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10 Healthcare Sessions You Can’t Miss at Dreamforce 2026

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Written by Matt Fiel on September 11, 2026

Dreamforce always brings a wall of sessions. This year, healthcare gets its own wall.

We combed the catalog looking for the sessions that matter to healthcare providers, and Agentforce kept showing up. Health systems are running it in production now. They're recovering millions in overpayments and freeing clinical teams from admin work that never should have been theirs in the first place.

Here are the 10 sessions we're building our schedule around.

1. Health Keynote: Reconnecting Humans to Health

Start here. This is the session that sets the tone for healthcare at Dreamforce this year, and the speaker list reads like a who's who of the industry. Expect a close look at how agentic AI is giving time back to patients, providers, and payers alike, plus takeaways from health systems that have already made the shift.

Speakers: Haley Wiesman, Senior Director, Health Strategy & Solutions, Salesforce; Lizanne Kiel, EVP, Sales, Salesforce; Pallavi Mynampati, Director of Data Advisory Services, UCLA Health; Ahmed Zaman, Managing Director, Head of Healthcare AI Architecture, Salesforce; Kevin Gorsline, Managing Director, HLS Go To Market, Salesforce; Ryan Brady, Chief Information Officer, Select Health; Emily Iacolo, Vice President, Product Management, Insights and Guidance, Highmark; Michael Burke, Chief of Marketing and Business Services, UCLA Health; Jen Simpson, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Salesforce

When: Wednesday, Sep 16, 10:45 AM - 11:35 AM PDT | Moscone West, L3, Keynote Room 3001

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2. Transform Health Ops and Protect Margins with Agentforce

Supply chain leaders at Baptist Health South Florida will walk through how they recovered millions in overpayments and are now using Agentforce to catch invoice errors before they eat into margin.

Speakers: George Godfrey, Chief Supply Chain Officer, Baptist Health South Florida; Juan Serrato, AVP Supply Chain Informatics, Baptist Health South Florida; Leanne Schroeder, Director, HLS Business Consulting, Salesforce

When: Tuesday, Sep 15, 3:00 PM - 3:20 PM PDT | Moscone North, LL, Campground, Theater 1

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3. Agentforce for Health: Proof to Production

This one's hands-on. Bring your laptop, because you'll be building. It's a workshop for admins who want to move past the demo stage and actually deploy agents that change how provider and payer teams work day to day. You'll leave with a strategy you can put into action.

Speakers: Steve Boldt, Lead Technical Architect, Salesforce; Ken Leonard, Principal Technical Architect, Salesforce; Samantha Fried, Executive Director, Head of Provider Architecture, Healthcare, Salesforce

When: Tuesday, Sep 15, 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM PDT | Moscone West, L2, Room 2008. Reserved seating.

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4. From Pilot to Production with Agentforce in Healthcare

Most healthcare AI pilots never make it to production. This session digs into why, and what Ascension and MIMIT did differently. You'll get a working framework for knowing when a pilot is ready to scale, plus the data and compliance checkpoints that decide whether it ever gets there.

Speakers: Dr. Romi Chopra, Founder, Chairman and CEO, MIMIT; Jeff Purple, Associate VP, Digital Engagement, Ascension; Molly Frome, Managing Director, HLS Go To Market, Salesforce; Samantha Fried, Executive Director, Head of Provider Architecture, Healthcare, Salesforce

When: Wednesday, Sep 16, 12:30 PM - 1:10 PM PDT | Metreon AMC, L3, Theatre 13

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5. Getting Health AI Right: Lessons from the Field

RUSH University System for Health has already lived through the messy middle of an agent rollout. This roundtable is your chance to ask the questions that don't come up in a keynote: governance, change management, ROI. This one is so good, it runs twice.

Speakers: Jennifer Evans, Director, Enterprise Software Platforms, RUSH University System for Health; Rachael Stefanussen, Global Health Industry Strategist, Salesforce; Zion Washington, Senior Account Solution Engineer, Salesforce

When: Tuesday, Sep 15, 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM PDT (InterCon, L5, Ballroom C) or Thursday, Sep 17, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM PDT (InterCon, L5, Ballroom A). Reserved seating.

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6. Healthcare at Scale: Lessons from the Agentic Era

A roundtable built around the questions that surface after go-live: data migration, clinical and IT alignment, and the parts of an Agentforce deployment that health systems would handle differently the second time around.

Speakers: Marc Pulverman, Senior Director, Services Solution Lead, Salesforce; Bhavini Shah, RVP Forward Deployed Engineering, Salesforce; David Denton, Account Partner, Senior Director, Salesforce

When: Wednesday, Sep 16, 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM PDT | InterCon, L3, Grand Ballroom A, Roundtable 1. Reserved seating.

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7. Governing AI in Healthcare: Trust and Compliance

Regulators are paying closer attention to agentic AI, and that pressure isn't going away. This roundtable tackles observability, data governance, and guardrails head on, and gets into how healthcare organizations turn compliance from a blocker into something that earns executive buy-in.

Speakers: Ashif Muijb, Executive Director, Head of Payer Architecture, Healthcare, Salesforce; Doug Cox, Field CTO, Security Solutions, Salesforce; Samantha Fried, Executive Director, Head of Provider Architecture, Healthcare, Salesforce

When: Tuesday, Sep 15, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM PDT | InterCon, L5, Ballroom A, Roundtable 8. Reserved seating.

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8. Agentforce in Action: Scaling Patient Services in Health

A digital health organization is using Agentforce to deflect 60% of service cases automatically, while scaling AI-driven outreach across multiple countries. It's a quick 20-minute session, but it digs into the trust and safety guardrails behind that number.

Speakers: Rachael Stefanussen, Global Health Industry Strategist, Salesforce

When: Thursday, Sep 17, 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM PDT | Moscone West, L2, Learning Lab Theater B

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9. Streamlining Patient Engagement With Messaging and AI

Phone calls are expensive and slow. This session shows how a human-in-the-loop AI agent handles daily patient text outreach at scale, cutting down on time-intensive calls without losing the personal touch that keeps patients engaged.

Speakers: Hilary Kuo, Solution Engineer, Salesforce

When: Wednesday, Sep 16, 3:00 PM - 3:20 PM PDT | Moscone North, LL, Campground, Industry Pavilion

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10. Unified Data, Smarter Agents, Healthier Outcomes

Rounding out our list with the problem underneath every agent rollout: disconnected data. This session brings together a health system, an ONC policy leader, and a Salesforce architect to walk through what it actually takes to unify EHR, claims, and commercial data before agents can put it to work. It runs twice, so you've got two chances to catch it.

Speakers: Edward Jaquette, Senior Director of IT Applications, Renown Health; Sophia Saleem, Chief Health Officer, Salesforce; Tom Keane, National Coordinator for Health IT, ONC; Vaibhav Patle, Salesforce Architect, Banner Health and Capgemini; Matt Dengler, Lead Solution Engineer, Salesforce; Jitesh Rai, Implementation Lead, Banner Health

When: Wednesday, Sep 16, 1:30 PM - 2:10 PM PDT (Metreon AMC, L3, Theatre 7) or Thursday, Sep 17, 2:30 PM - 3:10 PM PDT (Moscone South, LL, Content Pavilion, Stage 2)

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That's our list. If you're headed to San Francisco, add these to your agenda before the good seats fill up. And if you want to talk through what any of this means for your own health system, find us at Dreamforce.

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About The Author

With over 15 years of experience in marketing strategy, web development, and creative design, I lead the marketing team at Penrod, a boutique Salesforce partner focused on the healthcare and life sciences industry. As a Salesforce Certified Consultant, I have deep knowledge and skills in leveraging the platform to optimize marketing automation, lead generation, and customer engagement.


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