NEXT Summit

Name

NEXT Summit

Legal name

New Evolution in Healthcare Technology Summit

Website

https://next-summit.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Conferences and Events

NAICS

Convention and Trade Show Organizers (561920), Convention and Trade Show Organizers (56192)

akta.pro primary industry

Executive Summits & Invitation-Only Forums (MPAGAGAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Product & Innovation Summits (Roadmap, Launch Readiness, Innovation Days) (THAHAMAG), Medical & Health Sciences Congresses (THAHAJAA)

Keywords

• Healthcare technology summit
• Healthcare innovation conference
• Medical executive networking
• Healthcare leadership forum
• Healthcare thought leadership event

Headquarters

HQ city

Peoria

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Marketing or Sales, Personnel, Others

Revenue model

1. Event Sponsorships: NEXT Summit is sponsored by VirtuSense Technologies, which serves as the primary sponsor of the annual healthcare technology summit. Sponsorships likely generate revenue through partner companies seeking visibility among healthcare executives and innovators.
2. Attendee Registration: As an invite-only event, NEXT Summit likely derives revenue from qualified healthcare professionals and organizations attending the summit. The event includes a mixer and live demos at Jump Simulation.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

NEXT Summit organizes a single, annual, invite-only healthcare technology conference held in Peoria, Illinois. The one-day summit features panel discussions, keynote sessions, and a networking mixer with live technology demonstrations, targeting C-suite executives and innovation leaders from hospitals and health systems. The event is sponsored by VirtuSense Technologies and hosted at Bradley University, with a reception at OSF Innovation's Jump Simulation Center.

Product overview

NEXT Summit is a single, annual invite-only conference product — not a platform with modules. The event features structured session tracks covering healthcare business strategy (The Business of Healthcare), population health equity (Access for All), healthcare data interoperability (Unlocking Healthcare Data), and a dedicated product showcase (Products for Tomorrow). The event is supplemented by a networking mixer with product demonstrations at Jump Simulation. All sessions focus on evolving healthcare from reactive to proactive care delivery through technology integration.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• NEXT Summit (New Evolution in Healthcare Technology Summit) An invite-only annual healthcare technology summit that brings together C-suite executives, chief medical officers, chief innovation officers, and clinical leaders from hospitals and health systems to explore innovations in proactive healthcare delivery through panel discussions, keynote sessions, product demonstrations, and networking. Sponsored by VirtuSense Technologies and hosted at Bradley University with a reception at OSF Innovation's Jump Simulation Center.

Quantifiable outcome

• Provides forum for healthcare leaders to address industry challenges including reactive care models, technology fragmentation, and cost management

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core, supporting and featured.

• Bradley UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Bradley University hosts the NEXT Summit at its Hayden-Clark Alumni Center in Peoria, IL. The partnership provides the venue for the annual healthcare technology summit. Bradley University is an educational institution located in Peoria, Illinois.
• Play in Peoria FestivalsupportingGTM or Marketing Partner · 1 January 2024NEXT Summit is proud to be part of the Play in Peoria Festival, a week-long art, culture, and science festival. This partnership increases visibility and positions NEXT as part of Peoria's innovation programming. The festival features dining events, TedX events, and music festivals.
• EpicfeaturedStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Epic is featured in the 'Unlocking Healthcare Data: Connecting Data Silos' session. The discussion covers Epic's contributions including MyChart enhancing patient access and engagement, strategic partnerships, and future plans to adapt to evolving medical technology landscape. Epic is a major healthcare software company.
• OSF Healthcare / OSF InnovationcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024OSF Healthcare is represented by John Vozenilek, MD, CMO Innovation & Digital Health, who serves as the summit host. OSF Innovation and the OSF Jump Center are key partners, with Jump Simulation hosting the summit mixer and providing hands-on demos of VirtuSense products.
• ZieglerfeaturedStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Ziegler, a specialty investment bank in healthcare, is represented by Grant Chamberlain, Sr. Managing Director. Ziegler is involved in healthcare investment banking and has worked with healthcare systems and virtual care companies. Also includes Jenny Poth, VP at Ziegler Specialty Investment Bank.
• ThedaCarefeaturedStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024ThedaCare is represented by Mira Iliescu-Levine, MD, CMO of Network Development and Innovation, and Imran Andrabi, MD, President and CEO. ThedaCare is a healthcare system participating in the summit as a speaker organization.
• MercyfeaturedStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Mercy is represented by Chris Schlanger, MD, Population Health Lead. Mercy participates in discussions on population health, value-based care, and healthcare delivery transformation.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• HIMSS Global Health Conference: HIMSS Global is the largest established healthcare IT conference globally, serving CIOs, clinical informaticists, and technology vendors. It is a broader incumbent in the same healthcare-technology event category that NEXT Summit addresses, but at vastly greater scale and with a general (not invite-only) format.
• Digital Health Summit (CES): The Digital Health Summit runs alongside CES and convenes healthcare executives, technology companies, and innovators. It overlaps with NEXT Summit's healthcare technology and innovation focus, but operates as a track within a much larger consumer-technology mega-event.
• American Hospital Association (AHA) Events: AHA runs major healthcare leadership conferences (e.g., AHA Leadership Summit) that target health system CEOs and executives. It shares the senior healthcare executive audience with NEXT Summit but operates as an established association-backed incumbent with national reach.
• JPMorgan Healthcare Conference: The annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco is the premier invitation-only healthcare investment conference. It shares NEXT Summit's invite-only executive format and healthcare transformation themes but serves a much larger institutional investor and large-cap audience.

Others

• Web Summit: Web Summit is a large general technology conference with health-tech tracks and senior executive attendance. It is not a healthcare-focused peer but represents the broader executive-invitation-style conference model NEXT Summit emulates.

Emerging players

• CHIME (College of Healthcare Information Management Executives): CHIME hosts healthcare CIO leadership events including the CHIME Fall Forum. It targets the same healthcare IT executive audience as NEXT Summit but operates as a membership-based association with year-round programming.
• Pop Health Forum: Pop Health Forum focuses on population health management, a topic central to NEXT Summit's 'Access for All' session. It overlaps thematically but operates as an open-registration conference rather than an invite-only executive summit.
• MedCity INVEST: MedCity INVEST is a healthcare investment conference that brings together startups, investors, and hospital executives. It overlaps with NEXT Summit's healthcare innovation and Ziegler partnership signaling but focuses more on the investor-startup matchmaking angle.

Direct peers

• HLTH: HLTH is a large-scale annual healthcare innovation conference that brings together health systems, payers, technology vendors, and investors. Like NEXT Summit, it focuses on healthcare transformation through technology, though at materially larger scale and national/international attendance.
• ViVE: ViVE is a curated digital health conference for CIOs, CMIOs, and senior health system executives. It shares NEXT Summit's invite-flavored, senior-executive audience and healthcare-technology focus, but operates at much larger national scale.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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