SIIM, DPA launch joint conference pass

The Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine and the Digital Pathology Association have launched a joint conference pass that gives members access to both organizations’ 2026 annual meetings.

The SIIM-DPA Bridge Pass covers SIIM26, scheduled for June 10 to 12 in Pittsburgh, and Pathology Visions 2026, scheduled for October 16 to 18 in San Diego. SIIM describes the offer as a single discounted payment for both conferences.

The pass is available to DPA members and SIIM members, including new and renewing members. The offer is available through May 29, 2026, according to SIIM’s annual meeting page.

Pricing starts at $999 for members of both DPA and SIIM. DPA members who are new SIIM members can access the pass for $1,099, while DPA members with expired 2025 SIIM membership can access it for $1,286. SIIM lists each option as offering more than 25% savings.

The program is built around a clear idea: digital pathology and enterprise imaging are beginning to face the same operational problems. SIIM’s Bridge Pass page points to shared challenges such as managing large imaging datasets, integrating AI into clinical workflows, building scalable infrastructure, enabling remote collaboration, and strengthening cybersecurity.

That overlap matters for radiology departments because many health systems are moving toward enterprise imaging strategies that include radiology, cardiology, pathology, dermatology, and other image-heavy specialties. Digital pathology has its own workflow, storage, and diagnostic requirements, but it increasingly depends on the same infrastructure conversations that imaging informatics teams already manage.

SIIM26’s Pathology Roadmap is designed to help attendees find digital pathology-relevant sessions within the broader imaging informatics meeting. SIIM’s annual meeting page says the roadmap points attendees toward enterprise imaging content applicable to pathology workflows.

Those topics include AI model validation, image interoperability standards, cybersecurity frameworks, and cloud-based imaging architectures, according to the organizations’ announcement. For imaging informatics teams, these are not abstract conference themes. They are practical issues that determine whether pathology images can be stored, routed, viewed, secured, and analyzed alongside other clinical imaging data.

The Bridge Pass also gives digital pathology professionals a route into SIIM’s informatics community while giving SIIM members exposure to Pathology Visions, DPA’s annual conference. DPA’s registration page describes the pass as “One Fee. Two Conferences. Double the Expertise,” with registration available by May 29.

The launch is not a technology product or regulatory milestone. Its importance is professional alignment. SIIM and DPA are creating a formal link between 2 communities that increasingly need to solve the same integration, AI, workflow, and data-governance problems.