Day 1 Session Learning Objectives:

May 6, 8:30 AM - Keynote: Beyond the Illusion - Meeting Employer Health Mandates with Trust and Impact

• Learn about current public trust in and sentiment towards healthcare and implications for employee healthcare benefit utilization.
• Explore expectations of employers and other healthcare ecosystem stakeholders in building trust in healthcare.
• Build a greater mastery of the employer’s role in improving healthcare outcomes.

May 6, 9:10 AM - Re-engaging in Trust: Finding the Missing Ingredient to Fix Healthcare

• Explore the challenges of access, cost and quality of healthcare and what can be done beyond altered payment and organizational models.
• Examine the state of public trust in healthcare.
• Review what various stakeholders (including employers) can do to improve trust across the system.

May 6, 9:40 AM - Trust & Transparency in Health Care Benefits: Legislative and Regulatory Update: Is $5Trillion Enough?

• Examine what can be done about improving transparency and advancing site-neutral payment reform in the bipartisan "Lower Costs, More Transparency Act".
• Explore cracking down on anti-competitive contracting via the "Healthy Competition for Better Care Act".
• Discuss allowing more high-value care from high-value providers to be offered pre-deductible in Health Savings Account-eligible plans.

May 6, 11:00 AM - Breakout Session: Why Women’s and Reproductive Health Require Curated Care

• Understand the historical and current gaps in women’s healthcare, including the implications for employers and individuals.
• Explore key strategies for implementing high-quality, specialized care.
• Identify essential components of curated, equitable fertility and family building care and women’s health programs.

May 6, 11:00 AM - Breakout Session: A Vision for Success: Clinical Insights and Financial Strategies in Cell and Gene Therapy

• Review the patient/caregiver journey including how cell and gene therapies (CGTs) are manufactured and delivered to patients.
• Learn about current payment models available for CGTs as well as innovative (pilot) models.
• Explore the employer experience around coverage of CGTs including the decision-making process, stakeholder involvement, lessons learned and go forward strategies.

May 6, 11:00 AM - Breakout Session: The Shocking Truth About Employee Benefits Communications They Don’t Want You to Know!

• Review why it’s more difficult – and more important – than ever before to provide your employees with valid health and well-being information.
• Explore out-of-the-box techniques for engaging employees.
• Understand the importance of grabbing employees’ attention with “disruptive” or unexpected images and headlines.

May 6, 1:00 PM - Employer Keynote: The Magic of Data

• Review the basics the U.S. health care system.
• Explore the fundamental fiduciary obligations of an employer-sponsored self-funded health care plan.
• Understand how employers can leverage their data to identify trends, payment integrity issues and potential cost savings to guide their health care strategy and plan design decisions.

May 6, 2:00 PM - Pulling Back the Curtain: Employer Case Studies: Enhancing Wellbeing: Strategies for a Top-Tier Program. Getting to the Truth: Trusting Digital Health to Solve your People’s Pain

• Understand how to amplify the focus on wellbeing resources.
• Explore how and why is wellbeing a journey.
• Learn ways to enhance your wellbeing program through support, engagement, and expansion.

May 6, 3:15 PM - Straight Talk: Candid Stories on Real Issues Impacting Employers: Meeting Employees Where They Are: A Layered & Transparent Approach to Mental Health, Unlocking Health Care Savings Through Transparency & Consumerism, Effective High Value Cancer Care Strategies

• Gain a better understanding of how a layered, transparent approach can reduce stigma, remove barriers, drive genuine engagement, and produce meaningful mental health outcomes.
• Review key strategies to demand transparency from benefits partners including the saving potential that can be realized.
• Examine some easy solutions available in the marketplace to reduce cancer spend and improve outcomes.

May 6, 4:05 PM - Keynote: Candid Truth About the Future of Patient Centered Healthcare

• Understand key reasons for why change is needed in our current healthcare system.
• Recognize the components of the Personalized Ecosystem Model.
• Describe key attributes of digitally enabled care.

Day 2 Session Learning Objectives:

May 7, 8:45 AM - Keynote: The Science and Practice of Cultivating a Positive Organizational Culture

• Explore the science behind cultivating a positive organizational culture.
• Discover how positive emotions contribute to employee well-being, collaboration, and overall organizational success.
• Assess how both positive and negative emotions influence employee motivation and workplace empathy.

May 7, 9:40 AM - Pulling Back the Curtain: Employer Case Studies: Equity in Global Benefits: Digital Health is Key to Consistent Care Access, Providing Fiduciary Responsibility Through Healthcare Benefits Data

• Understand the high cost of musculoskeletal (MSK) care in the workplace and how traditional MSK care is failing.
• Examine how personalized, digital support can support employees and reduce health costs.
• Explore looking past ROI to find deeper value and align program outcomes to organizational goals.
• Review how to evaluate the full cost of programs (what your vendor won’t tell you).

May 7, 11:00 AM - Straight Talk: Candid Stories on Real Issues Impacting Employers: Lead With a Vision: Building an Employee-Centered Approach to Treating Obesity and Diabetes, The Behavior Change Blueprint: Mapping a Path to Sustainable Weight Loss

• Understand how expert coaching with science-backed programs can help treat obesity and diabetes.
• Learn how to create a full spectrum program to help employees take better care of their mind and body.
• Discover a comprehensive solution to support caregivers in the workplace delivering better outcomes for employees and employers.

May 7, 12:00 PM - Breakout Session: The Magic of AI: Transforming Benefits Communication

• To learn effective strategies for communicating employee benefits and increasing engagement.
• To understand practical use cases for AI in employee healthcare benefits.
• To examine the role benefits leaders play in educating employees on the US healthcare system.

May 7, 12:00 PM - Breakout Session: From the Front Lines: Employer and Clinician Perspectives on Obesity Management

• Understand how obesity is often inaccurately characterized as a lifestyle failure rather than a chronic disease.
• Learn how weight stigma can have significant effects for those living with obesity.
• Uncover why treating underlying obesity is imperative to addressing mental health and successfully managing chronic conditions.
• Identify how employers can make educated decisions about why and how to cover GLP-1 weight loss medications.

May 7, 12:00 PM - Breakout Session: A PBM Collaborative Experience…Making Life Easier for You and Your Members

• Explore why finding goal alignment with your PBM is so important.
• Review what cost factors drive true PBM savings.
• Examine types of PBM programs help improve member experience.
• Understand how to go from complaints to compliments for your benefits department.

May 7 1:30 PM - Employer Keynote: The Illusive Nature of Trust in the Workplace

• Review “organizational trust” for the context of the conversation.
• Identify the value of establishing “trust” in your workforce.
• Understand ways to foster or engender trust in today’s age.
• Explore the risk of failure to establish trust or losing the trust of your employee population.

May 7, 2:20 PM - Looking to the Future with Truth Tellers & Changemakers

• Learn from employers on the front lines about the complicated relationships that exist between employers and their chosen benefits partners.
• Identify key strategies employers can use to uphold their fiduciary responsibility to provide health benefits that are in the sole interest of their employees and beneficiaries.
• Understand how employers can exercise their influence and authority to drive change by holding their partners accountable and insisting on trust, integrity and price transparency.