The 2027 C&E Registration is Now Open

The venue will again be at the Marriott Renaissance Resort & Spa in Florence, AL. Just across the TN-AL State Line.

New this year, we are offering premium booth locations in the Conference Center Atrium that everyone will see entering the Conference Center for maximum exposure and twice the normal size booth space. All booth location choices will be in order of sponsorship type: Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze, THEA vendor member general booth, non-member general booth, along with the date and time of the C&E registration in each category. Atrium booth location choices will be by date/time of registration and will have a different booth location layout than the general exhibit area. The faster your company gets registered; you get the best location choices in your group. The layout and available booth locations will be sent to you when your group type is open. 

Also new, we will have a vendor speed dating event on Monday with more details to come. All general booth and sponsorship registrations are invited to participate at no extra fee. This will give you a guaranteed face-to-face opportunity to introduce yourself and company with our healthcare educational attendees in the meeting room. Then they can visit your booth for more detailed conversations during open exhibit times.

You will need to create a MyTHA login to register for the C&E if you don't have one already. This is a requirement from THA to access their portal. Insert your company name where it says "Organization not listed above? Enter it here". This does not affect your THEA membership.

Hotel Reservation: https://app.marriott.com/resview2?id=1756481729983&key=GRP&app=resvlink

THEA Membership link is on the left side of this page.

We will be accepting educational session abstracts until December 31. We will send the abstracts to our healthcare members again with a survey in January to choose the sessions they want on the agenda. Top scores will be on the agenda for the number of hours allotted. Each session will be 1 hour in length with Q&A time included. Please use this form Abstract Template for submitting an abstract. Please use this layout so all abstracts will be formatted the same. All abstracts and bios need to be brief focusing on the main information needed. Abstract submissions open to healthcare employees and vendors. We encourage vendors to use a healthcare client as a co-speaker. Number of speakers per session limited to 2 if needed. Number of abstracts limited to 2. Send the abstracts to [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected]. Speakers will be notified in late January or early February if they were chosen or not.

NEW for our healthcare members!!!!

Our THEA Academy online training with our last conference sessions can be accessed here THEA Academy. No CEC's will be given for the conference sessions, but they are packed with helpful information. To receive conference CEC's, you have to attend in person.

Healthcare members will receive log in information by email to access the site.

UPDATE: We sold out all of our 95 booth spaces for our 2026 Conference & Expo. We will start registration for our 2027 C&E around November! The conference will be held at the Renaissance Resort & Spa in Florence, AL just across the state line June 7-9, 2027. 

THEA Associate Vendor Members will receive first notification before the general public and website posting when registration is live to secure the best booth locations and reserve a booth and hotel room before they are sold out. You can join for $100 at THEA Membership. Hope to see you there next year!

We greatly appreciate everyone who helped make the '26 C&E a 6-year run on sellouts and record attendance. 

We now have a LinkedIn page; Tennessee Healthcare Engineering Association. Please visit and follow us. 

 Rick Tinsley CHFM, CHEP, SASHE, FTHEA

THEA Membership Director

[email protected]