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Following the notification of decisions, we’re excited to share the next steps as we look ahead to HealTAC 2026 in Brighton this June.
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Register Early & Plan Your Stay
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Registration is open, and we encourage you to secure your place ahead of the early-bird deadline (May 4, 2026).
Discounted hotel rates are also available for a limited time, so we recommend booking soon to take advantage of these offers. Please book your accommodation before 11 May, when the discount will be removed.
Full details on registrationhttps://healtac2026.github.io/registration/ and accommodation are available on the conferencehttps://healtac2026.github.io/accommodation/ website.
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Keynote Speakers
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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.
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Pre-Conference Workshops (June 8, 2026)
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Workshop 1 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 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.
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Key Dates
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* Early-bird registration deadline: May 4, 2026
* Discounted hotel bookings deadline: May 11, 2026 * Pre-conference workshops: June 8, 2026
* Conference: June 9–10, 2026
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Registration Fees
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Early registration fees (by 4th May, 2026):
Full registration: £240 Student registration: £140 Presenting student registration: £40
Late registration fees (after 4th May, 2026):
Full registration: £340 Student registration: £190
The fee includes participation for three days (including the pre-conference workshop day). All fees include a conference dinner on 9 June 2026.
Follow the conference announcements on social media at #HEALTAC2026
We are looking forward to welcoming you to HealTAC 2026 in Brighton!
Jaya Chaturvedi BDS MSc PhD
Research Associate 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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Pronouns: she/her
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