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Four insights and highlights from the 2026 Strategy Catalyst Summit

Graphic promoting insights and highlights from the 2026 Strategy Catalyst Summit, featuring a city skyline image and the topics AI hackathon, service line distribution, and policy and market stress tests.

We recently held our third annual in-person Strategy Catalyst Summit in Arlington, Va., which brought together more than 75 strategy leaders representing 49 health systems for two days of peer learning and networking. Even with a wide range of system types in attendance —large and small, rural, urban, academic—participants found common ground and compared notes on their shared challenges as mission-oriented nonprofits.

For this week’s Key Market Dive, we’ll recap some of our favorite insights and memorable moments from the Summit. In most cases, we’ll anonymize our anecdotes to ensure that members feel confident sharing their candid thoughts at these gatherings.

If your organization is a member, you already have access.