Get ready to dive into the forces supercharging workplace benefits—growth, evolution, and innovation—reshaping the industry right now.
Conference Starts: May 4 at 2:00pm ET
Conference Adjourns: May 6 at 12:00 noon ET
Get ready to dive into the forces supercharging workplace benefits—growth, evolution, and innovation—reshaping the industry right now.
Conference Starts: May 4 at 2:00pm ET
Conference Adjourns: May 6 at 12:00 noon ET
Executives and professionals from insurance carriers, brokerage and consulting firms, and technology solution providers who support the development, strategy, marketing, and distribution of group and workplace/voluntary benefits across North America. Attendees include leaders responsible for life, institutional retirement, disability, critical illness, accident, and other supplemental health products, as well as dental, vision, and healthcare plans—spanning the full lifecycle from product development and enabling technology to market delivery through employer and workplace channels.
The 2026 Workplace Benefits Conference, themed Driving Growth, Evolution, and Innovation will examine the workplace benefits marketplace from the carrier, employer, employee, distributor and benefit technology perspectives with cross-functional learning and networking opportunities. Participants will gain fresh ideas and insights to successfully address the transformational changes impacting the workplace benefits marketplace.
The workplace benefits industry is at a pivotal moment. Evolving demographics, economic shifts, and rapid technological advancements are redefining how value is delivered. Employees now expect more personalized, holistic offerings, while employers look for competitive strategies to attract, engage, and retain diverse talent.
Driving Growth
Growth in workplace benefits means reaching underserved markets, strengthening financial security, and delivering sustainable value for employers and employees. Leaders must support the full employee journey while driving business success in a competitive environment.
Leading Evolution
As workforce needs, economic pressures, and regulations shift, employers are rethinking products, distribution, and engagement—emphasizing mental wellness, financial literacy, retirement readiness, and DEI. This conference will showcase how leading organizations stay relevant and resilient.
Sparking Innovation
Innovation is transforming workplace benefits through data, AI, digital enrollment, and personalized communication. Beyond technology, it requires new partnerships, fresh engagement strategies, and benefit designs that anticipate the evolving needs of tomorrow’s workforce.
Community Engagement Opportunity to help Ronald McDonald House Tampa BayClick for details |
The 2026 Workplace Benefits Conference will define the next steps for our industry—driving growth, improving affordability, and applying innovation to deliver stronger outcomes. Through industry-wide partnerships, we will set the direction for workplace benefits that are sustainable, inclusive, and future-ready.
Community Engagement: This year's Workplace Benefits Conference will be providing an opportunity to leave a lasting impact through donations to Ronald McDonald House Tampa Bay. More Information
Conference Attire: Business casual attire is recommended for all conference sessions and events.
Musician and Innovation Expert
As a leading authority on adaptability, resilience & continuous improvement, Cameron has spent the past 15 years helping organizations, leaders, and teams break through limitations and unlock new levels of performance in the face of constant change. Blending insights from leadership, psychology, and human performance with the emotional impact of live music, Cameron’s transformative keynotes empower audiences to embrace the unknown, take decisive action, and lead with courage when it matters most.
In one of the boldest moves of his life, Cameron once sold everything he owned and embarked on a lifechanging journey around the world. This decision wasn’t just about travel, it was a radical act of reinvention that taught him invaluable lessons about dreaming big and navigating change. Staying in homes with pianos in countries across the globe, Cameron created purpose-driven content that led to him becoming a National Geographic Explorer, giving a TEDx talk in Rome, and delivering keynotes with a grand piano on stage in multiple countries, fulfilling his ultimate dream.
Today, Cameron is a sought-after speaker, facilitator and executive coach. Through his strategic insights and proven methodologies, he empowers leaders and organizations to navigate change, build cultures of adaptability and resilience, and unlock sustained growth and innovation.
Executive in Residence, General Catalyst; Former President of Thomas Jefferson University
Dr. Stephen K. Klasko is a radical healthcare disruptor who thrives at the collision point where Silicon Valley meets medical academia. As the former President and CEO who transformed Thomas Jefferson University & Jefferson Health from a $1.8 billion regional player into a $10 billion healthcare empire, he pioneered the audacious merger between a health sciences university and a nationally ranked design school, proving that healthcare's future lies in creativity as well as clinical excellence.
Currently serving as Executive in Residence at General Catalyst, the world's largest venture capital investor in generative AI and large language models, Klasko orchestrates global resources for digital healthcare transformation while simultaneously serving as North American Ambassador to Sheba Medical Center, Israel's largest health system. His board leadership spans from NYSE's Teleflex (as Lead Independent Director of the $12 billion medical device giant) to NASDAQ's DocGo (as Board Chair), plus a portfolio of cutting-edge startups including Globo, Applied Cognition, CraniUs, Paradigm, Oova, and Agentis that are reimagining healthcare delivery.
A Presidential appointee to the National Board of Education Sciences and former Dean of two medical colleges (University of South Florida and Drexel), Klasko has spent decades dismantling the artificial barriers between high-tech innovation and high-touch care. His visionary leadership earned him recognition as #2 in Modern Healthcare's "100 Most Influential People in Healthcare," tied with industry titans Tim Cook and Jeff Bezos, and #21 in Fast Company's "100 Most Creative People in Business."
As a prolific author whose works range from serious healthcare manifestos to satirical children's books, Klasko's intellectual influence extends far beyond the written page. His groundbreaking "UnHealthcare: A Manifesto for Health Assurance" (2021), co-authored with General Catalyst's Hemant Taneja, didn't just diagnose healthcare's problems, it sparked a movement directly inspiring General Catalyst's health assurance fund and leading to the creation of HATCO (Health Assurance Transformation Company). His upcoming "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Healthcare Galaxy" (2026) promises to be his most provocative yet, a time-traveling romp through healthcare's future that demonstrates how the collision of radically different universes can fix America's fractured system. His recent "Patient No Longer: How YOU Can Lead the Consumer Revolution in Healthcare" (2025) and "Feelin' Alright: How the Message in the Music Can Make Healthcare Healthier" (2023) showcase his ability to find profound insights in unexpected places.
But perhaps most intriguingly, this MD/MBA/honorary doctorate holder who chairs the CEO Council of the American Cancer Society and advises companies like Hippocratic AI also moonlights as an active DJ spinning sets from Miami to San Francisco, a fitting metaphor for someone who has made a career of mixing seemingly incompatible worlds into something entirely new. Whether he's piloting planes, running marathons, or scuba diving, Klasko approaches everything with the same philosophy that has defined his healthcare revolution: the most interesting solutions emerge when you refuse to accept that different worlds can't work together.
Dr. Klasko holds an MD from Hahnemann University, an MBA from the Wharton School, an honorary doctorate from Fairleigh Dickinson University, and is currently completing his law degree, focusing on the unintended legal consequences of AI in healthcare, because in his world, the next disruption is always just one unlikely combination away.
LeLeadership & Longevity Futurist
Dr. Ines O'Donovan, PhD & MBA, is the Leadership & Longevity Futurist who helps organizations turn human biology into a measurable competitive advantage.
She is the creator of Bio-Optimized Leadership™ — the first model connecting executive lifestyle, biological aging, and key business outcomes. At a time of aging workforces, executive overload, and rapid technological acceleration, her work helps boards and executive teams treat biology not as a lifestyle issue, but as a strategic performance variable.
With nearly 15 years in longevity, a PhD in Management Learning & Leadership, and an MBA in Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Ines brings a rare combination of scientific depth, strategic relevance, and stage experience. She is also the founder and CEO of Jeunessima Magazine, launched in 2014 as the world's first longevity magazine for women.
Through speaking, foresight workshops, leadership biology audits, and strategy work, she helps organizations build resilience, sharpen decision-making, and extend peak leadership span.
She tests 16+ years biologically younger than her chronological age. At her best recorded result — biological age 20 at chronological age 51 — she placed in the top 2% globally. She is, in every sense, the living proof of her framework. Bio-Optimized. Future-Ready.
Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Natasha Sarin is a Professor of Law at Yale Law School with a secondary appointment at the Yale School of Management in the Finance Department. She is also the President and Co-Founder of the Budget Lab at Yale. Previously, Natasha served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy and later as a Counselor to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen at the United States Treasury Department. Her work focused on narrowing the gap between the taxes owed by the American public and those collected by the Internal Revenue Service. Prior to her government service, Sarin was a Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and the Wharton School. Her research centers on public finance and financial regulation, with work on tax policy, household finance, insurance, and macroprudential risk management. Her scholarship has been covered in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Financial Times, among other publications. Natasha is a Washington Post contributing columnist and a frequent guest on CNBC's Squawk Box.
JW Marriott Tampa Water Street
510 Water Street / 505 Water Street
Tampa, FL, USA, 33602
Reservations can be made by calling 888-236-2427 and mentioning the 2026 Workplace Benefits Conference.
Make your reservations by April 15, 2026, to receive the group rate of $369.00 single/double (plus applicable sales taxes). Requests after April 15, 2026, will be accepted based on space availability. Please note that hotel rates will go up after April 15, 2026, or when the meeting room block sells out, whichever comes first. Make your reservations early to be able to take advantage of our discount rates.
Extend your stay: The group guest room rate will be offered three (3) days prior to and three (3) days after the meeting dates, subject to availability at the time of your reservation. You may need to call the hotel directly to book the extra nights.
If you receive any unsolicited or suspicious emails or phone calls about a hotel booking in conjunction with this meeting, our advice is to delete the email immediately. In the case of a phone call, never give out your credit card information. Our designated conference hotels will not call you unless you contact them first.
Please contact our Event Planner, July McGlamry, if you have any questions regarding the hotel.
The Workplace Benefits Conference connects industry experts, business thought leaders, and top-notch life & annuity professionals.
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Nicole Chiarodo
Sponsor/Exhibitor Sales
nchiarodo@limra.com