Programme overview

Navigating Net-Zero: Essential leadership for today and tomorrow: Masterclass from the IHF’s Geneva Sustainability Centre (booking required)

For hospital managers around the world, mastering environmental sustainability is an essential modern leadership competency. Take the lead with confidence alongside the IHF Geneva Sustainability Centre’s world-class faculty and learn strategic tools you can implement immediately. This masterclass brings together the scientific imperative with practical expertise on how to successfully transition to low-carbon, resilient, and sustainable healthcare.

JCI Global Leadership Summit
The case for quality: The value of accreditation from all perspectives (booking required)

Accreditation is a key milestone on the journey of continuously improving safety and quality, that symbolizes the organizations’ commitment to patient-centred care. In this summit hosted by Joint Commission International, hear from premier healthcare leaders across the globe who will share their experiences, best practices, and how JCI can help organizations to affect sustained improvements beyond accreditation.

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Encontro da 16.ª Edição do Prémio de Boas Práticas em Saúde® (inscrição obrigatória) APDH Best Practice Award in Health (booking required)

Neste evento, de âmbito nacional, poderá conhecer os projetos finalistas candidatos ao Prémio de Boas Práticas em Saúde. Serão apresentados os projetos que se distinguem pela sua qualidade e inovação e representam valor acrescentado para o cidadão/comunidade ou para as práticas da organização.

Hospital visits (booking required)

You can sign-up to visit some of the leading hospitals and health facilities in Portugal, offered exclusively to Congress delegates at an additional cost of €45. You can book your slot during registration.

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IHF Governing Council meeting (invitational)

IHF General Assembly

Welcome Reception, Poster presentations and i-to-i Innovation Hub launch

The Welcome Reception will provide an excellent opportunity to network and meet fellow delegates while touring the exhibition, exploring the and i-to-i Innovation Hub and viewing the posters. The winners of the Best Poster Awards will also be announced during the welcome programme. All participants are invited to join and tickets are included in the registration fee. 

Opening Ceremony & Keynote

Plenary session 1: Contemporary leadership: For the challenges of today… and tomorrow

Changes impacting modern healthcare service delivery are rapid and significant. In response, leadership styles and theories are evolving. Transformational leadership, servant leadership, LMX, and authentic leadership have merged into “contemporary leadership”. This approach is founded on collaboration – the best ideas shape strategy, and problem-solving involves teamwork. 

In this session, learn more about this new leadership model. International hospital and healthcare leaders will share their different leadership mantras and approaches and explain how the last few years changed their management styles. Gain take-away insights from their perspectives around contemporary leadership and how we can develop the next generation of leaders.  

Chair: John Haupert, President & CEO, Grady Health System, USA

Speakers:

• Dr Zeenat Sulaiman, Regional Chief Executive Officer, Aga Khan Health Services, Kenya
• Dr Muna Abdul Razzaq Tahlak, Chief Medical Officer, DAHC and Vice Provost Clinical Affairs, MBRU; CEO, Latifa Women & Children Hospital, UAE
• Prof. Dr Björn Zoëga, CEO, Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden

IHF Innovation Ignite Talks

Plenary session 2: Employee wellbeing: Leading with our people as a priority

Employee wellbeing is a hot topic across industries around the world, and particularly in healthcare. The pace of change in the sector, and the consequences of the pandemic, demand that leaders increase focus on healthcare providers and caregivers. More than ever, we must ensure that our people are able to meet the needs of our patients. Employee wellbeing is now a foundation for high-performing organizations – and should be in every leader's strategy. Wellbeing goes beyond job satisfaction and includes promoting work-life balance, creating a positive culture, physical and mental wellness, and employee engagement.

This session will explore various solutions that organizations from around the world have undertaken to build resilience and sustainability into our workforce. It will reveal the benefits of focusing on employee wellbeing, what we can do around mental health in the workplace, and when good stress becomes bad stress.

Speakers:

• Dr Arnon Afek, Associate Director, Sheba Medical Center, Israel
• Dr Henry Gallardo, Director General, Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá, Colombia
• Dr Sangita Reddy, Joint Managing Director, Apollo Hospitals Group, India

IHF Awards Ceremony and Gala Dinner

Launched in 2015, the IHF Awards honours excellence in hospitals and healthcare organizations around the world. This year’s winners will be announced during the special Awards Ceremony and Gala Dinner.

Plenary session 3: Net zero in healthcare: Call to action from around the world

Climate change has a direct and increasingly damaging impact on both the health of communities and healthcare delivery. But there are positive steps – and many opportunities – to lead on sustainability and to reduce the healthcare sector’s environmental impact while also contributing to better health for all.

This session will showcase a series of initiatives and champions from across the globe as they present their organizational journeys towards net-zero healthcare. Hospital executives will share their experiences from getting started to pioneering sustainable healthcare. Their inspiring actions will outline a broad range of actions to reduce environmental impact, achieve low-carbon healthcare, and embed sustainability into leadership and governance.

Chair: Dr Jonathan Perlin, President & CEO, Joint Commission International, USA

Hospital visits (booking required)

You can sign-up to visit some of the leading hospitals and health facilities in Portugal, offered exclusively to Congress delegates at an additional cost of €45. You can book your slot during registration.

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The booming of digital health: Where do we stand with regulation and assessment frameworks?