Vision
What ICCFA Experience 2027 Could Begin.
The pilot is not the destination. It is the first working model of a way for members to keep shaping the tools their profession will run on.
Proposed roadmap
A first step, then whatever the first step earns.
Only the 2027 pilot is being proposed today. Everything after it depends entirely on how the pilot goes and what the association decides.
2027 Pilot
Three days in Denver
ProposedA proposed guided build experience inside ICCFA Experience 2027, with 75–100 participants and a live showcase.
Post-Event Showcase
The prototypes get a second audience
PossibilityA proposed member-facing gallery and walkthrough of what teams built, so the work stays visible after the conference.
Member Workshops
Building gets taught, not just shown
PossibilityVirtual and regional workshops where members bring their own challenges and leave with a prototype, guided by the same materials.
Ongoing Innovation Community
A standing place for member ideas
PossibilityA proposed year-round community: quarterly challenges, mentorship, and a growing record of member-created solutions.
Beyond Denver
What one event could make possible.
These are the opportunities the format opens. They are possibilities the association could choose to pursue — not promises made by this proposal.
- Virtual build workshops
- Member innovation challenges
- Collaborative problem-solving
- Member-created prototype gallery
- Continued mentorship
- AI education
- Industry innovation community
Deathcare doesn’t lack ideas. It needs accessible ways to turn those ideas into possibilities.
Every firm in this industry has a version of the same list: the intake process that takes too long, the schedule nobody can see at a glance, the family who asked a question no system answers. For years the honest answer has been that solving those problems required a developer, a budget line, or a vendor road map that would get to them eventually.
That answer is no longer true. The people closest to the work can now describe a solution and watch it become something they can open and demo — with guidance, a defined challenge, and a few days of protected time.
Deathcare Innovation Lab exists to prove that in one conference week, with real members and real problems, and to hand the result back to the association as something it can keep. If the pilot works, the industry gains a repeatable way for its own members to lead the next chapter of it.