Sectors and plan Exhibit at the heart of all the healthcare and social care sectors

SantExpo is the leading meeting point for healthcare decision-makers and professionals: in 2026, it brought together 37,180 participants, 696 exhibitors and 749 speakers around the sector’s strategic issues.

Sectors and villages Our 6 sectors

Innovation

Faced with the challenges of transforming the healthcare system, SantExpo 2027 is launching a new Innovation Sector. A place to spot emerging trends, engage with the players transforming the healthcare system and find practical answers to today’s and tomorrow’s challenges.

Built around four themes rooted in the needs of healthcare and social care facilities, this area brings together start-ups, incubators, healthcare facilities running innovative projects, the finalists of the FHF Fund Innovation Awards and the Innovation Agora.

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  • A diverse target audience: Hospital and social care directors, innovation and transformation directors, project and care organization managers, purchasing directors, healthcare professionals, care managers, evaluation and experimentation managers, incubators, investors, funders and institutional players... come together to share their challenges and identify new solutions.
Start-up Village

Built around four main themes: “Prevent & Diagnose”, “Operate, Care & Rehabilitate”, “Be Supported & Age Well” and “Transform & Manage Facilities”, the village helps visitors quickly identify solutions that match their challenges. It also hosts the finalists of the FHF Fund Innovation Awards and encourages exchanges between start-ups, healthcare facilities, investors and partners.

Institutions & Services

The Institutions & Services sector brings together federations, public institutions, healthcare facilities (university and regional hospitals, clinics), regional health agencies (ARS), mutual insurers, banks, associations, unions, foundations, training bodies and consulting players. A wealth of contacts for cooperation, financing, recruitment or organizational transformation projects.

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Healthcare facilities rely on many partners to deliver their projects and support their transformation. SantExpo lets them meet the institutions, professional organizations and service providers involved in the operation and evolution of the healthcare system.

  • A diverse target audience: Hospital and social care directors, HR, quality, risk management and purchasing managers, healthcare professionals and regional stakeholders... come together to share their challenges and identify new solutions.
Careers & Training Hub

Historically focused on recruitment and training, this hub now also addresses institutions' support needs: management, team development, organizational transformation, legal and social issues, and skills development. While staying true to its DNA, it introduces new expertise to give decision-makers a more comprehensive view of human and organizational challenges.

Financial Performance Management Village

Faced with budget constraints and institutions' investment needs, this village brings together advisory, financing, audit, management and performance-support experts serving healthcare and social care organizations.

Overseas Pavilion

How can care be organized despite distance and the constraints of overseas territories? Meet the Overseas Pavilion players and discover their experience in cooperation, telemedicine and care pathway organization.

Buildings & Technical Facilities

Energy transition, climate resilience, hospital restructuring, creation of local care facilities, adapting buildings to new care pathways and an aging population: projects are multiplying and project owners’ expectations are evolving. Discover the expertise, projects and solutions supporting the evolution of healthcare and social care facilities.

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  • A diverse target audience: Hospital and social care directors, hospital engineers, works and technical services managers, maintenance, energy and sustainability managers, biomedical engineers, purchasing directors, architects, design offices and project owners... come together to share their challenges and identify new solutions.
Construction & Engineering Village

The Construction & Engineering Village brings together builders, design offices, hospital engineers and manufacturers involved in the design, renovation, safety, energy performance and maintenance of facilities.

Architects Village®

Around thirty national and international firms and agencies come together in a dedicated healthcare architecture space at the heart of the show. Layout choices, working conditions, user comfort, building durability... This village highlights the thinking and projects shaping the evolution of hospital and social care facilities in France and Europe.

Digital Technologies & Information Systems

How can information systems be secured, health data shared more easily and digital tools integrated into professional practice? Faced with these challenges, healthcare and social care facilities are evolving their information systems and uses. This sector covers infrastructure and networks, cloud solutions, business software and applications, connected devices, interoperability solutions, data management and analysis tools, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, telemedicine and virtual reality.

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  • A diverse target audience: Hospital and social care directors, information systems directors (CIOs), digital transformation managers, information systems security managers (CISOs), infrastructure and network managers, health data managers, purchasing directors, IT engineers, healthcare professionals and care managers... come together to share their challenges and identify new solutions.

Hospitality & Logistics

Faced with challenges around patient and resident well-being, staff quality of working life and service efficiency, healthcare and social care facilities are evolving their hospitality and logistics services. Discover a wide range of products, equipment and services in collective catering, laundry, hygiene and cleaning, reception, furniture and living-space design, internal transport, flow management and hospital logistics that improve everyday life for users and make professionals’ work easier.

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  • A diverse target audience: Hospital and social care directors, hospitality and logistics services managers, catering, laundry, hygiene and cleaning managers, purchasing, general services, quality and flow management managers... come together to share their challenges and identify new solutions.
Well-being in Facilities Village

Sensory stimulation, interactive tools, adapted activities and furniture... The Well-being in Facilities Village brings together solutions and innovations that help improve quality of life, autonomy and support within healthcare and social care facilities.

Medical Equipment & Devices

From diagnosis to patient follow-up, this sector brings together the devices and equipment used in care and technical platforms. Discover a wide range of equipment, including technical aids, medical devices and care equipment, imaging, robotics, monitoring, pressure ulcer prevention, laboratory and pharmacy equipment, medical gases, hygiene and sterilization.

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  • A diverse target audience: Hospital and social care directors, care directors, healthcare managers, technical platform managers, biomedical engineers, purchasing and medical equipment managers, healthcare professionals, hygiene and sterilization managers, quality and risk management managers... come together to share their challenges and identify new solutions.
Medical Biology Village

Because medical biology is an essential link in the patient pathway, from prevention to diagnosis, SantExpo offers a dedicated village bringing together the discipline’s players, technological innovations and solutions supporting changing practices.

Within these sectors, discover our speaking venues:

Agoras

  • Data & Connected Solutions Agora
  • AI in Healthcare Agora
  • Management & Organization Agora
  • Patients & Residents Agora
  • Architecture & Construction Agora
  • Innovation Agora hosted by the FHF Fund
  • Careers & Training Agora
  • FHF Agora

Plenary sessions

  • Digital Innovation Plenary
  • Plenary 360

Pitches

  • Innovation Pitch
  • Careers & Training Pitch
  • Construction & Engineering Pitch

Conferences

  • 2 conference rooms upstairs

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