Registration & Networking Roundtables
Start the day with coffee and conversation. Choose a topic and join a lightly facilitated roundtable designed to exchange practical insights and connect with peers addressing similar challenges.
Emerging Health Technologies & AI
Rise & Shine Roundtable
Exploring practical applications of AI and emerging technologies in healthcare, including opportunities to improve access, efficiency, patient experience and outcomes.
Building the Healthcare Workforce of The Future
Rise & Shine Roundtable
Discussing workforce pressures across Caribbean and Island healthcare systems and practical approaches to recruitment, retention, skills development and new models of care.
Advancing Universal Health Coverage: From Ambition to Action
Rise & Shine Roundtable
Exploring practical approaches to advancing UHC across the Caribbean, including sustainable financing, equitable access to care and strengthening health systems to meet population needs.
Building Resilient Health Systems: Mental Health & Wellbeing
Rise & Shine Roundtable
Exploring how health systems can strengthen mental health provision and build more resilient services that can respond to changing population and system needs.
Chairperson Welcome
Island Healthcare Outlook
Welcome Keynote & Scene Setter
Island health systems are navigating rising demand, constrained resources, climate risk and rapid technological change. This opening keynote will examine the forces shaping healthcare across the Caribbean and other island jurisdictions, drawing on KPMG’s new Island Snapshots research to identify shared challenges, emerging opportunities and priorities for action.
The session will also mark the launch of the KPMG Global Center of Excellence for Island Healthcare, a new platform focused on advancing insight and collaboration across island health systems.
- Which forces are having the greatest impact on island health systems?
- What common priorities and opportunities emerge from KPMG’s Island Snapshots research?
- How can stronger collaboration help island jurisdictions respond more effectively?
Toward Resilient & Equitable Health Systems
Building resilient and equitable health systems across Caribbean islands requires coordinated strategies that address structural vulnerabilities while improving access, quality and long-term sustainability.
- What does a resilient and equitable health system look like in an island context?
- How should island jurisdictions sequence reforms to build more sustainable and inclusive health systems?
- How can international and regional partners support long-term health-system transformation?
Financing the Future: Health System Investment Strategies for Island Nations
With fiscal space tightening and healthcare needs rising, island governments need sustainable financing strategies that can support stronger services, modern infrastructure and wider access to care.
- How can governments prioritize health-system investment amid competing fiscal pressures?
- How can blended-finance solutions mobilize investment and reduce reliance on donor funding?
- Which insurance innovations are expanding access while improving financial sustainability?
- What role can development institutions and private capital play in health-system modernization?
Coffee Break
Navigating the Path to Universal Health Coverage
Achieving Universal Health Coverage in island settings requires sustainable financing, inclusive service-delivery models and a clear path from policy to implementation. This conversation will examine how Caribbean countries can expand access while maintaining quality, affordability and public trust.
- What are the most important milestones on the Caribbean’s path to Universal Health Coverage?
- How can countries sequence reforms while maintaining momentum and public confidence?
- Which financing strategies can sustainably expand coverage and improve service quality?
Building Climate-Resilient Health Systems
Island health systems are increasingly exposed to extreme weather, sea-level rise and service disruption. This session will examine how resilient facilities, flexible delivery models and smarter infrastructure investment can protect continuity of care during climate emergencies.
- What does climate-resilient health infrastructure look like in practice?
- Where can modular and mobile services strengthen primary care and emergency response?
- How should new and existing healthcare facilities be designed for future climate extremes?
Networking Lunch
How Can We Transform the Lives of Patients and Clinicians by Digitizing Healthcare?
No one chooses a career in healthcare for predictable hours, a quiet office or an easy working day. Doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals choose it because they want to care for people. Yet too often, the way healthcare is organized makes that purpose harder to fulfil. As healthcare systems face rising demand, workforce shortages, burnout and financial pressures the imperative to adopt digital is greater than ever – but what does this look like for island jurisdictions?
Scaling Digital Health & Telemedicine Across Island Health Systems
Digital health and telemedicine can expand access, improve continuity of care and strengthen prevention across island health systems. This session will examine what it takes to move from promising pilots to sustainable, system-wide adoption.
- How can digital health and telemedicine solutions be scaled and tailored to the needs of island populations?
- What is needed to integrate electronic health records and improve continuity of care?
- Which funding models and regional standards can support long-term implementation?
- How can health systems manage cybersecurity, data protection and patient privacy as digital services expand?
Innovating Mental Health Care: Practical Lessons from Regional Leaders
Mental health remains one of the most under-resourced areas of public health across the Caribbean. As demand grows, regional leaders are developing new approaches to policy, service delivery, legislation, community engagement and technology. This session will focus on practical lessons from implementing mental-health reform.
- Which reforms and models of care are having the greatest impact across the Caribbean?
- What is needed to translate mental-health strategies into effective implementation?
- How can health systems create more person-centred, recovery-oriented and community-based care?
- How can policy, technology, data, community engagement and regional collaboration accelerate progress?
Building the Caribbean Health Workforce: Attracting, Training & Retaining Talent
Workforce shortages are constraining healthcare access and quality across island systems. This session will examine where the most urgent gaps lie and how governments, providers and training institutions can strengthen recruitment, retention and regional workforce development.
- Where are the most critical current and projected workforce gaps?
- How can policy and regional cooperation address shortages more effectively?
- How can training partnerships and exchanges strengthen workforce capacity?
- How can academic programs be better aligned with projected workforce needs?
- Which strategies can improve retention while addressing regional and international migration?
Spotlight Session Introduction & Coffee Break
Spotlight Breakout Sessions
These sessions offer delegates the opportunity to select and participate in breakout discussions. These sessions are intended to be interactive and guided by real experience as a basis for learning and lesson sharing. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions, draw parallels and discuss relevant strategies.
Island Resilience: Strengthening Pharmaceutical Access, Procurement and Supply Chains in the Caribbean
Spotlight Breakout Session
How can Caribbean health leaders strengthen pharmaceutical access, pooled procurement, inventory management and supply-chain resilience. The session will explore practical country experiences and consider how regional institutions, ministries and technical partners can work together more effectively.
Developing and Implementing Strategic Planning with BVI Health Services Authority
Spotlight Breakout Session
Sharing practical lessons on developing and implementing a healthcare strategy aligned to organizational priorities.
