HLTH USA 2026: Overview & Attendee Guide

HLTH USA 2026

HLTH USA 2026 runs November 15-18, 2026 at The Venetian Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada. It bills itself as "Healthcare's #1 Innovation Event," and the scale backs the claim: roughly 12,250 healthcare leaders, more than 4,400 C-suite executives, and over 950 exhibitors across four days. If you work anywhere in digital health, health systems, payers, pharma, health IT, or healthcare investing, this is one of the few weeks a year where the whole industry is in one building.

This guide covers what you actually need to know before you commit budget: the dates and venue, who should go, the agenda and program structure, the full pricing ladder, hotels and travel, practical tips for surviving the Venetian, and, for the operations and reporting teams inside health-tech organizations, where a tool like Rollstack fits once you're back home turning all of that momentum into recurring reports.

TL;DR

• HLTH USA 2026 is the largest US gathering for healthcare and health-tech leaders, organized by HLTH and built around AI, care delivery, investment, and policy.
• The basics: November 15-18, 2026, The Venetian Expo, Las Vegas. Four days of main-stage keynotes, parallel insights programs, an AI Zone, a 950+ exhibitor floor, curated 1:1 meetings, the Startup Pitch Tournament, and nightly receptions. On-demand recordings are included with registration.
• Pricing: tiered by who you are. Clinicians, startups, and government/nonprofit start at $1,500 early; provider/payer/employer execs and investors at $2,295 early; solution providers and vendors at $2,795 early. Standard rates rise to $3,395 (or $3,995 for vendors) once early pricing closes. Market Connect and Media passes can be free with approval.
• The agenda is published at a glance, with content areas spanning AI and emerging technology, care delivery, pharma and life sciences, women's health, employer health, diagnostics, investors, and government and policy. The detailed session and speaker lineup is still filling in.
• For the operations, finance, and customer-facing teams inside health-tech and digital-health organizations, Rollstack automates the recurring board, investor, and partner reporting that sits downstream of your BI tools, connecting them to slide and document templates that refresh on schedule.

HLTH USA 2026: The Basics

• Dates: November 15-18, 2026 (Sunday through Wednesday)
• Venue: The Venetian Expo, 3355 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89109
• Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
• Format: In-person, with on-demand access to session recordings included after the event
• Early pricing: From $1,500 (clinicians, startups, government/nonprofit) to $2,795 (solution providers)
• Standard pricing: $3,395 for most attendee types; $3,995 for solution providers and vendors
• Networking: Market Connect and Investor Connect curated 1:1 meetings; Attendee Meetup
• Best for: Digital-health founders and operators, payer/provider/employer executives, healthcare investors, pharma and life-sciences leaders, health IT, and the ops/finance/CS teams that support them

The all-access pass covers more than session entry: daily breakfast and lunch, evening receptions, the event app, exhibit floor access, wellness activities, fast-track badge pickup, discounted hotel and travel rates, and on-demand recordings afterward. Register and check the latest at the official page: hlth.com/events/usa.

What is HLTH?

HLTH (stylized in capitals, pronounced "health") is the company behind the HLTH USA event, along with HLTH Europe and, in partnership with CHIME, the ViVE conference. HLTH USA launched in 2018 and grew quickly into the headline gathering for the business of healthcare innovation. It is less a clinical-medicine conference and more an industry summit: the people in the room are running digital-health companies, leading health systems and payers, allocating venture and growth capital, and setting policy.

The through-line every year is where healthcare is going next, with AI now dominating that conversation, alongside care-delivery models, pharma and life sciences, women's health, employer benefits, and the investment and policy environment that shapes all of it. The format pairs big main-stage keynotes with smaller parallel tracks, a large exhibit floor, and a heavy emphasis on curated networking through programs like Market Connect and Investor Connect.

For the teams inside these organizations, HLTH is where deals start and narratives get set. The harder part is everything that happens afterward, when those same organizations have to prove traction, board after board and quarter after quarter. That reporting almost always starts in a BI tool and ends, by hand, in a slide deck. That is the gap Rollstack closes, and we'll come back to it below.

Who should attend HLTH USA 2026?

HLTH is broad on purpose. The value is the cross-section of healthcare in one place. It is most worth prioritizing if you are:

• Digital-health founders and operators raising, selling, or scaling, who need to meet buyers, investors, and partners in a compressed window.
• Payer, provider, and health-system executives evaluating new vendors, care models, and AI tooling, and benchmarking against peers.
• Healthcare investors (venture, growth, private equity) sourcing deals and tracking where the category is heading. Investor Connect is built for you.
• Pharma and life-sciences leaders working on commercial, digital, and partnership strategy.
• Employer and benefits leaders rethinking workforce health and the vendor stack behind it.
• Health IT, data, and analytics teams inside any of the above, who own the dashboards and the reporting that leadership and customers actually read.
• Solution providers and vendors selling into healthcare, who want floor presence and curated buyer meetings.

If you're an individual clinician looking primarily for CME-style clinical education, HLTH is not that. It's an industry and innovation event. Clinicians attend, and there's a discounted clinician pass, but the program is about the business and technology of care, not bedside practice.

HLTH USA 2026 agenda overview

The HLTH 2026 agenda is published at a glance, and the smart way to plan is by content area rather than by counting sessions. The program runs across main-stage keynotes, parallel insights programs, the AI Zone, an Insights Stage, Wednesday specialty summits, and the networking meetings that run throughout. Here are the areas to prioritize.

AI & Emerging Technology

Best for almost everyone this year, and especially product, data, and clinical-ops leaders. The AI Zone runs its own sessions across Monday and Tuesday. Prioritize this if your roadmap or your board is asking what's real versus hype in healthcare AI.

Care Delivery

Best for providers, health systems, and care-model innovators. Prioritize if you're rethinking how and where care happens, from virtual-first to in-home to retail.

Pharma & Life Sciences

Best for commercial, digital, and partnership leaders in pharma and biotech. The Pharma & Life Sciences Zone anchors this on the floor, with a dedicated insights program.

Women's Health

Best for founders, investors, and clinicians focused on women's health. A dedicated area on the floor plus programming reflects how much capital and attention this category has drawn.

Employer & Workforce Health

Best for benefits leaders and the vendors serving them. Prioritize if you buy or sell into employer health, with the Employer Solutions Area and a Payer/Employer insights track.

Investors, Government & Policy

Best for investors, policy leaders, and anyone whose business depends on reimbursement and regulation. Investor Connect runs curated meetings; policy programming covers the federal and state environment.

Specialty areas and pavilions

The floor is organized into zones worth routing through deliberately: AI Zone, AgeTech Central, the Diagnostics Area, the Nurse Innovators Pavilion, the Oral & Systemic Health Pavilion, and the Startup Zone. Wednesday closes with four specialty summits (Healthcare Marketing, Health Tech, Preventative Health, and Partner Specialty Workshops) and the Startup Pitch Tournament finale.

Confirm exact session times on the official agenda once you register and start building your schedule.

Speakers to watch at HLTH USA 2026

The full 2026 speaker lineup had not been published on the official speakers page as of June 22, 2026. HLTH typically announces its roster in waves through the summer and fall, so expect names to populate at hlth.com/events/usa/speakers over the coming months.

For a sense of the caliber, the 2025 HLTH stage featured Mark Cuban (Cost Plus Drugs), Sarah London (CEO, Centene), Greg A. Adams (Chair and CEO, Kaiser Permanente), Tom Mihaljevic, MD (CEO, Cleveland Clinic), Dr. Jessica Shepherd (CMO, Hims & Hers), and Dave Moore (President, Novo Nordisk), among many others. Those are prior-year speakers, listed here only to show what HLTH keynotes look like. We won't list anyone as a 2026 speaker until HLTH confirms it.

A practical note: the main-stage keynotes get clipped and summarized online within days. The reason to be in the building is the parallel insights programs, the floor conversations, and the curated 1:1 meetings, where you talk to the person actually running the program you care about. Plan your week around those, not just the headliners.

Programs, summits, and curated networking at HLTH

HLTH isn't a training-and-certification conference, so instead of labs and exams, the structured value sits in its programs and curated meetings. The ones to understand before you go:

• Market Connect. A curated 1:1 meeting program matching senior buyers with relevant solution providers. Approval is required, and qualifying participants can earn a $750 travel credit for completing 12 or more meetings. The application deadline is November 2, 2026.
• Investor Connect. The investor-side equivalent, pairing capital with companies. If you're raising or deploying, this is where the most useful conversations happen.
• Startup Pitch Tournament. Runs across the event with the finale on Wednesday morning. Worth watching even if you're not competing, to read where the category and the judges are headed.
• Wednesday specialty summits. Four focused summits to close the event: Healthcare Marketing, Health Tech, Preventative Health, and Partner Specialty Workshops.
• Awards and showcases. The Digital Health Hub Awards, the Techquity for Health Awards, and an art gallery round out the programming.

If you're attending to do business rather than just learn, apply for Market Connect or Investor Connect early. The meeting slots are finite and the matching closes well before the doors open.

Expo hall, sponsors, and partner events at HLTH

The HLTH exhibit floor is large: 950+ exhibitors and sponsors across Level 2 of the Venetian Expo, organized into the AI Zone and the topic pavilions described above. It's where you'll see the full vendor landscape in healthcare in one pass, from the largest platforms to seed-stage startups in the Startup Zone.

Walking that floor, you'll notice a pattern. Nearly every company there can show you a polished dashboard or a slick product demo. Far fewer have solved the unglamorous problem behind it: turning that same data into the recurring board decks, investor updates, and customer reports that have to go out every month and quarter, accurately, without a person rebuilding them by hand each time. That's the gap worth keeping in mind as you collect business cards. We'll get specific about it in the Rollstack section below.

Is HLTH USA 2026 worth it?

For most people whose work touches the business of healthcare innovation, yes, with a caveat: HLTH rewards people who go with a plan. It's big, it's expensive, and it's easy to wander a show floor for three days and come home with a tote bag and no outcomes.

The strongest case for attending isn't the keynotes, which get recapped everywhere within a week. It's the density of decision-makers and the curated meeting programs. One well-prepared week at HLTH can compress months of cold outreach into a few days of in-person conversations.

HLTH is most worth it if you are:

• Raising capital or deploying it, and want concentrated investor or founder access
• Selling into healthcare and can get into Market Connect with a real target list
• Setting strategy and need to benchmark where AI, care delivery, and policy are heading
• Building partnerships across the payer, provider, pharma, and digital-health lines

It may be less urgent if your team is very early-stage with no clear meeting targets, or if your interest is purely educational. In those cases the on-demand recordings included with registration may cover most of what you'd get from the main stage, and you can save the travel budget for a year when you have specific business to do.

HLTH USA 2026 pricing and registration

HLTH prices by attendee type, and each type has an early price and a higher standard price. Verified against the official registration page on June 22, 2026:

• Healthcare Clinicians: $1,500 early / $3,395 standard (saves $1,895). For actively practicing or employed clinical professionals.
• Startups: $1,500 early / $3,395 standard (saves $1,895). For companies founded fewer than four years ago that have raised under $8M.
• Government & Non-Profit: $1,500 early / $3,395 standard (saves $1,895). For government employees and 501(c)(3) organizations.
• Healthcare Provider, Payer & Employer Executives: $2,295 early / $3,395 standard (saves $1,100).
• Investors: $2,295 early / $3,395 standard (saves $1,100). For VCs, private equity, and angel investors.
• Solution Providers & Vendors: $2,795 early / $3,995 standard (saves $1,200).

Two passes can be free with approval:

• Market Connect: free with an accepted application (a $3,395 value), with a $750 travel credit for completing 12+ meetings. Application deadline November 2, 2026.
• Media & Influencers: free with an accepted application (a $3,499 value), for qualifying journalists and digital-health creators.

The register page shows a countdown timer to the next price increase rather than a fixed date, so the early-to-standard cutover date was not published as of June 22, 2026. Prices and windows can shift, so confirm the live rate on the official HLTH registration page before you book.

One thing to know before you buy: passes are non-refundable. They're transferable to another person up to a week before the event (transfers before November 6, 2026), with a $150 fee if the new registrant doesn't match the original pass category. Badge sharing is prohibited and can result in a permanent ban, so register the people who are actually attending.

HLTH USA 2026 promo code or discount code

As of June 22, 2026, HLTH has not published a general public promo code for HLTH USA 2026. The real discounts are the tiered passes themselves: clinicians, startups, and government/nonprofit attendees pay $1,500 early instead of the standard $3,395, and Market Connect and Media passes can be free with an accepted application.

If a public sponsor or partner code becomes available, we'll update this section. Be cautious of any third party emailing you a "HLTH discount," especially around hotels, since HLTH has warned that only its official housing partner is authorized to contact attendees.

Hotels and travel for HLTH USA 2026

The official housing partner for HLTH 2026 is Connections Housing, which holds discounted room blocks at hotels near the Venetian. Book through the official portal at connectionstravel.app/HLTH26/start, or by phone at 702-329-9615 (Monday-Friday, 6am-3pm PST). Cancellations on or after September 21, 2026 forfeit the deposit, so lock in your dates once you're sure.

Important: HLTH has stated that Connections Housing is the only authorized housing vendor. If another company emails or calls offering "HLTH room blocks," it's a poaching scam. Book only through the official link.

The most convenient place to stay is the Venetian or Palazzo towers, which are attached to the Expo, so you can walk to sessions without crossing the Strip. Nearby alternatives include:

• Wynn and Encore: a short walk north, upscale, quieter casino floors.
• Caesars Palace and The Mirage area: central Strip, easy rideshare to the venue.
• Resorts World: modern, directly across the Strip, often competitive rates.

A Las Vegas reality check: walking distances on the Strip are deceptive, and the Venetian itself is enormous. The walk from a Venetian guest room to the Expo halls can take 15 minutes indoors. Stay close, and budget more time than the map suggests.

For travel, fly into Harry Reid International Airport (LAS), about four miles from the venue and a 10-to-20-minute rideshare or taxi ride. HLTH suggests arriving Saturday, November 14 so you're settled for Sunday's opening sessions and Welcome Reception. Mid-November is a busy convention period in Las Vegas, so book flights and rooms early.

Practical tips for HLTH USA attendees

• Apply for Market Connect or Investor Connect early. The curated meetings are the highest-value part of the week, the slots are finite, and matching closes well before the event. If you want the $750 travel credit, plan to complete 12+ meetings.
• Build a target list before you arrive. HLTH is too big to wander productively. Decide who you need to meet and which sessions matter, then route your days around the floor zones (AI Zone, pavilions, Startup Zone).
• Book your hotel through Connections Housing only. It's the sole authorized vendor, and the room block beats the rack rate during convention week.
• Stay close to the Venetian. The Expo is huge and the Strip is deceptive. Proximity saves you an hour a day.
• Wear comfortable shoes and bring a layer. You'll walk miles inside one building, and Vegas convention halls run cold regardless of the desert outside.
• Pace your evenings. The Welcome Reception, Women @ HLTH, and Industry Night are all worth it, but four straight late nights will cost you Tuesday's and Wednesday's conversations. Pick your nights.
• Use the app, not paper. The agenda and networking tools live in the event app; WiFi is included throughout.
• Take notes by problem, not by session. You'll come home to a team that wants the synthesis, not eight separate session recaps.
• Don't skip Wednesday. It's condensed (8am to noon), but the specialty summits and the Startup Pitch finale pack a lot in before everyone flies out.

HLTH USA 2026 dress code

The official dress code is business or business casual. HLTH skews more polished than a developer or analytics conference: think blazers, smart separates, and brand-forward outfits, especially if you're representing a company on the floor or taking investor meetings. You won't be out of place in a sharp business-casual look.

The two non-negotiables hold regardless: shoes you can comfortably walk miles in, and a layer for the aggressive convention-hall air conditioning. Everything else is about how visible your role is during the week.

Where Rollstack fits for health-tech and digital-health teams

Most of the organizations at HLTH have invested in solid data infrastructure and a BI tool: Tableau, Power BI, Looker, or similar. The dashboards are good. The problem is the same one every growing health-tech company hits: the recurring reporting that leadership, boards, investors, and enterprise customers actually read is still assembled by hand, every month and every quarter.

That's where Rollstack fits, and it's worth being precise about scope. Rollstack automates the business and operational reporting layer for health-tech organizations: board decks, investor updates, executive operating reviews, partner and customer QBRs, and recurring customer-facing reports. It connects to whatever BI tool sits on top of your data and pushes live data into PowerPoint, Google Slides, Word, or Google Docs on a schedule. One template can generate many personalized versions, for example a tailored performance report for each enterprise customer or partner.

The common objection is reasonable: "our BI tool already exports to PowerPoint." Those exports are static. They don't refresh, don't schedule, don't distribute themselves, and don't scale to dozens of customer-specific decks. Rollstack handles the full recurring cycle, which is the part most teams still do manually. For enterprise and regulated buyers, Rollstack is SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, and GDPR compliant, and content stays in your own drives.

For a concrete proof point: SoFi's finance team uses Rollstack to compress its review-cycle slide prep from 6 hours to 45 minutes. Same data, same decisions in the room, far less manual work in between. If you want the broader picture of how this sits in a modern stack, the report generation in the modern data stack write-up covers it.

You'll spend HLTH proving traction in conversations. Then you'll spend the next quarter proving it again, by hand, in slides. Rollstack connects your BI tool to the board decks, investor updates, and customer reports that have to go out on schedule, so the numbers reach the room without a manual rebuild every cycle. See it in action.

Livestream, virtual access, and on-demand sessions

HLTH USA is an in-person event. As of June 22, 2026, there's no confirmed public livestream of the sessions. What's confirmed is that every registration includes on-demand access to all in-person content and session recordings after the event, delivered through the HLTH Platform.

So if you register and can't attend a session live, or you miss one because of a Market Connect meeting, you'll be able to watch it afterward. What doesn't translate to video is the reason most people go: the floor, the curated meetings, and the receptions. If your only goal is to hear the keynotes, the recordings may be enough. If you're there to do business, in-person is the whole point.

HLTH USA 2026 FAQ

When is HLTH 2026? HLTH USA 2026 runs November 15-18, 2026, Sunday through Wednesday.

Where is HLTH 2026? The Venetian Expo, 3355 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, Nevada. It's about four miles from Harry Reid International Airport, a 10-to-20-minute rideshare or taxi ride.

How much is HLTH 2026? It depends on your attendee type. Early prices start at $1,500 for clinicians, startups, and government/nonprofit attendees; $2,295 for provider, payer, employer executives, and investors; and $2,795 for solution providers and vendors. Standard prices rise to $3,395 for most types and $3,995 for vendors. Market Connect and Media passes can be free with an accepted application. Confirm the live rate on the official registration page.

Is there a promo code for HLTH 2026? As of June 22, 2026, HLTH has not published a general public promo code. The built-in discounts are the lower-priced tiers for clinicians, startups, and government/nonprofit attendees, plus the free Market Connect and Media passes available with approval.

Who should attend HLTH 2026? Digital-health founders and operators, payer/provider/employer executives, healthcare investors, pharma and life-sciences leaders, health IT and analytics teams, and vendors selling into healthcare. It's an industry and innovation event, not a clinical-education conference.

Is HLTH 2026 worth it? For people doing business in healthcare innovation, usually yes, if you go with a plan. The value is the density of decision-makers and the curated meeting programs, not the keynotes (which get recapped online). It's less urgent if you're very early-stage with no meeting targets or attending purely to learn.

What is Market Connect at HLTH? A curated 1:1 meeting program matching senior buyers with relevant solution providers. It requires an accepted application (deadline November 2, 2026), and participants who complete 12+ meetings can earn a $750 travel credit.

Will HLTH 2026 be livestreamed? There's no confirmed public livestream as of June 22, 2026. However, every registration includes on-demand access to session recordings after the event via the HLTH Platform.

Are HLTH sessions available on demand? Yes. On-demand access to all in-person content and session recordings is included with registration and is available after the event through the HLTH Platform.

What should I wear to HLTH? Business or business casual. HLTH skews more polished than a tech conference, especially for people on the floor or in investor meetings. Bring comfortable shoes and a layer for the convention-hall air conditioning.

What hotels are near HLTH 2026? Book through HLTH's official housing partner, Connections Housing, the only authorized vendor. The most convenient stays are the Venetian and Palazzo towers attached to the Expo; nearby alternatives include Wynn, Encore, Caesars Palace, and Resorts World.

Can I transfer or refund my HLTH registration? Passes are non-refundable but transferable to another person up to a week before the event (transfers before November 6, 2026). A $150 fee applies if the new registrant doesn't match the original pass category. Badge sharing is prohibited.

How does Rollstack fit with HLTH and health-tech reporting? Rollstack automates the recurring business reporting that health-tech and digital-health organizations build downstream of their BI tools: board decks, investor updates, operating reviews, and customer/partner reports. It connects Tableau, Power BI, Looker, and similar tools to PowerPoint, Google Slides, Word, and Google Docs that refresh on schedule. If your team is rebuilding the same decks every month, book a Rollstack demo.

Going to HLTH USA 2026? Have a productive week in Las Vegas. And if your team is spending its post-conference quarter rebuilding the same board and investor decks by hand, book a Rollstack demo and we'll show you how the slides update themselves.