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01 / The Agenda
Three days. Plus one.
50 sessions across two parallel tracks, plus an optional CEU day. Pick a day, or filter by session type.
Day One
Thursday, September 24
Arrival & Opening Night
Check-in opens at 5:30 PM, Drew Contreras of the APTA delivers the opening keynote, and the Meet the Titans reception runs into the night.
5:30 – 9:00 PM
6:30 – 6:45 PM
Keynote
Opening Welcome: State of Private Practice
Chad Madden Breakthrough / Madden & Gilbert Physical Therapy
Where private practice PT actually stands going into 2027: reimbursement, staffing, cash pay, and what the next twelve months demand of owners.
6:45 – 7:45 PM
Keynote Opening Keynote
Shifts Happen
Drew Contreras, DPT American Physical Therapy Association
What's changing in physical therapy at the national level, and how to get ahead of it instead of reacting to it.
7:45 – 8:00 PM
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Thursday Wrap-Up & Preview of Friday and Saturday
Chad Madden Breakthrough
8:00 – 9:00 PM
Networking
Welcome Reception · Meet the Titans
Cocktails and open networking. All attendees.
Nothing in this category on Thursday. Try another day or clear the filter.
Day Two
Friday, September 25
Two Concurrent Tracks
Two parallel tracks run all day, main stage and breakout room. Larry Benz takes the main stage at 3:00 PM with the systems that turn a practice into a legacy.
7:00 – 8:00 AM
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Registration & Morning Coffee
Doors open, sponsor expo open.
8:00 – 8:30 AM
Keynote
State of Private Practice & Intro to Titans
Chad Madden Breakthrough
Day one kickoff and the frame for everything that follows.
8:30 – 9:30 AM
Compliance & Advocacy Main Stage CEU Session
The Compliance Statute Hiding in Plain Sight
Mary Daulong, PT, CHC, CHP BCMS
When we think of healthcare compliance, most of us immediately think of HIPAA, OSHA, Medicare, Anti-Kickback Act, OIG Advisories, and the like. Those are all essential. Yet there is another statute that is rarely discussed as part of a compliance program. It has the power to change your life if disregarded.
Compliance & Advocacy Breakout Room 8:30 – 9:00 AM
Advocacy Panel
Katie Brittain & Freddie Ann Chandler, Scott Gardner, Drew Contreras, Simon Hargus Partners in PT · Gardner PT · APTA · First Settlement PT
What is moving in Washington and in the states, and the specific levers a private practice owner can actually pull.
9:00 – 9:30 AM
Team & Leadership Breakout Room VIP Session
How to Hire and Staff Unlimited DPTs
Ben Wobker Lake Washington Physical Therapy
The recruiting pipeline, offer structure, and onboarding that keep clinician seats filled instead of open.
9:30 – 10:00 AM
Scale & Growth Main Stage
The Model of the Future for a Scalable Private Practice: The Partnership Model
Tracy Causey P4 Physical Therapy
How structuring your practice around a partnership model creates the alignment, accountability, and shared ownership that fuel sustainable growth.
Team & Leadership Breakout Room
How to Build a Team of A Players — And What to Do with the Ones Who Aren't
Lance Gross GTS Physical Therapy
Learn to identify A, B, C, and D players, and get a clear framework for developing, managing, or moving on.
10:00 – 10:15 AM
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Break & Networking
10:15 – 10:45 AM
Scale & Growth Main Stage
How to Scale from One Clinic to Many Without Breaking Everything You've Built
Marty Blair & Amy Morris, PT STAR Physical Therapy
The SOPs, leadership layers, and financial controls that finally let you step back.
Team & Leadership Breakout Room
Stop Being the Bottleneck: Build the Leadership Layer That Runs the Practice Without You
Sturdy McKee, PT Sturdy Coaching
The delegation structure and accountability rhythms that move decisions off your desk for good.
10:45 – 11:15 AM
Marketing & Patients Main Stage
Customer Experience Panel
George Hess, Steve Line, Amit Gaglani Hess PT · Columbus PT · Arrow PT
What three owners changed about the patient journey, from first call to discharge, and what it did to retention and referrals.
Cash Pay Breakout Room
How to Add $100K+ Per Year in Cash Services With a Simple 3-Step Patient Conversion System
Aaron LeBauer, PT LeBauer Physical Therapy
The conversation framework that turns insurance patients into cash-pay clients without a hard sell.
11:15 – 11:45 AM
Team & Leadership Main Stage
Freedom By Design: How to Create Profitability Without Being Trapped in the Day to Day
Jamey Schrier, PT Practice Freedom U
The systems, accountability rhythms, and leadership decisions that give you your life back.
Revenue & Ops Breakout Room
The Numbers That Are Running Your Practice — Whether You Are Looking at Them or Not
Mike Gilbert Madden & Gilbert Physical Therapy
The KPIs, per-location unit economics, and financial disciplines that separate a profitable practice from a busy one.
11:45 AM – 1:00 PM
Networking
Lunch Mastermind & Networking
Lunch with the room. A Discovery Day lunch runs alongside it in the breakout room, invite only.
1:00 – 1:30 PM
Revenue & Ops Main Stage
Greater Profit = Greater Purpose: Why You Should Make as Much Money as Ethically Possible
Will Humphreys Rockstar Global
The case for profit as the engine of mission, and how to build a team that makes it possible.
1:30 – 2:00 PM
Team & Leadership Main Stage
Titan Talks
Stacey Schatz, Sean Weatherston, Jack Zuckerman Professional PT · Altitude PT · Total Recovery PT
Three short talks from the main stage: the bus chat that changed a career, how to structure a partner split, and what PT churn is really costing you.
2:00 – 2:30 PM
Cash Pay Main Stage
The Modality Revenue Model: Turn Laser and Shockwave into Your Most Profitable Service Line
Mark Callanen, PT · with Tony Cere and Josh Colbert Enovis · Kinetix PT · Performance Therapy Institute
A cash-pay panel on pricing, positioning, and staffing a modality service line that patients actually pay for.
Revenue & Ops Breakout Room
Leading AI in Private Practice: What Every Owner Needs to Know
Pedro Teixeira VP of AI Engineering · Prompt
Where AI is already changing documentation, scheduling, and front-desk work, and what an owner should decide about it this year.
2:30 – 3:00 PM
Revenue & Ops Main Stage
The Highly Profitable Practice: Maximizing Value in Your Clinic for Current Profit and Later Sale
Nathan Shields Private Practice Owners Club
The levers that raise profit today and multiple tomorrow, and why they are mostly the same levers.
Marketing & Patients Breakout Room
Expanding Access, Maintaining Outcomes
Kimberlee Sullivan Origin Physical Therapy
How to serve more patients without diluting the results that built your reputation, plus the technology that makes it possible.
3:00 – 4:00 PM
Keynote
Can Your Practice Hear Itself?
Larry Benz, PT, DPT Confluent Health
Doing the Right Things Right: building a practice that outlasts you. The systems, culture, and leadership decisions that keep a practice growing long after you step back.
4:00 – 4:15 PM
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Break & Networking
4:15 – 4:45 PM
Team & Leadership Main Stage
Building Your Draft Board: Developing Leaders Who Can Run a Clinic Without You
Ben Wobker Lake Washington Physical Therapy
Regional directors, clinic director development, and the accountability structures that let you grow without being everywhere.
4:45 – 5:00 PM
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Day One Wrap-Up & Preview of Saturday
Chad Madden Breakthrough
5:00 PM onward
Networking
Evening Free · Optional Dinner & Networking
Nashville is out there. Go find a group and go.
6:30 – 8:30 PM
Networking
VIP Contributor Dinner
Curated guest list: speaking contributors and key partners.
Nothing in this category on Friday. Try another day or clear the filter.
Day Three
Saturday, September 26
Two Concurrent Tracks & Closing Night
Both tracks run all day, Chad closes with a twelve-month action plan, and the night ends with the book launch party and award ceremony.
7:30 – 8:00 AM
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Morning Coffee & Networking
8:00 – 8:30 AM
CEU & Clinical Main Stage
Manual Therapy
Dan Neff Neff Physical Therapy
A preview of Sunday's CEU course: systematic evaluation and manual treatment that produces consistently great outcomes.
Scale & Growth Breakout Room
They Cut Our Rates by 50%. We Built a Multimillion-Dollar Company
Dimitrios Kostopoulos & Konstantine Rizopoulos Hands-On Companies
When carriers cut reimbursement by nearly half across a 13-location, 3,000-visit-per-week practice, they expanded diagnostics instead of waiting. How to turn reimbursement pressure into clinical expansion and professional authority.
8:30 – 9:00 AM
Scale & Growth Main Stage Fireside Chat
What Your Practice Is Actually Worth — And How to Change That Number
Paul Welk, PT Tucker Law
A fireside chat on valuations, PE roll-ups, and the financial architecture that separates a sellable practice from one you are trapped in.
Team & Leadership Breakout Room
From Clinician to CEO: The Identity Shift Your Practice Has Been Waiting For
Jamey Schrier, PT Practice Freedom U
The mindset, habits, and hard decisions that separate owners who scale from those who stay stuck.
9:00 – 9:30 AM
Team & Leadership Main Stage
The Neuroscience of Leadership
Garrett Salpeter NeuFit
What the nervous system tells us about how people respond to pressure, change, and being led.
9:30 – 10:00 AM
Team & Leadership Main Stage
Clinician-CEO Models in Healthcare
Josh Funk Rehab 2 Perform
Intrapreneurship, profit sharing, and business literacy as retention tools. Earning pathways that keep great clinicians engaged and turn them into owners of outcomes.
Team & Leadership Breakout Room
Session To Be Announced
Will Humphreys Rockstar Global
10:00 – 10:15 AM
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Break & Networking
10:15 – 11:15 AM
Cash Pay Main Stage CEU Session
Cash Pay Done Right: How to Add Revenue That Doesn't Live and Die With the Payers
Ben England Torrentia Medical
Add hybrid and cash-based services without alienating your staff or your insurance patients.
Revenue & Ops Breakout Room VIP Session
Own the AI Wave, or Get Rolled By It: Will Your Revenue Cycle Increase Your Business Value, or Someone Else's?
Robert Kowalick Ascend Solutions
What AI is already doing to claims, coding, and collections, and how to make sure the gains land on your balance sheet.
11:15 – 11:45 AM
Revenue & Ops Main Stage
Data Isn't a Four-Letter Word: Use What You Already Collect to Protect Margin and Elevate Clinical Quality
Alex Bendersky WebPT
The data you already collect is more valuable than you think. Used well, it can strengthen your margin and help clinicians deliver more consistent, high-quality care.
Scale & Growth Breakout Room VIP Session
How to Open New Locations From Scratch
Josh Funk Rehab 2 Perform
Site selection, ramp math, and the staffing sequence behind a de novo location that gets to profitable.
11:45 AM – 12:45 PM
Networking
Lunch Mastermind & Networking
Lunch with the room. A Discovery Day lunch runs alongside it in the breakout room, invite only.
12:45 – 1:15 PM
Marketing & Patients Main Stage
Great at Treating, Terrible at Selling — and Why Your Patients Suffer for It
Doug Adams RunDNA
The plan-of-care conversation most PTs get wrong, and what it costs patients when they walk out early.
1:15 – 1:45 PM
Scale & Growth Main Stage
The Acquisition System: How to Buy a Clinic and Not Regret It
Ryan Christoff The Physical Therapy Institute
What to look for, what to walk away from, and how to integrate a practice without inheriting its problems.
Revenue & Ops Breakout Room
The Clinic Ops System: How to Make Every Location Run Like Your Best One
Dan Hinnerschitz & Jan Grove Madden & Gilbert Physical Therapy
The scorecards, standard work, and site-visit cadence that close the gap between your best clinic and your worst.
1:45 – 2:30 PM
Marketing & Patients
Is Your Website Sending New Patients to Your Competitors? OR Marketing Data: What Is Working in Marketing Today
Carl Mattiola Breakthrough
The room picks the direction. Either the website session — why Google rankings don't mean what they used to, and how patients now find practices through AI search — or the marketing data session, on what is actually working right now, tested across hundreds of practices. Q&A either way.
2:30 – 2:45 PM
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Break
2:45 – 3:15 PM
Revenue & Ops Main Stage CEU Session
Financial Stability Before Scalability: RCM Optimization as a Growth Strategy
Robert Kowalick Ascend Solutions
Revenue cycle, payer contracts, and the internal audit you need before you scale.
Scale & Growth Breakout Room VIP Session
How to Acquire Clinics and How to Sell Your Practice
Paul Welk, PT Tucker Law
Both sides of the table: what a buyer diligences, what a seller should clean up first, and where deals fall apart.
3:15 – 3:45 PM
Team & Leadership Main Stage
Culture Panel
Bob Bacci, Jared Pugmire, Sterling Carter Bacci & Glinn PT · High Desert PT · Sterling PT
Three owners on what culture actually looks like day to day: hiring, firing, and the standards you refuse to bend.
Team & Leadership Breakout Room
Titan Talks
Deepak Sharma, Pratik Shah Primus Physiotherapy · iMotion Physical Therapy
Deepak Sharma on “The Bottleneck Is You”: what 128 hours, two clinics, and a handful of side bets taught him about building businesses that outgrow their owner. Pratik Shah on “The Thousand Days”: a framework for building a practice that outlasts you.
4:00 – 4:45 PM
Keynote
Closing: Your Next 12 Months: Commitments & Action Planning
Chad Madden Breakthrough
You leave with a written plan, not a notebook full of ideas. Whole audience, main stage.
4:45 – 5:00 PM
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Send-Off, Photos & Closing Remarks
6:30 – 9:30 PM
Networking
Book Launch Party & Award Ceremony
The Titans of Private Practice PT book launch, plus awards recognizing the owners behind it.
Nothing in this category on Saturday. Try another day or clear the filter.
Bonus Day · Optional Add-On
Sunday, September 27
CEU Courses · Separate Registration
An optional accredited add-on. Two courses, each requiring a separate ticket selection: 10 contact hours for 10 CEUs with Ben England, or 6 contact hours for 6 CEUs with Dan Neff.
8:00 AM – 6:00 PM
CEU & Clinical 10 CEUs · Add-On
The Orthobiological Hacker (Day 1)
Ben England Torrentia Medical
10 contact hours, 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM, awarding 10 CEUs. The OBH Certification by Torrentia is the first PT certification focused on regenerative medicine and advanced rehab technologies. A hands-on, lab-based intensive covering shockwave, Class IV laser, ARPwave electrical stim, dry needling, and brain stimulation, plus functional medicine principles. Built for PTs, ATCs, and DCs who want clear systems for treating cases that used to plateau and frameworks for monetizing premium cash-pay services.
8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
CEU & Clinical 6 CEUs · Add-On
Differential Diagnosis for the Primary Care Physical Therapist
Dan Neff Neff Physical Therapy
6 contact hours, 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM, awarding 6 CEUs. Become a Breakthrough C.O.M.T. (Certified Orthopedic Manual Therapist) through our manual therapy certification. Learn proven systematic evaluation and manual treatments that produce consistently great outcomes. Establish your clinic as the leader in pain relief in your area.
Nothing in this category on Sunday. Try another day or clear the filter.
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