Keynote Presentations

Own Your Airspace: How To Be Bold, Resourceful, and Agile In Uncharted Territory

Amelia Rose Earhart

Friday, June 20
7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. MT

There will be successful companies in 2025 and beyond. What's one thing these teams will need to have in common? A willingness to venture into uncharted territory. In the midst of professional and personal change, teams who take action on bold, resourceful, and never-before-imagined solutions are the ones that will find growth. As a boundary-pushing around-the-world pilot, Amelia Rose Earhart knows exactly what it takes to venture into uncharted territory; now she's sharing her one-of-a-kind perspective and strategy with the world.

With the odds stacked against her, Amelia brought her own bold idea to life in 2014, piloting a small plane (Pilatus PC-12NG) 28,000 Nautical Miles around the globe. To accomplish this, Amelia self-funded her private, instrument, and commercial flight training, went through open-water survival training, crafted a strategic business plan to design, fund, and market her around-the-world attempt, and helped to design and build a custom auxiliary fuel tank for the trip.

She also grew a large and passionate social following to spread the word, raised close to $2 million in partnerships with 28 corporations, and founded and ran a charity organization to send numerous teenage girls to flight school. In Amelia's keynote, she shares three non-negotiables that she used in her successful, uncharted trip around the globe, which are directly transferrable to the world of nursing simulation.

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Hayden Vanguard Lectureship: Catalyzing Nursing Innovation

Daniel Weberg, PhD, MHI, BSN, RN, FAAN

Saturday, June 21
7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. MT

Dan Weberg, PhD, MHI, BSN, RN, FAAN will share the call to action for nursing to lead a technology-enabled future in which care and innovation create a better healthcare system. A significant gap exists in the nursing profession concerning innovation knowledge and skills. While nurses are inherently problem-solvers at the bedside, formalized education and opportunities to develop expertise in innovation processes, design thinking, and change management are often lacking. This deficit limits nurses' ability to lead and participate effectively in developing and implementing new technologies, processes, and care models necessary for improving healthcare delivery and patient outcomes in a rapidly evolving healthcare landscape. Bridging this gap is crucial to empower nurses as innovators and fully leverage their frontline expertise to drive meaningful change

Learning Objectives: 

  • Describe 3 disruptions to healthcare that are forcing the need for innovation leadership skills
  • Discuss 3 rules of innovation leadership

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Get to Know Our Keynote Speakers

If you were given the name Amelia Earhart, would you learn to fly?

Speaker Amelia Rose Earhart was faced with this exact question—and chose to go all in, completing her private, instrument, and commercial flight training with the goal of someday flying all the way around the world, just like the incredible American hero she was named after—Amelia Mary Earhart.

In 2014, she completed her goal, circumnavigating the globe along a 28,000-nautical-mile route—all in a single-engine aircraft.

This modern-day Amelia Earhart says the most important lesson she learned during her journey is that, in order to truly succeed and grow along the way, we need to learn to love life’s turbulence by staying agile amidst the storms that inevitably pop up along each of our paths.

Amelia has fifteen years of experience as a helicopter and breaking news reporter in Denver and Los Angeles. She has sent numerous teenage girls to flight school during her ten-year stretch as president of the Fly With Amelia Foundation. She also hosts a tech podcast focused on the future of AI in business and is now turning her aerial photos into original paintings. She has been invited by Apple Computers, Boeing, American Express, Berkshire Hathaway, United Healthcare, and dozens of other industry leaders to share her story.

In her recently published book, Learn to Love the Turbulence: “Flight Lessons” on Becoming the Pilot in Command of Your Own Journey, Amelia shares ways to think like a pilot to move through life with agility and confidence.

Her story isn’t all smooth sailing. In fact, it’s going to be a bumpy flight, so keep your seatbelts fastened…

Please welcome, Amelia Rose Earhart.

Dr. Dan Weberg, Executive Director, Nursing Workforce Development and Innovation, Kaiser Permanente is an expert in nursing, healthcare innovation, and human-centered patient design with extensive experience in emergency departments, acute in-patient hospital settings, large health systems, start-ups, and academia. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and an expert in nursing, healthcare innovation and complex systems leadership. Dan supports Kaiser Permanente as the Executive Director of Nursing Workforce Development and Innovation building nursing workforce planning, a system level new grad residency program, and other system level nursing workforce initiatives He is on the editorial board for Nursing Administration Quarterly and has authored two dozen peer-reviewed articles and two textbooks, including Leadership for Evidence Based Innovation for Health Professions and Leadership in Nursing Practice.