Thought Leadership

Position your brand as a leader in the conversations that matter most. Through thought leadership opportunities like keynote speaking engagements at the Fall Forum, showcase your expertise and insights to a captive audience of health and care professionals. Build credibility, spark impactful discussions, and leave a lasting impression at the forefront of industry innovation.

Track Sessions

$75,000

We’ve designed five key tracks addressing the most pressing issues in healthcare IT—creating high-impact conversations where decision-makers seek solutions. Sponsoring a track puts your brand at the center of critical discussions, positioning your expertise where it matters most. This is your opportunity to engage with industry leaders, showcase thought leadership, and align your solutions with the future of healthcare technology.

Sponsoring a Track Includes:

15-Minute Lightning Talk – A future-focused, non-sales session within your selected track, positioning your organization as a thought leader. Content must provide valuable insights and be approved by CHIME. A kick-off session with CHIME Education will guide development.
Horizon Session Participation – One senior executive from your organization will participate in a panel discussion within your selected track, engaging in strategic conversations on healthcare’s future. CHIME will provide panel preparation support.
Executive Brief – A co-branded, 5–6 page report summarizing key takeaways from the track’s sessions, professionally designed, co-branded and distributed via the CHIME website, email, and social media.
Brand Visibility – Recognition as a Fall Forum Track Sponsor on the CHIME website and app, along with prominent signage in common areas near track sessions – banner and/or window clings
Event Access – Three All-Access Fall Forum Registration Passes (one pass must be used by your Lightning Talk speaker).
Comprehensive Support - From the CHIME education team throughout the entire program lifecycle, starting at the initial kickoff call at the point of contact and through to onsite assistance during the event.
CHIME Podcast - Hosted by CHIME executive and featuring Sponsor SME. 5 podcasts to be syndicated out pre-Fall Forum highlighting the track themes
Themed Logo - Used throughout pre-event promotions featuring sponsor. Promoted via social, email, website
Pre-Event Q&A - With your SME and the CHIME content team
Post-session Video Capture - With sponsor SME for post event promotion

Track 1: Trust, Risk & Resilience in a Machine-Driven World

As healthcare becomes increasingly dependent on digital systems, automation, and AI, trust has become an enterprise-level responsibility. This track is designed for leaders navigating an environment where cyber threats, system failures, and algorithmic risk are no longer rare events—but operational realities.

Sessions explore how executive teams anticipate risk, respond when technology fails, and protect patient safety, organizational credibility, and continuity of care. Through real-world case studies and peer dialogue, participants will examine resilience not as a technical capability, but as a leadership discipline required to sustain trust in a machine-driven healthcare system.

Track 2: Operational Transformation & Enterprise Performance

Healthcare leaders are being asked to deliver stronger performance with fewer resources, tighter margins, and growing complexity. This track focuses on the operational core of the enterprise—how work actually gets done.

Sessions examine how organizations redesign workflows, simplify platforms, and execute transformation initiatives that improve reliability, efficiency, and outcomes at scale. Rather than aspirational strategy, this track centers on execution: what works, what breaks, and how leaders stabilize performance in the face of financial pressure, workforce constraints, and operational fatigue.

Track 3: Data Liquidity, Intelligence & Interoperability

Data has little value unless it informs decisions at the moment they matter. This track reframes interoperability from a compliance obligation into a strategic capability for intelligence and insight.

Sessions focus on how leaders govern, integrate, and operationalize data so it meaningfully supports care delivery, operational oversight, and accountability—without overwhelming clinicians or staff. Participants will explore how organizations move beyond data exchange toward decision intelligence that is usable, scalable, and trusted across the enterprise.

Track 4: Next-Generation Care Models & Intelligent Experience

Care delivery is no longer confined to the hospital—and sustaining new models requires more than technology alone. This track examines how health systems are designing and scaling care models that extend beyond traditional settings while remaining clinically sound, operationally viable, and financially sustainable.

Sessions explore hospital-at-home, virtual care, remote monitoring, and digital front doors through the lens of integration, experience, and governance. The focus is not experimentation, but execution—what it takes to make next-generation care models work long term.

Track 5: Leadership, Authority & Accountability in an AI-Native Era

The future of healthcare leadership is being reshaped as intelligence becomes embedded across systems, workflows, and teams. This track focuses on how executive authority, judgment, and accountability must evolve when traditional leadership assumptions no longer hold.

Sessions explore how leaders redefine decision rights, escalation paths, and responsibility in environments where humans do not act alone. Through candid discussion and real examples, participants will examine what it means to lead, decide, and remain accountable in AI-native organizations.

Additional Thought Leadership Opportunities

1 of 2 AVAILABLE

Opening Keynote Session

$55,000 | Thursday, November 12 - SOLD

$55,000 | Friday, November 13 - 1 of 1 AVAILABLE

The official conference kick-off, with a capacity crowd, featuring a well-known speaker. Sponsor receives the following benefits:

The undivided attention of attendees as you take the main stage to introduce the keynote speaker (content and timing to be reviewed/approved by CHIME prior to program)
VIP Meet & Greet with keynote speaker
VIP reserved seating
Logo projected on-screen during entire presentation
Acknowledgement in electronic materials
Signage with sponsor’s logo in prominent areas during Forum
Logo recognition on general session(s) walk-in slides
One (1) registration to Fall Forum

1 of 1 AVAILABLE

Closing Keynote Speaker

$50,000 | Friday, November 13

The conference momentum continues with nationally recognized speaker. Sponsor receives the following benefits:

The undivided attention of CHIME attendees as you take the main stage to introduce the keynote speaker (content and timing to be reviewed/ approved by CHIME prior to program)
Name/logo projected on-screen during speaker introduction and visible during entire presentation
VIP Meet & Greet with keynote speaker
VIP reserved seating
Acknowledgement in electronic materials
Signage with sponsor’s logo in prominent areas during Forum
Logo recognition on general session(s) walk-in slides
Recognition on keynote session walk-in slides
Logo featured on Keynote Speaker communications
One (1) registration to Fall Forum

1 of 1 AVAILABLE

Policy Session

$50,000 | Friday, November 13

Join an influential group of healthcare leaders for a dynamic, market-facing discussion on the evolving policy landscape and its real-world impact. This session will explore how today’s most pressing issues, ranging from AI oversight and federal priorities to post-election shifts, are shaping the future of healthcare. Designed to be both insightful and engaging, the conversation will translate Washington policy into actionable perspectives for industry leaders, offering clarity, context, and forward-looking takeaways.

Moderator: Stephen Hughes, Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Mary Washington Healthcare

Speakers:

- Bobbie Byrne, MD, MBA, Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer, Advocate Health
- Anika Gardenhire, CHCIO, CDH-E, Chief Digital & Information Officer, Michigan Medicine (University of Michigan)
- Bridgett Ojeda, Chief Information Officer, Bryan Health

The session will start to take a sharper focus once we get closer to the event based on current issues in Washington.

Sponsor receives the following benefits:

The undivided attention of attendees as you take the main stage to introduce the keynote speaker (content and timing to be reviewed/approved by CHIME prior to program)
VIP Meet & Greet with keynote speaker
VIP reserved seating
Logo projected on-screen during entire presentation
Acknowledgement in electronic materials
Signage with sponsor’s logo in prominent areas during Forum
Logo recognition on general session(s) walk-in slides
One (1) registration to Fall Forum

1 of 3 AVAILABLE

Thought Leadership Roundtable

$35,000 | Thursday, November 12 - SOLD

$35,000 | Friday, November 13 -

Our Thought Leadership Roundtable Program brings together three to five CHIME provider members for an engaging, high-value discussion on topics of your choice, guided and moderated by a CHIME Executive. These 75-90 minute sessions are recorded and transformed into a co-branded white paper, which is posted to CHIME's website and social channels and available for your promotional use.

What sponsors can expect:

Our team collaborates with you to identify the topic and create a discussion guide to ensure a dynamic and focused conversation.
Your session to be recorded and transformed into a co-branded white paper
Posting to CHIME website and social channels

*Limited Availability

0 of 4 AVAILABLE

CHIMECast Podcast

$8,500

Listeners will tune in as CHIME's CEO and host, Russ Branzell sits down with your organization's subject matter expert to explore innovative strategies, best practices, and emerging technologies that are revolutionizing healthcare delivery. Listeners will gain valuable insights into how your organization's solutions are empowering healthcare organizations to enhance patient care, improve operational efficiency, and drive sustainable growth.

What sponsors can expect:

Podcasts to be recorded in advance and published before, during, or immediately following the Fall Forum.
Podcasts will be promoted via CHIME's social media channels, posted to the CHIMECentral.org website and featured in CHIMEs newsletters.
Must be contracted a minimum of 4 weeks prior to the event to ensure delivery

*Limited Availability

0 of 2 AVAILABLE

Sunrise Sessions

$30,000 | Thursday, November 12 - SOLD

$30,000 | Friday, November 13 - SOLD

Kick off each day of education with a sunrise session. Sunrise Sessions allow your organization to contribute to the educational experience. Sessions are 45 minutes in length and will need to be approved by our education team. Sessions should include a provider partner and feature C-level speakers from Foundation Firms. Sessions should align with the overall conference themes:

Logo recognition on walk-in slides
Logo recognition on signage for session
Opportunity for a senior executive to welcome attendees and intro session speakers
Recognition as sponsor on CHIME Fall Forum web page
Recognition in social media and email campaigns pre-event
One (1) registration to Fall Forum

0 of 1 AVAILABLE

Advisory Session

$50,000

CHIME Advisory Services provides firms with advisors including CHIME executives, CIO members and other senior healthcare IT leaders for strategic education and other organizational planning needs. CHIME will work with you to develop a three (3) hour program to be co-located with CHIME25 Fall Forum. CHIME will work with you to develop an interactive session to gain unbiased insight from CHIME CIO members.

CHIME Senior Executive or Board member to serve as event moderator.
Identify profile of target CHIME CIO advisors and CHIME to support invitation and registration to CHIME members.
CHIME will manage all Advisory session participants including any honorariums and travel costs.
Collaborate with CHIME on session agenda with support from CHIME to align on strategic direction.
Number of Advisors: CHIME will aim to recruit up to five (5) advisors