Why Industry Leaders Are Attending Both Executive Convening Forums & Healthcare Conferences in 2025

In 2025, healthcare conferences are no longer just calendar fillers or upcoming events. These conferences are now pivotal moments for healthcare industry leaders to connect, learn, and drive forward ideas. They offer opportunities for relationship-building and insight into the latest technology and product developments impacting the industry.   

Beyond the large healthcare conference, industry executives also want deeper networking and closed-door access to health system decision-makers. That’s why exclusive executive convenings, like those hosted by The Health Management Academy (THMA), are drawing the attention of the industry's most strategic minds to exclusive forums where in more intimate settings, they can have more meaningful dialogue and address the most pressing challenges to health systems.  

From Conferences to Strategic Executive Convenings  

Executive convening is beyond a traditional networking conference. All conversations are about navigating the future of healthcare.  

At events like THMA Executive Convening Forums, you’re not just introducing your company. You’re getting an exclusive inside perspective into health system leaders opinions and prioritization around topics such as:  

• Resilient workforce models  

• AI implementation and digital health transformation 

• Health equity and patient experience innovation  

• Margin stabilization and leadership development  

Issues like these are ones that can dominate the strategic plans of large health care organizations. By attending a THMA executive convening forum, industry members don’t just hear these topics; they experience them firsthand, alongside healthcare leaders, and helping to shape the response. These events foster peer-to-peer exchanges in structured formats, designed for listening and strategic alignment.   

Each meeting is calibrated for one-to-one connections between healthcare executives and senior industry leaders. Members walk away with key insights from the conversations they have with health system CXOs such as:   

• Details on current CXO pain points   

• Direct feedback to shape go-to-market strategies   

• Insight into upcoming investment areas   

• Strategic opportunities tailored to June planning cycles and beyond  

No Sales Pitch Decks, Just Trusted Conversations on Topics that Matter 

Health system C-suite members who attend THMA convening forums look forward to meeting partners who understand their environment and can help contribute to system-wide solutions.  

That’s the value of executive convening, where the most successful participants use these experiences to develop lasting partnerships, built on shared understanding rather than transactional goals.  

As one long-standing THMA industry member, Bruce Brandes, puts it:  

“I stopped trying to convert prospects into customers and started turning conversations into collaborations.”  

Watch the full conversation with Bruce here.

The THMA Model: A Healthcare Executive Conference That Accelerates Growth 

THMA Executive Convening Forums are designed with clear, results-driven criteria:   

• 1:1 ratio of health system to industry participants   

• Carefully curated topics prioritized by CXOs   

• Built-in formats for deep relationship-building and future collaboration   

For many leaders, this is where strategy is refined, investment is sparked, and system-wide initiatives begin. With budgets tightening, healthcare policy shifts accelerating, and the pace of innovation quickening, health system executives are focusing on a few well-curated experiences, where the right leadership, the right location, and the right topics are all in place.  

Executive convening isn’t new. But in 2025, it’s become non-negotiable for companies that want to grow through strategic engagement versus cold outreach. 

Why 2025 Is the Year to Double Down on Executive Convening 

With budgets tightening, healthcare policy shifts accelerating, and the pace of innovation quickening, the smartest healthcare leaders are doubling down on quality. 

Rather than attending dozens of upcoming events, they’re focusing on a few well-curated experiences, where the right healthcare leadership, the right location, and the right topics are all in place. 

Executive convening isn’t new. But in 2025, it’s become non-negotiable for companies that want to grow through strategic engagement, not cold outreach. 

Interested in an Upcoming THMA Executive Convening Forum? 

If you’re focused on forming meaningful relationships with healthcare leaders, refining your approach based on real CXO feedback, and positioning your company for long-term growth, THMA’s executive convenings deliver.  

We welcome you to explore upcoming dates, locations and agendas as our executive meetings run through June and capacity is limited. 

About The Health Management Academy  

Since 1998, The Health Management Academy (THMA) has cultivated the premier community of healthcare’s most influential leaders, uniting C-suite executives from the nation’s largest health systems with decision-makers from the industry’s most innovative companies.   

For industry leaders, this is more than a membership—it’s an invitation to healthcare’s inner circle.    

Apply Today for consideration to be part of the executive healthcare conversation that’s shaping 2025.