32nd Annual Executive War College
April 26-28, 2027
New Orleans • Hyatt Regency Hotel
STRATEGIC ROADMAPS FOR LAB LEADERSHIP
Lead Your Lab to Success
The Executive War College on Diagnostics, Clinical Laboratory and Pathology Management returns to New Orleans on April 26–28, 2027. More than 1,100 clinical laboratory and pathology leaders will gather for one clear purpose—to arm their laboratories with the practical management insights needed to thrive in a rapidly changing healthcare landscape.
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If A Trend Affects Your Bottom Line, It is on Our Stage
Whatever your special interest, you’ll find it! Each day’s sessions cover the full gamut of lab strategy, lab management and operations, AI, digital pathology, molecular & genomic testing, regulatory, CLIA updates, legal & regulatory compliance, coding/billing/collection innovations, managed care contracting, finance, sales, marketing, and merger & acquisition activity involving lab companies.
The 2027 Program by the Numbers:
- 2 Information-Packed Days
- 90 Focused General & Breakout Sessions
- 146 Expert Presenters & Industry Innovators
- 1,100+ Executive Peers Networking Live
** 97% Approval Rating (2026 Conference) **
Learn – Connect - Collaborate
The program expands its focus this year to address the structural transformations reshaping today’s diagnostics marketplace. The entire agenda is anchored across seven critical themes:
- Laboratory Operations
Practical workflow optimization and operational innovation. - Automation, AI & Digital Pathology
Achieving scalable digital workflows and AI governance. - Financial Performance & Reimbursement
Navigating commercial payer rules and revenue integrity. - Leadership & Workforce
Proven strategies to manage severe staffing shortages. - Compliance, Regulatory & Risk
Translating complex federal enforcement into compliant operations - Business Development & Market Positioning
Executive Peers Networking Live - Innovation Frontiers
Leveraging next-generation molecular diagnostics for market value.
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Maximize Value: Two Post-Conference Forums
Expand your registration on April 29, 2027, by attending one of our intensive, all-day specialized deep dives:
1. Executive Forum on Digital Pathology Management
- Focus: Actionable insights from independent labs and health systems that are making the maturity-based leap from isolated digital initiatives to integrated system-wide digital pathology operations.
2. Executive Forum on Future-Proofing Clinical Lab Revenues
- Focus: Compelling use cases and strategies that help you identify new sources of revenue and optimization opportunities to enhance your lab’s financial resiliency
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Join the Biggest Lab Management Event on the Planet
Make this the year that you join your peers and our industry innovators. In two focused days, you will gain access to insights on breaking trends, validated operational workflows and unmatched networking opportunities with the keenest minds in laboratory medicine.
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Insights from Industry Leaders on Why You Should Attend!
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April 26-28, 2027
Thank you for attending EWC 2026 in New Orleans in what was a record-breaking attendance year of almost 1,100 attendees. Please return this page over the summer for updates on the 32nd EWC, which will take place at the Hyatt Regency New Orleans, April 26-28, 2027.
Register by 5/31/26 and save $500 off a full priced seat!
Executive Forum on DIGITAL PATHOLOGY
April 30, 2027
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The Hyatt Regency New Orleans is looking forward to welcoming and hosting our conference guests. Hotel booking link for 2027 coming soon!
601 Loyola Ave, New Orleans, LA
What Our Attendees Are Saying
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Why You Can’t Miss Attending EWC 2026
- “EWC is the greatest goldmine of easy to implement, practical solutions for the modern laboratory.”
- The EWC gathering provides a collegiate environment to learn and collaborate with your peers. (If Aristotle was alive today he would have attended.)
- We openly address the issues facing our industry and provide insight into solutions that effectively reduce your cost while simultaneously maintaining the integrity of your work product.
- You will return from the Executive War College with the tools necessary to affect the changes necessary to help your laboratory move from a survival mindset to Thrive Mindset.
- EWC is a content driven event that is narrowly programmed to provide real world solution for small pathology laboratories to be successful. We will navigate, propose, and present solutions to the urgent issues that continue to challenge our industry (staffing, rising cost, tightening margins, regulations and more)
- Each year EWC has over 90 sessions planned on relevant topics that affect your ability to be successful in your laboratory and business. These sessions are lectures, group panels, and special events that are relevant to our industry. Additionally, there is a full day of add on events and workshops for you to choose from.
- The mission of the Executive War College is to provide a learning environment that allows all to discuss, debate, and network with 1,000 of your peers including the industry’s pre-eminent pathologists, laboratory administrators, and executives.
- Attending the 2026 Executive War College is an investment you’ll make for your lab in 2026 and beyond, and will transform the way you and your lab does business
See you in New Orleans,
Robert Michel
Founder and Director
Success is not an option, it is an Imperative!
170+ Expert Speakers can’t all be right… or can they?
EWC is your best place to learn solutions for your laboratories’ unique challenges. Expert speakers discuss powerful new practices that can positively impact your bottom line. Each session and panel discussions cover subjects such as: 1) Transitioning to precision and genetic medicine 2) The integration of clinical care and/or healthcare big data 3) Navigating narrow and exclusionary payer networks. With 116 sessions and panels, there is something for everyone!
Executive War College is the largest gathering in one place of lab and pathology leaders
Phrases like: Unique… One of Kind… indispensable … Not to be missed… have been used to describe the Executive War College’s annual gathering. They suggest the impact that attending the college can have on you, your career, and your laboratory. With a record crowd in 2024 of 1,026 attendees, EWC also delivers on the promise to give you the best networking in the lab profession!
Change your mindset from Survive to Thrive
Your unprecedented access to peers and industry leaders is another source of great value for your time and investment. Our collegial environment encourages straight talk, clear understanding, and insider perspectives on lab successes and setbacks. These conversations will provide you with the knowledge and the confidence to thrive in this current clinical laboratory and diagnostics marketplace.
Attendance in the 2025 Executive War College is an exponential mental growth explosion!
Learning opportunities at EWC widen your perspectives on success in these challenging times. Each day you are with us, you’ll add to your personal leadership and management skills. You’ll return to your laboratory charged with ideas, enthusiasm, and ideas. It’s why attendance in EWC is a must for every lab leader wanting to stay abreast of market developments and everything new and useful in laboratory management. EWC’s learning opportunities include: management master classes, lab executive roundtables, intimate workshops, lab case studies, and exciting post-seminar workshops, along with rich networking opportunities. Executive War College is the essential investment that helps you prepare your lab to not only survive, but thrive even as healthcare itself is being transformed by new care models, big data, and precision medicine.
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