Qlive 2026 Agenda

Tuesday, September 15

Day 1 · 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM

All sessions will take place on the 5th floor Vesper Ballroom and Foyer at The Thompson

⏰ Time	▶️ Session	🎤 Speaker	Session Description
7:00 - 8:30 AM	🍽️ Breakfast \| Vesper Foyer (5th Floor)
8:30 – 9:00 AM	All Systems Go: A New Era for Automated Care Operations	Mudit Garg, CEO and Co-Founder, Qventus	Mudit Garg, CEO of Qventus, opens QLive 2026 by unveiling what's next for automated care operations, a core piece of every modern health system's tech stack. He'll share Qventus' vision for the year ahead and look back at the twelve months since launching the AI Solution Factory at QLive 2025, including the latest ASF product and the results health systems are already seeing.
9:00 – 10:15 AM	What's Next: Co-Developing the Future of Care Operations	Jeff Mounzer, PhD, Chief Product Officer, Qventus	Get an exclusive look at what's next for Qventus. Chief Product Officer Jeff Mounzer will walk through the product roadmap, including new advancements in inpatient and perioperative care, and share how Qventus is co-developing new solutions with health systems to optimize operations and drive sustainable ROI. The session includes live demonstrations of our latest innovations, giving you a first-hand look at what's coming.
10:15 – 10:45 AM	Mission Control: The 24-Hour Hackathon	Jeff Mounzer, PhD, Chief Product Officer, Qventus	You define the mission. We deliver the solution. In this unique, interactive session, you'll vote on the most pressing challenges facing your health system. Our dedicated engineers will then immediately tackle the top problems in a live, 24-hour hackathon. At the conference's close, they will reveal the working prototypes and potential solutions, ready to put to work.
10:45 – 11:00 AM	☕ Break
11:00 – 11:40 AM	Beyond the Pilot: Scaling AI and Compounding ROI Across the Enterprise	Dominica Tallarico, EVP and COO, Allina Health Kim Post, COO, HonorHealth Moderator: Mudit Garg, CEO, Qventus	This panel of executives will share how they've built an AI-powered enterprise that spans multiple care settings, where ROI doesn't just add up, it compounds. They'll discuss the barriers to system-wide change, the leadership required to drive it, and the lessons learned from their journeys with Qventus as a true transformation partner, not just a point solution. The result: sustainable, transformative growth across the entire system.
11:40 AM – 12:05 PM	Automating Care Operations Across the Enterprise: OhioHealth's Journey	Jason Cohen, MD, CMO, Inpatient, Qventus Scott Estep, RN, System VP, Nursing Operations & Capacity Management, OhioHealth	Scott Estep, System VP, Nursing Operations & Capacity Management at OhioHealth, shares how the health system's partnership with Qventus grew from a single solution into an enterprise-wide transformation. What started with Qventus' Inpatient Capacity solution, backed by hands-on support from the Qventus team, proved its value and laid the groundwork for what came next. Estep will walk through the results of OhioHealth's Malnutrition solution rollout and how that success paved the way for expansion into Surgical Growth and Perioperative Care Coordination, ultimately replacing point solution vendors.
12:05 – 12:45 PM	The Next Diagnosis: Scaling Care Gap & Coding Automation	Clarissa Cox, VP System Care Management and Ambulatory Nursing Practice, Allina Health Scott Estep, RN, System VP, Nursing Operations & Capacity Management, OhioHealth Samuel Pierre, MD, Associate Chief Medical Officer Operations, Thedacare Moderators: Katie Saindon and Jason Cohen, MD	Leaders from Allina Health, OhioHealth, and ThedaCare share how they rolled out the Care Gap and Coding Orchestration Suite, starting with Malnutrition Care Automation. Learn how the suite proactively surfaces missed diagnoses, orchestrates timely interventions, and completes documentation in real time, instead of flagging gaps after the fact. Hear how each team built the case to finance, what it took to get buy-in, and what changed on the ground to make it stick.
12:45 – 1:45 PM	🍽️ Lunch \| 📍 Vesper Foyer
1:45 – 2:15 PM	What We've Built with AI Solution Factory: Allina Health's Journey	Jeff Mounzer, PhD, Chief Product Officer, Qventus Brita Hansen, MD, Medical Director, Analytics & Digital Innovation, Allina Health	Jeff Mounzer, Chief Product Officer at Qventus, sits down with Brita Hansen, VP Medical Informatics and AI at Allina Health, the inaugural client of the AI Solution Factory. Together they'll go behind the scenes on what co-development actually looks like in practice, from Allina's hackathon and use case selection process to the launch of Specialty Referrals, the first solution to come out of that work. Brita will share the results Allina has seen so far, how the health system measures value (including whether returns from Specialty Referrals are funding future innovation), and what's next for the partnership.
2:15 – 2:55 PM	Anatomy of a Win: Building the Business Case for AI	Sue Torti, VP Perioperative Services, BayCare Naneen Chace-Ortiz, Senior Director Innovation Initiatives, MaineHealth Tammy Jones, CNO, UAMS Moderator: Jamie Burgess, SVP Marketing, Qventus	This panel pulls back the curtain on what it actually takes to get AI solutions approved and funded inside a health system. Hear from leaders who built the business case for Qventus from the ground up. Panelists will share the details, the data, the stakeholders, the objections, and the internal selling process so you walk away knowing exactly what it takes to get your first Qventus solution or expand the ones you already have.
2:55 – 3:10 PM	☕ Break
3:10 – 5:00 PM	Breakout Tracks: Perioperative & Inpatient
PERIOPERATIVE TRACK
3:10-3:50 PM	Beyond the OR: Engineering Strategic and Sustainable Surgical Growth	Bill Evans, SVP, Chief Medical Group Operations Officer, Allina Health Ashlee Kendall, Associate Administrator, USC Misti Mattox, VP Surgical Services, Erlanger Moderator: David Atashroo, MD, Chief Clinical AI Officer, Qventus	Leaders from Allina Health, Erlanger, and USC Keck share their strategy for building and scaling sustainable surgical growth, including Piedmont's demand modeling that right-sized anesthesia coverage, Keck's system-wide source of truth for every OR metric, and Allina's 36% robotic volume growth without buying new equipment. This session will trace the full arc from foundation building to sustainable ROI.
3:50-4:30 PM	PCC Fireside Chat	Andrew Fisher, MD, Co-medical director PCC, Qventus Tammy Jones, CNO, UAMS
4:30-5:00 PM	Table Talks
INPATIENT TRACK SESSIONS
3:10-3:50 PM	Beyond National Benchmarks: How Patient-Specific Planning Unlocks IP Capacity	Susan Hoffmeister, CNO, HonorHealth Sherisa Butcher, Senior Advisor, Patient Flow, OhioHealth Kim Carli, Chief of Performance & Transformation, USC Moderator: Jason Cohen, MD, CMO, Inpatient, Qventus	Predictive accuracy is table stakes—the health systems seeing lasting impact are the ones turning prediction into orchestrated action across care teams, every day, at scale. OhioHealth's own analysis of EDD data found Qventus 30-40% more accurate than Epic, USC turned that sharper signal into action by cutting excess days and freeing capacity to grow volume, and HonorHealth pushed orchestration further with async inpatient rounds that aligned care teams without adding meetings, saving more than $75M in excess days. This session shows how orchestrating action across the care team, not just surfacing insight, is what turns data into sustained, compounding results.
3:50-4:30 PM	Built to Scale: Inside the Care Gap and Coding Automation Suite	Clarissa Cox, VP System Care Management and Ambulatory Nursing Practice, Allina Health Nina Shah, MD, System Chief Medical Officer and Clinical Strategy Officer, HonorHealth Cato Coleman, Director Clinical Nutrition, OhioHealth Moderator: Katie Saindon, Qventus	As hospitals prepare for mandatory Malnutrition Care Score reporting beginning in 2028 under inpatient IQR and eCQM, complete and accurate physician documentation is becoming essential—not just for quality reporting, but for reimbursement. Clients will share how they've driven wide adoption of malnutrition automation and the results it's delivered, and the panel will look ahead to what's next on the roadmap as the Care Gap and Coding Orchestration Suite continues to evolve.
4:30-5:00 PM	Table Talks
6:00 – 6:30 PM	🍸 Cocktail Reception \| 📍 Flora
6:30 – 8:30 PM	🍽️ Dinner \| 📍 Flora

Wednesday, September 16

Day 2 · 8:30 AM – 12:00 PM

All sessions will take place on the 5th floor Vesper Ballroom and Foyer at The Thompson

⏰ Time	▶️ Session	🎤 Speaker	Session Description
7:00-8:30	🍽️ Breakfast
8:30 – 9:15 AM	The CIO's AI Playbook: From Pilots to Payoff	Dave Ingham, Chief Digital & Information Officer, Allina Health Joseph Sanford, MD, Chief Clinical Informatics Officer, UAMS Dwight Raum, CDIO, Rochester Regional Health Moderator: Jim Whitfill, MD, EVP, Strategy, Transformation, and Digital, HonorHealth	This panel of leading CIOs will get candid about what it actually takes to move AI from pilot to production—and from production to measurable ROI. They'll share how they're rethinking vendor strategy, moving away from managing a sprawl of point solutions toward fewer, deeper platform partnerships, and why automated care operations has become a mission-critical part of the tech stack rather than a nice-to-have. Expect an honest conversation about what's working, what isn't, and how CIOs are making the call on when to wait for the EHR roadmap versus when to move now.
9:15 – 9:45 AM	Sniffing Out the BS in Healthcare Tech	David Bueno, Partner, Atlanta, McKinsey & Company Steve Kraus, Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners	Every health system leader in this room has sat through the same pitch: transformative AI, seamless integration, ROI in 90 days. Our guest has evaluated thousands of healthcare tech companies from the other side of the table — the ones that get funded, the ones that quietly become infrastructure, and the ones that burn implementation budgets and disappear. In this conversation with Jamie, they'll share what red flags investors spot before health systems do, how they think about separating real from hype, and what questions you should be asking vendors that most leaders aren't.
9:45 – 10:00 AM	☕ Break
10:00 – 10:40 AM	How Surgical Growth Is Funding Allina Health and IUH's Missions	Bill Evans, SVP, Chief Medical Group Operations Officer, Allina Health Walt Virkus, MD, Vice Chair Clinical Affairs, IUH Moderator: Dr. David Atashroo, MD, Chief Clinical + AI Officer, Qventus	Surgery is the biggest margin driver most health systems have, yet volume is routinely lost to unused block time, splitter surgeons, and schedulers buried in manual work. Hear how leaders at Allina Health and IUH are securing their margins with the Surgical Growth solution — maximizing OR utilization, growing robotics programs, and attracting independent surgeons to keep more of the right cases in-house. The panel gets into what it actually took to move the needle: the operational changes, the internal buy-in, and the results now funding their broader missions.
10:40 – 11:55 AM	Houston, We Have a Solution: Hackathon Demos	The mission is complete. Join us as our team of dedicated engineers unveils the innovative AI prototypes they’ve built over the last 24 hours. These solutions were developed directly in response to the most critical problems you, our clients, defined in the opening session. Our team will reveal their solutions to your most pressing challenges, showcasing the power of rapid innovation and true partnership.
11:55 AM – 12:00 PM	🚀 Wrap-up and departures

Time	Activity	Location
2:00 – 6:00 PM	🪪 Check-In and Registration	📍 QLive Registration Desk - 7th Floor of Thompson Hotel
6:00 – 9:00 PM	🍸 Welcome Reception	📍 Chardon Restaurant - 1st Floor of Thompson Hotel

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