Smart Healthcare Facilities Convention, Chicago
A focused, invite-led gathering for healthcare facilities, engineering, operations, capital projects and technology leaders shaping the next generation of care environments.
A focused room for healthcare facilities decision-makers.
Smart Healthcare Facilities Convention 2027 brings together senior healthcare executives, facilities leaders, engineering teams, capital project professionals and technology partners focused on the future of healthcare infrastructure.
The Chicago edition is designed around practical insight, peer exchange, curated networking and focused solution discovery, without the distraction of a giant exhibition floor.
Why Attend?
A compact two-day format built around senior-level participation, meaningful business conversations and practical ideas for smarter, safer and more resilient healthcare environments.
Exclusive Networking
- Invite-led participation focused on senior healthcare decision-makers
- High-value conversations through curated meetings and networking
Innovative Solutions
- Discover products, technologies and services shaping healthcare facilities
- Connect directly with selected solution providers in a focused setting
Expert Insights
- Hear from leaders across facilities, engineering, technology and operations
- Take away practical ideas from panels, expert talks and peer exchange
Ideas shaping the healthcare facilities conversation.
The program stays anchored to the physical, digital and operational environments in which care is delivered.
Engineering the Smart Hospital of Tomorrow
Connected building systems, IoT, predictive maintenance and digital infrastructure for more intelligent hospital operations.
Driving Decarbonization in Healthcare
Energy efficiency, resilient infrastructure, renewables and practical pathways toward lower-carbon healthcare campuses.
Facility Intelligence & Automation
Using real-time analytics, automated workflows and better facility data to improve uptime, safety and operational efficiency.
AI, Data & Connected Infrastructure
How AI-ready facilities, cybersecurity and integrated data systems are changing the way hospitals are planned and operated.
Flexible, Patient-Centered Care Environments
Designing adaptable spaces that support patient experience, workforce needs and future clinical demand.
Capital Planning & Procurement
Aligning capital priorities, procurement decisions and infrastructure investment with long-term health-system strategy.
Where Smart Healthcare Facilities Are Built
Six forces redefining hospital infrastructure and the conversations senior facilities leaders are bringing into the room in Chicago.
Visionary Voices Transforming Healthcare Facilities
Senior leaders driving innovation in patient-centered infrastructure, smart buildings and resilient care environments.
High-Performance Healthcare Campuses
Energy efficiency, green building standards, decarbonization and better long-term utility performance.
Building Smarter Hospitals
Connected systems, predictive maintenance, modular design, CMMS and real-time facility monitoring.
Healthcare Facilities Meet AI
Smart sensors, predictive analytics and automated infrastructure supporting safer, more efficient care delivery.
Resilient, Renewable-Ready Facilities
Backup power, microgrids, energy security and infrastructure strategies that protect continuity of care.
Sustainability in Action
Practical programs that reduce waste, improve operational performance and support regulatory goals.
What the room will be talking about.
Topics shaping the healthcare facilities industry.
Tap any topic to explore the issues the Chicago program is designed to address.
- Planning networks, edge systems and building infrastructure for connected care environments
- Using smarter facility data to support real-time operations and clinical technology
- Modernizing legacy campuses without interrupting critical care delivery
- Advanced filtration and airflow strategies for high-risk care environments
- Balancing patient comfort, energy efficiency and infection prevention
- What facility teams are learning from recent HVAC modernization programs
- Renewable energy, efficiency and decarbonization strategies for hospitals
- Structuring long-term infrastructure improvements around cost and resilience
- Setting realistic sustainability roadmaps without compromising patient care
- Protecting life-safety systems from grid instability and aging infrastructure
- Comparing backup generation, storage and on-site energy options
- Designing resilient campuses for outages and extreme weather
- Protecting building systems, connected devices and operational technology
- Bringing facilities, IT and security teams into one risk strategy
- Supporting compliance without duplicating operational effort
- Moving from reactive maintenance to predictive and condition-based workflows
- Using alerts and analytics without overwhelming facility teams
- Integrating operational data into day-to-day decision-making
- Managing equipment lead times, project phasing and construction constraints
- Planning flexible capacity without overbuilding underused space
- Aligning capacity planning, patient throughput and revenue cycle performance
- Designing for severe weather, water risk and grid stress
- Updating facility standards for a changing risk environment
- Building stronger continuity-of-care playbooks
- Developing talent pipelines for facility engineering and technical roles
- Apprenticeships, partnerships and accelerated training models
- Retraining teams for smart-building, automation and energy technologies
- Compressing construction timelines through modular and prefabricated delivery
- Rapid capacity expansion for clinical and outpatient environments
- Designing adaptable spaces that can evolve with future care models
See the organizations represented in the room.
Review the current delegate list for Smart Healthcare Facilities Convention 2027, Chicago.
Event Schedule
Exhibitor Setup & Networking
Monday, May 10, 2027
Morning Schedule
Tuesday, May 11, 2027
Afternoon Schedule
Tuesday, May 11, 2027
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Join the room shaping the next generation of healthcare facilities.
Two focused days of strategy, practical insight, peer exchange and meaningful industry connection.