Overjet AI Summit 2026: Summary, Moments, and Video Highlights
The first-ever Overjet AI Summit wrapped in Scottsdale. 50+ speakers shared how they're using AI in dental practices and DSOs, and a packed room took notes. Relive it below with photos, highlights, and links.
Welcome Party
Welcome party: Day 1 kicked off at the Kimpton Miralina with cocktails, leather-stamped coasters and luggage tags from our partners at Daydream, and attendees and sponsors mingling in the Arizona sun.
Keynote: Wardah Inam, CEO, Overjet
Wardah opened the main stage with a simple idea: AI finally gives us tools to fix problems dentistry has lived with for decades, and we can build the fix together.
“I'm so excited about the moment we're living in today, where AI gives us an opportunity to look at the problems that have existed for decades, that have frustrated you, that have frustrated your teams, that we can finally start to solve and solve them in a way that's better for the patient, it's better for the provider, and everybody wins.”
Wardah Inam, Overjet
C-Suite Panel: Payers and Providers at the Same Table
Payer and provider panel: Wardah sat down with Jennifer MacGilvray, SVP and Chief Quality Officer at Delta Dental of California, and Rezwan Manji, CEO of Imagen Dental Partners, for a candid conversation on how payers and providers are teaming up on AI, with the patient at the center.
“We really focused on the clinician and put the patient first, because if you do that, the rest is just going to work itself out.”
Rezwan Manji, Imagen Dental Partners
Lightning Talks
Lightning talks (Day 1): For many, the highlight of the Summit. DSO and private practice peers showed how they use AI day to day, from homegrown apps to agentic workforces to simply getting a team on board. Every talk ended with something attendees could try on Monday.
“Don't treat AI like a tool. Treat it like a super power.”
Dr. Mitchell Ellingson, SGA Dental Partners
Medical Did It First
Dr. Natalia Chalmers, Chief Dental Officer and Head of Clinical Innovation at Overjet, Hillel Lehmann, Managing Director at New Mountain Capital, and Dr. Craig Norquist, CMIO at HonorHealth
Lessons from health care: Dr. Norquist, who rolled out ambient AI to emergency room providers at a large Arizona health system, and Hillel Lehmann of New Mountain Capital shared what dentistry can borrow from health care's AI and RCM rollouts.
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From Prompt to Production
Phil Toh, Founder and President at The Smilist, Tracy Roth, VP of Analytics at Imagen Dental Partners, Dr. Mark Dawoud, Chief Dental Officer at Oak Dental Partners, and moderated by Dr. Aman Kaur, CEO and President of Women in DSO
Builders panel: No engineering team required. Three leaders shared the agents, apps, and workflows they actually built and deployed.
Mid-Day Keynote: The Next-Gen DSO
Christopher Moxon, Managing Director and Partner, Boston Consulting Group
Quick break for a coffee cart sponsored by CareQuest, which kept everyone buzzing all day.
Let's Build!
Hands-on workshops: The whole conference split into two rooms, opened their laptops, and got to work building agents and digging into their own data. Led by Hayyan and Mohamed, both sessions were a hit.
The Impact of Dental AI
Vince Dilley, CEO, Platinum Dental Group & Chris Thompson, Head of Sales, Overjet
Revenue Cycle AI
Randa Seif, COO, Cali Dental & Balaji Mohanam, Head of Product Overjet
Sunset in Scottsdale
Sunset reception: As the sun set over Scottsdale, the day wrapped with cocktails, perfect weather, and robotic caricatures from our partners at Daydream. Not a bad first Summit.
Breakfast in the Pavilion
Day 3 breakfast: Day 3 started with breakfast, coffee, and catching up with new friends in the pavilion before the morning sessions.
The AI-Native Patient Experience
Moderated by Dr. Parag Kachalia, with Dr. Manu Choudhary (Capitol Dental Care), Dr. Ankoo Raina (Jefferson), and Dr. Nabil Fehmi (Westwind)
Patient experience panel: Three leaders from the payer, operations, and clinical sides took on one question: how does AI make care genuinely better, not just faster?
The Next Generation Dental Office
Christopher Moxon (BCG), Andy Nelson (Juniper), Dr. John Poczatek (Smile Partners USA), Dr. Justin Lai (Dyntl)
Practice of the Future: These leaders already use AI at every patient touchpoint. They shared what it takes to build the dental office of the future.
Quick Break for some photo booth photos!
Voice AI Live Demo
Voice skit: Dr. Jan Jaffer, CEO of TREC Dental, Dr. Alex Otto, Co-Founder and Chief Dental Officer at Alcan Dental Cooperative, and Mohamed Aly, Head of Voice and Operations at Overjet, took the stage for a live skit showing how Voice notes, perio charting, and hard tissue charting work in a real practice.
Dr. Jan Jaffer CEO of TREC Dental, Dr. Alex Otto Co-Founder and Chief Dental Officer at Alcan Dental Cooperative, and Mohamed Aly, Head of Voice and Operations at Overjet took the stage to show a skit of how Voice notes, perio charting, and hard tissue charting work in a real-life setting.
Lightning Talks, Continued
Lightning talks (Day 3): Round two of lightning talks. Dental leaders shared how AI is working in their daily operations, the impact it's had, and what you can take home.
Let's Build, Part 2
Innovation Labs: Day 3 put builders to work, creating custom tools and dashboards with Codex, powered by their own data.
Dr. Howard Farran, Founder and CEO, Dentaltown
Dr. Farran took the main stage right before the awards with an unfiltered call to action for the room.
“You need to lean into AI first and fast.”
Dr. Howard Farran, Dentaltown
Award Winners
Wardah closed the Summit by recognizing the people who built, shared, and showed up the most.
