2026 - Behavioral Health Tech Conference

Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center
2800 Opryland Drive
Nashville, TN 37214

Come visit our booth to see the NovaOne platform in action and grab a BH NOT BS t-shirt while supplies last!

Tuesday, September 22, 2026
8 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. ET

Wednesday, September 23, 2026
7:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. ET

Joe Burton
President & CEO, NovaOne

Rachel Goldberg
Vice President, Growth & Clinical Strategy, NovaOne

Janice Rybicki
Senior Director, Customer and Provider Success, NovaOne

Brian Lynch 
Sales Analyst, Business Development, NovaOne

Behavioral Health, Not BS: Raising the Bar on Evidence-Based Care
September 22, 2026 | 1:45 p.m. CT

Session Description
In a market flooded with hundreds of point solutions, inflated network claims and unvalidated care models, distinguishing real behavioral health impact from noise has never been harder. In this candid panel, NovaOne leaders join health plan leaders and founders of leading behavioral health organizations to challenge the status quo and define what “Behavioral Health, Not BS” looks like in practice. This session will move beyond buzzwords to provide a clear, practical framework for payers, employers and partners seeking solutions that actually deliver results.

Presenters

• Kristina Saffran, Co-Founder & CEO, Equip
• Dr. Cynthia Anderson, Chief Clinical Officer, Avela Health
• Stephen Smith, Co-Founder & CEO, NOCD
• Chris Segura, Product Strategy & Management, HCSC
• Joe Burton, President & CEO, NovaOne

Beyond the Screening: Reimagining Care at the Intersection of Women’s, Maternal & Behavioral Health
September 22, 2026 | 2:45 p.m. CT

Session Description
Women’s physical and behavioral health are deeply interconnected, including across fertility and family planning, pregnancy and postpartum care, pregnancy loss, chronic illness, caregiving, menopause, and every stage in between. Yet care delivery, reimbursement, and benefit design remain largely fragmented, leaving critical needs unidentified or inadequately addressed. Facilitated by leaders from a health plan, hospital, and health policy, this interactive session will examine where women’s health providers, behavioral health providers, health systems, and payers are successfully working together, and where the industry is still falling short. Participants will explore persistent gaps in screening and follow-up, access to specialized care, provider coordination, data sharing, reimbursement, health equity, and continuity across major life transitions. The conversation will then shift from identifying problems to building solutions. In a facilitated working session, attendees will consider what is missing from today’s market and develop practical recommendations for better benefit design, clinical integration, provider partnerships, payment models, and accountability. Participants will leave with a clearer vision for what truly connected, whole-person care should look like, and the concrete changes each part of the healthcare ecosystem must make to deliver it.

Presenters

• Brooke Trainum, Senior Director, Practice Policy, American Psychiatric Association
• Vera Sansone, CEO, CPC Integrated Health
• Christine Brocato, System VP, Strategic Innovation, CommonSpirit
• Rachel Goldberg, Vice President, Growth & Clinical Strategy, NovaOne

The Patient the System Keeps Losing: Reimagining Maternal Mental Health Care
September 23, 2026 | 4:15 p.m. CT

Session Description
Maternal mental health has finally entered the mainstream conversation — but the care system still isn't built around it. Women navigating fertility challenges, pregnancy loss, perinatal anxiety, and postpartum depression frequently fall through the gaps between OB, primary care, and behavioral health — seen by multiple providers, supported by none of them consistently. This session examines what it actually takes to build maternal mental health care that works: benefit designs that cover the full arc of reproductive mental health, care models that keep women connected across the perinatal period, and technology that meets them where they are rather than where the system is convenient. Payers, providers, and innovators share what they're building — and what the field still hasn't figured out.

Presenters

• Madonna Delfish, Associate Director, Health Equity Management, American Psychiatric Association
• Sarah Fleury, Managing Director of Behavioral Health, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island
• Emma Sugerman, Co-founder & COO, Mavida Health
• Rachel Goldberg, Vice President, Growth & Clinical Strategy, NovaOne

Who's Watching the Algorithm? AI Safety, Liability, and the Regulatory Gap in Behavioral Health
September 23, 2026 | 4:15 p.m. CT

Session Description
AI is already making clinical decisions in behavioral health — triaging members, flagging risk, guiding treatment recommendations — but the regulatory frameworks designed to govern those decisions are still being written. This fireside conversation examines what responsible AI deployment actually looks like from the inside: how organizations are building safety and accountability into AI tools today, what happens when something goes wrong, and what they need from regulators that they aren't getting yet. This is the conversation the field needs to have before the next incident forces it.

Presenters

• Aaron Maguregui, Partner, Foley & Lardner, LLP
• Jenna Carl, Chief Medical Officer, Big Health
• Joe Burton, President & CEO, NovaOne