MEDICA and COMPAMED are starting the new trade fair year with many program updates.
While exhibitor registrations for the trade fairs are in full swing, the team for both events is working on the concept and themes of the stage program. MEDICA and COMPAMED will take place from November 17 – 20, 2025 at the fairgrounds in Düsseldorf, Germany.
“Meet Health. Future. People.” – is the new MEDICA campaign motto.
The MEDICA INNOVATION FORUM, which was relaunched in 2024, will be expanded this year to include the topics of the previous MEDICA HEALTH IT FORUM, making it the central location and program format for the complete range of tech, digital and IT innovations in the MEDICA Digital Health sphere. The two popular pitch competitions for start-ups and scale-ups, the MEDICA START-UP COMPETITION and the HEALTHCARE INNOVATION WORLD CUP, will remain part of the program and will showcase creative product solutions from the young start-up scene on the forum stage. As a result of the strong visitor response, the forum area will be expanded.
The MEDICA INNOVATION FORUM will address the “hot topics” of the healthcare industry, which will also be a recurring theme through the entire range of topics and exhibitors at MEDICA 2025. This year, they will include: AI/generative AI, robotics and assistive systems and solutions for networked care/ telemedicine, as well as for the hospital of the future.
However, not only in the Digital Health Sphere, but in all five spheres at MEDICA 2025, there will be innovations for the entire treatment process in outpatient and clinical care, a varied stage program and thematically related special shows. The spheres are: laboratory technology and diagnostics (with MEDICA LABMED FORUM), medical technology and electrical medicine (with MEDICA TECH FORUM), medical supplies and consumables, physiotherapy and orthopedic technology (with the MEDICA SPORTS HUB) as well as digital health/IT solutions (including the Wearable Technologies Show).
