About Purpose Events
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Purpose Events brings together the right people, at the right time to the right place to accelerate change and help business leaders make an impact. We know that face to face meetings move businesses forward faster. We tired long ago of events filled with PowerPoints and pitches; we love creating shared experiences that push boundaries, disrupt the status quo, and inspire business leaders to take meaningful action. We use a combination of research, storytelling, matchmaking, and impeccable planning to deliver extraordinary events that keep attendees, speakers, and sponsors coming back for meetings that matter. |
Purpose Events is a boutique event company that runs and manages HealthIMPACT, HealthINSIGHTS, Amplify.Health and partners on custom events and dinners including NODE.Health’s Digital Medicine Conference and the HealthIMPACT CXO Dinner at HIMSS. As your partner, we are a full-service end to end conference producer offering strategic consulting, production, marketing, and sales services to organizations who need help building a sustainable and profitable event portfolio.
As an event producer, we pride ourselves on data-driven content, reviewed and delivered by prominent subject matter experts who break through the hype to deliver fresh perspectives and actionable, results-driving insights. Our events offer straightforward dialog with peers with no forced meetings or sales-driven pitches, ever.
The Purpose Events team has over 60 years of event experience. Megan Antonelli and Joe McConnell have held senior management positions at the largest conference organizers including Informa, UBM, World Congress, Informa/Kinect365, IQPC, Financial Times, and Information Management Network. In that time working on some of the largest and well-known industry events in the world including World Healthcare Congress, World Health Information and Technology Congress, Partnerships in Clinical Trials, National Managed Health Care Congress, ePharma Summit and more.
In 2012, the Purpose Events team took their brand of no-nonsense event management on their own and launched the HealthIMPACT Forum. Chaired by the incredible Shahid Shah this event is known as the NO BS event where Health IT leaders come to #GSD. The event has run over fifty times in the nation’s largest healthcare markets including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, San Francisco, and Miami. It is widely recognized for its high-level attendees, thought-provoking content, and interactive format.
In 2017, Purpose Events launched HealthINSIGHTS to bring together payers, providers, and public health leaders together to discuss and lead the charge in applying social determinants of health data to programs that improve prevention, quality, and access to care. In addition, Purpose Events partnered with NODE.Health to launch the Digital Medicine Conference to bring the rigor of evidence-based medicine to digital health.
As the call for affordability and access reaches a new high, the Purpose Events teams is excited to return to their payer and employer roots to bring you Amplify.Health. Amplify will bring together employers, health plans, benefit consultants and innovators changing the paradigm for healthcare access in the US.
Meet The Team
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Megan Antonelli
The Curator
Healthcare Managing Director
Experience: Launched & Managed
hundreds of events.
Why: She knows everyone.
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Andrea Vergara
The Road Warrior
Operations Director
Experience: 19 years running events -
Photographer - Truck Driver - Cancer Survivor
Why: She makes it happen.
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Janae Sharp
The Promoter
Founder of Sharp Index, a nonprofit dedicated to reducing physician suicide and burnout.
Why: She is changing the narrative.
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About HealthIMPACT
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HealthlMPACT is not just another Health IT event. It is an idea exchange among a community of leaders. It is where C- Suite healthcare technology executives come together for dynamic debate that culminates in solutions you can implement and inspiration that doesn't end when you walk out of the conference room. Since 2011 it has become the Nation 's leading C-Suite Health IT Forum where participants challenge the status quo and innovate ahead of the rest. |
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