The International Summit & Exhibition on Health Facility Planning, Design & Construction™ | PDC Summit™
2025 PDC Summit
What to Expect
Meet stakeholders, discuss your findings and challenges, discover solutions and stay informed about developments in the health care planning, design and construction field.
Attendees can expect:
- Collaboration & networking that reflects real-life project teams.
- Insights from sessions led by subject matter experts.
- Solutions in the exhibit hall that bring you the latest technology.
- CECs & learning credits toward certifications like CHC, plus AIA LUs & LU|HSWs, ACHE Qualified Education Credits and Nursing Credits.
Network across the board
Meet stakeholders who support health care projects.
Click on your own professional type to learn more about what's in store for you at the PDC Summit. Or click on another type to prepare to collaborate!
Hospital Administrators
Health Care Facility Management Professionals
Contractors & Construction Professionals
Design Professionals
Care Providers
The kinetic energy of collaboration
"We have to be able to come together. PDC Summit offers a unique opportunity, where clinicians, engineers, interior designers, architects, are all able to not only share their messaging, their findings, their reports, but be able to solution in one area."
The kinetic energy of collaboration
Solving problems together
A glimpse into the future of the field
2025 PDC Summit Keynotes
Morris Morrison
Inspirational disruption and leadership expert, futurist, author, entrepreneur
Disrupt Yourself: Driving Change to Create Growth and Opportunity
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April Hansen
Group President at Aya Healthcare, Top 100 Workforce Leader, Nurse, and Recognized Business and Personal Growth Expert
Growth Game Plan™: Turning Challenges into Opportunities
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Buzzworthy Sessions
"Excellent discussion..." "Great interactive panel..." "Informative..."
Check out these buzzworthy sessions on 2025's agenda:
- Big Electrical Changes Coming - NFPA 70 & 99
- What to Expect When You're Expecting to Stay
- Capital Planning: Leveraging Condition Assessments and Energy Savings
- MD Anderson’s Journey to Data-Driven Operation
- Timely, Sustainable Response to the Mental Health Crisis
- Design Solutions for Project Security - the Owners' Perspective
- Inpatient Mental and Behavioral Health Design: Why One Size Doesn’t Fit All Models
- Improving Healthcare Design and Delivery through Prototype Post-Occupancy
Add-On Events
Sunday, March 9, 2025
Make the most of your time in Atlanta by adding Pre-Summit events to your schedule! Take a deep-dive into industry concepts with respected faculty from ASHE, The Center for Health Design, American College of Healthcare Architects and AIA Academy of Architecture for Health. Add events to your 2025 PDC Summit experience during registration, and stay tuned for more to be announced including post-conference events!
Eight Learning Tracks
Customize your PDC Summit experience by choosing sessions that address eight overarching subject matter tracks. Create the right balance for your unique role and interests.
Click on a Track to view 2025 sessions!
Knowledge levels
We understand that different professionals have varying levels of expertise, and they’re ALL important to the field. Choose from the inclusive sessions at the PDC Summit to participate in ones that are relevant to your knowledge level.
Click on a Knowledge Level to view 2025 sessions!
Strategic:
For learners seeking discussions, inspiration, or trends that will impact strategic approaches to given needs or challenges.
Applied:
For learners seeking workplace solutions that can be implemented upon their return to work.
Exploratory:
For learners seeking new ideas, updates, or approaches in specific topics.
Foundational:
For learners who are new to the topic and seeking to learn or review the basics.
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