Top 40+ Medical Device Conferences To Attend in 2023

Attending the right conference can be a game-changer for those working in the medical device industry. 

You may strike up a new business partnership, establish new network connections and, of course, acquire new knowledge about medical devices, quality, regulatory and other industry related news and trends that can help you further your career and add value to your company.

In this blog post, you will find a list of top medical device conferences, both virtual and in-person, taking place in 2023. This list includes some events we regularly participate in and others that come highly recommended by our trusted partner network.

It's time to pull out your calendar planner and decide which medical device conferences you will be attending in 2023.

FREE DOWNLOAD: Get a printable schedule of all 2023 conferences that you can save and reference at a later date (or share with a colleague) by clicking here.

1. TRUE QUALITY ROADSHOW 2023

The Greenlight Guru True Quality Roadshow provides an exclusive opportunity to connect with MedTech professionals in key hubs around the world. Each roadshow event brings together MedTech leaders in quality, regulatory, clinical data, and product development and will allow attendees to learn industry best practices and trends, meet their local MedTech community, and find inspiration to continue improving the quality of life.  

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2. J.P. MORGAN HEALTHCARE CONFERENCE

J.P. Morgan’s annual healthcare conference is a banner event in the industry. Heading into its 41st year, the conference is the largest and most informative healthcare investment symposium in the industry.

At the time of writing, keynotes have not been announced, but they’re usually high quality. Past speakers have included Bill Gates, Joe Biden, and Anne Wojcicki. You can also expect to find thousands of investors from around the world and companies ranging from startups to those with more than $300 billion in market cap.

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3. MD&M WEST

MD&M West is North America’s largest MedTech event. It's described as the place “where serious professionals find the technologies, education, and connections to stay ahead in the global medical manufacturing community.”

From 3D printing and biomaterials to robotics and digital health, MD&M West is the largest MedTech expo for suppliers and buyers to discover innovation, engineer new technology, and build life-changing medical devices.

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4. 11TH ANNUAL MEDTECH PARTNERING CONFERENCE 2023

This event provides a unique opportunity for inventors, investors, and industry executives to establish new relationships for furthering innovation in this field. The conference will feature exciting panels that highlight recent developments and cutting-edge technology and there will be a demo track featuring local innovations in MedTech and partnering opportunities that will allow attendees to set up meetings with each other and UCLA faculty.

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5. LSI EMERGING MEDTECH SUMMIT 2023

This event has a single mission: to bring together the most innovative MedTech startups, active investors, and strategic buyers to deal-make, collaborate, and forecast the future of MedTech.

The event showcases pre-screened venture backed MedTech startups that are seeking exposure to major strategics, venture capital, and other investors. Attendees include Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic, Boston Scientific, Abbott, and GE Healthcare among others.

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6. EU MEDICAL DEVICE AND DIAGNOSTIC QUALITY MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE

The 6th annual EU Medical Device and Diagnostic Quality Management Conference is a multi-stream event aimed at building excellence in quality management. This year’s event will feature attendees from MedTech companies and will provide a wealth of knowledge and advice on subject like emerging global trends, regulatory challenges, and effective product quality and supplier quality management processes.

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7. MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY UK

This event will be a comprehensive series of technical presentations taking place over two days in March. It will include experts in a variety of MedTech subjects along with thought-provoking guest speakers—all providing insight and knowledge for medical device engineering teams and senior executives about the next generation of new medical devices.

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8. MEDTRADE

Earlier in the year, MedTrade made a strategic decision to combine MedTrade East and West under one roof for 2023. MedTrade is an Expo conference connecting medical equipment companies to manufacturers of all sizes. Focused exclusively on the home medical equipment market. MedTrade is designed to give today’s providers the highest quality educational, networking, and advocacy opportunities and the largest selection of HME products under one roof.

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9. ViVE

ViVE merges the leadership of CHIME and the digital marketplace of HLTH to create a technology event focused on the business of transformation in healthcare.

ViVE brings together C-suite executives, senior digital health leaders and buyers, health startups and investors, and government and solution providers to advance healthcare.

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10. 10X THE MEDICAL DEVICE CONFERENCE

10x Medical Device Conference is a cross-functional event where the entire medical device ecosystem convenes to grow their skills, network, and profit. It’s designed to foster strong professional relationships among medical device players eager to learn smarter ways to do things with industry-leading resources.

This medical device event is geared equally toward senior and junior level professionals in the medical device industry.

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11. DESIGN OF MEDICAL DEVICES CONFERENCE

The Design of Medical Devices Conference provides a national forum to bring together top medical device innovators. In its 21st year, this MedTech conference includes industry experts as keynote and featured speakers, plus four days of workshops, symposiums, scientific poster sessions, and technical/scientific sessions.

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12. HIMSS23

HIMSS is an annual conference that brings together 40,000+ health IT professionals, clinicians, executives, and vendors from around the world. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn, meet, and network over a range of health information and technology topics.

The event is known for its world-class educational programming, with hundreds of highly vetted sessions from industry leaders, renowned keynote speakers, specialty programs to meet distinct needs, and hands-on pre-conference symposia and forums.

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13. INTERPHEX

The MedTech Summit is dedicated to accelerating the path to MedTech regulatory compliance. Attendees will benefit from Competent Authority, Notified Body and industry insights across 7 focused events: EU MDR, IVDR, EU Law, PMS, Clinical, Global Market Regulations, and Biocompatibility.

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14. MEDTECH STRATEGIST INNOVATION SUMMIT 2023

This conference will offer a broader and deeper take on the issues and concerns driving the medical device industry today. In a mix of keynote presentation and plenary sessions, the MedTech Strategist Innovation Summit will bring together some of the leading voices in today’s MedTech world to provide both insight and opportunity.

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15. LSX WORLD CONGRESS 2023

The 9th LSX World Congress gathers the founders and CEOs of innovative start-ups, healthcare giants, and everyone in between. It represents the breadth and depth of the cutting-edge research and technology driving the advances in the industry right now and in the near future.

It is an industry-leading gathering with qualified 1:1 partnering at its core, connecting the biotech, healthtech and MedTech c-suites with the sector’s most active investors, pharma and health technology BD&L teams, R&D leaders, KOLs and top tier service companies who are driving the sector forward.

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16. WORLD CONFERENCE ON QUALITY AND IMPROVEMENT

This is ASQ’s flagship conference and attracts more than 2,500 attendees from 45+ countries. The aim is to gain knowledge, improvement methodologies, quality tools, best practices, and networking contacts. WCQI 2022 explores the symbiotic relationship between human and scientific aspects of quality management.

Sessions addressing soft skills, cultural consciousness and leadership are offered alongside practical presentations outlining leading-edge applications and technologies, helping to bridge the gap between emotional and scientific intelligence and advance the quality community’s global standing as a comprehensive resource for progress, innovation, and excellence.

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17. DEVICE TALKS BOSTON

DeviceTalks Boston will unite MedTech’s most innovative professionals find the quickest way to clear troublesome bottlenecks in critical stages such as innovation and funding, prototyping and product development, manufacturing and sourcing, regulatory, reimbursement and market development, and engineering tools and technology.

Co-located with the Healthcare Robotics Engineering Forum and the Robotics Summit and Expo, DeviceTalks is an essential meeting for entrepreneurs, engineers, and other professionals developing the latest tools used to treat patients and cure disease.

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18. RAPS EURO CONVERGENCE

RAPS Euro Convergence is the most comprehensive regulatory affairs conference in Europe, focusing on the latest developments in healthcare products in Europe and beyond—medical devices, IVDs, pharmaceuticals, and combination products.

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19. BIOMED ISRAEL

BIOMED is one of the most established life science conferences in the world. Heading into year 23 of the conference, BIOMED has positioned itself as a meeting place for Israeli and international biotech professionals. This year's conference will have 9 themes encompassing the aging population and AI technology.

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20. INVEST 2023

INVEST 2023 unites active investors with corporate business development executives to facilitate investment opportunities with the most promising healthcare startups.

For more than a decade, INVEST has given biopharma, diagnostics, health IT, medical device and health services startups the opportunity to present to leading investors like AbbVie, Baird Capital, BCBS, Mayo Clinic Ventures, 7WireVentures, UnityPoint Health Ventures, Venrock, and more.

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21. MEDTECLIVE

MedtecLIVE with T4M is where product developers and purchasing managers from distributors and OEMs come together with the leading suppliers of medical technology in Europe. The event alternates between the two most important medical technology regions in Germany and covers the entire supply chain.

The trade fair is accompanied by a comprehensive supporting program organized in partnership with national and international associations and clusters that reflect the most important issues and trends in the sector. The event is complemented by precisely curated digital services for exhibitors and visitors.

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22. MEDTECH EUROPE FORUM

The MedTech Forum is the largest health and medical technology industry conference in Europe and a key event since 2007. Join industry leaders, leading innovators, and investors to discuss the future opportunities in the medical technology sector.

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23. SOUTHEAST LIFE SCIENCES ADVANSE

Southeast Life Sciences Advanse is a must-attend event for the biopharma, medtech, diagnostic, and digital health industries wishing to do business in the Southeast region. Our conference attracts the best of the southeast’s innovation, research, and people.

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24. RESI (REDEFINE EARLY STAGE INVESTMENTS)

RESI connects start-ups with global investors across the silos of drugs, devices, diagnostics and digital health. RESI is one of the best partnering conferences for the Life Science industry. Expect over 500 investors and over 500 start ups in attendance looking for the partnerships that are right for them.

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25. MedTech INNOVATION EXPO

Med-Tech Innovation Expo is the UK and Ireland’s leading event for medical design and manufacturing technology. Experience live demonstrations of the latest machines, technology, products, and services while networking with 4,000+ designers, engineers, innovators, and manufacturers from across the medical and healthcare sector.

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26. OMTEC

OMTEC is the world's only conference exclusively serving the orthopedic industry. A loyal contingent of procurement, supply chain, operations, research and development, and executive-level attendees, as well as business development, regulatory, quality and clinical affairs professionals, unite to learn, debate, share, connect and make things happen.

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27. AAMI EXCHANGE

AAMI is one of the premier conferences for healthcare technology management. It is attended by more than 2,300 biomedical equipment technicians, clinical engineers, and others who manage or support medical devices for healthcare institutions.

Educational sessions focus on practical solutions for the challenges that attendees face in their work every day. The Expo provides an opportunity to see the latest technologies from many of the world's leading medical-equipment manufacturers and service providers.

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28. MEDTECH SUMMIT

The MedTech Summit is dedicated to accelerating the path to MedTech regulatory compliance. Attendees will benefit from Competent Authority, Notified Body and industry insights across 7 focused events: EU MDR, IVDR, EU Law, PMS, Clinical, Global Market Regulations, and Biocompatibility.

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29. LSX USA LEADERS FORUM

The annual, LSX USA Leaders Forums are high-caliber, senior executive, virtual forums providing the education, strategies, and solutions that life science executives need to enable more effective investment, planning and strategic growth within their businesses.

The biotech, MedTech and healthtech leaders forums are strictly for CEOs, Founders, Co-Founders, or Presidents of their respective businesses. The pharma leaders forums are for global/regional heads of appropriate BD or Digital functions.

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30. LSI EMERGING MEDTECH SUMMIT EUROPE 2023

This event has a single mission: to bring together the most innovative MedTech startups, active investors, and strategic buyers to deal-make, collaborate, and forecast the future of MedTech.

The event showcases pre-screened venture backed MedTech startups that are seeking exposure to major strategics, venture capital and other investors. Attendees include major strategics like Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic, Boston Scientific, Abbott, GE Healthcare amongst others.

Greenlight Guru is a proud founding sponsor of this event.

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31. MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY IRELAND

Ireland's premier Medical Device Design and Manufacturing Conference

The two-day Conference features presentations by leading international medical device experts with thought-provoking guest speakers, all providing an insight on cutting-edge topics for medical device manufacturers, R&D, and design engineers in the rapidly evolving Irish and global device marketplace.

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32. BIOMEDEVICE BOSTON

BIOMEDevice Boston connects you with more than 4,500 engineers and executives — and more than 450 leading suppliers — across New England's thriving MedTech industry.

In partnership with the Massachusetts Medical Device Industry Council (MassMEDIC), BIOMEDevice Boston is a powerful end-to-end industry showcase covering today's emerging biomedical trends and innovations. 

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33. MEDDEV DAY

The MedDev Day, organized by LS Academy will once again serve as a central meeting place for the medical technology industry, bringing together lecture forums, interviews, workshops and networking opportunities. The event will be 360-degree overview of the evolving context of medical devices, in-vitro-diagnostics, and software.

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34. AMERICAN MEDICAL DEVICE (AMD) SUMMIT

Join the discussion with over 250 of your industry peers as we explore the challenges and opportunities in medical device innovation, regulatory harmonization, compliance, digital transformation and more. Hear first-hand case studies presented by our executive speaker faculty with extensive experience driving development and process strategy excellence.

Walk away with strategic insights for industry, hospital networks, and regulatory bodies to collaborate together to streamline processes, optimize development, design, decrease risk, improve speed to market, reduce costs, and remain compliant in a rapidly evolving landscape. 

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35. RAPS CONVERGENCE

RAPS Convergence is the largest and most well-recognized annual gathering of regulatory professionals, scientists, and innovators in the world. Convergence brings together representatives from industry, global regulatory bodies, and research, academic, and clinical organizations that are directly involved in managing the regulatory process and aligning science, regulation, and business strategy.

Convergence is designed to educate and empower professionals about the ever-evolving healthcare product regulatory environment within an interactive forum that facilitates community exchange, connections, and knowledge sharing.

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36. MEDFIT

MedFIT is your opportunity to connect with international key innovators in the MedTech, diagnostic, and digital health sectors.

As the leading European partnering event, MedFIT provides the ideal environment to help industry players to source early-stage assets, to facilitate the emergence of collaborative projects between big players, public research institutions, start-ups, and SMEs, to increase licensing opportunities, to obtain funding and to facilitate market access.

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37. THE MEDTECH CONFERENCE POWERED BY ADVAMED

The MedTech Conference will bring together the world's top MedTech executives and innovators to network, conduct business, gain access to capital, and share insights in an engaging digital environment.

With world-class educational opportunities and networking, diverse attendees, and some top policy-makers, this is a premier event for anyone in the medical device industry.

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38. DEVICETALKS WEST

DeviceTalks West will explore the new technologies changing how MedTech is delivered. The event is co-located at the Santa Clara Convention Center with the RoboBusiness Conference and explores the impact sensors and other transformative technologies will have on MedTech creation.

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39. PROJECT MEDTECH'S STARTUP SYMPOSIUM | HOUSTON

Early stage MedTech companies are expected to navigate the complex process of bringing an idea into reality, but very seldom do they have the expertise, experience, or resources to ensure success. If you are founder faced with this dilemma, this is for you.

Project MedTech and our Network of industry thought leaders have organized an interactive event to help founders build a successful medical technology company.

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40. OCTANE'S MEDTECH INNOVATION FORUM

MedTech Innovation Forum is poised to help you discover the wide-ranging impact of innovations and what they mean for your MedTech business.

MedTech Innovation Forum will feature industry experts, strategics, physicians, and entrepreneurs who have made major headway and continue to make massive strides towards an accelerated future.

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41. MEDICA

MEDICA is the world’s largest event for the medical sector. The event is the largest medical trade fair in the world – in 2016 it attracted more than 5,100 exhibitors from 70 countries in 17 halls.

Each year, leading individuals from the fields of business, research, and politics grace this top-class event with their presence — naturally, alongside tens of thousands of national and international experts and decision-makers from the sector. An extensive exhibition and an ambitious program — which together present the entire spectrum of innovations for outpatient and clinical care — await you in Düsseldorf.

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FREE DOWNLOAD: Get a printable schedule of all 2023 conferences that you can save and reference at a later date (or share with a colleague) by clicking here. 

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