Med in Ireland: Why you should attend

A one-day event which aims to show how Irish companies are attempting to transform the future of healthcare and manufacturing.

Med in Ireland provides attendees with the opportunity to meet with industry experts, whilst also creating the chance for attendees to conduct on-site visits and arrange one-to-one meetings with exhibitors. The show also hopes to increase attendees’ understanding of the medtech research which takes place within Ireland’s Higher Education Institutes.

2017: The numbers

800+ delegates

40+ countries

270+ buyers

1200+ business meetings

140+ site visits

Why Ireland?

Ireland is a logical location for this trade show as Ireland is home to 18 of the world’s top 25 medical device manufacturers. Additionally, Ireland claims to export €12.6 billion worth of goods to 100 countries each year, which makes the country the second-largest for exporting medical devices in Europe. The country is also home to 350 medtech companies which employ 38,000 people, and 80% of the world’s stents are produced by medtech companies within Ireland.

Exhibitors

This invite only event has been running biennially since 2005, and this year over 70 healthcare and manufacturing companies from sectors including medical devices, sub-supply, precision engineered components, diagnostics, connected health and research and development will be exhibiting.

Exhibitors will be given the opportunity to network with manufacturing and healthcare sub supply buyers from all around the world, as well as being able to create global partnerships and generate new business.

There are multiple exhibitors set to attend the event including but not limited to, Avant Medical, Bemis Healthcare Packaging Europe, Nelipak Healthcare Packaging, Phillips Medisize, SteriPack, Teleflex, VistaMed and Zeus Industrial Products Ireland.

Conference

A conference will be hosted all day alongside the event and will include presentations by speakers from all around the world. The talks will take place before the exhibition officially opens, and speakers at the event will include:

• Chris Coburn, chief innovation offer, partners healthcare system
• Ibtesam Al Bastaki, director of investment and private partnership Dubai health authority
• Tanja Valentin, director external affairs at medtech Europe
• Paudie O’Connor, multi-site vice president manufacturing at Boston Scientific

Medtech Innovation Zone

There will also be a Medtech Innovation Zone showcase where Irish supports will be in attendance. The names of some of the companies taking part in this are AventaMed, Neurent Medical and Signum Surgical.

Key details and registration

The event will take place on 10^th October 2019 in Dublin, Ireland. Doors will open for registration at 7:15am and the event will finish at 5:30pm.

To register for this event attendees need to submit their interest on the event website.