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New Orleans 2026
Eliminating Silos,
Creating Solutions
Inaugural Host Agency
Chronic disease is the defining health crisis of our time.
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Of every U.S. health care dollar is spent on people with chronic and mental health conditions.
The Case for Action
Eight of the ten leading causes of death in the United States are chronic diseases, driving most of the country's $4.9 trillion in annual health care spending. Despite significant investment in prevention and management over the last decade, the crisis continues to grow.
The tools to change that trajectory already exist. The challenge isn't a lack of effort. It's fragmentation.
A person living with Type 2 diabetes may have to navigate a primary care doctor, an endocrinologist, a dietitian, a PBM, a food pantry, a Medicaid plan, and a mobile health app, none of which are designed to work together. The professionals trying to help face the same disconnect. Researchers publish. Policymakers legislate. Providers treat. Payers reimburse. Community organizations serve. Too often their meaningful efforts happen in disconnected silos, and collectively they rarely come together to share and build practical solutions.
ACDC is here to change that.
How ACDC Addresses the Challenge
Connections that don't happen anywhere else
A Medicaid director, a health system CMO, a PBM strategist, a community-based organization, and a health tech founder in the same conversation, by design. ACDC is structured around the cross-sector dialogue that doesn’t often happen in traditional settings and brings the leaders driving these conversations into one room at a critical moment.
Leveraging the moment we're in
The chronic disease landscape is evolving quickly. Medicare and Medicaid are advancing new models with greater focus on rural health, prevention, and lifestyle interventions. Food is Medicine has moved from pilot to policy, and AI-enabled supports are reshaping prevention and care management. States are tackling chronic disease in ways that did not exist five years ago.
Partnerships & strategies that outlast the event
This is not a once-a-year speaker showcase. ACDC is built specifically to foster collaborative innovation between partners and to drive concrete, actionable strategies. We’re developing momentum that will continue long after you fly home, with practical models you can put to use Monday morning.
How ACDC works
The convention is meant to do just what it says, to convene partners from across the ecosystem to tackle our collective challenges. ACDC will have four primary content tracks with detailed sub-themes across three days. Every session will include at least two market segments to ensure the collaborative innovation that drives solutions with great impact.
Guided by an Advisory Council of Cross-Sector Leaders
ACDC is being shaped by leaders across healthcare, public health, policy, research, technology, and community organizations.
Carladenise Edwards, PhD
Chief Administrative Officer, Miami-Dade County
Marti Macchi, DrPH, MPH
President & CEO, Project Angel Heart
J.T. Lane, MPH
Managing Director & Public Health Practice Lead, Premier, Inc.
Anne Zink, MD
Senior Policy Fellow, Yale School of Public Health
Calder Lynch
Vice President, Regional Medicaid President, Humana
Event Agenda
A Program Built for Collaboration
Every session at ACDC features voices from at least two industry sectors because that's where real solutions get built.
Over three days in New Orleans, leaders from government, health systems, nonprofits, academia, pharma, health technology, and food and wellness stop presenting at each other and start building with each other. The goal is not to leave with more slides, but to leave with a strategy, a network, and the momentum to use both.
Our call for abstract submissions is open through July 30, 2026.
Event Registration
Every Partner in the Fight Against Chronic Disease in One Room
If you're involved in preventing, managing, or living with chronic disease, you belong here.
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Early Bird Pricing Available Through September 4
Healthcare Providers & Health Systems
You’re already doing the work. ACDC connects you with the policymakers, payers, and technologists who can help remove the barriers making that work harder.
Government & Public Health
See how your population-level strategies translate in practice, and connect with the partners who can help scale what is working.
Payers
The future of prevention and chronic care will not be built in isolation. ACDC brings you into conversation with the providers, innovators, and community organizations helping reshape the landscape.
Industry & Employers
From pharma and medical devices to retail, consumer health, and employer strategy, your work intersects with a broad ecosystem. ACDC helps you engage the decision-makers, partners, and end users who influence access, adoption, and impact.
Health Technology
The best interoperability solution fails without clinical buy-in. The best AI tool fails without workflow integration. Build with the people who will actually use what you create.
Nonprofits & Patient Advocates
Your mission lives at the intersection of everything ACDC addresses. This is the room where your voice helps shape the agenda and the action that follows.
Academia & Research
Your findings deserve to be implemented, not just cited. ACDC puts you in front of practitioners, policymakers, and private-sector leaders who can help move evidence into practice.
Food is Medicine & Wellness
The mainstream healthcare system is finally listening. ACDC is where you help ensure those conversations lead to durable change.
Sponsorship Opportunities
Put Your Organization at the Center of the Chronic Disease Conversation
ACDC offers sponsors access to a uniquely cross-sector audience working across prevention, care delivery, policy, research, technology, and community health. If your organization wants to be part of the conversations, partnerships, and strategies shaping the future of chronic disease, this is the room to be in.
Who You'll Reach
Providers, payers, public health leaders, policymakers, researchers, advocates, innovators, and industry partners.
Why It Matters
This is not a passive audience. ACDC is built around practical models, real collaboration, and the systems-level conversations shaping prevention, care, payment, and policy.
Strategic Positioning
Show your organization’s commitment to improving chronic disease outcomes through collaboration and systems change.
Flexible Opportunities
From prominent branding to curated engagement moments, ACDC sponsorships are designed to create value for partners and attendees alike.
Why New Orleans, Why Now
Join the Leaders Changing How We Fight Chronic Disease
ACDC 2026 · New Orleans · December 7–9
