Schedule & Agenda San Ramon, California
March 6-8, 2026

Name: CMIA Connect 2026 - CMIA's Educational Conference
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Conference Day 1 Friday, March 6th, 2026
Conference Day 2 Saturday, March 7th, 2026

7:30am - 8:30am	Room: Danville Breakfast Keynote – TBA
8:30am - 8:45am	Break
8:45am - 10:15am	Sessions & Speakers Room: Danville AI agents for BMET Karpagam Narayanan • 1.5 CEU Credits Room: Salon 2 Cybersecurity Principles Modern HTM Leaders Need to Master for Success Dennis Fridrich • 1.5 CEU Credits Room: Salon G Claiming Your Seat How Women Are Overcoming Imposter Syndrome in Healthcare Technology Management (HTM) Jessica Curtiss and Amber Sportsman • 1.5 CEU Credits Speakers still required for this timeslot! Interested in speaking at the conference? Apply now for consideration to become a presenter. Be a Presenter
10:15am - 10:30am	Break
10:30am - 12:00pm	Sessions & Speakers Room: Danville Introduction to Laser Devices – Mediums, Safety, and Uses Paul Vargas • 1.5 CEU Credits Room: Pleasanton From Manual to Magical: Revolutionizing PM Testing Through Automation Rick Walston and Julio Castro • 1.5 CEU Credits Room: Salon 2 Empowered to Lead: Building Confidence and Inclusion in Health Tech Sheena Yap Chan • 1.5 CEU Credits Room: Salon F Computer Networking Arthur Kamesch • 1.5 CEU Credits Room: Salon G Demystifying the 2026 Joint Commission Survey Process Arif Subhan, Lindsay Pristou, Katherine Navarro and Bhaskar Iduri • 1.5 CEU Credits Room: Salon H Scaling Systems: Enhancing Efficiency in Clinical Engineering Requests Roberto Torres Jr and Gurneet Singh • 1.5 CEU Credits
12:00pm - 12:10pm	Break
12:10pm - 1:40pm	Lunch — Room: Salon E
1:40pm - 1:45pm	Break
1:45pm - 3:15pm	Sessions & Speakers Room: Danville ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY AND HEALTHCARE GREEN INITIATIVES Paul Kelley • 1.5 CEU Credits Room: Pleasanton The Blueprint to Being a Quality HTM Director Eric Massey • 1.5 CEU Credits Room: Salon 2 Healthcare Technology Utilization Management Rob Davenport • 1.5 CEU Credits Room: Salon F From Tools to Team Lead: Building Your Path to Leadership in HTM Danielle McGeary • 1.5 CEU Credits Room: Salon G Internal training. What is it good for? Revisited. Donald Armstrong and Daniel Adams • 1.5 CEU Credits Room: Salon H CMIA Bay Area’s Outreach & Education Mission: Building the Next Generation of HTM Leaders Renato Castro and Robert Morales • 1.5 CEU Credits
3:30pm - 6:00pm	Happy Hour — Room: Salons A-D Exhibit Hall — Room: Salons A-D
6:00pm - 8:00pm	Room: Salon E Keynote & Awards Dinner – TBA

8:30am - 10:30am	CMIA Board Meeting — Room: San Ramon Boardroom
9:00am - 10:00am	Breakfast — Room: Danville
10:30am - 1:00pm	Exhibit Hall — Room: Salons A-D
1:00pm - 1:15pm	Break
1:15pm - 2:45pm	Sessions & Speakers Room: Danville Network-connected Medical Devices:Usefulness, Complexity, & Challenges Ted Cohen and KaMan Liu • 1.5 CEU Credits Room: Pleasanton Future-Proofing Healthcare: Bringing HTM to the Next Generation Bryant Hawkins • 1.5 CEU Credits Room: Salon 2 Closing the Gaps: Compliance, Validation, and Inventory Transformation Ben Lewis • 1.5 CEU Credits Room: Salon F Oh, The HTM Places You’ll Go! AI/ML Primer and Opportunity Explorer for Healthcare Technology Professionals Dustin Telford • 1.5 CEU Credits Room: Salon G How Future-Proof Is Your Onboarding Process? Donald Armstrong and Izabella Gieras • 1.5 CEU Credits
2:45pm - 3:00pm	Break
3:00pm - 4:30pm	Sessions & Speakers Speakers for this timeslot TBA Interested in speaking at the conference? Apply now for consideration to become a presenter. Be a Presenter
5:00pm - 8:00pm	Saturday Networking Event – Casino Night * Not Included with Conference ticket. * Requires separate Ticket Purchase — Room: Salon 1
8:00pm - 10:00pm	CMIA Karaoke

Main Content

Schedule & Agenda San Ramon, CaliforniaMarch 6-8, 2026

Breakfast Keynote – TBA

AI agents for BMET

Cybersecurity Principles Modern HTM Leaders Need to Master for Success

Claiming Your Seat How Women Are Overcoming Imposter Syndrome in Healthcare Technology Management (HTM)

Introduction to Laser Devices – Mediums, Safety, and Uses

From Manual to Magical: Revolutionizing PM Testing Through Automation

Empowered to Lead: Building Confidence and Inclusion in Health Tech

Computer Networking

Demystifying the 2026 Joint Commission Survey Process

Scaling Systems: Enhancing Efficiency in Clinical Engineering Requests

ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY AND HEALTHCARE GREEN INITIATIVES

The Blueprint to Being a Quality HTM Director

Healthcare Technology Utilization Management

From Tools to Team Lead: Building Your Path to Leadership in HTM

Internal training. What is it good for? Revisited.

CMIA Bay Area’s Outreach & Education Mission: Building the Next Generation of HTM Leaders

Keynote & Awards Dinner – TBA

Network-connected Medical Devices: Usefulness, Complexity, & Challenges

Future-Proofing Healthcare: Bringing HTM to the Next Generation

Closing the Gaps: Compliance, Validation, and Inventory Transformation

Oh, The HTM Places You’ll Go! AI/ML Primer and Opportunity Explorer for Healthcare Technology Professionals

How Future-Proof Is Your Onboarding Process?

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Schedule & Agenda San Ramon, California
March 6-8, 2026

Network-connected Medical Devices:Usefulness, Complexity, & Challenges