MAY 18-20, 2026 | Nashville, TN

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Educational Tracks

Our targeted educational tracks take a deeper dive into topics most relevant to your organization and your key challenges:

Clinical Wellness

Explore how, despite ever-changing resident needs, we can align care models, person-centered strategies, and tools to ensure that resident wellness remains a priority.   

Dining & Hospitality

Dining is the often a great differentiator and a key to attracting and satisfying residents. This track covers current issues specific to dining, menus, service, and appeal such as culture, staffing, nutrition, and supply chain. 

Employee Experience

Considered the top challenge for operators and an area of ongoing focus for owners, this track will cover the many and numerous challenges, ideas, and recent successes with workforce and staffing. Topics range from turnover, retention, and burnout to professional development and career advancement.

Executive Director Leadership Institute*

The program includes sessions as part of the prestigious and highly rated Executive Director Leadership Institute (EDLI). This education helps executive directors develop and strengthen skills in mission-critical areas such as operations management, leadership, human resources, sales and marketing, clinical oversight, and risk management. Participation includes the opportunity to earn CEUs and apply them toward CDAL recertification.

*Additional registration fee required

Finance & Development – Sponsored by Sage

This track serves as a platform for the C-suite, capital providers, and developers to address the financial environment. What are the trends driving growth and development, and how can you capitalize on the opportunities that exist? Hear from leading authorities on the future of finance and development.

Leadership

As the landscape of senior care evolves, so too must the leaders who guide organizations through this transformation. This track is designed for senior executives, administrators, and decision makers seeking to enhance their leadership capabilities and drive positive change within the senior living industry. Attendees will gain insight into building high-performing teams, strategic leadership in a changing landscape, ethical leadership, and strategies for personal and professional development.

Operations

Operations represents the engine behind company-wide excellence, efficiency, and, ultimately, the staffing and resident experience. This track will elevate your operations knowledge, addressing some of the most critical areas of operations, care, and resident experience. Learn more about the latest care and service models as senior living evolves and adjusts to a changing population, as well as future models.

Quality Improvement & Risk Management

Resident safety is paramount for your residents and their adult children and will always be the reason senior living thrives as an industry. This track explores how to elevate quality and mitigate risks, especially year over year as acuity rises within communities, making these sessions essential to your team and clinical decision makers.

Resident Engagement

Ensuring that our residents' experience within their community promotes health and engagement is the cornerstone of senior living. Successful resident engagement improves the quality of life and offers clear clinical and financial value.

Sales & Marketing – Sponsored by A Place for Mom

Occupancy is improving as we recover from the pandemic. This track is designed to address the critical need to boost and maximize move-ins today and tomorrow. This track covers the latest trends in resident acquisition, promotion, marketing, tours, tracking, and technologies used to drive occupancy.

Solution Partner Only
These sessions are exclusively for SLEC’s community of exhibitors and sponsors, providing valuable education as they develop and share options valuable to their customers.

Technology

In an era defined by rapid technological advancement, senior living executives have unprecedented opportunities to enhance the quality of care, resident experiences, and operational efficiency. This track will explore how to incorporate technology in the senior living industry and analyze the transformative potential of technology in shaping the future of senior care. 

Vision Sessions

Vision Sessions

Discover innovative solutions and ideas that enhance your business and transform resident care. What’s new, and how can it help? Vision Sessions are designed to keep you current via succinct presentations, demos, and Q&As.

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