A Top-Rated Streamlining Networking Event

60+ Buyers

60+ Sellers

Up To 12 Key Meetings

In 4 Total Hours

Networking In High Gear: Your Fast Track To Strategic Partnerships

Discuss opportunities, set business goals and plan strategies for growth in high-efficiency meetings with up to 12 partner companies.

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Buyers:

Meet With Up To
12 Sellers for
20 Minutes Each

Sellers:

Meet With Up To
12 Buyers for
20 Minutes Each*

  • Team-to-team and in-person
  • Current and prospective business partners
  • Based on mutual business interests
  • Pre-assigned time slots
  • Semi-private meeting space

Why Should I Participate?

Executive Business Exchange: For Buyers

Distributor, GPO, and IDN leaders focused on sourcing the right products, partners, and solutions to fuel their supply chain strategies

✔ Pre-Scheduled, Strategic Meetings
Meet directly with leading manufacturer representatives who are ready to support your goals. Each meeting is a double opt-in, ensuring meaningful conversations that align with your organization’s current priorities.

✔ Streamlined Sourcing In One Place
Replace months of vendor outreach with a single day of efficient, focused meetings. Explore innovations, discover cost-effective solutions, and connect with partners who can help you address today’s healthcare distribution challenges.

✔ Built Around Your Priorities
Your schedule is built with precision — allowing for focused conversations and the flexibility to attend to maximize value, attend general sessions, networking events, and more throughout the conference.

Executive Business Exchange: For Sellers

Healthcare manufacturers looking to accelerate growth by connecting directly with high-value buyers across the care continuum

✔ Curated Buyer Connections
Engage in exclusive, pre-scheduled meetings with key decision-makers from leading distribution, GPO, and IDN organizations. Each meeting is double opt-in — no cold calls, no drop-ins — just qualified, high-value conversations based on mutual interest.

✔ Accelerate Your Pipeline
Identify aligned opportunities, showcase your latest innovations, and spark long-term relationships with buyers actively seeking new solutions.

✔ Drive Real ROI
The Executive Business Exchange reduces sales cycle and the cost of customer acquisition by putting you face-to-face with the right buyers — all in one high-efficiency, focused day.

How It Works

Register

Sign up by checking the EBE box during registration.
Manufacturers and suppliers must be HIDA Associate Members to participate.

Rank

Select preferred meeting partners. You’ll receive an email in late July with instructions.

View

Get your final schedule and meeting times in late August, via email.

Prep

Contact your meeting partners directly to set meeting agendas.

Meet!

Buyers (distributors, GPOs, IDNs) are seated; suppliers rotate every 20 minutes.

Streamlining Healthcare: Executive Business Exchange

*Member Benefit: Supplier participation in the EBE is exclusively for HIDA Educational Foundation members. Members must be registered for Streamlining, but there is no additional charge for EBE participation. Learn more about HIDA membership here.

My favorite experience this time [at Streamlining 2024] was the Executive Business Exchange — 20-minute speed dating, well-run, a perfect audience, and beneficial for everyone I spoke to.”

Nick Pericle

Nick Pericle
Managing Director, Distribution
ProfitOptics

HIDA offers distributors the opportunity to meet new vendors that we’d never meet in the day-to-day. This opportunity helps us explore ways to mutually grow together, and it’s invaluable.”

Gregg Kashmanian

Gregg Kashmanian
VP, Healthcare Sales
HD Supply

There is no better way to meet current and potential business partners than HIDA events. It is rare to have so many decision-makers all in one place, which makes HIDA an incredible investment of time and resources.”

Jay Butler

Jay Butler
VP of Extended Care
IMCO Inc

Participating Buyers (2024)

  • AdventHealth
  • Afflink
  • APN Healthcare, Inc
  • Arrowhead Medical Supply
  • AvMEDICAL
  • B & E Medical Supply and Equipment, LLC
  • Beacon Point Associates, LLC
  • Benco
  • Capstone Health Alliance
  • Cardinal Health
  • Champs GPO
  • Chommerce
  • Clock Medical
  • CME
  • CNECT
  • Concordance Healthcare Solutions
  • D&H Medical Supply
  • Dealmed
  • Delasco
  • Direct Supply, Inc.
  • FirstChoice Cooperative
  • Ford Medical
  • Gericare Medical Supply
  • Geriatric Medical & Surgical Supply, Inc.
  • HD Supply Facilities Maintenance
  • Henry Schein Equipment and Capital Lab Team
  • Henry Schein Medsurg Products Team
  • Henry Schein Surgical Products and Infection Prevention Team
  • Henry Schein POC Diagnostics Team
  • IMCO-Corporate
  • ITX Medical Supply
  • Kerma Medical Products, Inc.
  • Marathon Medical Corporation
  • MarketLab, Inc.
  • McKesson Medical-Surgical-Suppliers Marketing
  • McKesson Operations
  • Medline Industries, Inc.
  • MedPro
  • MedVision SDT
  • Minerva Health Solutions, Inc
  • MMCAP Infuse
  • Multicare Health
  • MXR Imaging
  • NDC, Inc./NuEdge Alliance, LLC
  • NOW Interactives
  • Owens & Minor
  • PDM Healthcare
  • Premier
  • Provista
  • Smart Medical Solutions
  • Supplyline Medical
  • Surgo Surgical Supply
  • The Hospital Equipment Company
  • The Stevens Company Limited
  • Unite Medical
  • Vitality Scientific
  • Vizient
  • VWR, an Avantor company
  • Wilburn Medical USA
  • Yankee Alliance

Participating Sellers (2024)

  • ACI (Advanced Concept Innovations)
  • Alfa Wassermann Diagnostic Technologies
  • Amsino International Inc.
  • Anavasi Diagnostics
  • Aptitude Medical Systems
  • ARKRAY
  • ASP Global
  • Aspen Surgical
  • Athena Healthcare Products Inc.
  • BD
  • BGE Medical
  • Bionix
  • Bracco Diagnostics
  • Clarity Diagnostics
  • Continuum Technologies, Inc
  • CryoConcepts
  • Dale Medical Products
  • DermaRite Industries LLC
  • Detecto
  • Dr. Sabharwal's Wound Care
  • Draeger Medical
  • Dynarex Corporation
  • Edan North America
  • Essity HMS North America
  • Global Healthcare Exchange
  • Globe Scientific, Inc.
  • GMAX Industries
  • GOJO Industries
  • Graham-Field
  • H.B. Fuller
  • Health O Meter Professional Scales
  • Horizon Scientific, Inc.
  • IMCO
  • Improve Medical USA
  • Innovacyn
  • Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions
  • Lunderg
  • Medegen Medical Products
  • Medical Strategies International
  • MediVena
  • Meril Inc
  • Mianyang Meike Electronic Equipment Co., Ltd
  • MYCO Medical
  • Nestle Health Science
  • Optimal
  • PDC- A Brady Business
  • Performance Health
  • Phase Scientific
  • ProfitOptics
  • RJ Schinner
  • Sekisui Diagnostics
  • Sempermed USA
  • Sri Trang USA, Inc.
  • Stericare Solutions
  • The Brewer Company
  • Thermco Products
  • VIVIT Supply
  • W.A. Baum Company
  • WellPact LLC
  • ZOLL Medical Corporation

+ Tips: Get The Most From Your EBE Meetings

Bring The Right People

The goal is to find ways to build business together; bring the right people to maximize your results! Be sure to not only bring senior leadership but also account staff who will manage the relationship going forward.

Be Prepared

Meetings are short (20 minutes) so do your homework in advance so that you can jump right into the meeting.

Specify Companies You’re Open To Meet With

We recommend ranking 20-30 organizations to ensure the algorithm has plenty of preferences to go by when filling your schedule.

Be Open

Matchings are based on mutual interest. Your schedule may include some companies you didn’t select. We ask you commit to those meetings because, on the flip side, we’re asking the same of your top selections.

Show Up

Don’t skip meetings; you will leave people in the room waiting for you for 20 minutes.

Leverage Downtime

Breaks in your schedule are a good time to grab a cup of coffee or prepare for the next meeting.

+ FAQ For EBE Participants

How Do I Choose Which Companies To Meet With?
Choose the companies with whom you wish to meet on the basis of:
  1. Importance of issues you wish to discuss with particular companies
  2. Not enough opportunities to connect during the year
  3. Opportunity to meet with new companies and/or learn about new product lines
  4. Consider a balance in meetings between large and small companies
Will I Get Appointments With Everyone On My List?

The software assigns meetings according to mutual selection as a first priority. Please understand that your schedule will not include all of your top choices, and will include some companies you did not select, but selected you.

Why Are There Companies On My List That I Didn’t Select?

The EBE concept only works if every participating organization is willing to take some meetings with companies you didn’t request. In return, you’ll get some companies on your schedule that you really want to meet with that didn’t include you in their own rankings.

Distributor Contact

Sarah Stensrud

Sarah Stensrud
Director, Membership
703-838-6104
stensrud@hida.org

Manufacturer Contact

Callie Barthel Callie Barthel
Director, Associates Program
703-838-6116
barthel@hida.org

GPO/IDN Contact

Manpreet Kaur Sandhu Manpreet Kaur Sandhu
Director, Education & Industry Affairs
703-838-6106
sandhu@hida.org
“The HIDA Streamlining Healthcare Expo allows industry partners to maximize their time and investment by bringing together key stakeholders into one location for productive b2b conversations.” Charlie Campbell, Key Account Manager, MicroCare, LLC