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AI is forcing a reckoning in employee benefits. What's possible is changing month to month, and the leaders who lean in are pulling ahead. For the first time, they can cut through the confusion and inefficiency weighing down their programs, and rethink from the ground up how they guide employees, measure value, and run their functions. The results are real and this is the place to see them up close.
The Frontier Community is for the people leading this shift, and for those determined to be next.
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Community
Join the movement of leaders going AI-native. Learn from the people leading the change, and build the peer network that keeps you at the forefront long after the summit.
Knowledge
Keep pace with what's possible. Go deep on the evolving capabilities, and on how to procure, secure, and manage the systems that make AI safe and usable for benefits today.
Future
See where HR is headed. Get clear on the skills, talent, systems, and practices you and your team will need to thrive and lead in an AI-native world.
August 2026 recap
The 2026 Summit in Seattle brought together an invite-only group of industry experts and HR leaders. We discussed every aspect of how AI is transforming benefits: from how providers are using AI to handle administrative tasks to make more time for joy, to AI innovations in diagnoses and frontline medical support, to how benefits leaders are using AI to make sense of it all and help their employees do the same.
Sessions
Welcome and Keynote: The State of AI×Benefits
Rohan D'Souza, CEO of Avante, opens with an honest read on where AI actually is — and his forecast for the next 12–24 months: what's closer than you think, what's further off, and what agents doing real work means for your team.
Rohan D’Souza
CEO, Avante
100% AI in 8 Months: A Global Benefits Leader's Journey
Marco Diaz, global benefits SVP at News Corp, went from AI-curious to AI-expert in eight months. What he tried, what stuck, and why everything he does now starts and ends with AI.
Marco Diaz
SVP, Global Head of Benefits, News Corp
Nick Cecil
CTO, Avante
The Frontier Ahead: What AI Makes Possible for Health and Work
Health-tech journalist Christina Farr talks with CEO Babak Parviz (NewDays) about what AI can do for health now, where it still falls short, and what's coming next.
Christina Farr
CEO, Second Opinion Media
Babak Parviz
CEO, NewDays
Andrew Trister, MD PhD
Former Chief Medical and Scientific Officer, Verily Health
After the Experiments: How Two CPOs Are Rebuilding Talent Strategy for AI
The experimentation phase is ending. CPOs Brooke Cardarella (Personify Health) and Elizabeth Chrane (OneDigital) on which roles shrink, which emerge, and what an AI-era HR teams actually look like.
Brooke Cardarella
Chief People Officer, Personify Health
Elizabeth Chrane
Chief People Officer, OneDigital
How the World's Largest Airline is Reimagining Benefits Guidance with AI
Rohan D'Souza talks with Jae Kullar, Director of Benefits at American Airlines, about the bold swing she's making on AI benefits guidance, and what it means to rethink the experience for over 130,000 global team members.
Jae Kullar
Director of Benefits, American Airlines
Rohan D’Souza
CEO, Avante
Workshop: AI Off the Record
Closed door. Chatham House Rules. Attendees will divide into small facilitated groups to discuss your biggest challenges in building, buying, deploying and designing for AI.
Dr. Carly Eckert, MD, PhD
Co-founder, Avante
Katie Bardaro
Head of Customer Experience, Avante
Tommy Kranwinkle
Product Manager, Avante
Frontline to Frontier: A Health System CEO on AI
Erik Wexler runs Providence: 51 hospitals, 129,000 caregivers. He calls US healthcare a polycrisis and is betting AI is the way through. A candid conversation with Dr. Vin Gupta, former CMO of Amazon Pharmacy.
Erik Wexler
President & CEO, Providence
Vin Gupta, MD MPA
Managing Director, Manatt
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The Frontier Summit is free to attend, by invitation only.
This is a closed-door, invite-only community of benefits purchasers. Brokers, consultants and vendors are not included at this time to maximize the ability of benefits leaders to learn from and build community with one another.
Avante, an AI benefits technology company, is the host of this year’s event.