-------------------------------------------- HealTAC 2026 June 8-10th, 2026, Brighton (UK) https://healtac2026.github.io/ --------------------------------------------
We are delighted to share that the conference programme is now almost complete and available on the conference websitehttps://healtac2026.github.io/programme/, featuring over 50 contributions on healthcare text analytics, alongside two keynote talks and two pre-conference workshops. Additional workshop details will be added soon.
We are also pleased to announce that keynote speaker bios are now available online.
-------------------------------------------- Keynote Speakers --------------------------------------------
We are delighted to welcome our keynote speakers:
* Professor Aline Villavicencio (University of Exeter)
* Dr Martin Krallinger (Barcelona Supercomputing Center)
Their talks will provide inspiring perspectives on this year’s theme: Human-Centered AI & NLP: Bridging Research and Real-World Practice.
-------------------------------------------- Registration & Accommodation --------------------------------------------
We hope many of you were able to take advantage of the early-bird registration rates, which are now closed. Registration remains open, and participants can still register at the standard rate.
Full registrationhttps://healtac2026.github.io/registration/ and accommodationhttps://healtac2026.github.io/accommodation/ details are available on the conference website: : https://healtac2026.github.io/
------------------------------------------------------ Pre-Conference Workshops (June 8, 2026) ------------------------------------------------------
Workshop 1: Free-text healthcare data and Trusted Research Environments (TREs) Focused on the safe and responsible use of free-text healthcare data within Trusted Research Environments (TREs), this session will showcase DARE UK–funded projects (STAR-TRE, FORTRESS, TRExt, SAFETEXT), highlighting emerging tools and best practices for secure, privacy-preserving text analytics.
Workshop 2: From patient narratives to insights: applying text analytics to scalable lived experience data for new discoveries An interactive two-hour workshop organized by Dr Saskia Sandersonhttps://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/saskia-sanderson https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/saskia-sanderson exploring how text analytics can be applied to patient-reported narratives and lived experience data at scale, bringing together perspectives from NLP, behavioural science, qualitative research, PPIE, and policy communities.
------------------ Key Dates ------------------
* Pre-conference workshops: June 8, 2026
* Conference: June 9–10, 2026
--------------------------------------------- Registration Fees --------------------------------------------
* Full registration: £340
* Student registration: £190
The fee includes participation across all three days (including the pre-conference workshop day), lunches, and the conference dinner on 9 June 2026.
Follow conference announcements on social media using #HEALTAC2026.
We look forward to welcoming you to HealTAC 2026 in Brighton!
Jaya Chaturvedi BDS MSc PhD
Research Fellow in Health Related Natural Language Processing
Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics
C3.15, Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre
Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
King’s College London
PO Box 80, De Crespigny Park
London SE5 8AF
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