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Excipient World Conference & Expo 2027

Excipient World puts the ingredients that determine a medicine's performance at the center of the conversation.

May 17-19, 2027 · Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, National Harbor

Show days
3

Its 2026 gathering brought together 285 attendees and speakers from 123 companies. Quality and regulatory specialists form a substantial part of the audience, alongside formulators, R&D scientists, technical services teams and people responsible for supply and production.

IPEC-Americas organizes the conference and exhibition around the practical intersection of material functionality, safety and standards. That gives supplier qualification, impurity control and regulatory compliance the same relevance as formulation advances. Manufacturers, distributors, users, testing services and pharmacopeial organizations meet within a focused excipient community. The 2027 program carries that approach into supply resilience and the next generation of pharmaceutical development. For a team deciding how to select, qualify or use an excipient, the attraction is the concentration of relevant technical and quality expertise around excipient decisions.

How it compares

  1. CPHI AmericasMiami Beach, 2,600
  2. This show: Excipient World Conference & ExpoNational Harbor
  3. AAPS PharmSci 360New Orleans, 4,500

CPHI Americas is the broader commercial comparison. Its 2026 show had 270 exhibitors and 2,600 visitors; the Miami event now emphasizes scheduled appointments, expert conversations and partner introductions. A procurement or business development team evaluating ingredients alongside manufacturing and supply-chain partners has more reason to favor that wider pharmaceutical network. Excipient World concentrates the conversation on the material itself and the standards governing its use.

For scientific exchange across the drug development process, AAPS PharmSci 360 offers a different trip. Formulation and delivery sit alongside bioanalytics, preclinical and translational science, and manufacturing and analytical characterization. It suits scientists whose questions extend beyond excipient selection into drug delivery, predictive development or analytical methods. Excipient World gives excipient-specific safety, qualification and regulatory questions a more concentrated setting.

The choice comes down to who needs to be in the conversation. CPHI connects a wider sourcing chain; PharmSci 360 connects disciplines across pharmaceutical research. Excipient World brings the maker, distributor, formulator and quality specialist into the same specialist program. Its strongest fit is work where an ingredient's technical performance and its acceptable use must be resolved together.

Excipient World is the right trip for formulation and quality teams that need excipient suppliers, standards expertise and supply-risk discussion in the same room.

Who exhibits

BASF Corporation, Roquette and JRS Pharma LP place established ingredient suppliers at the center of the 2027 floor. Croda, Inc. and Pfanstiehl, Inc. broaden the materials conversation, while Azelis P&H US and IMCD US Pharma add distribution expertise. US Pharmacopeia and EXCiPACT give the exhibitor mix a standards and qualification dimension. The result is a useful intersection for visitors who must discuss an excipient's function, its supply route and its quality requirements together.

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Excipient World Conference & Expo 2027

Excipient World 2027 takes quality, safety and supply resilience as its organizing theme. The program spans Formulations, Supply Chain and Quality/Regulatory, with suggested topics including impurity control, novel excipient safety, supplier qualification and global compliance. A new Supplier Innovation Session gives keynote sponsors a short presentation platform. The Biologics Summit appears among the education sponsorship opportunities, linking the excipient discussion to the materials needs of newer medicines.

  • Include the preconference Welcome Reception at Lookout 18 in your visit: the specialist community starts gathering before the classroom program.
  • Follow the shift from Magnolia 2 and Camellia 3-4 education rooms to the Riverview Ballroom, where the later program brings education, exhibits and posters together.
  • Keep the Harbor Social celebration in your plan for informal conversations with the same formulation, supply and quality community.

Exhibiting

A furnished booth includes full-conference registrations for three people, making it a practical base for a supplier's technical, quality and commercial team. The organizer encourages interactive displays and demonstrations. Education sponsorships are reserved for exhibitors, so suppliers with a technical case study can combine a stand with a presentation opportunity.

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.

Example from a sample brief. The company is fictional.

How a brief is made

  1. Tell us your goals

    A short interview: what you want from Excipient World Conference & Expo 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.

Walk into Excipient World Conference & Expo knowing who to meet.