MEDIA and COMPAMED announce open registration and new themes for 2026
MEDICA and COMPAMED have announced exhibitor registration is open for the 2026 tradefairs to be held November 16 – 19, 2026 at the fairgrounds in Düsseldorf, Germany. Both events will have a completely revised thematic structure for the exhibition areas.
The restructuring of the thematic areas is the result of a systematic feedback process. During the trade fairs in November 2025, exhibitors and visitors were specifically asked about the thematic logic, hall layout, and content synergies.
The five new main exhibition areas at MEDICA are:
- Clinical Diagnostics & Therapeutic Technologies (including imaging, nuclear medicine, radiotherapy, laboratory technology, medical devices, clinical equipment, orthopedics, traumatology).
- Digital Medicine, Data & Artificial Intelligence (including hospital IT, wearables, telemedicine, AI, cybersecurity, data platforms).
- Integrated Care, Rehabilitation & Homecare (including homecare, consumables, infection control).
- Healthcare Infrastructure, Manufacturing & Quality (including healthcare infrastructure & construction, regulation, market access).
- Healthcare Systems, Education & Global Health (including education, training/simulation, healthcare services).
The always well-attended specialist forums, special shows, and conferences will remain fundamental components of the program. At the end of June, they will also be assigned to the exhibition halls according to their content.
COMPAMED will continue to focus on the supplier sector of the medical technology industry and will remain – as has already been confirmed – in Halls 8a and 8b. Complemented by a coordinated stage program, the main exhibition areas will be:
- Manufacturing, lifecycle, and obsolescence management (including various types of manufacturing, manufacturing technologies and automation, supply chain management)
- Components, modules, and systems (including electronics, electrical engineering, sensor technology, mechanics and mechatronics, microfluidics, semiconductors, connectors, optics, photonics)
- Materials, chemicals, and surface technologies
- Compliance, quality, regulation, and market access
- Software, digitalization, cybersecurity, and future technologies
Additionally, Messe Düsseldorf will be getting a new headquarters, to be completed by mid-2028.
