HIMSS27 Global Health Conference and Exhibition
Health-system IT and procurement — the people who actually sign platform contracts. Large public exhibitor directory.

25 conferences, 14 associations and 862 multi-site provider groups — mapped, verified and ranked by what to do about each one.
Every date and venue was checked against the organiser's own site. 16 entries are confirmed that way. Seven rest on third-party listings and are marked probable — worth confirming directly before booking travel. Two are recurring events whose next dates are not yet announced. Association and facility data come from the organisations themselves and from federal records.
Scores weight how close the audience sits to a purchasing decision, whether names can actually be extracted, timing, and how well the source is verified. A big conference full of the wrong people scores below a small one full of the right ones.
Buyer density and timing both work. These justify travel and a booth.
Health-system IT and procurement — the people who actually sign platform contracts. Large public exhibitor directory.
950+ exhibitor floor, payer and health-system executives, startup pitch tournament. The broadest commercial room in US healthcare.
Health plan executives, benefits leaders, health systems, providers and investors. The highest concentration of commercial decision-makers on the list.
Digital health decision-makers, ROI-focused. Sister event to HLTH — attending both gives two shots at one buyer pool in a single cycle.
A submission window is open. Free podium time in front of the buyer.
Leadership conference for addiction treatment provider organisations. An operator audience rather than a clinical one.
Names are already public. These produce a list without a booth.
Telehealth delivery and reimbursement policy. Directly relevant once PDAC clears and the insurance-coverage story goes public. Public exhibitor page.
The leading practical psychopharmacology conference, 39th year. Too close to book a booth — but the full named exhibitor and sponsor floor plan is public today.
Worth a footprint or a sponsorship, not a full build-out.
Executive-level operators and administrators rather than clinicians. Budget holders, small room.
Simulation-in-healthcare — a heavily VR-oriented buyer base in clinical training.
Child and adolescent psychiatry. Relevant to VR adoption in youth anxiety and phobia treatment.
The 2027 theme is innovation and dissemination — bringing effective treatment to more people across settings and stages of care. That is an open invitation for this story.
PTSD and traumatic stress researchers and clinicians — the core clinical audience for VR exposure therapy. Official exhibitor prospectus published.
The professional home of exposure-therapy clinicians. Arguably the most on-thesis clinical audience on the list.
Europe's largest applied and translational neuroscience meeting — 7,600+ attendees from almost 100 countries.
Large counsellor and therapist audience — the practitioner end of the funnel rather than the budget holder.
The largest psychiatry meeting in the United States. Broadest single concentration of prescribing psychiatrists in the country.
Over 2,000 mental health clinicians plus exhibitors. High clinician density for a mid-size event.
Follow-on year of the highest commercial-intent room on this list. Venue not yet announced — placeholder for the 2027 budget cycle.
Dates unannounced, access unverified, or the wrong room for lead volume.
The largest behavioral health conference in the United States and the highest-value room here. NatCon26 ran in Denver in April and has passed.
A members-only network of behavioral healthcare CEOs. Small, dense room of budget holders — but access is likely gated.
Florence. Theme is personalised and integrated care. Second major European room alongside ECNP.
Physician-level addiction medicine, complementing NAATP's operator audience. Long lead time.
Berlin. Digital health and pharma leaders, startups and investors. A partnership and investment room rather than a purchasing one.
The largest AR/VR industry expo. Partnerships, hardware relationships and press — not clinical buyers.
The VR-therapy-specific academic conference, run by an association whose stated purpose is promoting VR as a therapy adjunct. The most ideologically aligned room on the list.
Thirteen of these 14 publish paid access to their membership — a media guide, a sponsorship prospectus, or a partnership programme. Several also run member directories and newsletters.
Most are clinician bodies. Four represent budget holders instead: NASMHPD, whose annual meeting is for state mental health commissioners and their executive teams; NAATP and the National Council, both provider-organisation bodies; and SSH, whose members run simulation centres with equipment budgets.
Provider organisations and state agencies — these people sign.
Two public directories: member treatment centres and affiliates (industry vendors). Publishes a National Rate Benchmark Report drawn from 8,000+ providers. Conference abstracts open 1 Aug – 30 Sept 2026.
Publishes a current partner list — a ready-made competitive map of who is already paying for access. Full sponsorship and exhibitor prospectus PDFs published each NatCon cycle.
The single most concentrated room of public budget holders in US behavioral health — the meeting is explicitly for state mental health commissioners and their executive teams. 2026 meeting ran 26–27 July at the Hilton Washington DC National Mall and has just passed; the cadence is late July in DC.
Two events not one — IMSH in January and SIMOPS separately. Simulation centre directors are an operator audience with equipment budgets and an existing appetite for immersive technology.
Reimbursement and virtual care policy.
Heavily policy- and reimbursement-oriented — publishes detailed comment letters on Medicare physician fee schedule rules. That makes it the most useful association on this list for the PDAC/insurance-coverage story specifically.
The people who would use it, and who influence the purchase.
The most developed advertising operation of any association on this list — a standing advertise-with-us page, a published media kit, and a separate conference sponsorship prospectus. Also runs a public Find Your Therapist directory.
Runs a dedicated Mental Health Innovation Zone with its own sponsorship track — a purpose-built showcase for exactly this kind of product, separate from the main exhibit hall. Second event (IPS) has its own prospectus.
Publishes an actual media guide with rates rather than a gated request form — the fastest association here to price a campaign against. Conference exhibit/sponsor/advertise page live for AC26.
2026 prospectus already published. Runs StressPoints as a member newsletter — an editorial as well as advertising surface. Institutional membership is a separate access route.
Offers a Literature Table as a distinct low-cost alternative to a full booth — the cheapest way onto the floor of a major psychiatry meeting on this list. Call for Papers portal runs on confex.
Publishes a full named staff contacts page — unusually open for this list, and the clearest route to a named human. Most on-thesis clinical membership for VR exposure therapy.
Runs an organisational membership tier with its own benefits page — a standing relationship rather than a one-off booth. Exhibit prospectus published as PDF.
Runs one central advertising desk across its publications and site rather than per-event prospectuses. Large but diffuse audience; lower buyer concentration than the operator associations.
Credibility and partnership rather than pipeline.
Advocacy and public-education body with a large affiliate network. No commercial advertising or exhibitor programme surfaced in mapping — treat as a credibility and partnership contact rather than a lead channel.
From SAMHSA's 2025 National Directories — the federal listing of every state-approved mental health and substance use treatment facility in the country. 27,563 facilities, rolled up to 11,305 parent organisations.
Each record carries coded service data. Three codes matter here: telehealth already in use, CBT, and EMDR — the modalities VR exposure therapy fits alongside. 9,102 organisations already deliver telehealth.
Ranking favours multi-site groups, where one relationship covers many locations. 5,538 organisations run more than one site; 862 are commercial groups with six or more.
Highest-scoring commercial groups. VA facilities and unverified rollups excluded.
68 telehealth · 77 CBT · 12 EMDR
68 telehealth · 68 CBT · 39 EMDR
46 telehealth · 44 CBT · 19 EMDR
32 telehealth · 35 CBT · 5 EMDR
34 telehealth · 33 CBT · 18 EMDR
34 telehealth · 34 CBT · 3 EMDR
22 telehealth · 24 CBT · 2 EMDR
24 telehealth · 24 CBT · 12 EMDR
24 telehealth · 24 CBT · 15 EMDR
21 telehealth · 23 CBT · 8 EMDR
16 telehealth · 18 CBT · 1 EMDR
18 telehealth · 18 CBT · 3 EMDR
Behavioral Health Tech (22–24 September) overlaps ISTSS (23–26 September). BHT is the commercial audience — payers and health plans. ISTSS is the clinical and research audience.
ATA Nexus and AWE USA both run 14–16/17 June 2027. ATA Nexus covers telehealth delivery and reimbursement policy. AWE is the XR industry itself — partnerships and press rather than clinical buyers.
Four European events are included: ECNP in Munich this October, which draws more than 7,600 attendees from almost 100 countries; Frontiers Health in Berlin; EPA in Florence next April; and CYPSY, which rotates.
Dates, prospectuses, directories and facility records all trace back to the organisation that published them. Happy to go deeper on any row, or to refresh the whole thing as new dates are announced.