When: December 6-9, 2026
Where: Phoenix Convention Center, Phoenix AZ
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Learn, Connect, and Drive Improvement
Join thousands of healthcare professionals at the IHI Forum to gain practical strategies, fresh insights, and new energy for your improvement work. From proven tools to emerging ideas, the Forum equips you to lead change and advance better health and healthcare in your community.
Come for the learning, stay for the connections. Be part of a global community working together to make care safer, more equitable, and more effective for all.
By the Numbers
For over 30 years, the IHI Forum annually brings together more than 3,000 healthcare professionals from over 55 countries for four days of shared learning, connection, and inspiration. With more than 500 expert presenters, 7 topic tracks, and a variety of session formats including keynotes, workshops, and networking events, the Forum is where the global improvement community comes together to learn from one another and drive meaningful change in health and healthcare.
Explore the Topics That Matter Most to You
Discover sessions aligned to your interests and goals through curated topic tracks that reflect the most pressing priorities in health and health care today. Whether you’re focused on technology, leadership, workforce well-being, or patient safety, these tracks make it easy to find the content most relevant to your work and your team.
Digital Innovations & AI
Explore how AI and digital innovation can improve care—and what responsible adoption requires. This track examines governance, transparency with patients, and AI literacy, alongside the practical work of putting new tools into real clinical workflows and evaluating their impact, so technology earns trust, supports better decision-making, and improves outcomes.
Leadership for System-Wide Quality Improvement
Healthcare leaders carry two mandates at once: deliver high-quality care today and prepare the system for what comes next. Decode the frameworks senior leaders and chief quality officers use to establish quality strategy, engage boards, allocate scarce resources, and sustain improvement under pressure—while learning from peers leading transformation across diverse settings.
Strengthening Equitable Community-Wide Health
Discover how healthcare organizations work closely with communities to address disparities in care and improve outcomes for whole populations. Sessions span the life course from maternal and child health to Age-Friendly care for older adults—along with behavioral health, community partnership, and scaling what works, so every community can reach its full health potential.
The Science and Skills of Improvement
Learn the methods behind improvement science and implementation science, from foundational tools to advanced application. Sessions cover testing changes, measuring progress, and spreading what works—so individuals and organizations can accelerate results and sustain meaningful change.
Advancing Patient Safety
Focus on reducing harm to patients across every setting of care—physical, psychological, and emotional. See how patient and family perspectives, human-centered safety engineering, and integrated safety systems help teams identify risk proactively and deliver consistently safer care.
Maximizing Value through Quality Improvement
Understanding healthcare finances is essential to sustaining high-quality care. Examine rising costs, evolving payment models, and the business case for quality improvement —including financial returns, workforce benefits, patient outcomes, and organizational resilience — and learn how leaders make that case effectively.
Cultivating Workforce Well-Being and Safety Culture
Keeping healthcare workers safe means attending to both the physical risks of the job and the pressures that quietly wear people down. This track explores how organizations improve the conditions of daily work, foster psychological safety, build cultures where concerns surface early, and staff are supported over a career, not just through a crisis.