Call for Presentations: Healthcare Design Conference 2026
Deadline: January 16 by 11:59pm ET
The Healthcare Design Conference + Expo welcomes presentation proposals that respond to the current needs of healthcare organizations and solutions being put into place across the healthcare planning, design, construction, and operations/facility management sectors.
Topics of interest for the 2026 program include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Facility renovation and reuse
- Outpatient/ambulatory care environments
- Integrating technology and supporting future innovations
- Staff and campus safety
- Construction methods and prefabrication
- Health and wellness
- Designing for an aging population
- Freestanding EDs/microhospitals/urgent care centers
- Sustainability/resiliency
- Specialty service lines (pediatrics, mental health, cancer care, etc.)
- Interior design aesthetics and materials/FF&E selections
- Advanced construction methods and project delivery solutions (prefabrication, mass timber, etc.)
- Medical and equipment planning and programming
- Building systems and infrastructure
- Community-based and rural healthcare
- Clinical perspectives in design
- International projects and design approaches
The Healthcare Design Conference audience comes from many disciplines and different levels of professional experience. Attendees include architects, interior designers, facility managers, hospital/health system leaders, engineers, builders, academics, researchers, clinicians, students, and product manufacturers/vendors. To best serve this audience, the goal of the conference program is to support a range of knowledge levels, offering foundational to master-class learnings.
Questions? Contact Amanda Ryan, Senior Content Program Manager, at amanda.ryan@emeraldx.com
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Save the date! HCD 2026
Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, LA
October 17-20, 2026