About Operative Summit

Built from inside the OR.

Operative Summit wasn't designed by a conference company. It was built by two clinicians with 30+ combined years in surgical suites — who saw a gap no one was filling and decided to fill it.

Our Mission

Connect the OR community with the innovations shaping it.

Operative Summit brings one surgical specialty together — OR nurses, surgical techs, PAs, NPs, surgeons, and OR professionals — to discover the products and techniques entering their practice. Each specialty runs on its own quarterly cadence, so vendors and clinicians can build sustained relationships across the year.

On the other side of the screen are the device companies that make the instruments, implants, and systems those professionals use every day. Operative Summit is where they meet — on equal footing, in a format built for both.

No noise. No dilution. No travel required.

The White Space We're Filling
  • No specialty-specific virtual surgical expo exists
  • CME platforms restrict vendor content entirely
  • Trade shows cost $50K–$200K for unfocused exposure
  • OR reps have shrinking access to clinical environments
  • 400,000+ OR professionals remain largely unreachable
The Founders

We are the audience we built this for.

When we say we understand OR professionals and medical device vendors, we mean it from both sides of the instrument table.

Pharaoh Sargent, PA-C
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Co-Founder

Pharaoh Sargent, PA-C

PA-C · Navy Veteran · 20+ Years in Clinical Practice

Pharaoh has spent over two decades in clinical medicine. 10 years as Chief PA in Spine at NY Spine Specialists. 3 years in orthopedic surgery at New York-Presbyterian. First assisted in thousands of OR cases alongside the very vendors and clinicians Operative Summit serves.

He spearheaded the Senior PA role on the NYP Orthopedic service, managed PA team operations, and collaborated on OR scheduling efficiency and pain committee initiatives. Before surgery, he served in the U.S. Navy, earning the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal.

He built Operative Summit because he knows exactly what OR professionals need from a product education platform — and what vendors have been missing about how to reach them.

PA-C U.S. Navy Veteran — NMCAM Orthopedic Surgery — NYP Spine Surgery — Chief PA, NY Spine Specialists Emergency Medicine — NY Downtown Hospital PA of the Year Nominee — NYP University of Washington MEDEX Northwest Founder, PA Staffing Solutions
Michelle Sampieri, RN, LE
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Michelle Sampieri, RN, LE

Perioperative RN · OR Manager · Operations Leader

Michelle's path to the OR runs through both the clinical and operational sides of healthcare. Perioperative nurse at New York-Presbyterian — orthopedics and spine were 50%+ of OR volume. She knows what device reps look like from the scrub side of the table.

She then served as OR Nurse Manager at Dr. Yael Halaas MD's surgical suite, running the full operational infrastructure: staffing, compliance, inventory management, and accreditation. Before nursing, she led cross-functional operations teams in corporate environments and grew retail revenue by 172% as Spa Manager at Equinox.

She brings to Operative Summit a rare combination of hands-on OR experience and proven operational leadership — which is exactly what building a national virtual expo platform requires.

RN, BLS/ACLS AORN Periop 101 Licensed Esthetician Perioperative RN — NY Presbyterian OR Nurse Manager — Halaas MD BSN — Chamberlain University ASN — BMCC New York BS Sociology — UC Santa Barbara

"We didn't build this from the outside looking in. We built it because we've been in the OR, at the table, making these decisions. We know this audience because we are this audience."

— Pharaoh Sargent & Michelle Sampieri, Co-Founders, Operative Summit
What We Stand For

The principles behind every event.

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Clinical Precision

Every word on this site, every session we design, every vendor we partner with — it goes through the lens of: does this serve the OR community?

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Verified Community

Credentialing isn't a checkbox — it's a commitment to the people who attend and the vendors who invest. Every registrant is verified before gaining access.

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Product Transparency

We give vendors a platform and attendees real access. No marketing fog. Live Q&A means the community can ask anything — and does.

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Specialty Depth

One specialty per event. Always. We don't dilute the audience or the content. If it's not relevant to that specialty's OR, it's not in the program.

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Vendor ROI

We take the vendor's investment seriously. Lead data, engagement analytics, post-event replay — the numbers should show up in your pipeline.

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Access for Everyone

Free for OR professionals. No travel. No budget required to attend. The goal is the most qualified audience possible — geography shouldn't be a barrier.

Fall 2026 · Orthopedics & Spine

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