MedTech World Middle East 2027 returns to Dubai from 23 to 25 March 2027 at the InterContinental Dubai Festival City. The summit is built around one idea: the Gulf is shifting from importing healthcare technology to building it.
Governments across the GCC are funding local manufacturing, national biotechnology programmes and shared health-data infrastructure. MedTech World brings together the founders, investors, regulators and hospital buyers driving that change — making it one of the region's main meeting points for medical-device, digital-health and biotech innovation.
Building on 2026
The 2026 edition drew more than 800 global leaders. Startups made up 33.9% of attendees, hospitals and health systems 17.5% and investors 14.8%. Sinaptica Therapeutics won the Startup Pitch Competition, and more than 7,000 votes were cast globally for the MedTech World Awards. The 2027 edition aims for 2,000 attendees and 200 exhibitors and sponsors.
What to expect
- Keynotes and panels on regional manufacturing, regulation, procurement and health data
- A Startup Pitch competition and the MedTech World Awards
- An exhibition floor and investor–founder networking
- Hospital and health-system buyers meeting innovators directly
Co-founder and CEO Dr. Dylan Attard, a surgeon turned entrepreneur, describes the summit as bringing "the people doing that work" together with the investors and buyers who can get it to patients faster.
Who should attend
Clinicians interested in innovation, biomedical and clinical engineers, hospital executives and procurement leaders, startup founders, investors, regulators and industry.
The agenda, speakers and sponsors for 2027 are being announced on the official MedTech World website, where tickets are available. MedTech World also runs sister summits in Malta (11–13 November 2026), Florida (5–7 May 2027) and Hong Kong (2027).
