical insight and global networking opportunities.
The Healthcare Leadership Programme is a six-day, in-person programme designed for experienced clinical and non-clinical professionals. It equips participants with the strategic tools and confidence to understand global healthcare megatrends and lead meaningful change across organisations and systems.
The Oxford MSc in Global Healthcare Leadership is a part-time postgraduate degree offered jointly by Saïd Business School and the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, one of the world’s leading centres for primary care for over 20 years. Nuffield leads multidisciplinary applied research and training to rethink how healthcare is delivered in general practice and across communities, both in the UK and internationally. The MSc draws on Oxford’s world-class expertise in healthcare, business, and policy to prepare senior leaders to tackle complex global health challenges.
Together, these programmes reflect Oxford’s commitment to shaping the future of healthcare leadership through innovation, collaboration, and academic excellence.
Branding Sponsor
ASHRM
Established in 1980, the American Society for Health Care Risk Management (ASHRM) is a professional membership group of the American Hospital Association (AHA) with nearly 6,000 members representing risk management, patient safety, insurance, law, finance, and other related professions. ASHRM promotes effective and innovative risk management strategies and professional leadership through education, recognition, advocacy, publications, networking, and interactions with leading health care organizations and government agencies. ASHRM initiatives focus on developing and implementing safe and effective patient care practices, the preservation of financial resources, and the maintenance of safe working environments.
Exhibitors
MARS Audit Software
Data | Action | Improvement
MARS is an all-in-one quality management system built to simplify and strengthen your compliance, risk, and continuous improvement processes. Powered by AI-driven audit capabilities, MARS streamlines data collection, analysis, and reporting—delivering real-time insights and actions directly to your team.
With secure, web-based access from any device, MARS empowers organisations to:
• Embed procedures in the Document Register and unlock tailored AI insights
• Build custom data collection tools with skip logic, workflows, and guided prompts
• Track compliance actions and risks with automated reminders and deadlines
• Schedule recurring tasks and monitor progress using Smart Scheduling
• Connect quality processes through Quality Circles and reinforce the PDCA cycle
In short, MARS simplifies and automates your quality improvement processes, making them repeatable, accountable, and impactful!
Nobox
Nobox is a company founded in 2016 by physicians that currently organizes gamified experiences in healthcare and develops clinical innovation through consulting based on value-based healthcare and service design methodologies. The most well-known gamified product developed by the company is The Room, a learning experience based on game-based learning methodologies and escape room mechanics created for more than 30 diseases (and adaptable to any disease), through which more than one thousand physicians have been trained. Through its consultancy unit, Nobox has successfully developed multidisciplinary teams structured within Integrated Practice Unit models, such as those focused on severe asthma and several oncologic fields. In addition, the company has improved patient journeys and accelerated care processes by integrating patients’ unmet needs within specific clinical contexts and team capabilities, ultimately improving patient outcomes and experiences.
Zenya
Zenya empowers healthcare organisations worldwide to deliver exceptional, human-centred care through innovative software solutions. With over 25 years of experience, we facilitate smarter working and better collaboration, ensuring quality and safety standards compliance. Our technology supports various healthcare sectors, including hospitals, nursing homes, primary care, and laboratories.
Startup Exhibitor
Crisis Linguistics
Crisis Linguistics is a health-technology company specialising in evidence-based communication training for emotionally demanding situations across healthcare. Founded by a paediatrician and PhD in medical communication, we develop AI-driven simulation tools allowing professionals to safely practice high-stakes conversations involving fear, anger, and uncertainty. Expanding beyond emergency services (113), our methodology now empowers hospital staff, general practitioners, secretaries, and nursing home personnel. Designed for all healthcare professions, our focus is measurable skill development, patient safety, and workforce resilience. We help teams communicate clearly, calmly, and compassionately when it matters most, securing high-quality care in everyday clinical practice.
Organisers
BMJ Group
BMJ Group is a global healthcare knowledge provider with a vision for a healthier world. We promote better scientific evidence and help create better clinical decisions and health systems through three lines of business:
1. Publishing and Events: Influencing health policy and practice and connecting communities through impactful research publications, data tools and event delivery.
2. Careers and Learning: Empowering healthcare professionals worldwide throughout all career stages with exam preparation, interactive learning modules, and job boards.
3. Digital health: Enhancing medical expertise and clinical decision-making by innovating evolving evidence based content and platforms based on the latest research and guidance.
Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) is a leading, globally recognized not-for-profit health care improvement organization that has been applying evidence-based quality improvement methods to meet current and future health care challenges for more than 30 years. IHI provides millions of people in health care with methods, tools, and resources to make care better, safer, and more equitable; convenes experts to enable knowledge sharing and peer-learning; and advises health systems and hospitals of all sizes in improving their systems and outcomes at scale. IHI’s mission is to innovate and lead transformational improvement in health and health care worldwide.