2027 Healthcare AI Conference: THMA Chief AI Officer Forum
June 14-16, 2027
Oceanside, CA
Engage Directly with Health System Chief AI Officers
Chief AI officers are making high-stakes bets under fast-moving conditions — where to invest, where to hold back, and how to prove return, all while governing new risk and keeping pace with a technology that resets around them. The same pace is creating new openings — use cases, operating models, and partnerships that reward whoever moves on them wisely first. Too often, these decisions are made without a community built for the leaders who carry this exact mandate.
The Health Management Academy's Chief AI Officer Forum was built to change that. This intimate, retreat-style event convenes the senior-most AI executives at Leading Health Systems, alongside leaders from the most innovative healthcare companies, for confidential dialogue. Participants shape how health systems put AI to work — scaling adoption, realizing return, governing responsibly, and transforming the workforce — both informing enterprise strategy and executing it across the organization.
Upcoming Event Dates and Locations
The Chief AI Officer Forum is hosted twice a year in thoughtfully selected locations across the country. Each event is timed to align with evolving industry priorities, providing a fresh opportunity to reconnect with peers, gain new insights, and advance your healthcare strategy.
Health System Forum Members
What Sets the Chief AI Officer Forum Apart
Member-Driven Content: Content is shaped by members to reflect what matters most to Chief AI Officers — from orchestrating AI across the enterprise and turning it into scaled ROI to governing AI that acts on its own, getting the operating model right, and leading the workforce through AI.
The Right People, in the Right Room: Attendees include Chief AI Officers from organizations like AdventHealth, Sutter Health, and Northwestern Medicine, alongside select leaders from the most innovative healthcare companies. All participants are carefully vetted and hand-selected for their ability to contribute meaningfully.
Purposeful Industry Participation: Industry partners are thoughtfully curated to support high-value dialogue, creating an environment focused on insight generation rather than transactional networking.
Provider-Validated Intelligence: Gain unfiltered perspective on how Chief AI Officers make decisions and what drives sustainable adoption of solutions across health systems.
Relationships Built on Trust: Reception-style dinners and informal gatherings foster long-term, credible relationships that extend collaboration beyond the event itself.
The THMA Difference Lies in Access, Intentional Design, and a Strict Focus on Community
The Chief AI Officer Forum creates a purpose-built space for executive-level engagement. Every session, social setting, and touchpoint is curated to foster meaningful, candid dialogue between fellow Chief AI Officers and select industry innovators, most commonly CEOs, Chief Growth Officers, and strategic product leaders.
Industry Forum Members
Prospective Chief AI Officer Forum Topics
Orchestrating enterprise AI: Leading across organizational boundaries: How to drive enterprise-wide AI as the connective tissue across clinical, operational, data, IT, and compliance leaders—aligning competing priorities, earning influence without direct authority, and turning disconnected efforts into coordinated momentum system-wide.
Managing AI as a portfolio for scaled ROI: How to generate return by managing AI as a governed portfolio rather than one deployment at a time—balancing bets across the enterprise, doubling down on what pays, retiring what doesn't, and measuring value even where the ROI is hardest to pin down.
Governing AI that acts on its own: How to evolve governance from committee sign-off to operating capacity—setting enterprise risk, safety, and security posture across the model lifecycle as agentic tools take on real work and cyber threats escalate, defining where human judgment stays non-negotiable, and keeping pace with shifting regulation.
Democratize or control? Designing the enterprise AI operating model: How to balance democratizing AI against the controls a safe enterprise requires—designing the operating model and shaping where this fast-evolving role is headed amid unvetted vendor AI rollouts, autonomous tools, and rising security stakes over who can build and deploy
Buy, partner, or do it yourself: the new calculus: How to weigh standardizing on your core platform's AI tools against best-of-breed alternatives, and how AI-assisted coding is changing the math by letting teams build capable solutions faster and cheaper, with tradeoffs in support, security, and durability.
From AI backlash to buy-in: winning the workforce: How to confront and manage AI backlash while building the literacy, trust, and culture that let adoption take hold—meeting legitimate fears about clinical judgment and job security head-on, and turning frontline skepticism into frontline invention.
Placing bets in a field that reinvents itself every quarter: What bold bets peers are actually making in a field that keeps resetting—which frontier and agentic technologies they're wagering on, where those bets are paying off or disappointing so far, and what that real-world experience says about positioning for what's coming.
The Chief AI Officer Forum Experience
The Health Management Academy's Spring 2027 Chief AI Officer Forum is a 2.5-day immersive experience convening Chief AI Officers from top health systems and innovative companies for member-led sessions on today's real-time challenges and tomorrow's opportunities.
Extending Value Beyond the Chief AI Officer Conference
Members gain access to a year-round ecosystem of insights and engagement through THMA’s Executive Insights Hub. This digital platform discusses trends and challenges unique to strategic planning, as well as trending CXO priorities, from large health systems across the country. Our other year-round resources include:
Quarterly Trend Reports: Digestible insights and follow-ups from live briefings and proprietary research.
Executive Edge: A Sunday evening digest with quick-read summaries of industry-impacting events.
Post-Forum Debriefs: Key takeaways and insights from our Forums - useful even for teammates who did not attend.
Healthcare Bootcamp: A library of short videos and modules to onboard new team members or sharpen your team’s healthcare knowledge.
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About The Health Management Academy
Since 1998, The Health Management Academy has cultivated the premier membership-based community of healthcare’s most influential CXOs from top U.S. health systems, as well as decision makers from innovative industry companies.
We cultivate exceptional peer groups, providing original market insights, world-class leadership development programs, and novel member alliances to more than 2,000 health system senior executives and 200 industry organizations.
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