The Convention Centre Dublin (The CCD) is set to welcome 16 medical conferences to Ireland in 2023, including Biomedica and the 30th International Meeting on Advanced Spine Techniques (IMAST).
Most of these conferences have been in the making for many years with three of the 16 conferences taking place in March 2023.
Sector strengths
Ireland is home to many of the largest medical companies including Abbot, Medtronic, Boston Scientific, Johnson & Johnson Pfizer and Novartis and the med-tech and bio-pharma sectors alone account for 46% of annual exports from Ireland and employ over 70,000 people directly.
Stephen Meehan, chief executive, The CCD, commented: “This is great news for Dublin and The CCD. The medical sector is very important to the Irish economy and, indeed, to our industry. ICCA reported in July 2022 that healthcare and medical sciences meetings are the largest sectors for the association meetings industry, making up approximately 37% of all international events, so it’s a key sector for us.”
He continued: “We have a very healthy pipeline of bookings filling up for 2023 and future years, reaffirming our position as a high-quality venue capable of attracting major international events. We are delighted to have secured such a large number of medical conferences for this year and are very proud of the contribution these events will make to the Irish economy and to the medical sector industry.”
These 16 conferences each range in size from 300 to 3,000 and each delegate is forecast to be worth £1,418 to the local economy.
Event agenda
Booked events to date include:
- The 30th IMAST, to take place 22-24 March 2023 and bringing world leading spine surgeons and innovative researchers to The CCD.
- BioMedica, which comes to The CCD 27-28 March 2023.
- The 14th Biennial World Congress on Brain Injury, the largest gathering of international professionals working in the field of brain injury comes to The CCD from 29 March – 1 April 2023.
- The European Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) will bring endoscopy enthusiasts to The CCD, 20-22 April 2023.
