What's New

An Experience You Won’t Want to Miss

Get ready for our most comprehensive and dynamic meeting yet, featuring new and reimagined experiences that elevate your learning, build community, and redefine what it means to receive unmatched value from your annual meeting registration. We’re bringing you everything you love — plus bold innovations and fresh ideas that set a new standard for excellence.

A Fresh and Reimagined Lineup

This year, your registration goes even further with a dynamic lineup of new and reimagined experiences, including: 

Education

• Four Days of Education: Packed with fresh content from start to finish, with sessions running Monday morning through Thursday afternoon.


• Two Full Days of Workshops (27 total): Something for every interest, specialty, and career stage — now included with your registration!


• Career Forums: Medical Student Symposium, Chief Residents Forum, and Leadership Forum — now included with your registration.


• Dynamic General Sessions: Featuring interactive plenaries, inspiring keynotes, and moments designed to engage, energize, and spark conversation.


• Lightning Orals Replace ePosters: Fast-paced, engaging presentations designed to keep the energy high and ideas flowing.


• Two Landmark Consensus Conferences: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of EM and Rebuilding Trust in Emergency Medicine — both included with your registration.


• The EM Hackathon: A high-energy innovation challenge that sparks creativity, teamwork, and real-world, data-driven solutions to EM challenges — free with your SAEM26 registration.

Events

• MedWAR: The Ultimate Wilderness Medicine Race returns — a fast-paced, team-based medical adventure through Atlanta’s 200-acre Piedmont Park.


• Pickleball Tournament: A brand-new social and networking event — fun, fitness, and friendly rivalry, SAEM-style.


• Food Is Medicine Volunteer Event: Join Open Hand Atlanta to roll up your sleeves and give back through this meaningful community service opportunity.
  
  
• Annual Meeting Mentorship Program: A simple, one-time mentorship meeting during the SAEM Annual Meeting that’s easy to join and complete.

Exhibit Hall

SAEM26 introduces new spaces in the Exhibit Hall designed to deepen learning, support career development, and create meaningful opportunities for connection beyond traditional sessions and exhibits:

• Jobs Pavilion: A centralized exhibit hall destination where attendees can explore academic emergency medicine career opportunities, connect with recruiters, and engage in focused conversations about jobs and professional growth.
  
  
• Knowledge Hub: A career-focused destination offering brief, practical sessions and recruiter connections to help attendees prepare for meaningful job and career conversations.
  
  
• Roundtable Hub: An informal, post-session conversation space where attendees can continue discussions with speakers, ask questions, and dive deeper into session topics.
  
  
• Academies Hub: A dedicated place to connect with SAEM’s nine Academies, learn about their work, explore career pathways, and engage with specialty-focused communities.

Learn more about each new SAEM26 Exhibit Hall experience below.

Job Pavilion

Located in the Exhibit Hall, the SAEM Job Pavilion is a dedicated destination for attendees interested in exploring career opportunities and advancing their professional goals in academic emergency medicine. By bringing recruiting institutions and career-focused organizations together in one centralized space, the pavilion makes it easy for visitors to have focused, high-value conversations about jobs, leadership pathways, mentorship, and career growth. Designed for clinicians and educators at every career stage—from residents and fellows to senior faculty—the Job Pavilion offers an efficient, intentional environment where attendees can explore opportunities, ask informed questions, and connect with organizations shaping the future of the specialty.

Knowledge Hub

Located within the Jobs Pavilion, the Knowledge Hub is a centralized career-development destination offering short, practical micro-programming on the exhibit floor. Through 15–20 minute sessions, attendees receive actionable guidance on topics such as CV development, interviewing, and career transitions, while gaining insight into what recruiters are really looking for. By pairing focused education with proximity to recruiters, this hub prepares attendees for confident, productive career conversations they can apply immediately.

Roundtable Hub

Located within SAEM booth #315 in the SAEM26 Exhibit Hall, the Roundtable Hub is a welcoming conversation space designed to extend learning beyond the session room. Following select sessions, speakers and session leaders host informal, 30–45 minute discussions where attendees can continue the conversation, ask questions they didn’t have time to raise, and explore session topics in a more interactive, small-group setting. This hub offers deeper engagement with session content, direct access to presenters, and meaningful peer-to-peer exchange.

Academies Hub

The Academies Hub, located within SAEM booth #315 in the SAEM26 Exhibit Hall, provides a dedicated space for attendees to connect with representatives from SAEM’s nine Academies at scheduled times throughout the meeting. Each Academy represents a distinct community within academic emergency medicine, bringing together members with shared interests and expertise. Attendees can learn about Academy initiatives, explore career pathways, network with peers, and discuss opportunities to collaborate in education, research, policy, and faculty development.

 

Everything you love — plus fresh ideas, renewed energy, and a few fun surprises!