SAN DIEGO, CA – September 4, 2025 – Behavioral Health Tech (BHT), the leading community for health plans, employers, providers, investors, and digital health innovators advancing behavioral health, announced the release of the full agenda and the first 200 confirmed speakers for the 2025 Behavioral Health Tech Conference, taking place November 11–13, 2025, in San Diego, California.

This year’s program highlights the most pressing challenges and opportunities shaping the behavioral health ecosystem, with sessions exploring topics including:

• Artificial Intelligence in Care Delivery: moving beyond hype to real-world applications in therapy, clinical workflows, and patient engagement.
  
• Policy and Payment Innovation: CMMI’s new behavioral health model, state Medicaid transformations, and value-based care initiatives.
  
• Employer & Health Plan Strategies: building sustainable benefit designs that support mental health, substance use, and IDD care.
  
• Youth & Family Mental Health: scalable models addressing rising demand among children, adolescents, and parents.
  
• Workforce & Access: tackling shortages, burnout, and new models for delivering care at scale.
  

Confirmed speakers include leaders from across the industry, such as:

• Health system executives from CommonSpirit Health, Kaiser Permanente, and Intermountain Healthcare
  
• Benefits leaders from Amazon, Costco, Microsoft, and United Airlines
  
• Policy voices from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and state Medicaid agencies
  
• Health plan innovators from Aetna, several Blue Cross Blue Shield plans, and UnitedHealthcare
  
• Founders and investors driving change in digital behavioral health
  
• Clinicians, advocates, and individuals with lived experience shaping solutions from the ground up
  
  

As part of BHT’s continued commitment to policy innovation, the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute returns this year as the Premier Policy Partner for a second year in a row. The Meadows Institute’s president and CEO, Andy Keller, PhD, will speak on how leaders can engage with the evolving policy landscape to unlock new opportunities to drive innovation. Successfully navigating policy shifts allows companies to harness opportunities to bring transformative solutions to market and scale access to care, delivering quality solutions with impact.

“Behavioral health care is at a pivotal moment,” said Solome Tibebu, President of Behavioral Health Tech. “Our 2025 agenda is designed to move the conversation from innovation to implementation—bringing together every sector to ensure that progress translates into real impact for patients, families, and communities.”

The Behavioral Health Tech Conference has grown into the premier gathering for decision-makers and changemakers in mental health and substance use care, attracting thousands of attendees from across the United States and beyond.

Registration for the 2025 Behavioral Health Tech Conference is now open. To view the full agenda and speaker lineup, visit here.

‍

About Behavioral Health Tech

Behavioral Health Tech is the largest community focused on expanding access to mental health and substance use care through technology, policy, and partnerships. BHT convenes health plans, employers, providers, investors, policymakers, and innovators to accelerate solutions that improve outcomes and affordability for all.

About the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute

Independent and nonpartisan, the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute works at the intersection of policy and programs to create equitable systemic changes so all people in Texas, the nation, and the world can obtain the health care they need. The Meadows Institute provides state and national leaders with data-driven, trusted policy and program guidance, and works to shift the focus of new investments toward early intervention for children and families, address the mental health crisis in our jails and emergency rooms, and help all people with mental health needs recover and be well. Learn more at https://mmhpi.org

‍

Media Contact:

Danielle Bradley

Director of Programming

marketing@behavioralhealthtech.com