DO YOU ALREADY KNOW ABOUT OUR SOCIAL AND SUSTAINABILITY ACTIONS?
Committed to making a positive impact on the planet, HIS connects the health technology sector to knowledge networks to overcome future challenges and drive sustainability across our entire community.
As an event that has been connecting people to technology for over 10 years, we understand the weight and importance of the impact we generate in the world. In this context, we are protagonists of various actions aimed at promoting social responsibility.
We are committed to ensuring that HIS has a positive impact on people and the planet. We want to play a key role in helping the entire healthcare sector community improve its own sustainability by connecting people to the networks and knowledge they need to help solve the major challenges of the future.
1. Inspiring sustainability
Incorporating sustainability into our brand to inspire our sector to be more sustainable, promoting the achievement of the UN's SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals).
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all, at all ages.
Ensure inclusive, equitable, and quality education, and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.
Ensure reliable, sustainable, modern, and affordable access to energy for all.
Promote sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all.
Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and foster innovation.
Reduce inequalities within and between countries, promoting social, economic and political inclusion of all, eliminating discrimination, and ensuring equality of opportunities and outcomes, including migration management and fostering financial flows to countries most in need.
Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.
Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.
2. Environmental Responsibility
Becoming carbon neutral as a company and across all our products, halving the waste generated by our products and events, and achieving zero waste and zero carbon.
Reduction of printed materials
Selective waste collection
LED lamps
Credential recycling
Printed materials with FSC certification
Encouraging carpooling among colleagues attending the event
Vegetarian and vegan food options
3. Social Responsibility
Contributing at least 1% of profit before tax to community groups, advocating for diversity and inclusion, and creating value for our host cities.
Suppliers focused on social inclusion
Relaxation area with hydration and massage
Support for non-profit social institutions
2025 Highlights
We want to have a positive impact on our local community, and in our 2025 edition, we had the opportunity to make a social impact by supporting institutions such as:
- Doctors Without Borders
- Instituto Jô Clemente
At HIS 2025, we implemented several initiatives to promote sustainability for the planet, the industry, and the well-being of our attendees. Here are some of them:
- Totems exclusively focused on sustainability;
- 80% of the carpet was reused, with only 20% being new;
- Mobile app and landing page providing access to content, companies, and the event map, reducing paper waste;
- Medical station available during the event;
- Ongoing maintenance and repairs in the pavilion to prevent accidents.
How to encourage and improve sustainability at HIS?
As a visitor
- Consider how you will get to the event and whether you can avoid air travel or use low-carbon transportation, such as public transport or carpooling;
- Recycle your waste at the venue and in your hotel whenever possible;
- Support our charity partners;
- Consider choosing vegetarian and vegan food options and avoid food waste;
- Take only the giveaways or brochures you need and will use, consider if digital alternatives are available;
- Consider the environmental credentials of your hotel when choosing where to stay. Get to know the official HIS travel agency, AD Turismo. Learn more.
As a sponsor:
- Think about the waste your booth will generate and try to minimize it as much as possible. Ensure that unavoidable waste is recycled.
- Select LED lighting and other energy-efficient equipment for your booth, and make sure to turn off your equipment at the end of the day.
- Optimize your travel by consolidating shipments and choosing logistics companies with strong sustainability credentials.
- Reduce paper distribution by going digital, and when printing is necessary, use sustainably certified paper.
- Engage in the many initiatives and discussions throughout the event aimed at facilitating and inspiring the sustainable development of your sector.
- Inspire the sustainable development of your industry by promoting your company and the sustainability credentials of your products and services.
Sustainability at Informa Markets
HIS - Healthcare Innovation Show is part of Informa Markets and the Informa Group. Sustainability at Informa focuses on the long-term impacts we create for our customers, colleagues, the communities we operate in, and the environment. For this reason, Informa has developed the FasterForward approach to sustainable business.
Informa's goal is to become an increasingly sustainable and positively impactful business. Through the FasterForward program, we are integrating sustainability into everything we do and seizing opportunities to help our customers and markets do the same.
FasterForward is a three-part structured program with ambitious commitments and a wide range of activities, covering Informa’s business operations, our brands and products, and our broader impact on the community.
When it comes to sustainability, we are moving faster.
Better Stands
Created in 2019 by Informa, the organizer of HIS, Better Stands is a global program aimed at eliminating waste generated by exhibition stands.
To achieve this, we encourage exhibitors and stand builders to replace disposable (single-use) stands with reusable ones, significantly reducing environmental impact.
Why join Better Stands?
Disposable stands account for more than 70% of the waste produced at events, causing significant environmental problems. Better Stands was created to address this issue, aiming to transform events into examples of sustainability and safety.
Informa continues to be recognized as a leader in sustainability, reflecting its commitment to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices.
Read more here: Informa achieves a global ranking in the media sector, leading the ESG index.