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In June 2020, the Rural Coordination Centre of BC and First Nations Health Authority co-hosted the BC Rural and First Nations Health and Wellness Summit to collaborate with community and organizational partners to identify needs and co-create actions required to address priorities in rural health services delivery. The aim of this article is to provide information on the innovative practices of the 2020 Summit as a knowledge-to-action approach for health services delivery redesign and to share these learnings with other organizations planning large events featuring dialogue among participants distributed throughout a large area. Key learnings from the Summit include: (1) the importance of building on pre-existing and current relationships to facilitate Summit discussions in a virtual environment; (2) detailed planning and technological expertise are needed to implement large events; and (3) a carefully co-created agenda are necessary to generate buy-in and participation from partner organizations.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1332\/17442648y2026d000000109","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,20]],"date-time":"2026-08-20T22:15:53Z","timestamp":1787264153000},"page":"1-13","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Developing and implementing a large-scale summit to improve health services delivery for rural, remote and Indigenous populations"],"prefix":"10.1332","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1666-5360","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Nelly D.","family":"Oelke","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"RCCbc and https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/https:\/\/ror.org\/03rmrcq20University of British Columbia, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Robert","family":"Woollard","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"RCCbc and https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/https:\/\/ror.org\/03rmrcq20University of British Columbia, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kim","family":"Williams","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"RCCbc, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4818-1184","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"David","family":"Snadden","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/https:\/\/ror.org\/03rmrcq20University of British Columbia, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Megan","family":"Hunt","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/https:\/\/ror.org\/03wf6h922Government of Nunavut, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Deanne","family":"Taylor","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"RCCbc and Jim Pattison Centre for Health Systems Learning & Innovation, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Scott","family":"Graham","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/https:\/\/ror.org\/01e8xbf14First Nations Health Authority, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Paul","family":"Kendal","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"RCCbc, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ray","family":"Markham","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"RCCbc, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"165","reference":[{"issue":"4","key":"CIT0001","series-title":"Texto Contexto Enferm","first-page":"e0520017","article-title":"Theoretical considerations of deliberative dialogue: contributions for nursing practice, policy and research","volume":"26","author":"Acosta, A.M.","year":"2017","unstructured":"Acosta, A.M., Oelke, N.D. and Lima, M.A. (2017) Theoretical considerations of deliberative dialogue: contributions for nursing practice, policy and research, Texto Contexto Enferm, 26(4): e0520017, doi: 10.1590\/0104-07072017000520017"},{"key":"CIT0002","series-title":"Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences","first-page":"331","article-title":"Two-eyed seeing and other lessons learned within a co-learning journey of bringing together Indigenous and mainstream knowledges and ways of knowing","volume":"2","author":"Bartlett, C.","year":"2012","unstructured":"Bartlett, C., Marshall, M. and Marshall, A. 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