Navigating Change and Preparing for 2026
14-15 Belgrave Square, London
Fri 21 Nov 2025 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM GMT
Are you curious about how 2026 will redefine the mental health and addiction sectors? Struggling to keep up with all the changes in our industry? Wondering how digital innovation, AI, new market forces, and evolving client needs will reshape your professional journey? This conference is designed to equip you with knowledge and tools to adapt, thrive, and influence the changing landscape alongside your peers.
What You Can Expect
- Latest Sector Insights: Attendees will leave with a clear grasp of the major changes ahead, including things such as new technologies, shifting client expectations, and sector-wide trends-to proactively anticipate and adapt for 2026.
- AI & Digital Innovation: Dedicated expert-led sessions (including Clive Flashman and Dr Paris Alexandros Lalousis) will demystify artificial intelligence, digital diagnostics, and wearable tech. Discover how these tools are transforming care, from personalised treatment plans to remote monitoring and digital integration across the sector.
- Marketing & Growth Strategies: The Marketing Panel (Hannah Hickenbottom, Judith Moehring, Sumit Lakhina) will discuss their opinions and provide advice on marketing, social media, branding, and AI integration, helping you to stand out amongst the crowd.
- Private Practice Intelligence: Insights, updates and predictions from Nick Hazell and Karen Leslie. Understand client demand, referral sources, changes to our field, practice differentiation, and contemporary operational strategies for independent practitioners, helping you seize growth opportunities, be ahead of the changes to help manage change with confidence.
- Community & Peer Perspectives: Connect with professionals and sector leaders sharing diverse experiences. Through presentations, discussions and Q&A’s, you’ll gain actionable insights and new partnerships for collaborative problem-solving.
- Interactive and Forward-Focused: This isn’t a passive event. Expect presentations, discussions, and panels designed to let your voice be heard, helping you get the answers you need to help shape practical outcomes and sector priorities together.
Outcomes For Attendees
- Informed Readiness: Walk away knowing what’s on the horizon, and how to understand new tech, marketing approaches or business models in daily practice.
- Practical Strategies: Gain proven tactics for marketing, business development, and leveraging technology for outreach and clinical impact.
- Enhanced Community: Build connections with a supportive group of peers and experts tackling similar challenges, fostering shared best practices and professional confidence.
- Confidence for 2026: Leave feeling empowered to make key decisions, integrate innovations safely and ethically, and position yourself or your organisation for success in the year ahead.
Be at the forefront as our field evolves- join a conference built on real-world relevance, expert guidance, and the passion of a sector committed to driving positive change.
Are you curious about how 2026 will redefine the mental health and addiction sectors? Wondering how digital innovation, AI, new market forces, and evolving client needs will reshape your professional journey? This special one-day conference is designed to equip you with knowledge and tools to adapt, thrive, and influence the changing landscape alongside your peers.
Be at the forefront as our field evolves- join a conference built on real-world relevance, expert guidance, and the passion of a sector committed to driving positive change.