The 2026 HIMSS European Conference & Exhibition, slated for 19-21 May, 2026, will offer a forum for exploring the ideas, actions and leadership needed to progress digital health transformation. At HIMSS26 Europe in Copenhagen, three stages will support the program, each offering focused, high-impact sessions united by the purpose of advancing healthcare through intelligence, action and transformation.

Registration for HIMSS26 Europe is open. Each stage at HIMSS26 Europe is designed to guide attendees from understanding the challenges in healthcare today to implementing solutions.

The Intelligence Stage

The Intelligence Stage is the place to explore new evidence, new signals, and new ways of understanding health, including what is still not measured, seen, or known.

From Bias to Breakthrough: Redefining Women’s Health with Data examines how recognising sex and gender differences, improving data collection and applying digital innovation can close long-standing gaps in women’s health and drive systemic change.

Act, Adapt, Advance: What’s Next for Digital Health Regulation focuses on the realities of upcoming EHDS deadlines, offering practical insight into compliance, EU funding, national implementation and the role of AI sandboxes in enabling innovation.

Healing or Harming? The Double Edge of Digital Mental Health explores how digital tools can both expand access to care and create new risks, highlighting the need for ethical design, governance and balance in mental health technologies.

The Implementation Stage

Learn about what actually works in practice at the Implementation Stage. Explore real use cases, proven results, hard lessons and scalable solutions.

Cybersecurity: Securing Health in an Age of Relentless Threats delivers candid lessons from breaches and failures, examining the human and organizational impact of weak defenses and what leaders can do to protect patient trust.

Optimized Systems, Saner Workflows: Building Safe, Smart AI for Care cuts through the hype to show how AI can improve efficiency, support staff and reduce burnout while navigating privacy and regulatory constraints.

The Future is Local: The Rise of Connected Community Care looks at how care is shifting into homes and communities, and how health systems can safely integrate virtual wards, hospital-at-home models and connected technologies.

The Transformation Stage

The Transformation Stage focuses on how healthcare changes and how strategy, leadership and innovation are shaping the systems of tomorrow.

Shared Vision, Shared Value: Redefining Leadership for Change highlights how system-wide leadership and digital tools enable collaboration, shared accountability and better outcomes.

Transforming Systems, Not Just Software: Building Cultures of Continuous Transformation explores how maturity models, value-based care and digital literacy turn ambition into measurable impact.

Trial, Error, Triumph: Redefining Healthcare Innovation dives into the realities of innovation, public-private partnerships, incentives, ROI and the hard lessons behind successful adoption.

Together, the three stages offer a clear path in helping experts navigate today’s challenges and shape the future of healthcare in Europe.