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2026 NABT Professional Development Conference

AP Biology teachers, community college instructors, and university faculty share the NABT Professional Development Conference, giving it a different character from a general school technology expo.

Oct 29-Nov 1, 2026 · Hyatt Regency Dallas

Exhibitors on this year's list
34
Show days
4

Classroom practice sits alongside biology education research, with section meetings organized around the levels people teach. Its supplier floor brings laboratory equipment, textbooks, digital learning tools, and nonprofit education resources into the same conversation.

The conference moves among US cities and puts professional learning at the center of the trip. Hands-on workshops let teachers try inquiry activities, while the Biology Education Research Symposium and poster session provide a route into research on teaching and learning. Publishers and lab suppliers meet educators who will use their materials directly. For a company serving biology classrooms, that subject focus matters more than the breadth of a general education exhibition; for a teacher, it makes it possible to connect a teaching problem with both colleagues and practical resources.

How it compares

  1. NSTA National ConferenceBoston, twice a year
  2. This show: 2026 NABT Professional Development ConferenceDallas

NSTA National Conference is the broader science education alternative. Its audience extends from classroom teachers to district leaders, curriculum specialists, teacher educators, and informal learning organizations. Science and STEM across subjects shape its program, making it a useful choice for a district team comparing approaches across departments or a supplier whose products serve several sciences. NABT draws the discussion back to biology, with dedicated communities for AP, high school, two-year college, and university teaching.

ACUBE Annual Meeting offers another route for college biology faculty. Teaching, research, advising, and scholarship are its central concerns, and its membership includes community college instructors as well as faculty at research universities. It fits someone seeking colleagues who share the workload of undergraduate biology teaching. NABT connects those faculty with school teachers, classroom suppliers, and a program that also includes education research and hands-on teaching workshops.

For a biology specialist, NABT's advantage is the proximity of these communities. A laboratory exercise, textbook choice, or teaching research question can be discussed with people working at different stages of a student's education. NSTA offers a wider science and leadership context, while ACUBE concentrates the exchange on college and university teaching.

NABT is the right trip for biology educators and classroom suppliers who want teaching practice, subject expertise, and resource demonstrations in one place.

Who exhibits

Bio-Rad Laboratories, miniPCR, and EDVOTEK put classroom biotechnology alongside publishers such as Savvas and Bedford, Freeman & Worth. Vernier and Carolina Biological Supply broaden the practical laboratory mix, while OpenStax and LabXchange add digital and open learning resources. Animalearn, TeachKind, and the Animal Welfare Institute give animal welfare education a visible place. The floor is useful for comparing ways to teach biology, from physical lab work and models to course materials and software.

  1. Bio-Rad

  2. Anatomage

  3. Savvas Learning Company

  4. BioSpherix

  5. Vernier Science Education

  6. Carolina Biological Supply

  7. Biozone international

  8. Algae Research and Supply

  9. Science Communcation Lab

  10. Animal Welfare Institute

  11. SimBio

  12. 3D Molecular

  13. Uncommon Productions

  14. OpenStax, Rice University

  15. UniVirtual

  16. Flinn Scientific

  17. LabXchange

  18. Embi Tec

  19. Codon Learning

  20. Appleseed Expeditions

  21. miniPCR

  22. Bedford, Freeman & Worth High School Publishers

  23. Biotility

  24. Ward's Science

The largest exhibitor country is United States (24). The largest industries are Education (4) and Biotechnology Research (3).

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2026 NABT Professional Development Conference

Dallas brings classroom communication and current biology research into the same speaker program. Brianna Rapini and Sarina Peterson, the Amoeba Sisters, join Julia van Kessel, whose work explores bacterial quorum sensing, and MIT's Phillip Sharp. The practical program includes field research with clay caterpillar decoys, inquiry activities, and workshops on evaluating evidence. HHMI Night at the Movies and the Science Disco and Halloween Party give the gathering a social rhythm beyond the education sessions.

  • Use the AP Biology, high school, two-year college, or university section breakfast to find the colleagues closest to your teaching context; these are separate communities within NABT.
  • For an undergraduate teaching research focus, pair the Biology Education Research Symposium with the college poster session.
  • Leave room for HHMI Night at the Movies and the Science Disco and Halloween Party: both are part of the Dallas program's informal meeting opportunities.

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  1. Halvorsen ProzesstechnikIndustrial machinery / Germany#3
  2. Alpenküche SystemeCommercial kitchens / Austria#4
  3. Brauwerk WielandBeverages / Germany#5
  4. 31 more, ranked for your goals

#3Halvorsen Prozesstechnikof 34

Why it matters
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Who to meet
Head of Key Accounts, Food Processing
What to ask
Lead times for installations in 2027.

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