Monday, September 14
2:00 – 6:00 PM · 🪪 Check-In and Registration
Location
QLive Registration Desk – 7th Floor of Thompson Hotel
6:00 – 9:00 PM · 🍸 Welcome Reception
Location
Chardon Restaurant – 1st Floor of Thompson Hotel
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
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
Speaker
Mudit Garg, CEO and Co-Founder, Qventus
Description
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
Speaker
Jeff Mounzer, PhD, Chief Product Officer, Qventus
Description
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
Speaker
Jeff Mounzer, PhD, Chief Product Officer, Qventus
Description
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
Speakers
Dominica Tallarico, EVP and COO, Allina Health
Kim Post, COO, HonorHealth
Moderator: Mudit Garg, CEO, Qventus
Description
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
Speakers
Jason Cohen, MD, CMO, Inpatient, Qventus
Scott Estep, RN, System VP, Nursing Operations & Capacity Management, OhioHealth
Description
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
Speakers
Emily Downing, System Clinical Officer, 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
Description
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
Speakers
Jeff Mounzer, PhD, Chief Product Officer, Qventus
Brita Hansen, MD, Medical Director, Analytics & Digital Innovation, Allina Health
Description
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
Speakers
Sue Torti, VP Perioperative Services, BayCare
Naneen Chace-Ortiz, Senior Director Innovation Initiatives, MaineHealth
Tammy Jones, CNO, UAMS
Moderator: Jamie Burgess, SVP Marketing, Qventus
Description
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
Speakers
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
Description
Leaders from Allina Health, Erlanger, and USC Keck share their strategy for building and scaling sustainable surgical growth, including Keck's system-wide source of truth for every OR metric, Allina's 36% robotic volume growth without buying new equipment, and Erlanger establishing itself as a destination of choice for independent clinics. This session will trace the full arc from foundation building to sustainable ROI.
3:50 – 4:30 PM
Right Patient, Right Time: Rethinking Pre-Op Care with AI
Speaker
Tammy Jones, CNO, UAMS
Moderator: Andrew Fisher, MD, Co-medical director PCC, Qventus
Description
For decades, pre-op teams have treated every patient the same way, regardless of complexity. UAMS Chief Nursing Officer Tammy Jones will unpack how AI-driven triage changed that equation, directing nursing time and energy to the patients who need it most while giving lower-risk patients a faster, more convenient path. Tammy shares how UAMS absorbed a year of surgical volume growth that exceeded projections without adding headcount, how AI-powered chart mining is catching real clinical risks that were previously slipping through, and — most importantly — how she built a culture where her team embraced one of the most ambitious workflow changes in their department's history.
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
Speakers
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
Description
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.
3:50 – 4:30 PM
Built to Scale: Inside the Care Gap and Coding Automation Suite
Speakers
Nina Shah, MD, System Chief Medical Officer and Clinical Strategy Officer, HonorHealth
Cato Coleman, Director Clinical Nutrition, OhioHealth
Moderator: Katie Saindon, Qventus
Description
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. 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
7:00 – 8:30 AM · 🍽️ Breakfast
8:30 – 9:15 AM
The CIO's AI Playbook: From Pilots to Payoff
Speakers
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
Description
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
Speakers
David Bueno, Partner, Atlanta, McKinsey & Company
Steve Kraus, Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners
Description
Every health system leader in this room has sat through the same pitch: transformative AI, seamless integration, ROI in 90 days. Our guests have evaluated thousands of healthcare tech companies from the other side of the table. 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
Speakers
Bill Evans, SVP, Chief Medical Group Operations Officer, Allina Health
Walt Virkus, MD, VP System OR Operations, IUH
Moderator: Dr. David Atashroo, MD, Chief Clinical + AI Officer, Qventus
Description
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.
10:40 – 11:55 AM
Houston, We Have a Solution: Hackathon Demos
Description
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
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