Are you working to improve care for people with complex health and social needs? Share your innovative programs, resources, tools, and partnerships at Putting Care at the Center 2026, this year’s annual conference for the field of complex care.

The Putting Care at the Center conference offers three ways to engage with attendees: workshops, the interactive Beehive, and the 2-Minute Buzz. Workshops are oral presentations for participants that include slides and interactive discussion. The Beehive is the conference’s semi-structured networking space, where facilitators will be given a station at which to share their work with conference attendees as they circulate through the space. The 2-Minute Buzz is a TED Talk-like opportunity for speakers to take the stage to share a novel idea, perspective on a topic, or research finding with the audience in just two minutes.

These opportunities are open to leaders, practitioners, students, researchers, advocates, and others wishing to share open–source resources and tools, innovative programs and partnerships, field experiences, and significant research findings.

If you represent a company, foundation, or other organization looking to elevate your brand, promote your proprietary products and services, and grow your customer base, we welcome you to present your work as a conference sponsor.

Workshop applications

Deadline to apply:  March 4, 2026

Formatted like traditional breakout sessions, workshop presentations are intended to expose participants to knowledge and skills that are relevant and easily actionable to the complex care field. Examples include addressing a common challenge in complex care delivery, teaching a specific skill, or discussing widely applicable research finding or policy topic.

Workshops should focus on generalizable takeaways for a broad audience and centered around one or more of the following areas of focus:

• workforce
• complex care practice
• research and evaluation
• leadership of people with lived experience
• payment and policy
• medical-legal partnership (MLP)
• hubs and backbone organizations
• housing and health
• food and nutrition

We encourage workshops to be interactive with the audience, with features including, but not limited to, group exercises, polling, word clouds, discussion boards, live Q&A, and small group discussions.

Beehive applications

Deadline to apply:  May 6, 2026

The Beehive is the semi-structured networking and innovation space at the conference. The goal is to share emerging knowledge, experience, strategy, and challenges with and among attendees, and secure new allies and potential collaborators. Watch this video to learn more.

Beehive station submissions should aim to raise relevant issues, showcase research and innovation related to complex care, and facilitate exchange and conversation with a diverse audience of practitioners and people with lived experience from across the country.

There are two ways to participate in the Beehive:

• Digital poster station
• Tabletop station

2-Minute Buzz applications

Deadline to apply:  May 6, 2026

The 2-Minute Buzz is a short, TED Talk-like opportunity for speakers to take the stage to share a novel idea, perspective on a topic, or research finding with the audience in just two minutes.  Watch the video to learn more.

To ensure the 2-Minute Buzz maintains its dynamic and impactful structure, proposals should be thought-provoking and engaging.