May 11, 2026 —The McMorrow Reports & FMLink editors will be attending NeoCon’s educational programming (both on-site and virtual) featuring experts sharing the latest strategies, emerging technologies, sustainable practices, and forward-thinking concepts. Eileen McMorrow, editor-in-chief, McMorrow Reports & FMLink, is on the NeoCon volunteer conference board and evaluated submissions to Workplace and Technology. The Healthcare topics were evaluated by experts in healthcare design, facility management, and media. Registration is open, and content for the virtual CEUs becomes available on June 7, 2026, at 8:00 a.m. EDT and will be available on-demand through December 31. Advance registration is required.
NeoCon offers more than 60 AIA- and IDCEC-approved CEU sessions, featuring 150+ thought leaders and industry experts across a wide range of timely topics.
Here are sessions of interest to Healthcare FMs and designers:
Beyond Compliance: Guide to Creating Elevated Mothers’ Rooms
Beyond Compliance is a 1-hour (1 learning unit) IDCEC-approved course for interior designers, architects, facilities management and workplace wellness leaders. The course explores how thoughtful workplace design can transform legally required lactation spaces into restorative, empowering environments. Through a mix of policy context, human-centered research, and real-world design examples, attendees will learn how to go beyond minimum compliance to create spaces that enhance wellness, equity, and efficiency for working mothers. See the presentation: A Designer’s Guide to Creating Legal, Beautiful, and Empowering Mothers’ Rooms here. Read about Brie Tascione, CMO, MilkMate here.
Designing Healthcare Workplaces Where Staff Thrive
Four HDR design principles will explore how the built environment can actively support the people who provide healthcare services every day. As staffing shortages, burnout, and retention challenges continue to impact health systems, workplace design has emerged as a critical — yet often underutilized — tool for change. This seminar reframes healthcare interiors not only as places of care delivery, but as environments that influence staff well-being, performance, and resilience. Using research insights, design strategies, and real-world examples, the presentation examines how factors such as daylight access, acoustic control, spatial equity, intuitive circulation, and restorative spaces can reduce cognitive load and emotional fatigue for staff. We will focus on often-overlooked back-of-house environments, highlighting how thoughtful planning of work zones, respite areas, and team spaces can foster connection, dignity, and psychological safety. Projects with Cedars-Sinai, UCSF and Scripps will be referenced. See speakers here.
Got Healthcare Flooring? Let’s Talk Dirt!
The Durable Coated Finishes Task Group has completed a flooring survey titled Survey Tool for Resilient Flooring Failures for Healthcare Specifiers. The survey examines challenges faced by end users such as contributing factors to premature resilient flooring failures in healthcare environments. Selecting the right product for the right application is essential across all healthcare settings, e.g., acute, outpatient, and long-term care, to support patient safety, staff efficiency, and infection prevention. The interdisciplinary panel brings design, infection control, and manufacturing expertise to provide a comprehensive perspective on developing sustainable healthcare flooring specifications. Key survey findings will be shared alongside practical recommendations using a multi-attribute approach to selections. Early collaboration among the design team, frontline staff, and administration supports informed decision-making to achieve durable, performance-driven flooring selections. See speakers here.
Return on Emotion: Reframing Value in Healthcare Experience
Healthcare design has long been measured through efficiency, cost and operational performance. While necessary, these metrics no longer capture the value of care environments. As expectations evolve and healthcare grows more complex, experience has emerged as a critical yet underdefined driver. A design leader and design director from HKS will challenge the ROI-first mindset that dominates healthcare decision-making and introduces experience mapping as an empathy-led design approach. Rather than relying on hospitality analogies, experience is reframed as a deliberate, research-informed process rooted in human emotion and lived experience. It asks a fundamental question: what if emotional return were treated as a designable outcome? Drawing from cross-industry research, the session explores how experience shapes perception and performance across the care continuum. Attendees will gain strategies to reframe value conversations, integrate empathy into early planning and advocate for experience beyond cost and efficiency. See speakers here.
If you are attending NeoCon in person, all seven exhibition floors of The Mart — 1, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11 and 14 — will be open. Show registration is free for all attendees. Keynotes will be delivered live on-site and will also be available for streaming on NeoCon.com. Programming registration is open for Keynotes, Featured Presentations, Continuing Education Units (CEUs), Workshops, NeoCon Talks, and Inside Design tours.
