Sponsor Symposia

Monday, June 15, 2:45 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. – Convention Hall Level – Breakout Room 1

The Pan Canadian Trust Framework is a foundational, nation-building model for secure, interoperable, person-centric health data exchange across Canada. It serves regional, provincial/territorial, and national contexts, supporting key use cases such as patient access, clinical care, research, Indigenous data governance, and health system monitoring.

By providing reusable legal, technical, and governance foundations, including standardized agreements and “connect once, use many” capabilities, it reduces integration overhead, accelerates onboarding, and improves outcomes at scale.

The Trust Framework advances innovation by enabling consistent, secure exchange of longitudinal patient information, cross border immunization data, and multi jurisdictional research datasets without repeated negotiations, thereby unlocking system efficiency, research acceleration, and high value analytics opportunities. Its emphasis on adaptable, scalable components, including federated interoperability and security by design, make it a modern digital foundation.

Developed with federal, provincial, territorial, Indigenous, and clinical partners, and aligned with programs such as CIHI and Health Canada, it reflects principles of person centricity, Indigenous data sovereignty, and interoperability. Collaboration is embedded with the Framework’s co-development, high value use case discovery, agile prioritization, and ongoing governance processes, enabling a trusted, scalable, and shared foundation for improving health outcomes for all Canadians.

• Speaker:
  • Mike Morrison, Director, Technology & Transformation, Deloitte Canada

Monday, June 15, 2:45 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. – Convention Hall Level – Breakout Room 2

Healthcare systems across Canada are undergoing significant transformation as regionalization efforts reshape how care is delivered and how technology is deployed. For imaging informatics leaders, this shift is driving a renewed focus on doing more with less—leveraging cloud infrastructure, data platforms, and artificial intelligence to improve access, efficiency, and clinical insight at scale.

This session explores how cloud and AI are enabling a new model for imaging ecosystems: one that supports regional collaboration, reduces infrastructure burden, and accelerates innovation while maintaining high standards for performance, security, and patient care.

Panelists will discuss emerging approaches to cloud- based imaging platforms, the growing role of AI in clinical workflows, and how organizations are balancing innovation with the practical realities of system integration, governance, and operational constraints.

Featuring perspectives from Philips, AWS, and healthcare CIO leaders including Dave Brewin (Royal Victoria Hospital) and Brandon Kwolek (Halton Healthcare), this conversation will highlight lessons from the Canadian landscape and explore how collaboration between providers and technology partners can help shape the future of imaging informatics.

• Speakers:
  • Brendan Kwolek, Chief Information & Digital Officer, Halton Healthcare
  • Dave Brewin, Vice President, Digital Health & Regional Chief Information Officer, Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre
  • Elizabeth Keller, National Healthcare Business Development Lead, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Canada
  • Nathan Bluvol, Head of Healthcare Informatics, Philips Canada

Monday, June 15, 2:45 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. – Convention Hall Level – Breakout Room 3

Health systems across Australia, the UK and Canada face a shared challenge: hospital capacity constrained not by physical beds, but by the flow of patients through them. Emergency department overcrowding, ambulance oNload delays and extended lengths of stay are symptoms of systemic flow ineNiciencies that digital solutions can address.

This session presents findings from an independent study conducted at Alfred Health, one of Australia’s leading academic health services. The research, undertaken by Monash University and the Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre, evaluated the implementation of electronic patient journey boards integrated with the hospital’s EMR and quantified their impact on patient flow, discharge planning and operational efficiency.

The presentation contextualises these findings within the broader international evidence base on patient flow, drawing parallels to the capacity challenges facing Ontario hospitals. A panel discussion will then explore how these learnings translate to the Canadian context, considering factors such as EMR maturity, workforce constraints and the unique geography of regional healthcare delivery.

Attendees will leave with practical insights on how digital patient flow solutions can release capacity, improve discharge planning and reduce adverse outcomes associated with patient boarding—without requiring wholesale system replacement.

• Speakers:
  • Nick White, Chief Marketing Officer, Alcidion
  • Ron Dunn, Managing Partner & Founder, RLDunn & Associates Consulting Inc.

Monday, June 15, 2:45 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. – Convention Hall Level – Breakout Room 4

Please join us as we showcase MEDITECH’s embedded AI technology within the Intelligent Expanse EHR Platform, designed to boost efficiencies for patients, providers, and hospital operations.

For providers, AI use cases address real clinical challenges, ease cognitive load and reduce administrative burden. Ambient scribe technology, along with Expanse Navigator, intelligently organizes patient conditions and history. Additionally, the Ask Expanse agent enables patients’ records to be queried through conversational interactions. Efficiencies are also gained through generative AI features like the Hospital Course Summary and Nurse Handoff which auto-draft vital documentation during care transitions, simplifying discharge and transfer processes.

Organizations using Appointment No-Show machine learning model can identify patients for outreach, improving care continuity leading to proactive engagement and greater satisfaction. The MyHealth Assistant chatbot simplifies patient portal navigation and self-service appointment scheduling, fostering greater patient empowerment. By embedding these intelligent capabilities directly into daily workflows, MEDITECH is transforming largely untapped EHR data into consumable, actionable knowledge — ensuring safer, more intuitive care while delivering innovation impacting clinician confidence and patient trust.

• Speakers :
  • Bob Molloy, Director. MEDITECH
  • Joe Cordone, Product Manager, MEDITECH

Monday, June 15, 2:45 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. – Convention Hall Level – Breakout Room 5

Canada’s health systems are under unprecedented pressure. In this special fireside conversation, Elliot Desilets from Petal Health sits down with sector leaders to examine how innovation, partnerships, and frontline insights are helping expand access to care amid rising demand and constrained resources.

• Speakers:
  • Elliot Desilets, Director, Government Relations, Petal Health

Monday, June 15, 2:45 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. – Convention Hall Level – Breakout Room 6

Across Canada, growing gaps in primary care access are increasingly driving system strain – contributing to emergency department congestion, fragmented care, inequity, and avoidable downstream demand.

This panel discussion brings together health system leaders, clinical voices, and independent perspectives to explore how jurisdictions are rethinking the “front door” of care in the face of workforce constraints and rising demand. Panelists will examine how primary care access, continuity, and team-based approaches intersect with broader system sustainability goals, including health equity and rural access.

The discussion will surface lessons from different approaches being tested across the system, including virtual and hybrid models, community-based innovation, and policy-level reforms. Rather than focusing on a single solution, the session will explore what decision makers are learning as they attempt to strengthen primary care while operating within limited workforce supply and fiscal constraints.

Designed for CIOs, system planners, and policy leaders, this session emphasizes shared challenges, emerging practices, and strategic tradeoffs shaping the future of primary care and long-term system sustainability.

• Speakers:
  • Ashley Dinn, BNRN, BComm – Director of Community and Virtual Care Services, Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services
  • Dr. Jonathan Fitzsimon, Medical Lead | Assistant Professor, Renfrew County Virtual Triage and Assessment Centre | University of Ottawa, Department of Family Medicine
  • Tracy Parnell, Family Physician & Chair for Primary Care and Rural Medicine, Teladoc Health Canada
  • Joby McKenzie, General Manager, Canada, Teladoc Health Canada

Monday, June 15, 2:45 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. – Convention Hall Level – Breakout Room 7

The NS Health Authority delivers care to >1 million residents across 45 facilities with a workforce exceeding 23,000. In 2022, challenged by fragmented IT systems, siloed health data, and limited digital access, the CIO partnered with Kainos to adopt interoperability standards, connect medical records, laboratory systems, and scheduling tools and leverage cloud-based infrastructure to ensure scalability, reliability, and security.

Using agile development practices, patient and clinician co-design, and strong executive sponsorship, the initiative applied user-centred design principles and iterative testing and phased rollout. Within 18 months of project initiation:

• An app integrating health information, was successfully deployed across the province with more than 800K downloads
• Secure online access to laboratory results, immunization records, and selected clinical documents with records viewed more than 10.7 million times;
• Enhanced availability of virtual care, particularly benefiting rural and underserved populations;
• Preliminary evidence of reduced administrative workload for clinicians through streamlined digital workflows.
• Patient feedback indicates improved autonomy and confidence in navigating care, while clinician responses highlight more efficient communication and data access.

The NHSA experience demonstrates that large-scale digital health transformation can be achieved within a provincial health system when supported by aligned leadership, patient engagement, and agile technical delivery.

• Speakers:
  • Scott McKenna, Nova Scotia Health & IWK Health, Chief Information Officer

Tuesday, June 16, 12:45 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. – Convention Hall Level – Breakout Room 1

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Tuesday, June 16, 12:45 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. – Convention Hall Level – Breakout Room 2

Canada’s health system is sitting on one of its most powerful and underutilized assets: data. From workforce intelligence to population health trends, clinical outcomes to system performance, the potential to transform raw information into meaningful change has never been greater — or more urgent.

In this dynamic panel session, some of our most influential Canadian and UK Health Leaders will be discussing how data is reshaping the way we plan, deliver, and experience healthcare. Moderated by Amazon Web Services (AWS), this conversation goes beyond the technology to examine the real-world decisions, partnerships, and bold thinking required to move from insight to impact at a national scale.
Hear directly from both public and private sector leaders from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), Genomics England/NHS England, and Verosource as they share their organizations’ journeys on the data frontier — the breakthroughs, the barriers, and what it truly takes to turn data into better outcomes for Canadians. In this session, panelists will explore:

• How national health data is being leveraged to drive system-wide improvements in care quality, access, and equity in Canada and the UK
• How interoperability, data standards, and cross-sector collaboration are unlocking new possibilities in Canada and globally
• The ethical and governance considerations that must guide responsible data use in healthcare
• What the next frontier of health data innovation looks like — and how Canada can lead

Whether you are a clinician, digital change implementer, policy maker, or technology leader, this session offers a rare opportunity to hear candid perspectives from the executives shaping Canada’s data-driven health future.

• Speakers:
  • Peter Sinden, CEO, MagicHappensHere
  • Juliana Wu, Executive Director Health Data Advancement, CIHI (Canadian Institute for Health Information)
  • Elizabeth Keller, National Healthcare Business Development Lead, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Canada
  • Mark McAllister, CEO & Co-Founder, Verosource, a HEALWELL AI company

Tuesday, June 16, 12:45 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. – Convention Hall Level – Breakout Room 3

As healthcare complexity grows, so does the burden on both patients and providers. This session provides a practical overview of how AI and AI agents are solving this two-sided problem.

Attendees will learn how AI is being deployed to help patients easily navigate their health information, while simultaneously tackling the administrative burden that leads to clinician burnout.

Join us as we hear firsthand from a clinician within Google Health and experience a series of live demos by an architect focused on Canadian healthcare.

See these concepts in action through live demonstrations of tailored AI architectures.

• Speakers:
  • Dr. Jen McKay, Senior Clinical Specialist, Google for Health
  • Mohamed Nofal, Principal Architect, Google Cloud

Tuesday, June 16, 12:45 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. – Convention Hall Level – Breakout Room 4

Healthcare is at an inflection point and facing unprecedented pressures including staffing shortages, aging population, rising patient acuity, operational complexity, and fragmented digital tools that create more noise than clarity. Clinicians are asked to do more, faster, with fewer resources. Healthcare organizations often struggle with disparate systems and applications, limited access to data, interoperability gaps, clinical workflow misalignment, and scalability limitations.

A Smart Hospital Platform can help reduce chaos and make care flow by connecting people, devices, data, and workflows. It can stitch disconnected systems together to help Hospitals operate more intelligently and enable Clinicians to focus on what matters most: caring for Patients. A Platform approach can also enable partnering with a limited number of trusted, consultative companies on an enterprise-wide (EMS, ED, OR ICU, MedSurg, etc.) vision and roadmap.

It should include:

• A connected infrastructure where devices become part of the Hospital’s digital fabric • Intelligent communication so Clinicians stay connected
• Managed workflows streamlined across disparate systems
• Virtual care so remote teams can monitor, assess, and support Patients seamlessly
• Ambient intelligence that helps sense what’s happening and enable action before issues arise.

In this session, we’ll discuss how a Smart Hospital Platform could help address your strategic priorities.

• Speakers:
  • Rich Mayoras, Global Director of Connected Solutions, Stryker

Tuesday, June 16, 12:45 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. – Convention Hall Level – Breakout Room 5

Oracle’s foundation has always been rooted in the power of data. Now in Healthcare, an industry centered on people, that legacy is evolving to support more human-focused, intelligent care.

This education session explores how Oracle brings together futuristic user interface, cloud computing, agentic AI, and ease of operation to enable a secure, end-to-end ecosystem that supports clinicians, administrators, and patients.

Attendees will learn how these technologies work together to unlock insights, streamline operations, and empower organizations to deliver more connected, responsive, and person-centered outcomes.

• Speakers:
  • Andy Smith, President and CEO, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
  • Erin O’Halloran, Vice President and Canada Market Leader, Oracle Health Canada
  • Karen Oldfield, Interim President & CEO, Nova Scotia Health
  • Dr. David Pichora, President & Chief Executive Officer, Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC)

Tuesday, June 16, 12:45 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. – Convention Hall Level – Breakout Room 6

You can’t attach more patients to primary care if physicians are buried in paperwork. Yet attachment efforts consistently stall because clinics are left managing their own intake, waitlists, and routing — creating duplication, inconsistent prioritization, and more churn for teams already at capacity.

This symposium draws on frontline experience across one of Canada’s largest integrated primary care networks to share a practical model that is working today. Hear from technology builders, practicing clinicians, and health system leaders on how digital enablement can work at both levels simultaneously: reducing administrative burden at the clinic, while giving health systems the tools to scale what matters.

Panellists will show how the right technology stack, including WELLSTAR’s AI-powered clinical workflow tools and EMR-integrated solutions, and Ocean Care Networks’ “single front door” for patient attachment, can centralize intake, waitlist management, and routing across multiple sites, while eliminating faxing, duplicate data entry, and manual follow-up through eReferrals and eSubmissions.

The session will also explore business models that drive adoption at both the clinic and network level. The session features a short presentation, a panel discussion, and audience Q&A.

• Speakers:
  • Ryan MacNeil, Chief of Staff, WELLSTAR Technologies
  • Paul Casey, President, Clinic Systems Group, WELLSTAR, WELLSTAR Technologies
  • Jeff Kavanagh, CEO, OceanMD

Tuesday, June 16, 12:45 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. – Convention Hall Level – Breakout Room 7

Health systems across Canada are facing sustained workforce pressure, particularly in rural and underserviced communities. Burnout, recruitment challenges, and reliance on short-term coverage models are increasingly threatening continuity of care and clinician sustainability.

This moderated panel brings together national workforce perspectives and frontline clinical experience to examine how health systems are responding to workforce constraints – what is proving effective, where challenges persist, and what lessons are emerging through implementation.

Panelists will share practical insights into strategies that are helping reduce burnout, retain clinicians, and extend clinical careers while maintaining safe, reliable coverage. One lens in the discussion will be hybrid approaches that combine onsite teams with virtual clinical support, examined alongside broader workforce strategies.

Through real-world experience, the session will highlight how flexible participation models can strengthen local teams, including enabling onsite nurse upskilling and expanded clinical confidence. Designed for health authority leaders, clinicians, and policymakers, this session emphasizes system level learning grounded in evidence and lived experience, with relevance across jurisdictions and care settings.

• Speakers:
  • Azi Boloorchi, SVP Commercial & Strategic Partnerships, Teladoc Health Canada
  • Dr. Kathy McNally, Senior Advisor/Physician, Santis Health
  • Dr. Simerpreet Sandhanwalia FRCPC (EM), Emergency Physician, Teladoc Health Canada