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Our 2026 program features a dynamic lineup of expert-led sessions covering the latest trends, best practices, and forward-thinking strategies tailored to the unique needs of ASC professionals. Whether your goal is to strengthen clinical performance, enhance operational efficiency, or stay ahead of industry and regulatory changes, our CASA 2026 Annual Conference delivers practical, relevant insights you can apply immediately.
Join us September 2–4, 2026, at the Monterey Conference Center, CA. The program features focused sessions on Finance, Human Resources, Clinical and Quality Oversight, and Accreditation standards and compliance - designed to meet the evolving needs of ASCs.
Connect with trusted partners, explore solutions to your biggest challenges, and discover tools you can implement right away by visiting our exhibit hall.
What does it take to move from good to exceptional in ambulatory surgery? This presentation explores a disciplined, results-driven approach to achieving excellence in the ambulatory surgery setting. Elevate focuses on raising standards - strengthening clinical quality, reinforcing a culture of safety, and aligning teams around a shared vision for exceptional patient care. Execute emphasizes consistency in action - leveraging evidence-based practices, operational efficiency, and accountability to reliably deliver high-performance outcomes. Excel represents the result -sustained improvement in patient outcomes, team engagement, and organizational success.
Together, these pillars create a practical framework for transforming daily performance into measurable excellence - ensuring that every patient experience, every procedure, and every team interaction reflects the highest standards of care.
What separates good leaders from truly great ones? In this engaging keynote, attendees will explore proven leadership lessons drawn from elite coaches and high‑performing teams and apply them to today’s fast‑paced healthcare environment. Through powerful stories and practical insights, this session shows how leading with integrity builds trust, how real buy‑in connects millennials, boomers, and even the most challenging coworkers, and how momentum is created through example and mentorship.
Attendees will leave inspired to cultivate a winner’s mindset, one that stays motivated and resilient through both success and adversity, while elevating performance, accountability, and excellence across their teams.
Kenyon Salo shows you how his three simple concepts of understanding “The Bucket List Life For Leadership and Teams” will guide you to the top of your career and business. During this highly energetic and engaging presentation, you will learn how to create phenomenal experiences for yourself and your teams, share and learn powerful stories of those you work with and for, and help others along the way to reach their desired goals and full potential, in business and life.
The Bucket List Life for Leadership and Teams and Kenyon Salo will ultimately help you elevate your leadership skills and team-building tools that, in return, will help you both personally and professionally.
Members who contribute $500 or more to the PAC or Advocacy Fund are recognized at the Annual Conference. See levels of recognition below:
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$500 - $999 BRONZE |
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$1,000 - $3,999 SILVER |
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$4,000 - $7,999 GOLD |
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$8,000+ PLATINUM |