THE EXHIBIT EXPERIENCE
Bring your challenges. Find the people solving them.
The Lab Design Conference exhibit hall brings the products, services, and expertise behind laboratory environments together in one place—and the new Innovation Trail makes it easier to find what’s relevant to you.
Start with what you’re trying to solve. Follow the Trail. Meet the companies that can help.
START WITH YOUR CHALLENGE
What are you trying to solve?
The Innovation Trail organizes the exhibit hall around five solution categories, making it easier to find the companies, products, services, and expertise relevant to your work.
Choose the Trail that best matches your project, priority, or challenge. Remember its color, then follow it throughout the exhibit hall.
🔵BLUE TRAIL
Lab Furniture & Casework
Create spaces designed around the way your laboratory works.
Explore casework, flexible furniture, storage, workstations, shelving, and other solutions designed around laboratory workflows.
🟢GREEN TRAIL
Infrastructure, Building Systems & Services
Support everything happening inside the laboratory.
Identify the building systems, utilities, engineering expertise, specialty services, commissioning, relocation, and other solutions behind high-performing laboratory environments.
🟠ORANGE TRAIL
Lab Equipment & Operations
Equip the work. Improve how it gets done.
Discover equipment, instruments, workflow tools, storage systems, and operational solutions that support laboratory performance and productivity.
🟣PURPLE TRAIL
Benchtops, Surfaces & Interiors
Build for the realities of laboratory work.
Research benchtops, work surfaces, specialty materials, flooring, finishes, fixtures, and interior solutions designed for demanding laboratory environments.
🔴RED TRAIL
Fume Hoods, Safety & Containment
Protect people, processes, and environments.
Find fume hoods, containment systems, safety equipment, ventilation solutions, enclosures, cabinets, and other solutions supporting safer laboratory work.
Now find it on the floor
Explore the 2027 exhibit hall
Know what you want to explore? Use the interactive floorplan to find exhibiting companies, locate booths, and plan the products, services, and solutions you want to see in Dallas.
Use the Innovation Trail colors to quickly identify the areas of the hall most relevant to your projects and priorities.
INNOVATION TRAIL KEY
🔵 BLUE — Lab Furniture & Casework
🟢 GREEN — Infrastructure, Building Systems & Services
🟠 ORANGE — Lab Equipment & Operations
🟣 PURPLE — Benchtops, Surfaces & Interiors
🔴 RED — Fume Hoods, Safety & Containment
HOW IT WORKS
Find what matters to you faster
You don’t need to see everything to find something valuable. Use the Innovation Trail to focus your time on the companies and solutions most relevant to you.
CHOOSE YOUR TRAIL
Start with the challenge, project, or priority you want to explore and identify the Trail that best matches it.
FOLLOW THE COLOR
Use Trail colors on the interactive floorplan and throughout the exhibit hall to find relevant companies.
EXPLORE YOUR OPTIONS
Ask questions, compare approaches, see products and solutions, and discover different ways to tackle the challenge.
GO DEEPER
Found something worth exploring? Visit featured Innovation Trail partners and catch Solution Spotlights for additional ways to see solutions in action and continue the conversation.
One idea can lead somewhere unexpected
The best ideas don’t always stay where you first encounter them. At the Lab Design Conference, a conversation in a session can lead to something you see firsthand on a lab tour—and then to a product, service, or expert that helps you imagine what could work in your own environment.
Discover a new approach
Hear project stories, lessons learned, new approaches, and different perspectives throughout the conference program.
Experience it in the real world
Step inside working laboratory environments on an exclusive lab tour and see how other organizations have approached complex design, facility, and operational challenges.
Find what could make it possible
Bring those ideas into the exhibit hall. Follow the Innovation Trail to find products, services, and expertise that could help you apply new thinking to your own laboratory, facility, or project.
INTERESTED IN EXHIBITING?
Put your solutions on the Trail
Every exhibiting partner becomes part of the Innovation Trail, helping attendees understand what you solve—and where to find you.
Explore exhibiting and partnership opportunities for the 2027 Lab Design Conference.
