**All Times Listed are EST**
11:30am-12:00pm How To Session
12:00-1:00pm Welcome, How To, Small Group Introductions and Association Business Meeting
1:00-2:00pm Hot Rock Session
2:-2:30pm Dedicated Exhibit Hall Time
2:30-4:00pm Panel Session – The Future is Meow
4:00-5:00pm Networking Event – Trivia Nigh!
12:00am-1:00pm Welcome, Small Group Introductions, Hot Rock Session
1:00-1:40pm Networking Event
1:40-2:15pm Dedicated Exhibit Hall Time
2:15 – 4:20pm Two Hot Rock Sessions
4:30-5:45pm Sponsor Roundtables
12:00-1:45pm Welcome, Small Group Introductions, Panel Session – Complete Compensation
1:45-2:15pm Dedicated Exhibit Hall Time
2:30-4:30pm Two Hot Rock Sessions
4:30-5:30pm CareCredit Social
What would a VetPartners meeting be without Hot Rocks presentations? Check out the lineup!
Do you listen to the radio? Your favorite radio personality knows the secrets to connecting with an unseen audience – secrets you’ll learn in this session. Sandy Weaver is a former award-winning major-market radio personality who’ll share the secrets to creating connection in a virtual setting.
Veterinary practices are busy, hectic places. Practitioners sometimes wish they could clone themselves, to get more done with less. And, when veterinary specialists are backlogged with cases, which is most of the time, veterinarians wish they could also clone their specialists! Cloning may not be available today, but artificial intelligence (AI) is. AI is showing great promise in veterinary medicine for helping practitioners do more with less … getting diagnostic results faster, starting treatment more quickly, delivering better patient care, and increasing revenue in the process. This session will help attendees understand what AI is, see how it is being applied today in veterinary medicine, and understand how it can be used to improve patient health and solve some of the problems facing the veterinary profession. Presented by Conor Guptil and Seth Wallack.
Veterinary Hospitals are experiencing increased hostility from stressed our clients. Exhausted team members are being abused and many are departing for easier jobs leaving teams even more stretched. We are going to be dealing with this pressure for awhile longer so how can we manage better communication and stop the madness? This talk will share some brain science insights and communication tips to calm the savage client. Presented by Debbie Boone.
The need to find answers usually starts with a question. In this proof of concept study, the question was “How does proactively educating clients about pet health insurance really impact veterinary teams, pet owners and the care that pets receive?” To find the answers to this question, and with the support of the ASPCA® Pet Health Insurance program, Dr. Wendy Hauser designed and implemented a two year clinical study. The objective of one portion of the study was to identify what barriers prevented veterinary teams from having cost of care conversations with clients. The study uncovered five key barriers that inhibited the proactive education of clients about pet health insurance, and more globally, prevented team members from entering into cost of care conversations with clients. Solutions to overcome each of these barriers will be presented by Dr. Hauser.
Succession planning and practice sales aren’t every consultant’s area of specialty but having at least a basic understanding of evolving trends in the profession is important for all advisors. This session will provide an overview of the changing landscape in practice real estate sales which everyone should know about as well as delve into some of the details that are of particular importance to those regularly working with practice transitions. Presented by Karen E. Felsted, CPA, MS, DVM, CVPM, CVA, and Daniel Eisenstadt. Topics to be included:
Overview of changes in the veterinary real estate market and the role of buyers, brokers, developers and other intermediaries:
Do veterinary real estate appraisals properly reflect the value of veterinary real estate?
Strategies to improve the value of veterinary real estate:
Top 5 lease terms that drive real estate value
Case Study using Terravet Real Estate Dashboard (this is a worksheet that will be available for attendees)
The Annual Meeting will also feature two panel discussions revolving around relevant and timely topics that impact your career on a daily basis. During each panel discussion, you’ll move into smaller breakout discussions to dig deeper into the subject and share ideas with your colleagues.
One of the key points of any conference is connecting with colleagues to help better your business, and the veterinary medicine industry as a whole. At VetPartners 2021 Annual Meeting, we will pool our considerable knowledge and resources to focus on networking and achieving our goals. More are being added all the time, but some of our exclusive networking opportunities include:
To help further your connections and build your network, you will retain access to the conference platform through the end of 2020.
We are incorporating gamification elements in the event platform, and we will be giving away some fantastic prizes!
Each action you take in the system provides you with points and badges. You earn points for watching sessions, visiting sponsor and exhibitors, participating in networking sessions, downloading session resources and more. The top three highest point earners will win super grand prizes.
We’ll also have a few smaller contests that you’ll see pop-up during the week on the platform. Be sure to participate and you could win big!