Monday, October 19 – Pre-Conference Education: Technical Training Day 1

Registration & Welcome

Lunch

Day 1 Adjourn
Attendees on their own for the evening

Tuesday, October 20 – Pre-Conference Education: Technical Training Day 2

Registration & Welcome

Lunch

Welcome Reception – Official Kickoff to Connect Developer Conference 2026

• Drinks & appetizers – networking following training sessions
• All conference attendees and training participants welcome

Wednesday, October 21 – Conference Day 1

Breakfast + Badge Pickup

Welcome to Connect 2026 – Opening Remarks

• Opening from Rhapsody Leadership: set the theme – infrastructure for agent-ready interoperability, conference logistics, and a preview of what’s ahead

Sagnik Bhattacharya, CEO, Rhapsody

Opening Keynote: Building Healthcare’s AI-Ready Interoperability Infrastructure

• Company vision: where integration is heading in an AI-first world

Jitin Asnaani, Chief Product Officer, Rhapsody

Under Pressure: AI Governance and Security

• Understand how healthcare organizations evaluate AI-enabled integration tools that interact with clinical data, interface workflows, HL7/FHIR messages, and connected systems. This session will cover AI governance, data privacy, security assessment expectations, auditability, access controls, and how Rhapsody approaches compliance and responsible AI for Axon.

Sameer Sule, CISO, Rhapsody and Kevin Day, CTO, Rhapsody

More than a Feeling: Faster Connections with Axon Agentic Actions

• A practical look at how Rhapsody Axon is being used today, what we’re learning from real-world implementation, and where the product is headed next. See how Agentic Actions help teams move faster across common integration workflows. This session will cover configuration, current capabilities, and real examples from Axon users.

Drew Ivan, Chief Architect, Rhapsody
Casey Cole, Sr. AI Engineer, Rhapsody
Brandy Mason, Technical Lead for Surgical Growth Data Integrations, Qventus
Jennifer Redshaw, Asst. Director, App Integration, University of Rochester Medicine

Networking Break + Demo Stations

With a Little Help from My Friends: One Health System’s Unfiltered Take on AI, Integration, and What Actually Works

• Geisinger supports 10 hospital campuses, a health plan serving more than half a million members, and KeyHIE. Hear a candid account of how one data foundation supports all of it, how AI governance now shapes what gets connected, and which practices actually hold up at scale.

Kim Chaundy, VP Applications and Interoperability, Geisinger, with
Drew Ivan, Chief Architect, Rhapsody

And the Beat Goes On: From Manual Referrals to Automated Integrations

• Behind every organ transplant is a race against time, and for years, that race started with a nurse on the phone, relaying patient details by hand while precious minutes ticked by. Southwest Transplant changed that, replacing their manual referral process with an automated, standards-based integration built on Corepoint and now running on Rhapsody Envoy. Hear how one team’s push for better integration helped get critical information where it needed to go, faster, when every second mattered most.

Tyler Strout, Director, Software Engineering, Southwest Transplant Alliance

Lunch

Networking Break + Demo Stations

Peace of Mind: Using AI to Optimize Notifications, Alerting, and Integration Operations

• Notifications and alerting are where integration teams spend much of their time, week over week. This session explores practical strategies for safely introducing AI into integration environments at scale, from reducing alert noise and identifying recurring patterns to improving complex routes and moving toward more proactive, self-healing workflows.

Shaun Tan, Product Manager, Paul Mallows, Senior Program Manager,
Dan Sabo, Principal Integration Architect, Rhapsody

Every Breath You Take: Zero Trust Connectivity in a Post-VPN World

• A practitioner-level session covering the building of a lightweight agent that brokers secure, identity-verified connections without a traditional VPN. Topics include why an SDK-based approach won over off-the-shelf solutions, how the agent handles identity verification and least-privilege access, and the trade-offs between security posture and operational simplicity.

Sam Jakos, Director of AI Platform Engineering and
Paul Mallows, Senior Program Manager, Rhapsody

From Device to EHR: KLAS Insights on Integration and the Clinician Experience

• KLAS Research shares Arch Collaborative findings on the Net EHR Experience Score (NEES) and what clinicians say about their EHRs, from system reliability to integration across organizations. Learn why connecting data into the EHR remains one of the biggest drivers of clinician satisfaction, and where friction points still stand in the way.

Connor Bice, Group Director,
Healthcare IT Insights, AI & Clinical Transformation, KLAS Research

Rock Me Baby: Automated Integration of Biometric Data into the EHR

• For a parent, the difference between a quiet night and a moment of panic can come down to a single alert: a change in pulse rate, a dip in oxygen, a signal that something’s not right. Owlet shares how they partnered with Rhapsody to securely connect infant health data from their FDA-cleared BabySat® pulse oximeter to the EHR through Rhapsody Envoy, giving clinicians the same real-time insight parents already see at home. Hear how bridging that gap between home and hospital gives clinicians a fuller picture of their smallest patients

Dean Demitropoulos, Sr. Director, Business Development, Owlet

Day 1 Wrap-Up & Preview of Thursday

• Recap key themes and conversations from the day
• Preview of Thursday: what’s coming, what to prioritize

Evening Outing: Explore Boston

• Ghosts and Gravestones Trolley Tour
• Reception at The Dubliner with food and drinks

Thursday, October 22 – Conference Day 2

Breakfast

Morning Welcome & Day 2 Preview

• Recap key themes from Wednesday and preview of the final day

Who Are You: Trusted Identity at Scale for AI and Analytics

• Abacus Insights shares how they replaced a legacy identity platform and migrated 13M+ member records while preserving customer-specific matching logic and achieving 99.98% matching accuracy. This session covers the parallel testing process behind a seamless transition and why trusted identity resolution is foundational to analytics, quality reporting, care management, and future AI initiatives.

John Pyhtila, Chief Operating Officer, Abacus Insights

Don’t Stop Me Now: Autopilot AI for EMPI

• This session explores how machine learning is changing the way the Prisma Health team approaches patient matching, from initial skepticism to operational adoption.

Terri Martin, Sr. Application Analyst, and Kay Hylton Christensen, Sr. Information Architect, Prisma Health

Break

The Safety Dance: Architecting APIs, MCPs, and Agentic Security

• This session explores when and how to use Rhapsody Guardian, covering its architecture and product roadmap. Topics include authentication, monitoring, and logging for APIs built in Rhapsody Integration or Corepoint Integration, securing EHR APIs, and protecting MCPs and agents. The session includes a customer use case, a live demo, and Q&A.

Marshall Petersen, Principal Technical Product Manager and Corinne Pellows, Director, Product Management, Rhapsody

Shine a Light: Closing the Data Quality Visibility Gaps

• This session explores data quality visibility gaps a customer uncovered, how they prioritized remediation, and what it means for clinical and operational teams when data integrity becomes a managed discipline.

Drew Hensel, CIO, Big Sky Care Connect and Tami Jones, Manager, Solutions Consulting, Rhapsody

Closing Session: Ask Me Anything + Key Takeaways + What’s Coming Next

Lunch

Conference Concludes – Afternoon Departures
No programming after 3 PM – attendees depart at their convenience