The MedTech Conference

Engineering the future of medical technology

#MDMMidwest

Your Source for Design, Innovation, and Compliance in MedTech

Are you navigating the complex challenges of bringing innovative medical devices to market while ensuring regulatory compliance and patient safety? The MedTech Conference at MD&M Midwest is built exclusively for medical device and technology professionals like you who are shaping the future of patient care. We understand you're balancing breakthrough innovation with stringent requirements, tight timelines, and evolving regulations. Dive deep into next-generation product design, manufacturing innovation, and regulatory excellence through expert-led sessions that address your real-world challenges. From breakthrough materials to AI-driven devices, this conference delivers the knowledge and strategies you need to accelerate development, ensure compliance, and build products that truly improve lives.

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Why Attend?

Advance the Future of MedTech

Actionable Insights

Gain strategies you can implement immediately to accelerate development, improve compliance, and optimize product performance across every stage of the medical device lifecycle.

Regulatory Readiness

Stay ahead of evolving FDA expectations, QMSR updates, cybersecurity requirements, and global regulatory shifts that impact product approval and market access.

Design & Innovation Mastery

Discover how cutting-edge technologies like AI, robotics, additive manufacturing, and digital health are transforming MedTech design and patient outcomes.

Operational Excellence

Explore methods to strengthen manufacturing agility, enhance quality assurance, and build resilient supply chains capable of scaling safely and efficiently.

Market Leadership

Position your company at the forefront of MedTech innovation by aligning design, compliance, and commercialization strategies to stand out in a competitive global market.

Who Should Attend

Key Decision Makers

Manufacturers
Biomedical Engineers
R&D Professionals
Supply Chain & Operations Leaders
Investors and Innovation Partners

Technical Professionals

Product Design & Development
Digital Health Security
Biomedical & Systems Engineers

Industry Specialists

Policy & Regulations
Medical Battery

Who You’ll Meet

Join Our Community of Innovators

Industry Leaders

Meet C-suite executives, founders, and decision-makers from top OEMs, startups, and suppliers advancing MedTech innovation across the globe.

Technical Experts

Engage with biomedical engineers, R&D specialists, and product designers developing the next wave of medical technologies, from concept to compliance.

Regulatory & Quality Professionals

Collaborate with compliance officers, QA managers, and regulatory affairs experts who ensure safety, effectiveness, and market success.

Highlighted Sessions

Designing for Adoption: Why Better Devices Fail—and How to Engineer Market Readiness Before Launch -
This session challenges a widely held assumption: better products win. In reality, many clinically validated, FDA-cleared innovations underperform not because of product gaps, but because the market was never conditioned to adopt them.
From Prototype to Production: Designing Miniaturized Medical Devices That Scale -
This session explores the hidden design risks that emerge as devices shrink, and why early engineering decisions often determine whether a product ever reaches reliable, repeatable production.
High Speed Signal Integrity Solutions for Next Gen Medical Imaging & AI Driven Devices -
This session covers strategies to reduce crosstalk, EMI, using shielded board-to-board/FPC connectors, and micro‑coaxial cables/connectors, which offer superior shielding, controlled impedance, and mechanical flexibility for tight routing and repeated bending performance.
Your Forecast Is a Guess : What If Your Supply Chain Could Actually Think (AI) -
This session walks through a real, working demand forecasting pipeline built entirely on Microsoft Fabric and AI.
Not Your Father's FDA Inspection -
n February of 2026, FDA implemented the new FDA Quality Management System Regulations (QMSR). They simultaneously retired the Quality System Inspection Techniques (QSIT) and published a new Compliance Program Manual (CP 7382.850) that restructures inspections around six QMS Areas and four OAFRs, all driven by product risk to patients and users. This change has huge implications.
From Concept to Scalable Manufacturing: Avoiding the Hidden Failures in Product Development -
Bringing a product from concept to scalable production requires more than a strong idea or a well-designed product. Many teams succeed in early stages, only to encounter costly failures when transitioning into development and manufacturing.
3D Printing of Bioabsorbable Implants -
Printing of bioabsorbable implants represents a transformative approach to personalized medicine, enabling the fabrication of patient-specific devices that safely degrade in the body over time.
From Cleanroom to Smart Factory: Robotics + AI Patterns for Pharmaceutical Manufacturing -
Pharmaceutical manufacturing faces intense pressure to increase capacity, reduce variability, and strengthen contamination control while maintaining rigorous documentation and quality oversight. Robotics helps address these challenges by standardizing repetitive handling tasks, reducing direct human intervention, and enabling more predictable operations in environments where consistency is critical.

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