Program overview
This is how FAST runs and what to expect when you attend — including what your ticket includes and how co-location with EMS World Live works. To see the full speaker lineup, click the FAST | MAINSTAGE™ schedule below.
FAST is built differently
FAST is short-format, high-energy education designed for the pace of real life in EMS and critical care transport. Think: 20-minute Ted-talks that get to the point, delivered by respected speakers who are considered the best in the best in the industry.
Co-located with EMS World Live
FAST and EMS World Live share an Expo Hall and happen in the same venue at the same time. Simply select the event you want to attend, get your tickets and join us. Enjoy the combined Expo Hall and some extra shared experiences.
What your FAST ticket includes
FAST | MAINSTAGE™ Sessions
The high-impact Ted-talk style and energy that you have come to expect from FAST and the critical care transport rockstars.
Meals & snacks
Lunch daily (real, hot lunches) plus snacks and coffee so you don’t have to sprint out for food.
Special events
You're invited backstage! After hours events to meet and greet, to say hello to friends, and enjoy your community outside the sessions!
| Feature | FAST ticket | EMS World Live ticket | Combo |
|---|---|---|---|
| FAST | MAINSTAGE™ sessions | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ |
| EMS World Live education tracks | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Expo Hall access | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
|
Pre-Conference Workshops Experiences & CE for an additional fee |
🎟️ | 🎟️ | 🎟️ |
| CE credits | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Price | $395 | $275 - $475 | $575 |
🎟️ = ticketed add-on (extra fee) for some experiences.
Ready to be a part of FAST26 in Austin?
Seats are limited and pricing can change. Get your tickets now!
Pre-Conference Workshops
Limited-capacity add-ons experiences/workshops held Wednesday, May 27. A FAST or EMS World Live badge is required to purchase. These sessions often sell out and early registration is discounted.
FP-C, CCP-C, CFRN, & CTRN Review Course
This is an accelerated review course built from nearly 300 live courses and 13+ years of instruction. Covers advanced cert exam prep + strategy, evidence-based practice training, & can be used for recert requirements.
Cardiology Master Class: STEMI Recognition
A systematic approach to 12-lead ECG interpretation: clinical context, proportionality, infarct-location decision rules, bundle branch blocks, and key STEMI equivalents/mimics.
MCI 101: Triage in BarbieLand
A practical triage + ICS refresher with a hands-on tabletop scenario using moulaged 1/6-scale Barbie “patients.” Apply tags, assign priorities, and work decisions in real time.
SPARC Academy (Selective Prehospital Advanced Resuscitative Care)
How systems build and deploy SPARC teams for advanced resuscitation and hemorrhage control where preventable death still wins. Practical system takeaways from national experts.
Pharmacology Under Pressure: Case-Based Critical Care
Case-based critical care pharmacology for flight/transport clinicians: shock, airway collapse, sedation, resuscitation, physiology-driven dosing, and the decisions that make or break outcomes.
The FlightBridgeED Mechanical Ventilation Workshop
Mechanical ventilation is powerful—and easy to get wrong. Learn the concepts behind safe, effective vent management in transport and ICU environments from Eric Bauer.
A Look Inside: Integrating POCUS into Emergency & Critical Care Transport
Integrate point-of-care ultrasound into transport and high-acuity assessment. Improve diagnostic accuracy when time is limited and decisions matter.
Circulating Hope: Managing ECMO Patients in Transport
Transport-focused ECMO education for teams managing one of the most complex therapies in modern medicine. Frameworks, pitfalls, and practical confidence for real-world missions.
The Handtevy EMS Science & Innovation Symposium
A curated four-hour session of short segments blending science, field experience, and clinical insight—plus hands-on time with Handtevy teams for real implementation questions.
FAST | MAINSTAGE™
The FAST | MAINSTAGE™ is the heart of the conference. This is the high-production, short-form, TED-style talks delivering high signal, zero filler and practical takeaways you can use immediately.
If you want to understand the past, read a textbook.
If you want to understand the present, read an article.
If you want to understand where EMS and critical care are going... you come to FAST.
FAST ideas have been carried back to agencies across the U.S. and around the world leading to changes in protocols, influencing culture, reducing risk and saving lives.
What to expect
High energy, no ego, and a community vibe that makes it easy to connect with faculty and peers.
Lunch and snacks provided
We aren't serving cold, boxed lunches. It's hot lunches INCLUDED in your FAST ticket price.
We meet... we eat.
We provide fully catered lunches as part of your FAST ticket because we know you’ve got to eat, and that shouldn’t be something you have to figure out between sessions.
Yes, Austin has incredible food. But we want you in the building connecting, decompressing, and continuing conversations, not navigating the city and risking missing a talk. Lunch is built into the experience. So are water and coffee throughout the day. You stay fueled. You stay focused. And no... we don’t serve cold cuts.
We’re proud of the food we put in front of you. It’s real catering. It’s good. It’s intentional. Just like everything else at FAST.
Shared Expo Hall & MORE!
FAST26: Austin and EMS World Live share a single Expo Hall experience. Want more information on how FAST26: Austin and EMS World Live are CO-LOCATING and what that means?