IFAS 2022: Successful return of the health trade fair
After a four-year break due to the pandemic, IFAS, the most important trade fair and industry platform for the healthcare market, celebrated a successful return. At the 36th edition, from October 25 to 27, 2022, more than 10,000 professionals informed themselves about the novelties and innovations of the approximately 260 exhibitors.
Visitor numbers have exceeded expectations for IFAS 2022, according to the organizers of what is arguably Switzerland's most important healthcare trade fair. The trade fair takes place every two years and offers leading industry suppliers from the fields of consumption & logistics, IT, furnishings & equipment, rehabilitation, therapy & physio, medical technology & electromedicine, diagnostics & laboratory technology as well as training and further education a comprehensive information platform. Heinz Salzgeber, long-standing Brand Director of IFAS, is very positive about the event: "After a four-year break, the number of visitors and the interest shown by visitors are extremely pleasing. It is particularly positive that IFAS was able to live up to its role as a place for knowledge transfer and networking more than ever. This is also confirmed by this year's top-class IFAS Forum and CareFair - the Swiss job fair for healthcare professions, which were excellently attended on all three days of the trade fair. IFAS 2022 has confirmed that the demand for a physical information platform in the healthcare market remains very high."
MyLeg wins IFASinnovation Challenge - Audience Award goes to hirncoach
The IFASinnovation Challenge, initiated by Cosanum and held in partnership with IFAS, selected a winner for the third time at IFAS 2022. This year's award, worth 25,000 Swiss francs, goes to the startup company MyLeg, based in Zurich. With its innovation, a sensory feedback for prosthesis integration, the startup wants to enable people with lower leg amputations to lead an almost normal and independent life without restrictions and pain. The visitors showed great interest in the startup hirncoach, which received the audience award for its scientifically based program to increase mental performance.
IFAS Forum and CareFair with best marks
The IFAS Forum has been an integral part of the trade show program for many years. But in no other year has the Forum, newly organized in collaboration with healthinal, met with such great visitor interest. All presentations and panel discussions on the topics of data protection, the electronic patient dossier (EPD), innovation and new health care management, as well as the shortage of skilled workers and the future of health care, were held in front of packed auditoriums.
CareFair - the Swiss job fair for healthcare professions - was integrated into IFAS for the third time and was the largest event to date, with over 20 hospitals, clinics and homes taking part. It too turned out to be a magnet for visitors. "The interest was impressive and confirmed once again how important such physical job platforms are for employers and employees," sums up Franziska Held, exhibition manager CareFair. The next IFAS will take place from 22 to 24 October 2024 at Messe Zürich.
Further information: www.ifas-expo.ch
