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SAWC Fall 2026

SAWC Fall puts the wound care team in the same room: physicians, nurses, podiatrists, physical therapists, researchers and dietitians.

Oct 15-18, 2026 · Caesars Palace, Las Vegas

Visitors expected
1,200
Exhibitors expected
100
Exhibitors on this year's list
139
Show days
4

The Las Vegas conference connects chronic wound management and limb salvage with the practical work of preventing pressure injuries, delivering care outside the clinic and keeping reimbursement documentation defensible. Its audience includes clinicians making treatment decisions as well as the companies supplying those treatments.

The program combines more than 50 sessions with hands-on workshops, scientific posters and an exhibit hall. Clinical education sits alongside the Wound Care Business Navigator series, where billing, audits and compliance become part of the care conversation. PAWSIC forums add the perspective of post-acute settings. This makes Fall particularly relevant to teams whose patients move between hospitals, outpatient clinics, nursing facilities and home care. The meeting is organized by HMP Global, with Wounds as its official journal; research presentations and product demonstrations both have a place in the program.

How it compares

  1. SAWC Spring and WHSPhiladelphia, 2,000
  2. EWMAHelsinki
  3. This show: SAWC Fall 2026Las Vegas, 1,200

SAWC Spring and WHS is the closest comparison. Its partnership with the Wound Healing Society gives basic and translational wound healing research a larger role alongside clinical education. The 2026 Spring program planned more than 80 CME sessions and an exhibit hall planned for more than 170 exhibitors. A research team seeking a broad scientific meeting, or a supplier wanting a larger product showcase within the same clinical community, has a clear reason to consider Spring. Fall puts more emphasis on a focused Las Vegas trip with clinical, pressure injury and practice-management tracks.

EWMA opens a different market. Its joint 2026 congress with DEWU in Bremen drew 6,364 participants from 81 countries and 166 industry exhibitors. That international mix makes it a useful comparison for manufacturers and clinicians working across European wound care systems. SAWC Fall is more closely tied to the realities of US clinical delivery, including reimbursement, documentation and audits. For a US wound center, mobile practice or post-acute team, those operational discussions can matter as much as a new dressing or device. The choice turns on whether the priority is US implementation, wound healing science or European clinical and commercial reach.

SAWC Fall is a strong fit for US wound care teams that need to connect treatment choices with pressure injury prevention, mobile practice and reimbursement.

Who exhibits

The floor brings established wound care suppliers into contact with tissue, diagnostic and practice technology businesses. Abbott, LifeNet Health and Mölnlycke Health Care sit within a mix that also includes MolecuLight, Net Health and compression specialists. The useful comparison is between ways to manage a wound and the services that make treatment workable: dressings and biologic options, assessment tools, documentation and care delivery. Professional education and certification organizations also appear alongside the commercial exhibitors.

  1. Solventum

  2. Abbott

  3. Calmoseptine

  4. LifeNet Health

  5. Mölnlycke

  6. Kerecis

  7. Irrisept

  8. QuickChange/UI Medical

  9. Polynovo

  10. Net Health

  11. Techline Technologies

  12. Sanuwave

  13. SmartTRAK

  14. Urgo Medical North America

  15. medi USA

  16. WEB WOC Programs

  17. Spectrum Antimicrobials

  18. Koven Technology

  19. WoundZoom

  20. Vanta Diagnostics

  21. VATA

  22. Medaxis

  23. MolecuLight

  24. SerenaGroup

139 companies are on the list. A HallBrief brief ranks every one against your goals and finds who to meet at each. Get a brief

SAWC Fall 2026

SAWC Fall 2026 introduces Mobile Wound Management, a track addressing home and community care, reimbursement and the operation of mobile services. The co-located NPIAP Fall Conference adds dedicated pressure injury education on staging, support surfaces, legal risk and prevention. Regenerative medicine features in Rónkẹ́ Ọlábísí’s keynote, while Business Navigator sessions keep documentation and compliance in view. Hands-on workshops and Innovation Theaters bring treatment techniques and product applications into the discussion.

  • For a mobile wound practice, pair the Mobile Wound Management track with Business Navigator sessions to connect delivery models with documentation and reimbursement.
  • The NPIAP series is the focused route through pressure injury staging and support surfaces; its topics differ from the chronic wound and limb salvage sessions.
  • The Poster Reception in Octavius 12 brings researchers together separately from the opening cocktail reception in the Julius Ballroom exhibit hall.

Exhibiting

The exhibit hall sits within a clinical education meeting, so a wound care supplier can connect demonstrations with the questions raised in treatment sessions. The opening cocktail reception and lunches with exhibitors make the hall part of the program. Tissue, assessment and practice technology companies share that setting with established treatment suppliers.

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
  4. 136 more, ranked for your goals

#3Halvorsen Prozesstechnikof 139

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 SAWC Fall 2026 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 SAWC Fall 2026 knowing who to meet.

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