● HHCN & HMEB · August 26–28, 2026 · Austin, TX

FUTURE Conference

One Forum.
The Leaders Shaping What’s
Next.

Reimbursement pressure. Workforce shortages. Technology adoption gaps. MA denials. The executives solving these problems right now will be in Austin on August 26.

Attendees leave with implementation-ready strategies, a sharper understanding of the forces reshaping at-home care and HME, and relationships built around shared purpose and long-term growth.

3 Days

Of Programming

500+

Attendees

6

Content Tracks

2

Combined Events

Co-Presented by Home Health Care News & HME Business · Austin, TX · August 26–28, 2026

The Unified Event

The industry’s two flagship events. One room.

For the first time, HHCN FUTURE and HMEB FUTURE come together as a single flagship conference. Two of the most respected editorial teams in at-home care and equipment are combining their audiences, their agendas, and their networks into one landmark gathering.

The result is a room without silos. Home health, home care, hospice, palliative, and HME leaders in the same conversations, solving overlapping challenges and finding the partnerships that span the full continuum of care at home.

This is where the operators, investors, and solution partners defining the next decade of at-home care meet, decide, and move forward together.

Home Health

Home Care

Hospice

HME

Palliative Care

Home Health. HME. Together.

Why This Year Is Different

The Agenda Changed. Here Is Why.

Home-based care and HME are navigating an unprecedented convergence of market forces. The providers who emerge stronger from this environment are the ones already in the right conversations.

Leadership & Growth

The new CEO playbook is being written in real time. Consolidation, new service lines, workforce transformation, and the convergence of HME and home-based care are reshaping what leadership looks like in 2026.

Technology & AI in Practice

Clinician adoption. Scale beyond the pilot. The home-based care and HME executives at FUTURE are not debating whether to adopt technology. They are solving the harder problem: making it stick.

Capital & Strategy

M&A is active. Valuations are resetting. Medicare Advantage strategy and payer dynamics are defining who grows and who stalls. FUTURE brings together the operators and investors shaping the next chapter.

Confirmed Speakers

The Speakers Make the Room.

The HHCN and HME Business editorial teams recruit the executives running the most consequential organizations in at-home care. These are operators, clinical leaders, and capital partners whose decisions move the sector.

Speaker lineup updated as confirmations are received. More announcements coming soon.

Who’s in the Room

This Is Who You Will Be Sitting Next To.

FUTURE is curated, not open. The attendee list reflects the owners, operators, executives, investors, and solution partners driving the future of at-home care and HME.

Why Attend

Which seat is yours?

Home Health & Hospice Providers

You are managing more complex patients, a workforce under pressure, and a reimbursement environment that does not slow down. FUTURE is where you hear what is actually working, from operators navigating the same landscape in real time.

HME & DME Leaders

MA denials. New service lines. Margin defense. The HME C-suite is reshaping how the industry competes. FUTURE gives you three days of executive-level dialogue with the operators and payers defining the next era of equipment and supplies.

Capital Partners & Investors

Understanding at-home care and HME from the outside is getting harder. FUTURE gives you direct access to the operators defining quality, margin, and scalability, before the announcements are made.

Clinical, Operations & Growth Leaders

Policy shifts, staffing constraints, AI adoption, referral competition. FUTURE connects you with peers who are solving the same problems and sharing what is working.

M&A Advisors & Consultants

Your next client is probably in this room. FUTURE is the most concentrated gathering of home-based care and HME operators evaluating strategic transitions.

Technology & Solution Partners

Skip the trade show floor. FUTURE gives you the room conversations and direct access to what clinical and operational leaders are actually prioritizing and buying.

The hotel room block closes August 11. The provider rate is $1,200.

FUTURE is an intimate conference. The home-based care and HME leaders in this room are not there by accident. If you are considering it, now is the time.

On the Agenda

Three Days. Six Tracks. Real Decisions.

Chief Executive Officer

The New CEO Playbook: Leading Through Uncertainty and Opportunity

Enforcement & Compliance

Navigating Home-Based Care’s New Enforcement Landscape

Technology & AI

From Skepticism to Buy-In: Driving Clinician Adoption of AI

Capital & M&A

Capital, Consolidation and Comebacks: State of M&A for At-Home Care and HME

Payers & Referrals

The New Referral Engine: Hospital Systems, Payviders and Integration

HME Innovation

What’s Next in HME: Innovation, New Service Lines and Emerging Opportunities

Aug 26

Arrival Reception

Aug 27

Full Conference Day + FUTURE After Dark

Aug 28

Conference through Noon

Testimonials

Don’t take our word for it.

FUTURE is the one event where the conversations I have directly translate into decisions I make the following quarter. The caliber of operators in the room is unlike any other conference in home-based care.

Chief Executive Officer

Home Health Platform

I have attended every major home health conference. FUTURE is the only one where I consistently leave with relationships that turn into real partnerships and transactions.

Managing Director

Healthcare-Focused Private Equity

The HME track content gave me a framework I brought back to our leadership team the following week. For the first time, I felt like a conference actually understood the pressure points in our business.

Chief Executive Officer

Regional HME Company

The Venue

Austin. August 26–28.

Downtown Austin. A focused, energetic setting for the conversations that matter. Walking distance from everything, close to the live music and culture that makes Austin one of the most memorable conference cities in the country.