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Advanced Therapies Week 2027

Awards ceremony at Advanced Therapies Week
Photo: title21.net
Dates
Jan 18–21, 2027
Venue
San Diego Convention Center
Location
San Diego, CA
Official site

Advanced Therapies Week is a cell and gene therapy conference run by Phacilitate at the San Diego Convention Center. It is a professional meeting with a commercial exhibition attached, not a consumer event and not a general life sciences trade show. The room is drawn from therapeutic developers, pharma and biotech, contract development and manufacturing organisations, CROs, investors, academics and regulators, and the programme covers manufacturing scale-up, clinical development, commercialisation and investment.

Exhibitors are almost entirely suppliers to the advanced therapies pipeline: CDMOs and CROs selling capacity, alongside vendors of process equipment, reagents, cell culture and analytical technology, logistics and cold chain, and software. Phacilitate puts the exhibition at 200-plus companies. There is also an Innovation Zone for start-ups, scale-ups and university spinouts, which is the cheaper entry point for companies that cannot justify a full stand.

The value here is concentration rather than volume. Phacilitate’s own attendance claims sit in the low thousands, so this is not a mass floor, but the buyer set in cell and gene therapy is itself small and senior. If you sell manufacturing capacity or platform technology to developers, a workable share of the people who specify and sign for it are in the building.

Why Advanced Therapies Week matters

Advanced Therapies Week brings researchers, clinicians, laboratory teams, technology suppliers and the specialists who influence institutional purchasing to San Diego Convention Center in San Diego. For SHOWFLOOR.TV, the value is not simply the size of the gathering. It is the concentration of people, products and decisions in one place—and the chance to see what holds up when a claim has to work on a real show floor.

The editorial case is strongest where this show offers useful floor-level reporting opportunities. That makes it a useful place to look beyond announcement language: what is being demonstrated, what visitors stop to examine, which questions buyers ask and which ideas are ready to move from presentation to practice.

What to watch on the show floor

A productive visit starts with observable signals. We will be looking for the booths, sessions and conversations that make the market easier to understand—not only the biggest builds or the loudest launches.

  • working instruments and workflows rather than static product displays
  • research findings that change how a tool or treatment is evaluated
  • startup technologies moving from validation toward adoption
  • clear evidence, training and implementation support behind every claim

Those signals help separate a polished display from a genuinely useful exhibit. The strongest stories usually have three parts: a clear problem, a product or idea that can be seen in action, and a person who can explain what happens after the demonstration ends.

For exhibitors: how to be useful here

A strong booth here behaves like a compact learning environment: qualified technical staff, a repeatable demonstration, evidence that can be checked, and a clear path from scientific interest to practical use.

Media readiness matters, too. A concise company description, current product links, high-resolution approved photography, named spokespeople and a short list of verifiable claims make it much easier for an editorial team to report accurately. If a launch is under embargo, state the timing and terms plainly. If the story depends on a demonstration, schedule time when the right expert and the working product will both be present.

Exhibitors seeking SHOWFLOOR.TV consideration can use the update link below to share booth details, launch timing, interview availability and media assets. Submission does not guarantee coverage; specificity and verifiable information make a pitch substantially more useful.

For attendees: a smarter way to use the event

Start with the official exhibitor information and build a short priority list by problem or category, not only by brand recognition. Book the conversations that require a specialist, then protect unstructured time for discovery. On the floor, ask to see the product or process working, who it is designed for, what it replaces, what implementation requires and where the evidence can be reviewed after the show.

Before making travel or purchasing decisions, confirm the current schedule, badge rules and venue information with the organizer. Event programs change, and the official site remains the authority for registration, access and last-minute updates.

SHOWFLOOR.TV reporting brief

Our editorial lens for Advanced Therapies Week is practical: new products with a defined use case, demonstrations that reveal something a press release cannot, design choices that improve the visitor experience, and candid conversations with the people building or buying what is on display. We are especially interested in independent exhibitors, first-time launches, useful visual explanations and the gap between a market trend and what is actually happening in the aisle.

Official resources

Photography credits and further reading

The gallery on this page uses event photography published by organizers, venues, exhibitors and editorial sources. Images are credited to their original publishers, source pages are linked below for context and attribution, and the work is not represented as SHOWFLOOR.TV photography.

Research last verified 2026-08-05. Organizer: Terrapinn. Dates, programs, exhibitor lists and access rules may change; use the official links above for current information.

If you are exhibiting

  • Organized by Terrapinn. Booth sales and floor plans run through them.
  • Exhibiting here? We publish a free profile for any exhibitor who wants one — get in touch.

If you are attending

  • Runs Jan 18-21, 2027. Add it to your calendar above.
  • Held at San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA.
  • Registration is handled on the official site. We do not sell tickets or badges.

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From the floor

Photography published by the show organizers and other sources, credited individually. Not taken by SHOWFLOOR.TV.

San Diego waterfront and convention centre
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Awards ceremony at Advanced Therapies Week
Photo: title21.net

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