Upcoming Speakers
Longwoods Breakfast Series:
Briefings from and for Healthcare Leaders
Each Longwoods Breakfast Series is a year of healthcare learning briefings. Each season we provide monthly educational sessions that provide invited leaders in healthcare the opportunity to share new ideas, policies and/or best practices with colleagues. Our speakers are C-level executives, notable researchers, cabinet ministers, deputies, or leaders from the academic community. Currently these online briefings are 45 minutes long, concise and to the point. A full web version may be made available on Longwoods.com after the live presentation.
The live sessions are freely available to HealthcareBoard members. Please click here to learn more about becoming a member.
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To Register:
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Individual members must sign-in to their Longwoods’ account and then register.
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Institutional and commercial members must make sure they are signed out of their institutional account and signed in as an individual and then register. When registering they will see their institution listed in the drop down menu.
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Non-members can still register for a small fee. If you are a public healthcare administrator, health service provider, researcher, and a policy administrator you may create a longwoods.com online account and while registering for the event you will be prompted to pay the non-member rate.
Tuesday, May 05, 2026 - Toronto, Ontario
8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. ET Networking Breakfast at 7:30 a.m.
Karli Farrow, President and CEO, Trillium Health Partners and Tomi Poutanen, CEO, Signal 1
Topic: From Promise to Practice: Scaling AI in Healthcare
Artificial intelligence holds enormous promise for improving healthcare outcomes, efficiency, and experience – but realizing that promise at scale remains a challenge. This session explores how health system leaders and innovators are moving AI from concept to practical application in real world healthcare settings. Drawing on system level insight and on the ground experience, the conversation will examine where AI is creating meaningful opportunity, the conditions required to support successful deployment, and the leadership, governance, and organizational enablers needed to sustain impact. Through practical examples and case discussion, the session will offer concrete takeaways for healthcare, policy, and innovation leaders seeking to translate AI innovation into measurable improvements in care delivery.
Location:
In-Person Only,
Deloitte Downtown Toronto,
8 Adelaide Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Sponsors:
And our Sponsoring Host
Thursday, May 21, 2026 - Toronto, ON
8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. ET Networking Breakfast at 7:30 a.m.
Topic: How to Fight for What You Need: Advocating for Care in Canada’s Health Care System
Canada’s healthcare system is built on principles of universality and access, yet many patients and families experience delays, confusion, barriers and frustration when trying to secure the care they need.
In this timely conversation, Michael Decter and Mike McCarthy draw on decades of experience from inside the system and on the front lines of advocacy to explore what navigating healthcare actually looks like in practice.
Based on their new book, The Canadian Health Care Guerrilla Handbook: How to Fight for What You Need, this discussion will examine why persistence, strategy and informed advocacy often matter as much as policy; what healthcare leaders and institutions can learn from patient experiences; and how Canadians can better understand the system they rely on.
This session will offer practical insights, compelling real-world stories and thoughtful discussion for healthcare leaders, administrators, policymakers and providers.
Book: The Canadian Health Care Guerrilla Handbook: How to Fight for What You Need
A practical survival guide for navigating Canada’s healthcare system, offering real stories, strategies and tools for patients and families facing delays, denials, and barriers to care.
Book Sales Information
Copies of The Canadian Health Care Guerrilla Handbook will be available for purchase onsite before and after the event.
Payment: Cash / Debit / Credit Card accepted.
Location:
In-Person Only,
Auditorium, SickKids Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning, 686 Bay St., Toronto, ON, Canada
Sponsors:
And our Sponsoring Host
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Longwoods™ Publishing, in collaboration with its partners, regularly produce learning events for its HealthcareBoard members. The Longwoods™ HealthcareBoard is made up of partners and subscribers who are leaders in policy, research, practice and management.
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