Overview
Change in healthcare is occurring at an accelerated pace, emerging from new directions, and driving broader impact across the industry. The imperative is clear: evolve faster and more deliberately, through new playbooks, capabilities, and ways of working. How organizations redefine, create, and deliver value will determine how effectively they adapt to the world unfolding around them.
At the Oliver Wyman Health Innovation Summit 2026, we will explore the critical bets leaders are placing, to fundamentally change the unit economics of care, refine how we leverage AI at scale, meet the needs of a diverse and demanding consumer landscape, and secure long-term system sustainability. In an industry facing shared pressures, we will create forums for leaders to discuss and debate these challenges and commit to a new agenda.
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Agenda
- September 28
- September 29
- September 30
9 am–12 pm CT: Check-in and charge up!
12–1:15 pm CT: Center stage (Lunch served)
1:30–5:30 pm CT: Inspiration experience
1:30–5:30 pm CT: Executive sessions
6–7 pm CT: Mix and mingle
7–8:30 pm CT: Dinner and entertainment
8:30–10 pm CT: Sweets and treats
7:30–8:45 am CT: Brain food
7:45–8:45 am CT: Executive roundtable (Breakfast served)
9:10–10:45 am CT: Center stage
11:15 am–3:15 pm CT: Executive sessions
11:15 am–3:15 pm CT: Inspiration experience
12:15–2:15 pm CT: Midday meal
2–3 pm CT: Executive sessions
3:30–5 pm CT: Center stage
5:30–7 pm CT: Rooftop refreshments
7–10 pm CT: Dine around dinners
7:30–8:45 am CT: Brain food
9–10:50 am CT: Center stage
11 am–12:30 pm CT: Travel treats
- September 28
- September 29
- September 30
9 am–12 pm CT: Check-in and charge up!
12–1:15 pm CT: Center stage (Lunch served)
1:30–5:30 pm CT: Inspiration experience
1:30–5:30 pm CT: Executive sessions
6–7 pm CT: Mix and mingle
7–8:30 pm CT: Dinner and entertainment
8:30–10 pm CT: Sweets and treats
7:30–8:45 am CT: Brain food
7:45–8:45 am CT: Executive roundtable (Breakfast served)
9:10–10:45 am CT: Center stage
11:15 am–3:15 pm CT: Executive sessions
11:15 am–3:15 pm CT: Inspiration experience
12:15–2:15 pm CT: Midday meal
2–3 pm CT: Executive sessions
3:30–5 pm CT: Center stage
5:30–7 pm CT: Rooftop refreshments
7–10 pm CT: Dine around dinners
7:30–8:45 am CT: Brain food
9–10:50 am CT: Center stage
11 am–12:30 pm CT: Travel treats
9 am–12 pm CT: Check-in and charge up!
12–1:15 pm CT: Center stage (Lunch served)
1:30–5:30 pm CT: Inspiration experience
1:30–5:30 pm CT: Executive sessions
6–7 pm CT: Mix and mingle
7–8:30 pm CT: Dinner and entertainment
8:30–10 pm CT: Sweets and treats
7:30–8:45 am CT: Brain food
7:45–8:45 am CT: Executive roundtable (Breakfast served)
9:10–10:45 am CT: Center stage
11:15 am–3:15 pm CT: Executive sessions
11:15 am–3:15 pm CT: Inspiration experience
12:15–2:15 pm CT: Midday meal
2–3 pm CT: Executive sessions
3:30–5 pm CT: Center stage
5:30–7 pm CT: Rooftop refreshments
7–10 pm CT: Dine around dinners
7:30–8:45 am CT: Brain food
9–10:50 am CT: Center stage
11 am–12:30 pm CT: Travel treats
9 am–12 pm CT: Check-in and charge up!
12–1:15 pm CT: Center stage (Lunch served)
1:30–5:30 pm CT: Inspiration experience
1:30–5:30 pm CT: Executive sessions
6–7 pm CT: Mix and mingle
7–8:30 pm CT: Dinner and entertainment
8:30–10 pm CT: Sweets and treats
7:30–8:45 am CT: Brain food
7:45–8:45 am CT: Executive roundtable (Breakfast served)
9:10–10:45 am CT: Center stage
11:15 am–3:15 pm CT: Executive sessions
11:15 am–3:15 pm CT: Inspiration experience
12:15–2:15 pm CT: Midday meal
2–3 pm CT: Executive sessions
3:30–5 pm CT: Center stage
5:30–7 pm CT: Rooftop refreshments
7–10 pm CT: Dine around dinners
7:30–8:45 am CT: Brain food
9–10:50 am CT: Center stage
11 am–12:30 pm CT: Travel treats
The agenda is subject to change.
Conversation leaders
Bio coming soon!
Katie Catlender is Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Point32Health, where she leads enterprise operations, technology, digital, data and AI, and customer experience for one of the nation’s leading health plans. A transformational healthcare executive with more than 30 years of experience, she is responsible for driving enterprise performance, affordability, growth, and member-centered innovation across the organization. In her role, Catlender oversees information technology, digital, data and AI, service and experience, health plan operations, and the enterprise capital investment and portfolio management office. She is responsible for advancing operational excellence, modernizing the operating model, elevating the member experience, and improving affordability, quality, and health outcomes at scale. As executive sponsor of Point32Health’s enterprise transformation and turnaround efforts, Catlender is leading initiatives to strengthen long-term sustainability through medical and administrative expense optimization, technology modernization, and operational simplification. She champions a member-centered operating model that leverages technology, data, AI, and operational excellence to deliver measurable business results, improve health outcomes, and position the organization for future growth. Prior to joining Point32Health, Catlender served as Executive Vice President, Chief Customer Officer, and Chief Operating Officer at Cambridge Savings Bank, where she also led the bank’s digital-only division, Ivy Bank, with full P&L accountability. Across more than three decades of leadership experience, she has successfully translated strategy into execution, led complex business transformations, and delivered results through turnarounds, integrations, mergers and acquisitions, outsourcing, and large-scale operational modernization. Catlender previously held senior executive leadership roles at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and Mass General Brigham Health Plan, serving as Chief Commercial Officer, Chief Customer Officer, and Senior Vice President of Operations. She began her career at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, where she built deep expertise in healthcare operations, growth strategy, customer experience, and organizational performance. Catlender serves as Board Chair of Health Plans, Inc. (HPI) and is a member of the Board of Directors for Special Olympics Massachusetts. She is also an executive mentor for the AHIP Executive Leadership Program and an active sponsor of initiatives that advance leadership development, diversity, and opportunities for women and allies in leadership.
Bio coming soon!
Niyum Gandhi is the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer at Mass General Brigham. His responsibilities include financial oversight for Mass General Brigham’s clinical and academic operations and management within the areas of corporate finance, treasury, managed care, real estate, and supply chain, as well as operational oversight of Mass General Brigham Health Plan. Prior to joining Mass General Brigham and returning to Boston in 2021, Gandhi served on the executive team at Mount Sinai Health System in New York. He joined the organization as its first Chief Population Health Officer in 2015. In that role, he built Mount Sinai’s clinically integrated network, direct-to-employer business unit and consumer digital function. He later took on the role of Chief Financial Officer for the health system, overseeing the financial operations of Mount Sinai’s eight hospitals and the Icahn School of Medicine. Before his tenure at Mount Sinai, Gandhi was a Partner in the Health and Life Sciences consulting practice of Oliver Wyman, a global management consulting firm, where he focused on financial planning, value-based health care, and transformation strategies for hospitals, physician groups, and health plans. Throughout his career, Gandhi has collaborated closely with a variety of health care providers and payers to help design and implement value-based clinical models, develop new contracting and integrated product distribution strategies, align funds flow and physician incentives, and establish the appropriate infrastructure to support value-based health care. Gandhi holds an A.B. in economics from Harvard University.
Bio coming soon!
Jason D. (JD) Hickey, M.D., is President and CEO of Chattanooga-based BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee. In this position, Hickey is responsible for the development and implementation of long-range plans, goals, and objectives for the organization. He leads the executive team responsible for daily performance and management of the enterprise that employs more than 6,500 people and serves more than 3.3 million plan members. Prior to his appointment as CEO in September 2015, Hickey served as BlueCross Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for three years. He joined the company in 2011 as President and CEO of Medicaid managed care subsidiary BlueCare Tennessee. Before coming to BlueCross, Hickey was a partner at McKinsey & Co., one of the world’s leading strategic management consulting firms. Located in McKinsey’s Washington, D.C. office, he was a leader within the Payor Provider practice and a recognized expert on health care reform. As a member of Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen’s cabinet, Hickey served as director of the Tennessee Medicaid Program, known as TennCare, from 2004 to 2006. In this role, he led efforts to reform the TennCare program and ultimately return it to financial stability. After graduating magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree from Colgate University, Hickey earned his medical degree from the Duke University School of Medicine and his juris doctorate from the Duke University School of Law. Hickey serves on the board of directors for Coke Consolidated, the National Institute of Health Care Management and the Tennessee Collaborative on Reforming Education.
Ellen Kelsay is president and CEO of Business Group on Health. She is a sought-after speaker and expert on health and well-being issues. Kelsay hosts the Business Group on Health podcast and has authored various industry publications appearing in Harvard Business Review, Modern Healthcare, Pharmaceutical Executive, American Journal of Managed Care and Employee Benefit News, among others. She frequently contributes on an array of critical topics such as healthcare affordability, prescription drug pricing, transparency, quality and value, well-being, mental health, health inclusion and innovation across the U.S. and globally. Business Group on Health is the longest standing and largest non-profit organization devoted exclusively to representing employers' perspectives on critical health, well-being and workforce strategy issues. The Business Group’s unparallelled multistakeholder community explores pressing healthcare and well-being issues via diverse perspectives and constructive discourse with an orientation for collective, collaborative action. It’s through this community that the Business Group keeps its membership on the leading edge of innovation, thinking and action to address the delivery, financing, affordability and experience with the healthcare system. Leveraging its network of members and industry thought leaders, the Business Group drives change by sharing best practices, shaping healthcare policy and crafting innovative solutions to improve employee health and well-being and optimize business performance. Business Group members, many of whom have operations globally, include most Fortune 100 companies and over 460 companies in total who provide health coverage and well-being benefits for more than 60 million employees, retirees and their families in over 200 countries and territories. In addition to her role leading Business Group on Health, Kelsay holds leadership roles across the healthcare industry including as Chair, National Board of Trustees for March of Dimes and as a Board member of The Leapfrog Group. She is a member of the External Advisory Board for the University of Pennsylvania’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. She is a Health Evolution Senior Fellow, a member of Women Business Leaders in Healthcare, Oliver Wyman’s Health Leaders Alliance and the Aspen Group. Kelsay has a Bachelor of Arts degree in biology and business administration from the University of Richmond and is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Eric Jon Larsen serves as President of TowerBrook Advisors, and as a member of the healthcare leadership team of TowerBrook Capital Partners. TowerBrook is a $35 billion AUM New York and London-headquartered investment management firm encompassing private equity, structured minority and growth equity. TowerBrook is the first mainstream private equity firm in the world to be awarded B Corp certification. Larsen is a leading national healthcare strategist, author, speaker and advisor to CEOs and boards of directors of healthcare companies globally. For 25 years at The Advisory Board Company (for five years as President, and now as President Emeritus), Larsen dedicated himself to identifying and promulgating best practices to improve U.S. and global healthcare. Following Optum’s acquisition of The Advisory Board in 2017, Larsen’s purview expanded to include co-leading the formation and growth of Optum’s comprehensive health system partnerships, as well as developing strategy at UnitedHealth Group as Executive Vice President, Market Strategy. Larsen is active in healthcare venture capital, serving as Venture Partner to Thrive Capital ($25 billion AUM technology and healthcare investment firm) and SignalFire ($3 billion AUM VC focusing on early-stage seed through Series B healthcare and technology companies). Larsen is host of the podcast Incumbents and Insurgents in Healthcare, which explores the collision of artificial intelligence, healthcare, labor, policy and industrial transformation with many of the leading architects of the AI era, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI Chairman Bret Taylor, legendary investor Vinod Khosla, healthcare CEOs, policymakers and technology founders. The podcast is available at www.incumbentsandinsurgents.com. Larsen is a board member of R1 RCM, eMed Population Health, and Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global. He has served on the boards of several digital health companies including Somatus (value-based kidney care), Contessa Health (hospital-at-home company acquired by Amedisys in 2021), and other AI health innovators. Larsen is an advocate for the performing arts, serving for the past seven years as Chairman of the Board of the Washington National Opera and as trustee of the The Washington Ballet. He is an enthusiastic traveler, having visited 100 countries across all seven continents. Larsen was graduated from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in 1995. Larsen and his wife Susi have three teenage children and divide time between Washington, D.C., New York and San Francisco.
As CEO of Baylor Scott & White Health, Peter (Pete) McCanna is focused on empowering customers to live well by reimagining traditional healthcare—offering more convenient, personalized, and informed experiences. He is leading Baylor Scott & White’s customer-centric transformation by bringing together the system’s 59,000 team members around a common goal to keep people healthy and feeling connected and supported. Before becoming CEO, McCanna served as the health system’s president. In that role, he drove operational excellence, strengthened clinical alignment, scaled the system’s digital health platform, MyBSWHealth, and deepened academic partnerships to address the critical need for healthcare professionals. McCanna has nearly 40 years of industry experience. As executive vice president and chief operating officer at Northwestern Medicine, he exceeded targets for operating revenue, quality, patient experience, and employee engagement, making it one of the top 10 academic health centers in the country. Known as a thoughtful and innovative leader, McCanna formerly served as chief financial officer at New Mexico-based Presbyterian Healthcare Services and the University of Colorado Hospital. Passionate about transforming healthcare, McCanna was named one of Modern Healthcare’s “100 Most Influential People in Healthcare.” Driven by a deep sense of purpose, McCanna currently serves as the inaugural board chair of Longitude Health, an innovative healthcare collaborative, and as a board member of University of Michigan Health, Texas Hospital Association, and Catholic Extension. He holds a master’s degree in Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Michigan. Baylor Scott & White Health is the largest not-for-profit health system in the state of Texas. It includes 55 hospitals, more than 1,300 access points, a health plan, a research institute, and an accountable care organization, plus Levanto—a company offering digitally-enabled health solutions—and 3 million customers connected through MyBSWHealth.
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Magda Rusinowski is a Vice President at Business Group on Health in Washington, DC where she leads the work related to health care cost and delivery and pharmacy benefits, focusing on identifying best practices and solutions relevant to self-insured employers. Business Group on Health brings together hundreds of large employers and their industry partners. Our team of experts is a trusted ally for employers, a health and benefits authority and a tenacious voice in health care policy. We work together with our members to accelerate adoption of innovation, provide solutions for managing health care costs and to connect our members with their peers and experts. Prior to joining the Business Group in 2018, Rusinowski served as the Director of US Health and Insurance Benefits at PepsiCo, developing health care strategy and managing health benefit programs. Rusinowski earned her Master of Science in Health Care Transformation from the University of Texas at Austin in 2023 and the Bachelor of Business Administration from Baruch College, CUNY in 1995.
Tracy Saula is a Senior Vice President and Chief Product and Experience Officer of Highmark Health, a $32 billion blended health organization that includes one of America's largest Blue Cross Blue Shield insurers and a growing regional hospital and physician network. Highmark Health’s 44,000 employees serve millions of customers nationwide through Highmark Inc., Allegheny Health Network, HM Insurance Group, United Concordia Dental and enGen. In her role, Saula is responsible for leading the teams that develop health plan insurance products, revolutionizing the digital experience, and designing solutions and services aimed at optimizing the healthcare experience for customers and clinicians. These solutions include offerings designed to manage or improve a person’s physical, mental, and social health - with the goal of simplifying the care journey and addressing head-on all things consumers find frustrating about the healthcare system. In addition, they focus on clinician and provider support by addressing the barriers that make it difficult for them to do what they do best - all enabled by transformative digital experiences. A passionate health executive with a broad array of experiences and successes at the health plan, provider, and integrated level, Saula has a proven track record of developing and executing new strategies to solve industry problems. At Highmark Inc. and Highmark Health, Saula has served in a series of leadership positions throughout Finance, Audit & Compliance, Transformation, and Strategy. Prior to joining the Living Health team at Highmark Health, Saula was the senior vice president of operations at Allegheny Health Network. Before joining the Highmark Health enterprise in 1998, Saula worked as a CPA for KPMG. Saula is a lifelong resident of the Pittsburgh area. She has two adult sons, a very large Bernedoodle, and two Siberian cats that find the Bernedoodle quite goofy and unsophisticated. In her free time, Saula enjoys traveling, musical theater, cooking, and reading.
Dr. Prabhjot Singh, MD, PhD, is Co-Founder and CEO of Altitude, as well as Senior Advisor for Strategic Initiatives at the Peterson Center on Healthcare and Peterson Health Technology Institute. Most recently, he was Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder of CHW Cares (acquired by Oak Street Health, now part of $CVS). He is also the author of Dying and Living in the Neighborhood: A Street Level View of America’s Healthcare Promise (Hopkins Press). Singh completed a BA in history and BS in biology at the University of Rochester. He earned his MD at Weill Cornell and his PhD in neural and genetic systems at Rockefeller University. He is board-certified in internal medicine and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in sustainable development at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. He was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 40th Anniversary Young Leader, Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations Term Member and a Presidential Leadership Scholar.