It’s that time of year again! The time to start planning your conference calendar for 2026. As always, we’re here to help you navigate what’s ahead in the medical device industry, with plenty of opportunities to get inspired, exchange ideas, and take part in meaningful conversations at this year’s events.
Here’s our list of the best MedTech and medical device events coming up in 2026 in the EU and US.
Did we miss something? Let us know, and we’ll add it to the list!
Events in the EU
Medical Technology UK
📍 Location: Coventry, UK
🗓️ Dates: March 11th to 12th, 2026
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What can you expect?
Medical Technology UK is a leading exhibition and conference dedicated to the medical device design, development, and manufacturing sectors. The event features industry expert presentations, networking opportunities, and showcases of the latest innovations in medical technology. Join this key gathering with over 100 specialist supplier exhibitors, aimed at engineers, designers, and decision-makers in the UK MedTech industry. You will also get the chance to join the UK Women in MedTech Forum, their two-day learning program, and more.
European Implantable Device Post-Market Surveillance & Vigilance Conference
📍 Location: Berlin, Germany
🗓️ Dates: TBC, 2026
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What can you expect?
This specialized event focuses on enhancing safety and performance monitoring for implantable medical devices through proactive data collection, complaint monitoring strategies, and trend analysis while implementing strategic risk management across the product lifecycle. Highlights during the European Implantable Device Post-Market Surveillance & Vigilance conference include presentations on proactive risk management strategies, enhancing data quality in registries and data lakes, MDR compliance for high-risk legacy devices, and more.
MedTech Forum
📍 Location: Stockholm, Sweden
🗓️ Dates: May 11th to 13th, 2026
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What can you expect?
MedTech Forum is a health and medical technology industry conference gathering leading voices from across the medical technology community to exchange ideas and explore the key trends shaping the future of our sector. From innovation and digital health to regulatory developments, access to care, and sustainability, the programme will provide a rich platform for dialogue and insight. This year’s presentations touch on funding and access challenges across medtech sectors, how real-world data can advance healthcare and regulatory innovation, and more.
RAPS (Regulatory Affairs Professional Society) Euro convergence
📍 Location: Lisbon, Portugal
🗓️ Dates: May 5th to 8th, 2026
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What can you expect?
Organized by the Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society (RAPS), this premier event is recognized as the most comprehensive regulatory affairs conference in Europe, focusing on the latest topics and developments in healthcare products. The Euro Convergence includes workshops on strategic planning tools for IVD and pharma partners, implementing AI and digital transformation in MD, Pharma, IVDR, and technical documentation assessment from the MDSW-a notified body perspective.
Generis European Medical Device and Diagnostic Summit
📍 Location: Düsseldorf, Germany
🗓️ Dates: June 9th to 10th, 2026
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What can you expect?
The European Medical Device Summit is a leading MedTech event in Europe, offering actionable strategies to advance medical device development, design, product development technologies, and regulatory affairs. Topics include eQMS, continued process verification (CPV), and regulatory reporting, among others.
Medtech Summit 2026
📍 Location: Berlin, Germany
🗓️ Dates: June 15th to 18th, 2026
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What can you expect?
This regulatory conference offers a comprehensive platform for professionals in the medical device and in vitro diagnostics sectors to navigate complex regulatory landscapes. Medtech Summit 2026 is a hybrid summit, giving participants an opportunity to attend either in person or digitally. Presentations include topics such as EU MDR Revisions, the future of Medical Device AI in the EU, and hospital autonomy and liability in the MedTech landscape, among others.
Medica 2026
📍 Location: Düsseldorf, Germany
🗓️ Dates: November 16th to 19th
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What can you expect?
Recognized as the world's largest medical trade fair, MEDICA annually attracts a global audience of experts from business, research, and politics, as well as thousands of national and international specialists and decision-makers in the healthcare sector. With five distinct conference “spheres”, you are sure to get your money’s worth at Medica 2026, where you can attend forums and sessions on health IT, laboratory medicine, and the latest achievements in medical technology, among others.
HIMSS26 Europe
📍 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
🗓️ Dates: May 19th to 21st, 2026
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What can you expect?
HIMSS26 is a major digital health and health tech conference bringing together healthcare leaders, innovators, policy makers, and digital transformation experts. Expect deep discussions on health IT, AI, interoperability, cybersecurity, and strategies for smarter, more efficient healthcare systems across Europe.
HLTH Europe 2026
📍 Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
🗓️ Dates: June 15th to 18th, 2026
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What can you expect?
HLTH Europe 2026 is one of Europe’s largest health innovation events, attracting C-suite leaders, investors, and innovators across the healthcare ecosystem. Sessions cover health tech, digital transformation, strategy, partnerships, and future-focused trends shaping healthcare delivery and technology adoption.
Events in North America
RAPS (Regulatory Affairs Professional Society) Global Regulatory Strategy Conference
📍 Location: Baltimore, US
🗓️ Dates: March 4th to 6th, 2026
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What can you expect?
The RAPS global regulatory strategy conference is developed for mid- to senior-level regulatory affairs professionals and designed to provide tools, networking, and insight that can be directly applied to approaching regulatory strategies on a global scale. We recommend the sessions on AI in drug development, strategic change control to accelerate regulatory approvals and innovation, and reimagining global regulatory strategy for agility and impact.
MedCon 2026
📍 Location: Columbus, Ohio
🗓️ Dates: April 22nd to 24th, 2026
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What can you expect?
Organized by the AFDO/RAPS Healthcare Products Collaborative and co-sponsored by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), MedCon has been a pivotal event since 2009, fostering collaboration within the healthcare products community. Highlights include presentations on the Medical Device User Fee Amendments (MDUFA) Update, embracing AI to build a better operation and QMS, and managing data integrity across the total product lifecycle
MedTech Con
📍 Location: Boston, MA
🗓️ Dates: October 18th to 21st, 2026
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What can you expect?
MedTech Con combines panel sessions, network events, and exhibits to bring the medical device, diagnostics, and digital technology industries together. With more than 100 sessions, there is plenty of opportunity to dive deep into key topics such as digital health and AI trends, BD and investment strategy, legal and compliance risk, and more.
American Medical Device (AMD) summit
📍 Location: Chicago, US
🗓️ Dates: October 26th to 27th, 2026
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What can you expect?
Organized by the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed), the AMD Summit brings together top executives and innovators from the global medical technology industry. This year’s key themes center on AI-accelerated development, rapid prototyping, human-centric design, and connected, IoT-enabled devices.
MD&M West 2026
📍 Location: Anaheim, CA
🗓️ Dates: February 9th to 11th, 2026
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What can you expect?
One of North America’s flagship medical device design and manufacturing expos. IMD&M West unites thousands of engineering, manufacturing, quality, and R&D professionals to explore innovations in MedTech production, advanced materials, AI in manufacturing, compliance, and supply chain resilience.
Conclusion
Whether you’re looking to stay ahead of regulatory change, explore the latest MedTech innovations, or connect with peers across the industry, the 2026 conference calendar offers something for everyone. From hands-on technical events to strategy- and policy-focused summits, these gatherings provide valuable opportunities to learn, network, and shape the future of medical devices.
Be sure to plan ahead, secure your spot early, and make the most of a year packed with insight and innovation.
