TL;DR — If you're searching for "BIOMEDevice Silicon Valley 2026 Santa Clara," the show still exists — it's just been renamed. Informa Markets rebranded BIOMEDevice Silicon Valley to MEDevice Silicon Valley, part of the broader MD&M event family. The 2026 edition runs November 18–19, 2026 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Same venue, same Informa team, same tech-forward Bay Area audience of medtech engineers, R&D managers, and startup founders. Roughly 1,200 attendees, 150+ exhibitors, 20+ hours of education across AI medtech, connected health, additive manufacturing, and diagnostics. Booth space starts around $50/sqft. Free expo admission with pre-registration ($199 at the door). For a deeper exhibit-side breakdown of the same event, see our MEDevice Silicon Valley 2026 conference profile.

BIOMEDevice Silicon Valley Is Now MEDevice Silicon Valley — Here's the Rebrand in Plain English

If you've exhibited at, attended, or planned for BIOMEDevice Silicon Valley in past years, you're searching for an event that no longer exists under that name. In its place is MEDevice Silicon Valley — same event, same venue, same Informa Markets sales team, same November cadence — but with the "BIO" prefix dropped and the brand pulled into alignment with the broader MEDevice / MD&M family.

Informa Markets runs the largest portfolio of medical device manufacturing trade shows in North America: MD&M West (Anaheim), MD&M East (New York), MD&M South (Charlotte), MD&M Midwest (Minneapolis), and the Silicon Valley regional event. The Silicon Valley show was the only one in the portfolio carrying the "BIOMEDevice" name, a holdover from when the show's positioning leaned more biomedical-engineering-academic than full-stack medtech manufacturing. The 2026 rename brings it under one umbrella so attendees and exhibitors can navigate the family more easily.

Nothing about the show's 2026 fundamentals changed in the rebrand. Same Santa Clara Convention Center venue. Same November dates. Same audience of 1,100–1,200 medtech engineers, R&D managers, startup founders, product managers, and regulatory specialists. Same 150+ specialized exhibitors. Same Informa Markets sales contact for booths. Same $50/sqft starting price (confirmed from prior BIOMEDevice rate cards). The only practical difference is the URL, the signage, and the logo on your badge.

BIOMEDevice / MEDevice Silicon Valley 2026: The Numbers You Need

Why Santa Clara Matters: The Bay Area Medtech Audience

The reason BIOMEDevice (now MEDevice) Silicon Valley exists at all — and the reason Informa keeps the Santa Clara regional show running rather than absorbing it into the much larger MD&M West (Anaheim) — is that the Bay Area medtech audience is structurally different from the audience that walks Anaheim every February.

Santa Clara pulls a tech-forward, startup-heavy crowd: engineers from emerging digital health and AI medtech companies, R&D leads at connected-device startups, product managers building wearables and remote monitoring platforms, and regulatory specialists navigating FDA pathways for novel software-as-a-medical-device products. Stanford, UCSF, and the broader Bay Area research-and-venture ecosystem feed the floor with attendees you will not see in equivalent volume at any other MD&M event.

Traditional contract manufacturers, injection molders, and large-scale component suppliers usually get better ROI at MD&M West, which draws ~7,000 attendees including the production-stage OEM buyers who fill order books. Santa Clara is the inverse: smaller floor (~150 exhibitors), smaller attendance (~1,200), but disproportionately weighted toward early-stage and innovation-driven buying — the kind of conversation where a startup CTO is choosing a contract manufacturer for a Class II device that hasn't yet been submitted for 510(k) clearance.

BIOMEDevice / MEDevice Silicon Valley vs. MD&M West vs. MD&M East: Quick Comparison

If you're triaging where to spend your 2026 medtech conference budget, here's how Santa Clara compares to the other major Informa medtech shows:

Show Dates Location Attendance Best For
MEDevice Silicon Valley (formerly BIOMEDevice) Nov 18–19, 2026 Santa Clara, CA ~1,200 Digital health, AI medtech, wearables, connected devices, startup discovery
MD&M West February 2026 Anaheim, CA ~7,000 Contract manufacturing, components, materials, full-scale production
MD&M East June 2026 New York, NY ~5,000 East Coast OEMs, packaging, automation, regulatory consulting
MD&M Midwest October 2026 Minneapolis, MN ~3,000 Midwest OEMs (Medtronic, Boston Scientific), precision machining
MD&M South April 2026 Charlotte, NC ~2,500 Southeast OEMs, sterilization, packaging, contract assembly

Most exhibitors do not pick one MD&M event — they pick a mix. The most common pairing for digital health and AI medtech vendors is MEDevice Silicon Valley (innovation-stage discovery) plus MD&M West (production-stage OEM contracts). For a deeper take on how to model the spend across multiple shows, our medical conference marketing ROI playbook walks through the model we use with clients.

What Happens at MEDevice (BIOMEDevice) Silicon Valley 2026

The two-day format is tight and content-dense. Expect three things on the floor:

  1. The expo hall. 150+ specialized suppliers across contract manufacturing, digital health platforms, IoT and connected device infrastructure, additive manufacturing, diagnostics components, wearable form factors, regulatory consulting, and testing services. The free-with-pre-registration expo admission means walk-up traffic is heavy on day one and tapers fast on day two — plan your booth staffing accordingly.
  2. 20+ hours of education. Tracks across AI medtech, IoT and connected health, additive manufacturing, diagnostics, and regulatory strategy. Sessions skew practical and technical rather than KOL-keynote — expect engineering managers, regulatory leads, and startup CTOs as both speakers and the bulk of the audience.
  3. The Innovation Showcase. A curated area for emerging companies to show off new technologies. If you're a Series A or Series B medtech startup, the Innovation Showcase is usually a better fit than a standard 10x10 — better foot traffic from investors and corporate scouts, and lower booth-build cost.

The show does not include a clinical or physician audience. Do not exhibit here if your buyer is a practicing clinician — pick a clinical specialty meeting (AAOS, HIMSS, RSNA, or your specialty's flagship) instead. If your buyer is a medtech engineer, an R&D manager, a startup founder building Class II hardware or SaMD, a product manager evaluating connected-device infrastructure, or a regulatory specialist mapping FDA pathways, this is your show.

Should You Exhibit at BIOMEDevice / MEDevice Silicon Valley 2026?

Yes, if you sell into the early-stage and growth-stage Bay Area medtech ecosystem — contract manufacturers targeting startup OEMs, digital health platforms, AI medtech infrastructure, IoT and connected-device tooling, regulatory consulting for novel device pathways, additive manufacturing services for prototyping, or testing services for software-as-a-medical-device. Santa Clara concentrates this audience in two days at a relatively affordable price point ($7K–$15K all-in for a 10x10), with a free-admission expo that drives strong walk-up traffic for a small show.

No, if your buyer is a high-volume production OEM (better at MD&M West), a clinician (wrong audience entirely), or a hospital health system buyer (HIMSS or HLTH). The show is also a poor fit for traditional component suppliers selling commodities into established programs — Santa Clara's audience is buying for prototypes and pilots, not production runs.

If you're undecided, run the math like our team does for clients: model the all-in 2-day cost (booth + freight + travel + staffing for 2–3 reps), divide by your average startup-OEM deal size and gross margin, and ask whether two to four signed pilots in the next 9 months would justify the investment. For digital health and AI medtech vendors, the answer is usually yes — but only if your post-show follow-up cadence is real. Our post-conference follow-up playbook covers the exact cadence we use to convert booth scans into signed pilots.

How to Plan for BIOMEDevice / MEDevice Silicon Valley 2026 Right Now

If you're reading this and the show is still six months out, here's the timeline that consistently produces the best ROI for the Santa Clara format:

For the broader exhibitor-side breakdown of MEDevice Silicon Valley 2026 — including a full booth strategy, deeper audience composition, and our internal Buzzbox score — see the MEDevice Silicon Valley 2026 conference profile in the Buzzbox conference directory. That page is the canonical exhibitor planning resource for this event.