DENVER – – November 06, 2026 -- Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) opened early registration for GHX Summit 2027, offering savings of more than $600 per registration through February 12, 2027. The event runs May 10-13, 2027, at Loews Arlington Hotel in Arlington, Texas.
Providers, suppliers, distributors, ERP and GPO partners and industry organizations are expected to attend. GHX also opened nominations for the 2026 GHXcellence Awards.
GHX builds Summit 2027 around customer ideas from 77 organizations
The program extends September's vibeGHX event, where providers and suppliers built AI-powered prototypes. Seventy-seven organizations took part, each bringing real workflow challenges. Select winning teams will present their ideas live at Summit, and attendees can join another vibeGHX event.
GHX President and CEO Tina Vatanka Murphy said AI-powered orchestration gives the community new ways to anticipate needs and coordinate action, helping build "a supply chain that learns and adapts."
Six new breakout tracks target resilience, data, orchestration and M&A
The tracks are:
- Resilient by Design
- Data DNA: Powering a Healthy, Connected Supply Chain
- From Transactions to Orchestration
- Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures (MA&D): Navigating Complexity
- Financial Performance: Winning on the Margins, covering ways to reduce friction in financial workflows, improve cash flow and capture more transaction value
- Connecting Supply Chain to Clinical Impact
Sessions will feature customers, GHX experts and executives, ERP providers, group purchasing organizations, industry associations and thought leaders from outside healthcare.
Summit Central, the networking, demo, learning and innovation hub, will offer hands-on demo stations for GHX solutions, including new AI-powered innovations, and partner technologies. The GHX Next-Gen Leadership Academy, a cohort-based program for emerging supply chain leaders, will combine peer learning, executive conversations and an interactive leadership workshop.
Futurist April Rinne and behavioral scientist Vanessa Van Edwards join Murphy on keynote lineup
Rinne, a futurist, change navigator and author of Flux, and Van Edwards, a behavioral scientist and author of Captivate and Cues, will address thriving amid constant change and building trust for collaboration. Murphy completes the confirmed lineup. GHX will announce additional keynote speakers in the coming months.
GHXcellence Awards add resiliency category with nominations due January 29, 2027
The new award, Advancing Resiliency in Healthcare Supply Chain, recognizes provider and supplier organizations that have strengthened their ability to anticipate, withstand and recover from disruption while supporting continuity of care. Nominations close Friday, January 29, 2027, and winners will be announced at GHX Summit 2027.