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BRDG 2027 / Theme & Tracks
2027 SUMMIT THEME
The edge is where care is hardest to deliver and where it matters most: the point of injury, the disaster zone, the miles and minutes between an emergency and definitive treatment.
It is also the leading edge of what is possible, where new technology, training, and partnerships change the odds. BRDG 2027 convenes the people who work at that edge: government, industry, and academia, across the full arc of care from the point of injury to definitive treatment.
Explore the tracksConnected across the full arc of care
The conversations that move care forward
From the first response to lasting recovery, and every breakthrough in between.
The continuum
The continuum that defines the mission. This track follows care from the moment of injury through prehospital response, en route care, and damage control, into definitive treatment. It brings together the providers who live it, medics, corpsmen, paramedics, EMTs, nurses, and physicians across every service and every civilian system, with the innovators building what they carry next.
Readiness at scale
Mass casualty, natural disaster, and complex emergency demand the same thing: readiness at scale when the system is overwhelmed. This track connects federal, state, and regional response, emergency management, fire and EMS, and the disaster medicine community to the capabilities that keep response coordinated and care moving when it matters most.
From proof to practice
Great technology stalls in the gap between the lab bench and the field. This track spotlights the testbeds, regulatory pathways, and end-user environments that move proven capability into the hands of providers faster, and the partnerships that make that path repeatable rather than one-off.
One breakthrough. Every environment.
The best trauma and disaster innovation serves the warfighter and the community alike. This track explores the crossover between military medicine and civilian care, and the non-dilutive and commercial pathways that let a single breakthrough reach every environment where lives are on the line.
Fueling what comes next
Sustained innovation needs sustained investment and the policy to back it. This track brings appropriators, program leaders, and funders into direct conversation with the companies and institutions building the future of trauma and disaster care.
Where sectors meet
The breakthroughs happen where sectors meet. Collisions is our cross-sector format built for exactly that: government, industry, and academia in the same room, on the same problem, making the connections that don't happen anywhere else.
Care beyond the injury
Care at the edge doesn’t end at the point of injury; it continues through every transition from military treatment facility to VA, clinic to home, and active duty to civilian life. This track highlights research, clinical innovation, and implementation efforts in rehabilitation, traumatic brain injury, polytrauma, chronic pain, behavioral health and PTSD, suicide prevention, and community reintegration, especially approaches that close gaps at those transitions and foster collaboration among VA, DoD, academic, and community partners.
San Antonio / April 7, 2027
Find your place at the edge.