What issues are keeping you up at night?
What might spur a lively conversation?
Help us shape the ASA® ADVANCE 2026 program!
As we continue to move away from traditional lectures to provide interactive audience experiences, opportunities to participate have become more flexible and engaging. The submission process is also simpler, requesting just a brief description of your idea and a few speaker facts. Your idea can evolve or change as the meeting grows closer.
Key dates:
- Submissions due Monday, March 31, 2025, 11:59 PM CT
- Selected speakers notified June 2025
- Meeting held January 23–25 in Las Vegas
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Ready to submit an idea?
- Choose your session type
- Fireside Chat: An informal, interactive conversation on a specific topic, led by two or three subject matter experts. Presubmitted audience questions will be encouraged.
- Interactive Workshop: A small-group experience beginning with a short lecture on a specific topic before attendees break into smaller groups for exploration and discussion. Attendees will then reconvene to share their enhanced knowledge with facilitation by the lead speaker.
- Pro-Con Debate: Two subject matter experts will present diverging positions on a controversial topic that will spur lively follow-up conversation by the audience.
- Panel: A formal presentation by two or three experts, followed by a Q&A.
- Special Sessions: Create your own format and describe it in the application for a unique, engaging audience experience.
- Provide a description in 750 words or fewer
- Choose up to two session tags
- Health Care and Practice Administration
- Leadership
- Professionalism
- Anesthesia Economics
- Quality and Patient Safety
- Periprocedural Operations
- Revenue Cycle Management
- Fundamentals (Early Career/Residents/Medical Students)
- Innovation
- Provide speaker information—depending on the session type, you can have up to three speakers, with a maximum of one lead speaker and two suggested speakers
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