Enjoy a break between sessions.
Explore our full agenda and all the amazing sessions, speakers, and events we have planned! It will be a week full of new innovations, inspiration, and unique activities. You will leave feeling refreshed, ready to tackle the challenges your operation might face this year, and take advantage of the opportunities! Download a printable copy of the 2023 agenda below to get a sense of our schedule structure and topics. The conference will be approved for credits through ANFP, ACF, and The Academy. Attendees will be able to claim approximately 15+ CEUs (with some variation between the three accrediting bodies).
Enjoy a break before you join us for our opening reception or new attendee reception. See you at the party!
Are you new to AHF’s annual conference? Head over to our New Attendee Reception for an hour before our Opening Reception. This isn’t your average reception with drinks and so much chatter you can’t hear yourself think. Instead, you’ll be paired with other new attendees in small groups lead by...
A fun, casual, networking event! Join us to network, chat, and get to know one another. Dinner and drinks will be provided.
Grab some breakfast and then head into the main ballroom to snag a seat and great ready for conference. The conference opener will get you pumped to get going! Then we will present two of our annual award winners: The Exemplary Leadership Award and Future Horizons Award. Be sure to...
Join AHF at the main stage for our annual FISH-Talks. FISH sessions are 15-minute, focused, in-depth presentations from four of our industry experts.
Grab a bathroom break and chat with friends and colleagues and then join us back for our next presentation.
Celebrate and honor our national award winners as we present the Partnership in Leadership Award as well as the Spotlight Award.
A moderated panel discussion between our four FISH speakers continuing the conversation and diving deeper into their FISH presentations and expertise.
Grab a bathroom break and chat with friends and colleagues and then join us back at the mainstage for our next presentation.
Our annual conference tradeshow is one of our most loved conference events. Our vendors will be ready and waiting for you in the AHF Tradeshow Hall. Head over to explore new products, services, innovations, and more. Be sure to check out your Business Partner Directory in your registration bag. Lunch...
Grab a bathroom break and then head over to your chosen concurrent session.
Take a break and enjoy the free time before you join us for our Culinary Competition!
AHF’s Culinary Competition is a career-changing opportunity for our competing member teams. Five teams of three are selected from self-operated facilities around the country.
Make your peers jealous by getting an early start with our complimentary morning exercise class!
Grab breakfast and then head to our discussion group rooms to gain valuable insights from your peers.
Attendees will join discussion group rooms for more focused conversations about a topic relevant to their day-to-day work and the challenges our operators are facing.
Grab a bathroom break and chat with friends and colleagues and then join us back at the mainstage for our next presentation.
Celebrate and honor our national award winners as we present the Benchmarking Excellence and Sustainability Awards.
Grab a bathroom break and chat with friends and colleagues and then join us back at the mainstage for our next presentation.
Send your company's leaders to join us in the Business Partner Debrief. Lunch will be provided. This is your chance to tell AHF's leaders what AHF did well, what can be improved, and what you'd like to see in the future.
Grab a bathroom break and chat with friends and colleagues and then head over to your selected concurrent session.
The AHF Think Tank Room is a new innovative session where operators and business partners can join our brainstorming room to exchange their latest ideas and industry hot topics. Walk away with a list of fresh ideas to innovate your facility. Attendees may be asked to submit pre-recorded short 5-15...
Grab a bathroom break and then head back to the main stage for our final presentations!
Celebrate and honor our national award winners as we present the Chapter of the Year Award and AHF's Presidential Service Award(s).
Maybe the lazy rivers follow us, or maybe we’re following the lazy rivers. Either way, we’ll be racing hundreds of rubber ducks down one. Buy your rubber duck when you register for the conference. This could be your year to win duck glory!
Enjoy a break before you join us for Celebrate AHF!
Our closing dinner and gala reception. We’ll start off by honoring our Lifetime Achievement and Making A Different Award Winners during dinner. Following that, we’ll highlight our Culinary Competition winners and other AHF leaders. AHFs leaders and Culinary Competition Winners. Of course, we can’t forget about our live band, dancing,...