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AHE Exchange27 Education and Solution Summit 2027

AHE Exchange brings hospital environmental services leaders together around the work of keeping care environments clean, safe and operationally consistent.

Aug 8-11, 2027 · Omni Fort Lauderdale

Visitors expected
700
Show days
4

Its center of gravity is the EVS department: the people who select products, train cleaning teams and turn infection prevention requirements into daily routines. The Association for the Health Care Environment, part of the American Hospital Association, runs the annual summit alongside a supplier Solution Center.

The program puts conversation circles and group working sessions alongside education, giving EVS managers a setting to compare how other hospitals handle the same operational problems. The supplier component sits within that professional community. Product selection, surgical cleaning and leadership training have also been part of the pre-summit program. Exchange makes most sense as a combined education and supplier visit for an EVS leader, with departmental practice and workforce development as central interests.

How it compares

  1. APIC Annual ConferenceLos Angeles, 3,178
  2. This show: AHE Exchange27 Education and Solution Summit700
  3. ISSA Show North AmericaLas Vegas, 11K

APIC Annual Conference is the closer alternative when the trip belongs to an infection prevention specialist. Its program centers on research, evidence-based practice and infection control, with a supplier exhibit hall alongside the education. Exchange approaches related problems through the people managing environmental services: cleaning practice, team training, product selection and the day-to-day running of an EVS department. A hospital may have good reasons to send different colleagues to each.

ISSA Show North America reaches across the cleaning industry, connecting manufacturers with distributors, building service contractors and in-house facilities teams. Its November gathering in Las Vegas suits a broad equipment search, cleaning-business development or distributor conversations. Exchange offers a more concentrated hospital audience and a professional education setting for suppliers whose products need to fit health care cleaning workflows.

The choice turns on the buyer's job. Choose APIC for clinical infection prevention learning, ISSA for the wider cleaning supply chain, and Exchange for the intersection of hospital EVS management, practical education and supplier discussions.

AHE Exchange is the focused trip for hospital EVS leaders who want to connect departmental practice, team development and supplier decisions.

Who exhibits

The Solution Center belongs to a summit built around hospital environmental services, so supplier conversations are grounded in health care cleaning operations. Clorox, Contec and Diversey supported Exchange26, illustrating the cleaning and contamination-control supply ecosystem around the event. Those relationships sit beside AHE's wider education partnerships. The commercial value lies in reaching EVS leaders who need products and services that work within their department's procedures, staffing and training. The audience is concentrated on hospital EVS.

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AHE Exchange27 Education and Solution Summit 2027

Exchange27 moves the summit to the Omni Fort Lauderdale Hotel after the 2026 gathering in New Orleans. The format continues to combine EVS education with the Solution Center and interactive peer discussions. The previous summit recognized MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, Advocate Sherman Hospital and Geisinger Medical Center through the EVS Department of the Year awards, placing departmental achievement alongside technical and leadership learning.

  • Bring a specific EVS operational problem to the conversation circles or group working sessions; these formats make peer experience part of the learning.
  • Treat the Solution Center as part of an EVS education trip: connect supplier questions to the cleaning and staff-training procedures your hospital actually uses.
  • Use AHE's separate product-selection or trainer programs when that is the main development need; those programs have their own registration and qualifications.

Exhibiting

Exchange27 offers standard and premium booth packages, each combining a full conference badge with exhibit hall badges and a mobile app company listing. The premium package adds furniture and booth vacuuming. Open corners carry a separate charge. The format suits suppliers who can discuss how a solution fits hospital EVS procedures and staff training, and who want participation in the education program as well as the Solution Center.

What your brief includes

The full exhibitor list, and what to do with it.

  1. Halvorsen ProzesstechnikIndustrial machinery / Germany#3
  2. Alpenküche SystemeCommercial kitchens / Austria#4
  3. Brauwerk WielandBeverages / Germany#5

#3Halvorsen Prozesstechnik

Why it matters
Their hygienic conveyor line fits the plant expansion you described.
Who to meet
Head of Key Accounts, Food Processing
What to ask
Lead times for installations in 2027.

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How a brief is made

  1. Tell us your goals

    A short interview: what you want from AHE Exchange27 Education and Solution Summit and which kinds of partners you are after.

  2. We research each company, one by one

    For each company: what it makes, who it sells to, how it fits your goals and who buys there. Then we compare them side by side and rank the ones worth your time.

  3. Walk in with a plan

    A ranked list, a deep dive on each of your top picks, the people to meet and a strategy deck, all before the doors open.

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