Heading to SIA Healthcare Staffing Summit 2026? A Guide for Staffing Leaders
Healthcare staffing leaders attending SIA's Healthcare Staffing Summit 2026 have a chance to connect industry insight with practical decisions about their businesses. The summit takes place November 9–11 at the Loews Arlington Hotel in Arlington, Texas.
We're proud to be a Platinum Sponsor this year. You'll find the Talent Pathway team at Booth #505.
The most useful way to approach the summit is with a clear objective: decide what your agency needs to understand, improve, or evaluate before you head home.
About SIA and the Summit
Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA) is a research and advisory firm focused on staffing and workforce solutions. Its conferences bring staffing executives together to explore new research, exchange perspectives, and learn from peers.
This year's Healthcare Staffing Summit carries the theme "Healthcare Staffing Reimagined." Sessions address changing demand, client expectations, technology, and opportunities across travel nursing, locum tenens, allied health, and per diem staffing. Attendees include staffing executives, senior leaders, workforce solutions providers, and talent platforms.
Keynote Speakers and Leadership Perspectives
Crystal Fullilove: The New Healthcare Staffing Playbook Crystal Fullilove, Senior Healthcare Staffing Analyst at SIA, will deliver the opening keynote, "The New Healthcare Staffing Playbook." Her research focus on healthcare staffing makes this session especially relevant for leaders looking for market context to inform their planning.
Tom Koulopoulos: AI, Workforce Transformation, and Care Tom Koulopoulos will present "Reimagining Healthcare: AI, Workforce Transformation, and the Future of Care." SIA describes him as a best-selling author and a strategist focused on healthcare transformation and the future of work.
The published lineup also includes a keynote panel featuring SIA President Ursula Williams alongside leaders from TotalMed, AMN Healthcare, Aya Healthcare, Soliant, and CHG Healthcare. Williams and Fullilove are also listed for the closing keynote.
Event details can change, so check the official program before planning your schedule.
Why These Themes Matter for Healthcare Staffing Leaders
The summit's focus offers a useful framework for examining your agency's priorities:
- Changing demand: Which staffing segments fit your capabilities and growth plans?
- Client expectations: Where do clients need better communication, visibility, or execution?
- AI and workforce transformation: Which tasks could technology improve, and where should people keep review and responsibility?
- Operating workflows: Which handoffs create unnecessary work between recruiting, credentialing, onboarding, and operations?
These questions help turn conference discussions into specific decisions you can evaluate with your team.
Meet Us at Booth #505
At the summit, we'll be focusing on credentialing-first workflows, AI-powered sourcing, and connected staffing technology.
To get the most from your visit, start with a real operational challenge. Bring an example of a sourcing bottleneck, a credential tracking issue, or a difficult handoff, and ask us how the platform would support that process and what implementation would require.
What First-Time Visitors Should Do
Before you arrive, choose two or three business questions you want the conference to answer, and use them to prioritize sessions and meetings.
During the event:
- Attend the keynotes with your agency's priorities in mind.
- Compare experiences with peers serving similar staffing segments.
- Ask exhibitors to demonstrate a specific workflow.
- Record the evidence, limitations, and next steps behind promising ideas.
Afterward, set aside time to decide what deserves further evaluation.
For technology meetings, bring a baseline measure, such as time spent chasing documents or preparing submissions. It gives the conversation a practical starting point.
What Healthcare Staffing Leaders Should Evaluate
Use the summit to connect strategy with operational readiness. When evaluating technology, ask how candidate information moves between teams, how credential readiness becomes visible, and how recruiters track outstanding actions.
Ask about integration scope, data migration, staff training, and reporting. A useful demonstration should explain both the intended benefit and the work required to achieve it.
How We're Preparing for the Summit
Our focus is on the workflows healthcare staffing teams need to examine most closely: sourcing candidates, tracking credentials, coordinating onboarding, and managing shift-based staffing.
For agencies managing per diem coverage, our PRN and contingency staffing software offers several practical discussion points:
- Shift scheduling across facilities: View shifts in one real-time calendar, with conflict detection to help catch double bookings.
- Credential visibility before assignment: Review credential status and use agency-specific and client-specific checklists, supported by expiration alerts.
- Nurse Portal: Let nurses record availability, accept shifts, view schedules, and submit hours.
- Shift confirmation and approvals: Track nurse acceptance, facility confirmation, and approved hours through the shift workflow.
- Connected billing and payroll reporting: Use approved shift information to generate invoices and payroll reports.
Bring a PRN scheduling challenge to the booth, such as tracking coverage across facilities or coordinating shift confirmations, so we can focus the conversation on your agency's needs.
The Staffing Problems We Help Solve
Our healthcare staffing platform is built to address common operational challenges:
- Candidate prioritization: AI-assisted matching helps recruiters identify relevant talent.
- Credential follow-up: Credential records, expiration reminders, and readiness status help teams track outstanding requirements.
- Scattered onboarding tasks: Paperless document collection and assigned tasks support a more organized process.
- Disconnected recruiting activity: Shared views of jobs, candidates, submissions, and next steps keep teams coordinated.
We encourage you to evaluate these capabilities against your agency's requirements and decide up front how you'll measure results.
Meet the People Behind Talent Pathway
The summit is a chance to get to know the people shaping Talent Pathway and to share the challenges shaping your agency.
Connect with Tufail Zargar (Sr. VP, Sales), Sujan Panday (Head of Operations), and Mallory Barlow (Executive VP), along with our leadership team, including Sridhar Venkatesan (CEO) and Sreeni Kanipakam (CTO). With perspectives across sales, operations, business leadership, and technology, we can talk through both your agency's priorities and the processes needed to support them.
Bring the questions that matter to your team:
- How would Talent Pathway fit the way our agency operates?
- What should we consider when connecting recruiting, credentialing, and PRN scheduling?
- What would implementation, integrations, and team adoption involve?
- How can we evaluate the platform against our current challenges?
Use the meeting to explain where your team runs into friction, discuss your requirements, and see how we approach healthcare staffing technology.
Book Your Talent Pathway Booth Visit
Meet our team at Booth #505 and bring your toughest recruiting, credentialing, or PRN shift management question.
Book your booth visit to walk through your current workflow, explore relevant capabilities, and identify practical next steps for your agency.
Event Details
- Event: SIA Healthcare Staffing Summit 2026
- Dates: November 9–11, 2026
- Venue: Loews Arlington Hotel, 888 Nolan Ryan Expressway, Arlington, TX 76011
- Organizer: Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA)
- Event website: Official Healthcare Staffing Summit website
- Find us: Talent Pathway, Booth #505