What EMS World Expo does

EMS World Expo is the world's largest conference dedicated to the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) profession, founded in 1972 and operated as a property of HMP Global, a Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin-based healthcare events and media company. The franchise convenes 7,000+ EMS professionals from 50+ countries around an annual fall flagship event featuring 300+ exhibitors and 200+ educational sessions spanning clinical, operational, and leadership content for paramedics, EMTs, and EMS administrators. Its revenue model is a classic three-stream B2B trade show construct: paid attendee registration, exhibitor booth and sponsorship fees, and event partnerships/co-located programming.

Beginning in 2026, the franchise is extending its cadence and footprint. A new spring event, EMS World LIVE | Austin, launches in May 2026, effectively converting the single annual event into a two-event annual platform. The fall flagship rotates to Orlando for 2026 while maintaining Indianapolis in its rotation, and a partnership with FlightBridgeED co-locates the FAST26 critical-care transport conference with the main expo. These moves broaden the geographic surface, add a second revenue-generating event in the calendar year, and deepen vertical coverage into the critical-care transport sub-segment, while the 2025 Indianapolis edition reported a sold-out expo hall indicating continued demand strength heading into the expansion cycle.

Name

EMS World Expo

Website

https://emsworldexpo.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1972

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

EMS World Expo, founded in 1972 and operated by HMP Global, is the world's largest dedicated emergency medical services conference, convening 7,000+ EMS professionals from 50+ countries with 300+ exhibitors and 200+ educational sessions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Medical Conferences and Trade Shows

NAICS

Convention and Trade Show Organizers (561920), Convention and Trade Show Organizers (56192)

SIC

Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900)

akta.pro primary industry

Conferences & Conventions Operations Services (Registration, AV, Logistics) (MPAGAGAM)

akta.pro secondary industry

EMS Education, Training & Simulation Centers (HLAFANAL)

Keywords

• EMS conference
• Emergency medical services
• Prehospital care education
• Continuing medical education
• Medical trade show

Headquarters

HQ city

Fort Atkinson

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Marketing or Sales, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Exhibitor booth fees: Companies pay to exhibit in the Expo Hall. The 2025 expo had a sold-out Expo Hall with 300+ exhibitors.
2. Attendee registration: EMS professionals pay registration fees to attend the conference, workshops, and access educational sessions. Multiple attendee categories exist including clinicians, educators, and leaders.
3. Sponsorship and event partnerships: HMP Global produces the event with co-location partnerships such as FlightBridgeED's FAST26 conference, generating revenue through strategic partnerships.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

EMS World Expo is the world's largest EMS-dedicated conference and trade show, produced by HMP Global. It delivers an annual in-person conference featuring 200+ education sessions across nine learning tracks and an expo hall with 300+ exhibiting companies, serving 7,000+ emergency medical services professionals from more than 50 countries. The event combines continuing education, hands-on workshops, vendor evaluation, and professional networking for the global prehospital care community.

Product overview

EMS World Expo is the world's largest EMS-dedicated conference event, produced by HMP Global. The core offering is the annual EMS World Expo conference featuring 200+ education sessions across nine learning tracks and an expo hall with 300+ exhibiting companies. Supporting offerings include preconference workshops and special events for in-depth learning, and CE information for continuing education credits. A new expansion product, EMS World LIVE | Austin, is a spring event debuting in 2026 co-located with FlightBridgeED's FAST26 conference, targeting BLS/ALS professionals and critical care transport clinicians.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• EMS World Expo Annual Conference The world's largest EMS-dedicated annual conference featuring 200+ education sessions across nine learning tracks, an expo hall with 300+ exhibiting companies, and networking for 7,000+ emergency medical services professionals including paramedics, EMTs, physicians, and EMS administrators. Held in rotating U.S. cities with the 2026 edition in Orlando, FL.
• EMS World LIVE | Austin New spring meeting debuting May 27-29, 2026 in Austin, TX, co-located with FlightBridgeED's FAST26 conference. Targets BLS and ALS professionals as well as critical care transport clinicians, expanding the event portfolio into a spring format.
• Preconference Workshops and Special Events In-depth preconference workshops and special events that offer concentrated learning led by experienced faculty, providing extra education before the main conference begins. Includes hands-on clinical workshops and Clinical Challenge events.

Quantifiable outcome

• 7,000+ EMS professionals trained/educated annually
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• FlightBridgeEDcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 4 November 2025FlightBridgeED is a co-development partner for the new EMS World LIVE | Austin spring event debuting May 27-29, 2026. The FAST26 conference is co-located with EMS World LIVE | Austin, combining critical care transport education with the broader EMS World event portfolio. This partnership expands the expo's reach into the spring event calendar and targets BLS, ALS, and critical care transport clinicians.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• AMTC (Air Medical Transport Conference): AMTC is the leading conference for air medical and critical care transport professionals, overlapping directly with the critical care transport segment that EMS World LIVE | Austin targets via its FlightBridgeED partnership.
• FDIC International: FDIC International is the largest fire-service conference in the U.S., with significant overlap in firefighter, EMS officer, and rescue personnel attendance - a core attendee segment for EMS World Expo - making it a direct competitor for vendor and attendee mind share.
• EMS Today (JEMS Conference): EMS Today is one of the longest-running U.S. EMS conferences and trade shows, directly competing with EMS World Expo for the same paramedic, EMT, and EMS medical director audiences and for exhibitor booth revenue.
• NAEMSE Educational Conference: The National Association of EMS Educators conference targets EMS instructors and educators - one of EMS World Expo's named attendee segments - making it a direct competitor for that persona's limited annual CE budget.
• ZOLL Summit: ZOLL Summit is a vendor-organized EMS and resuscitation education conference focused on clinical content. It competes for CE-seeking EMS clinicians and represents the type of vertically integrated conference that EMS World Expo's educational program must match.

Others

• FlightBridgeED: FlightBridgeED is an EMS/critical care education company that co-locates its FAST26 conference with the new EMS World LIVE | Austin. It is comparable as a strategic content and audience partner whose training programs complement EMS World Expo's clinical track offerings.
• NAEMT (National Association of EMTs): NAEMT is the largest U.S. professional association for EMTs and paramedics and historically partners with EMS World Expo. It is comparable as a co-organizer and content contributor shaping the EMS education ecosystem rather than as a competing event.

Broad incumbents

• RX Global (Reed Exhibitions): RX Global runs hundreds of trade shows globally across many verticals. Comparable as a broad incumbent trade show organizer whose booth-fee and sponsorship revenue models inform what EMS World Expo's exhibit hall business could scale to.
• HMP Global (Parent Portfolio): HMP Global operates multiple healthcare conferences (e.g., Psych Congress, SAWC). While a parent rather than peer, its other event brands share the same producer, business model, and operational infrastructure, making them comparable benchmark events for sizing revenue and margin.
• Informa Markets: Informa is one of the world's largest B2B trade show and conference operators. Its healthcare and public-safety-adjacent events (e.g., Arab Health, community of healthcare events) illustrate the scale and operating model to which an ambitious EMS-focused conference could aspire.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/EMSWorldNews
• Facebookfacebook.com/EMSWorldFans
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ems-world

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Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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