FEBRUARY 24-26, 2025 | NAPA VALLEY, CA

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The CEO Council is a premier retreat, fostering an environment where health system CEOs can share best practices, tackle shared challenges and ideate around new opportunities to drive innovation and transformation within their organizations.

This is not a conference or sales event.

Each unique CEO Council consists of 20-25 health systems CEOs who are strategically recruited to join this cohort of like-minded leaders. This event offers significant time for attendees to bond over small group discussions and dinners, as well as through a series of unique curated activities offered by the Cedar team, such as an ATV ride through a vineyard, followed by a wine tasting.

The 2025 CEO Council will explore how provider organizations can unlock a connected healthcare ecosystem and improve the patient financial experience

Accommodations, activities and meals are all covered by Cedar. Spouses are welcome and encouraged to join all social events, including dinners and curated activities.

Click below to view a recap of our 2024 event.

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2025 Schedule

Monday, February 26th

3:30pm-4:00pm
Council Registration

4:00pm – 6:30pm
Opening Sessions

6:30pm – 7:30pm
Networking Reception

7:30pm – 9:30pm
Dinner
Tuesday, February 25th

8:00am – 9:00am
Breakfast

9:00am – 2:00pm
Council Sessions

2:00pm – 5:00pm
Curated Networking Activities

6:00pm – 9:00pm
Dinner and Keynote
Wednesday, February 26th

7:30am – 8:30am
Breakfast

9:00am – 10:30am
Conference Sessions

11:00am
Departures

Gain strategies to build organizations of the future:

Improving the patient financial experience can drastically improve overall financial conditions for health systems and significantly contribute to the bottom line. Sessions will focus on measuring and understanding the ROI of patient engagement initiatives.

Conference sessions will cover diverse topics including the macroeconomic environment, the impact of generative AI and in the healthcare space, navigating increased competition from disruptive market entrants, and lessons in leadership and change management.

Explore the emerging technology behind the connected healthcare financial ecosystem, bringing together providers, payers and financial institutions to enhance the patient financial experience and improve health system finances.

2024

CEO Council Speakers

David Beasley
Former Governor of South Carolina and 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Recipient as Executive Director of the World Food Programme

David Beasley

Former Governor of South Carolina & 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Recipient

Susan Monarez
Deputy Director
Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)

Susan Monarez

Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health

Prabhjot Singh
Senior Advisor for Strategic Initiatives
Peterson Health Technology Institute

Prabhjot Singh

Peterson Health Technology Institute

Nicholas Kristof
Two-Time Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist & Author

Nicholas Kristof

Two-Time Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist & Author

Omar Lateef
CEO
Rush University System for Health

Omar Lateef

Rush University System for Health

Bill Gassen
CEO
Sanford Health

Bill Gassen

Sanford Health

Kulleni Gebreyes
Chief Health Equity Officer,
Deloitte

Kulleni Gebreyes

Deloitte

Kevin Holloran
Sector Head, Not-For-Profit Healthcare
Fitch Ratings

Kevin Holloran

Fitch Ratings

David Lubarsky
CEO
UC-Davis Health

David Lubarsky

UC-Davis Health

Julie Yoo
General Partner
Andreessen Horowitz

Julie Yoo

Andreessen Horowitz

Bruce Meyer
Market President,
Western Pennsylvania Highmark Health

Bruce Meyer

Highmark Health

Eric Larsen
President
The Advisory Board Company

Eric Larsen

The Advisory Board Company

Dennis Chornenky
Founding Director
VALID AI

Dennis Chornenky

VALID AI

William Kenley
CEO
AnMed Health

William Kenley

AnMed Health

Parul Somani
Patient Advocate

Parul Somani

Patient Advocate

Peter Orszag
CEO
Lazard

Peter Orszag

Lazard

2024 Attendees

David Berger

SUNY Downstate Medical Center

Bill Gassen

Sanford Health

Rafael Cartagena

North American Partners in Anesthesia

Sunny Eappen

The University of Vermont Health Network

Ngozi Ezike

Sinai Health System

Greg Feirn

LCMC Health

Michael Gentry

Kettering Health Network

Marc Gorelick

Children's Hospital & Clinics Of Minnesota

Kreg Gruber

Beacon Health System

Hollie Harris Phillips

Appalachian Regional Healthcare

Debbie Hayes

The Christ Hospital Health Network

Paul Hiltz

NCH Healthcare System

Loy Howard

Tanner Health System

Tom Jackiewicz

University of Chicago Medicine

Rob Jay

Scion Health

Dave Jevsevar

OrthoVirginia

William Kenley

AnMed Health

Robert Krayn

Talkiatry