Have you ever left a conference buzzing with ideas, only to watch them fizzle out in the daily grind? It’s time for a change.
The 2026 Healthcare Surfaces Summit, brought to you by ISSA Healthcare and the Healthcare Surfaces Institute, applies science, design, and data-driven insights to create safer, smarter healthcare environments. This highly interactive, hands-on event connects healthcare and EVS professionals, manufacturers, building service contractors (BSCs), and scientists to collaborate on real solutions that advance patient safety.
Why Attend?
- Roll up your sleeves and engage directly with Healthcare Professionals, Manufacturers, BSCs and scientists to identify gaps and challenges and co-create solutions.
- Participate in dialogue with a diverse group of professionals to gain a deeper understanding of the critical role environmental surfaces have in preventing HAIs.
- Analyze current standards, testing, protocols, compatibility, durability, and IFUs for improvement.
- Facilitate lasting change by joining task forces that carry your ideas forward beyond the summit.
Key Highlights
Panel Presentations: Surface Intelligence – What It Is and How to Use It
This two-part panel discussion convenes cross disciplinary experts who will highlight the gaps between innovation and the challenges of real-world application.
Connecting the Dots: High-Impact Networking Experiences
Engage in robust networking through interactive sessions, face-to-face discussions, and relaxed cocktail-hour conversations—creating space to share ideas, spark collaborations, and build lasting relationships across the community.
Safer Choice Overview |With Dr. Gavin Macgregor-Skinner
Gain insight into sustainability trends, the EPA Safer Choice program, and ISSA’s Making Safer Choices Community of Practice—resources to help organizations choose safer, high-performing products and practices.
Agenda:
Day 1: 8:30 am-4:45 pm
- Seeing the Unseen Biofilm—A Critical Issue to Address
- Surface Intelligence—What It Is and How to Use It
- Panel Discussions: Innovation and Solutions Perspectives from Building Service Contracting, Manufactuingr, Distribution, Infection Prevention, EVS Management, Patient Safety and Quality, Nursing, and Biomed
- Learn About Working with Task Forces – Discussion, Engagement, Solutions
- Plus Delta—What Have We Learned and Where Are We Going to Go with it?
- Networking Cocktail Hour
Day 2: 8:30 am – 11:30 am
- Safer Choice and Community of Practice Overview
- Designing and Implementing Measurable Solutions for Environmental Services in Patient Care Areas
- Task Force Reports
- Where Do We Go from Here: ISSA Healthcare Initiatives
Download full schedule.
Hotel Information:
Sheraton Suites Chicago O’Hare
6501 Mannheim Rd, Rosemont, IL 60018
Room Block Price: $279 USD/night
Last Day to Book: Friday, April 24, 2026
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Thank you to our Sponsors
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More than visibility, sponsorship is your gateway to cross-disciplinary collaboration and direct access to key decision makers. Contact Linda Lybert at [email protected] to get started. Learn more here.
