HHS Summit 2026

The summit took place at Omni Oklahoma City in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

The summit was invitation-only for state and local Health and Human Services leaders.

Speakers were scheduled to include Justin Brown (former Oklahoma Secretary of Human Services), Teri Takai (Chief Programs Officer, Center for Digital Government), Jeremie Kubicek (Co-Founder, Known), Luke Williams (Director of Strategic Operations, Global True North), and Chan M. Hellman (Professor and Director of the Hope Research Center, University of Oklahoma).

It was a one-day, invitation-only summit billed as focused on peer dialogue and strategic collaboration among HHS leaders.

The summit was billed as centered on sustainable transformation through cultures of trust, clarity, and shared purpose, bringing together state and local HHS leaders to connect, collaborate, and accelerate real-world results.

It was worth it for state and local health and human services agency leaders, since the one-day summit was invitation-only, built for that audience and included a former Oklahoma Secretary of Human Services among its scheduled speakers. Vendors and people outside government human services would have gotten less from it, as the program centered on trust, clarity and shared purpose in agency culture rather than products, and attendance was limited by invitation.

Government agency leaders at events like this usually wear business casual to business professional, such as a suit jacket or blazer without a tie, at a hotel venue.