If you lead facilities, design, construction, or capital planning at a health system, you know the feeling: you fly home from a conference, flip through a notepad full of generic talking points, and wonder if it was worth it.
HealthSpaces is built to be the opposite of all that.
This is an invite-only retreat for facilities and capital planning leaders at health systems across the country — limited to 250 people, held at a resort rather than a convention center, and designed around one purpose: real conversations between the right people, on the topics that actually keep you up at night.
HealthSpaces is purpose-built for the executives who lead the physical infrastructure of American healthcare — the people accountable for billions of dollars in capital projects, master plans that have to survive 20 years of change, and buildings where lives are genuinely at stake. Attendees include:
Representing major health systems, academic medical centers, children's hospitals, ambulatory networks, and retail-style healthcare delivery companies — organizations like CVS Health, DaVita, Kaiser Permanente, and Penn Medicine.
Retail-to-Healthcare & Adaptive Reuse: Turning vacant retail and commercial space into clinics and ambulatory hubs — faster and cheaper than building new.
Capital Planning & Billion-Dollar Builds: Navigating major inpatient projects and long-range pipelines when reimbursement, regulation, and federal funding are all in flux.
AI: From Hype to Hospital: Where AI is delivering real results in healthcare facilities, and how to cut through the noise to find the use cases worth your investment.
Modular Construction & Labor: Faster timelines, better quality control, and a practical answer to a tight labor market.
Master Planning & Resilience: Facilities that stay operational when disasters hit — and master plans flexible enough to survive the next 20 years of change.
The New Math of Healthcare Construction - Patrick Casey (Harris Health) and Terry Wood (Kaiser Permanente) on what's getting built, what's getting delayed, and what's getting deferred — and the capital decisions behind each.
Penn Medicine's Path to Net Zero in Existing Hospitals - Allison Wilson-Maher, VP of Real Estate, Design & Construction at Penn Medicine, on executing a net zero energy strategy inside legacy buildings that weren’t designed for it. Practical, hard-won, and directly applicable.
How Infrastructure and AI Are Building Safer Hospitals - Brian Uridge, Senior Director of Safety & Security at Michigan Medicine, on where physical infrastructure and AI-powered systems intersect, and what it actually takes to build hospitals that are measurably safer.
Intentionally intimate. 250 people. That's it. The conversations are candid because you're in a room with peers who face the exact same pressures you do — not a crowd of thousands where everyone is performing.
Perspective-shifting content. A mix of TED-style talks, fireside chats, and unfiltered conversations with bold thinkers from inside and outside healthcare. Content designed to challenge your assumptions — not panel after panel of the same old talking points.
Vendor meetings that respect your time. Pre-scheduled 20-minute 1:1s with a curated selection of vendors you actually want to meet. No trade show floors. No ambush conversations.
Deep dive roundtables. Small group discussions on the biggest challenges you’re all navigating — the kind of candid exchange that doesn’t happen in a ballroom.
"It was a very well-organized event with strong attendance. The presentations were well done, but the highlight was the networking — especially the opportunity to connect with both providers and executives."
VP, Real Estate — AmSurg
"Incredible event — one of the best I've attended. The presentations were insightful, valuable, and relevant. The vendor meetings were fantastic, and I really appreciated the 1:1 format. I was genuinely impressed with the overall experience."
VP, Chief Environment of Care Officer — Legacy Health
"Well-organized and thought-provoking — with a much higher level of thinking and exposure. The best gathering I've been to in a while."
Division Chair of Facilities — Mayo Clinic
Forget forced mingling. At HealthSpaces, connection happens when you’re doing something worth remembering. Start Sunday with your choice of an Interactive Teambuilding Challenge or a Curated Cocktail Trail.
Then Sunday evening, Speech Thomas takes the stage — co-founder and lead singer of Arrested Development, the 2x Grammy Award-winning group behind “Tennessee” and “People Everyday.” It’s a keynote unlike any you’ve sat through before.
Monday night, we close out Under the Vines at Chateau Elan — an evening among the vineyards with your peers.
We don’t do convention centers. HealthSpaces takes place at Chateau Elan — a winery and resort in Braselton, Georgia, set among rolling vineyards. The environment is intentional: unhurried, relaxed, and conducive to the kind of thinking and conversation that can’t happen when you’re racing between sessions at a 5,000-person trade show.
Attendance is complimentary for qualified healthcare facility executives, including hotel, meals, and all experiences. We keep it invite-only because the whole value of HealthSpaces depends on the caliber of the room.
Request your invite here.
June 7-9 in Braselton, Georgia