Where Cutting-Edge Technologies and Industry Converge: Announcing Ireland’s Premier Medical Technology Event, Medtec Ireland 2017

Medtec Ireland 20174 - 5 October 2017, Galway, Ireland.
Medtec Ireland 2017, Ireland's largest pure medical design and manufacturing event, will be taking place at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Galway, Ireland. Following last year's successful event, which saw substantial growth of 19 percent in visitor numbers, Medtec Ireland 2017 is the industry's most trusted route to producing real impact for exhibitors and visitors, demonstrating the most important innovations and trends in medical devices and supporting commercialisation and networking opportunities to help build and maintain business partnerships.

Now in its 15th year, Medtec Ireland is the longest running event serving the booming Irish medical device manufacturing market. Medtec Ireland offers a wide range of learning opportunities, including presentations from thought leaders and industry experts, innovation tours, conferences and workshops. In a fast paced ever evolving sector Medtec Ireland leads the way in providing insights into the current opportunities, challenges and solutions for the medical technology industry including regulatory requirements in a local and global context, cutting-edge thinking, research and innovation.

This year Medtec Ireland 2017 will be exploring recent advancements in lab-on-a-chip technologies for point-of-care diagnostics; medical implants; breakthrough medical technologies to regenerate human tissue; mobile applications in healthcare; health economics and its increasing importance in evaluating Medtec companies; the impact of industry consolidation on innovation, latest updates on the European Medical Device Regulations and discussions on market access, funding and reimbursement.

A new exciting addition, the Start-up Academy at Medtec Ireland 2017, will provide exhibitors with a dedicated forum to share their ideas, learn about opportunities for partnering and collaborating and how to forge relationships that will help them develop their businesses for years to come.

"Medtec Ireland has a strategic focus on driving innovation and opportunity for the medical technology industry in Ireland, with our events creating a compelling, interactive environment in which ideas can be shared, explored, and enhanced," said Anne Schumacher, Brand Director, Medtec. "Medtec Ireland 2017 is a key event in the medical technology calendar and an unmissable opportunity for exhibitors and visitors to see and hear about the latest innovations, and explore opportunities to complement their business and drive it forward."

For more information, and to register for Medtec Ireland 2017 including onsite parking, please visit: http://www.medteceurope.com/ireland/

About Medtec Ireland
A satellite of Europe's leading tradeshow of the medical device industry, Medtec Europe, Medtec Irelands is Ireland’s largest pure medical design and manufacturing event, and is the preeminent medical technology platform showcasing the key trends and insights across the entire supply chain of the medical technology industry. Medtec Ireland brings together companies in the medical device supply chain in order to share ideas, meet partners, and discover, experience and source products & services from all stages of production in order to create the next generation of medical devices.

About UBM EMEA
UBM EMEA connects people and creates opportunities for companies across five continents to develop new business, meet customers, launch new products, promote their brands, and expand their market. Through premier brands such as Medtec, CPhI, TFM&A, Internet World, IFSEC, MD&M, Cruise Shipping Miami, the Concrete Show, and many others, UBM EMEA exhibitions, conferences, awards programs, publications, websites, and training and certification programs are an integral part of the marketing plans of companies across more than 20 industry sectors.

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