Building Bridges – Creating Change

Building Something Bigger

This year’s Building Bridges – Creating Change conference is built around a bold idea: that allied health is not just a career path but a calling. Rather than reducing health to a set of jobs or credentials, the conference treats it as a living ecosystem connecting clinical practice, technology, mental wellness, leadership and community responsibility.

For men especially, that framing is long overdue. Health has too often entered the conversation only after crisis, and careers in health care have not always been held up as pathways to purpose, stability and lasting impact. This gathering changes that.

Students and attendees will hear from speakers working at the intersection of health, innovation, business, organizing, nursing and service. Every session returns to the same truth: building better outcomes for our communities and building fuller lives for ourselves are not separate goals. They are the same work.

Tentative Agenda

9:00am – 9:15am
Conference Welcome 

9:15am – 10:15am
Session One

10:30am – 11:30am
Session Two

11:45am – 12:45pm
Session Three

1:00pm – 1:45pm
Lunch and Reflection

1:45pm – 2:45pm
Keynote – Glenn Donald

2:45pm – 3:00pm
Closing Charge