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Explore the WCI 2026 breakout tracks—longtime favorites, new additions, and focused programs designed to deliver practical, real-world insight across the workers’ compensation industry.
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Risk Managers
A perennial must-attend, this breakout brings together senior leaders and industry experts to explore emerging risks, data-driven strategies, claims leadership, and complex risk management challenges.
Watch & Read Sneak Peek →AI & Technology
Explore how AI and emerging technologies are helping workers’ compensation professionals improve productivity, make better decisions, identify delayed recovery risks earlier, and strengthen collaboration across the claims lifecycle.
Watch & Read Sneak Peek →Medical Issues & Case Management
Explore the clinical, behavioral, and system-wide challenges shaping workers’ compensation medical and case management today.
Watch & Read Sneak Peek →Diversity & Talent
Explore how trust, ethical leadership, innovation, and emerging talent are shaping the future of the workers’ compensation workforce.
Watch & Read Sneak Peek →Fraud
This three-part breakout will cover claimant, provider, and premium fraud, common investigative pitfalls, and real-world strategies to help reduce unnecessary costs and protect the integrity of the system.
Watch & Read Sneak Peek →Adjusters
Adjuster education remains a foundational part of the conference, with sessions focused on practical claims strategies, communication, decision-making, live demonstrations, and Florida-specific issues.
Read Sneak Peek →Clarity Under Pressure: The Stress Reset for Workers’ Compensation Leaders
Participants will move, breathe, and experience evidence-based mind-body practices designed to regulate stress in real time—leaving with practical tools to improve performance, well-being, and clarity under pressure.
Read Sneak Peek →Inside the Operating Room
This live broadcast gives workers’ compensation professionals real-time access inside the operating room, with a front-row view of surgical excellence and step-by-step commentary from the surgical team.
Read Sneak Peek →Public Entities
Designed for professionals serving local and state agencies, this breakout focuses on the legal, medical, operational, and public safety issues facing municipalities, counties, school boards, and other public entities.
Read Sneak Peek →Attorney
A fast-moving look at the legal issues shaping workers’ compensation practice today, with insight from judges, litigators, and appellate attorneys on courtroom strategy, emerging trends, cybersecurity, privacy, and data-protection responsibilities.
Watch & Read Sneak Peek →Professional Employer Organization
Explore the trends, strategies, and industry issues shaping today’s PEO workers’ compensation landscape.
Watch & Read Sneak Peek →Temporary Staffing
Staffing professionals will gain practical strategies for reducing claims costs, improving return-to-work outcomes, and strengthening workforce performance.
Read Sneak Peek →Physical Therapy
This breakout focuses on communication, expectation-setting, appropriate therapy approaches, strategic oversight, and emerging technologies shaping the future of patient care and treatment delivery.
Watch & Read Sneak Peek →Medicare Secondary Payer Compliance
Stay ahead of one of the most complex areas of workers’ compensation claims management with timely insights and actionable takeaways designed to help you settle smarter and stay compliant.
Watch & Read Sneak Peek →Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Act, Jones Act, and Defense Base Act
Navigate complex maritime and federal workers’ compensation systems with timely updates and practical guidance for Longshore, Jones Act, and Defense Base Act claims.
Read Sneak Peek →Liability Claims
New for WCI 2026, this breakout examines rising liability claims, litigation complexity, fraud exposure, and claim costs—along with practical strategies for managing litigation, preventing catastrophic losses, and using analytics and AI to reduce fraud.
Watch & Read Sneak Peek →Professional Mediation Conference
Open to all attendees, this conference offers practical tools for navigating complex mediations—from motion practice, settlement writing, and ethics to AI, Medicare/MSA strategies, communication, and collaboration among adjusters and attorneys.
Read Sneak Peek →National Workers’ Compensation Review Breakout
Get a national look at the legal, medical, actuarial, and human factors shaping today’s workers’ compensation landscape.
Watch & Read Sneak Peek →Multi-State Workers’ Compensation Laws Breakout
Presented by the Workers’ Compensation Defense Institute, this breakout helps attendees navigate workers’ compensation claims across multiple jurisdictions.
Watch & Read Sneak Peek →Workplace Safety & Health Breakout
Focused on prevention, risk reduction, and better workers’ compensation outcomes, this breakout explores how organizations can build safer, healthier workplaces.
Watch & Read Sneak Peek →Return-to-Work Breakout
This breakout explores how mindset, communication, leadership, and proactive strategies can improve outcomes for injured workers.
Watch & Read Sneak Peek →OSHA 10-Hour Construction Industry Training
Earn your OSHA 10-Hour Construction Industry certification while gaining practical knowledge to recognize, avoid, and prevent common workplace hazards.
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