Las Vegas
The information
Tuesday, August 4, 2026
Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, NV
Mandalay Bay G
Overview
Join us for the inaugural Healthcare Summit at Black Hat USA, delivered in partnership with HIMSS—bringing together cybersecurity and healthcare leaders to address the growing threats to patient care, data security, and clinical operations.
This one-day summit offers a practical, forward-looking program designed to help organizations strengthen resilience, prevent disruption, and build patient trust in an increasingly complex threat landscape.
Combining HIMSS’s expertise in healthcare technology with Black Hat’s cutting-edge security research, attendees will gain actionable insight at the intersection of healthcare and cybersecurity.
Key Focus Areas
- Securing AI applications in clinical and operational environments
- Protecting machine learning models from adversarial attacks
- Safeguarding sensitive patient data and healthcare infrastructure
- Preventing clinical disruption and ensuring business continuity
- Strengthening resilience and patient trust
Designed for healthcare IT leaders, CISOs, and security practitioners, this summit delivers real-world strategies and expert perspectives to help organizations stay ahead of evolving cyber threats.
Passes
Price
Includes access to The Healthcare Summit conference + lunch + cocktail reception and 3-day access to the Black Hat Business Hall
$2,099
Why Attend
The cybersecurity landscape is evolving at an unprecedented pace, and success depends on being at the intersection of innovation, investment, and industry leadership. The Healthcare Summit at Black Hat USA 2026 is your exclusive gateway to:
- Gain actionable insights from industry experts
- Engage with peers facing similar challenges
- Examine critical topics on governance and compliance
- Explore cutting-edge security solutions
- Demonstrate understanding of emerging threats and defense strategies
- Anticipate the future of cybersecurity
- Develop strategic approaches to healthcare security
- Earn continuing education credits
Summit Emcee
Varun Acharya
CISO, Healthscope
Varun Acharya is the Chief Information Security Officer at Healthscope, one of Australia’s largest private hospital operators. With over 15 years of experience across healthcare, banking, manufacturing and higher education, he has held specialist and leadership roles spanning identity and access management, security governance, cyber operations and threat intelligence. Varun is passionate about helping organisations stay ahead of cyber threats by leveraging strategic threat intelligence, proactive defence and industry collaboration to strengthen cyber resilience in an era of geopolitical uncertainty and rapid technological change.
Sponsorship Opportunities
The Healthcare Summit at Black Hat USA brings together key cyber and IT executives who help shape the strategy and solutions for securing for the top healthcare organizations. This summit offers the unique insights and access necessary to seize the opportunity to connect and influence this highly engaged audience.
Limited sponsorship opportunities are available.
Sponsors
Premium Sponsor
Pindrop is the Real Human + Right Human® platform securing real-time communications with deepfake detection and continuous identity verification across voice, video, and digital interactions. Trusted by 7 of the top 10 U.S. banks and leading insurers and healthcare providers, Pindrop analyzes billions of real-time interactions annually in security-critical environments, powered by models trained on 5B+ interactions and 300+ patents.
Foundation Sponsors
Akamai is the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects business online. Our market-leading security solutions, superior threat intelligence, and global operations team provide defense in depth to safeguard enterprise data and applications everywhere. Akamai’s full-stack cloud computing solutions deliver performance and affordability on the world’s most distributed platform. Global enterprises trust Akamai to provide the industry-leading reliability, scale, and expertise they need to grow their business with confidence.
Beacon is the agentic security platform that security teams run on and build on. Trusted by Fortune 500 teams across critical, highly regulated industries, Beacon gives defenders the clean, contextualized data, specialized security agents, and open harness they need to detect threats faster, close coverage gaps, and run security operations at a fraction of traditional SIEM cost.
Event Sponsors
Feroot helps healthcare organizations secure digital patient experiences by continuously monitoring websites, patient portals, and mobile applications for unauthorized data collection, malicious scripts, and privacy risks. The platform automates compliance with HIPAA, PCI DSS, and more than 50 security and privacy frameworks.
KLAS Research is an independent insights firm that provides research-driven information about healthcare technology and services. Our mission is to improve the world’s healthcare through collaboration, insights, and transparency. We seek to amplify the voices of providers and payers in the market.
Continuing Professional Education (CPEs)
Those who are certified through ISC2 can earn 5 Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credits for attending the Healthcare Summit.
Black Hat does not maintain records of earned CPE credits. However, we will report your credits to ISC2 on your behalf within 30 days following the event. Please provide your ISC2 member number when registering for the event.
For questions about credits for Healthcare Summit attendees, e-mail cfp@blackhat.com.
