Where the Future of Healthcare Takes Shape.

We’re very excited to already have some healthcare luminaries signed up as keynote speakers and panelists, and our list is growing. Among those confirmed so far are:

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Chris Durovich serves as President and Chief Executive Officer for Children’s Health, leading all system operations, financials, investments and strategies. Under Chris’ leadership, Children’s Health has grown exponentially to be one of the largest and most prestigious pediatric health care providers in the country and the leading pediatric health system in North Texas. He brings over 30 years of leadership experience in adult and pediatric health care and physician practice management.

Prior to joining Children’s Health in 2003, Chris served in leadership roles at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, the University of Michigan Health System, Northwestern University Medical School and Northwestern Memorial Hospital. He holds degrees from the University of Vermont, the University of Northern Colorado, and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and is a fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives and the American College of Medical Practice Executives.

INNOVATION IN HEALTHCARE PANEL

Dr. Daniel Hommes is Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer at UT Southwestern, where he leads the Innovation Hub and oversees the Office for Technology Development. In this role, he is building an enterprise-wide innovation platform that identifies, develops, protects, funds, and commercializes high-potential discoveries from UTSW laboratories and clinical programs.

Dr. Hommes is a physician-executive, scientist, and entrepreneur with prior leadership roles at DEARhealth, InterVenn Biosciences, UCLA, and Leiden University. He is a board-certified internist and gastroenterologist, former ECCO President, and author of more than 280 peer-reviewed publications.

Dr. Steve Miff is the President and CEO of Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation (PCCI), a leading non-profit artificial intelligence and cognitive computing organization affiliated with Parkland Health, one of the country’s largest and most progressive safety-net hospitals. Driven by his passion to use next-generation analytics and technology to serve the most vulnerable and underserved residents, Steve and his team leverage data science and clinical expertise to incorporate social-determinants-of-health insights into point-of-care interventions.

Steve earned his PhD and MS in biomedical engineering and a BA in economics from Northwestern University, and has authored more than 100 publications, including the 2020 book Building Connected Communities of Care. A five-time Dallas 500 honoree, 2023 Tech Titans emerging company CEO of the year, and 2025 Dallas County Medical Society Champion of Science and Medicine, Steve previously served as General Manager of Sg2 and Senior Vice President at VHA (Vizient Inc.).