AAD Annual Meeting · Moscone Center · San Francisco

AAD Annual Meeting Booth Rentals

The entire specialty of dermatology in one hall. Your booth has three seconds.

Fixed-price AAD exhibits — design, fabrication, graphics, freight, installation and dismantle in one number that doesn’t move. Pre-built, lit and photo-approved before it ships, so what stands up at Moscone Center has already stood up once.

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March 19-23, 2027Show dates · auto-updated
Moscone CenterVenue
San FranciscoCity
Advance orders close ~Jan 22, 2027
20K+Attendees on the floor
DermatologyOne specialty, one hall
24 hrConcepts and a fixed quote back
1Project manager, end to end
Built for brands that meet clinicians

The kind of booth a specialty meeting is judged by

AAD attendees are physicians moving between sessions on a tight clock — dermatologists, residents and practice staff who decide in seconds whether your booth is worth a detour. The work below is what we build for brands that sell to expert audiences: custom structures designed around the conversation and the demonstration, not around the furniture, with every project moving through one team from first rendering to dismantle.

Know the floor before you plan the booth

AAD isn’t a tech expo. It’s a clinical congress.

The exhibit hall at AAD competes with the education programme — your audience is in sessions for most of the day and floods the floor in concentrated bursts. Add a dense downtown venue with its own freight rhythm, and the most expensive AAD mistake isn’t a bad booth; it’s a booth planned as if this were a nine-to-five expo floor.

Moscone Center — downtown logistics

South of Market, San Francisco

Moscone sits in the middle of downtown San Francisco, not on a highway-fed expo campus. Freight moves through city streets on scheduled marshalling and dock targets, and San Francisco show floors run on union labour. None of that is a problem if it’s planned; all of it is expensive improvised. We ship to the schedule, not to the address.

A session-driven floor

Traffic arrives in waves

Dermatologists come for the education programme and hit the hall between sessions — short, intense windows where every aisle is full, then quiet stretches. The winning booth is engineered for the burst: one message readable at a glance, staff positioned for fast qualification, and a layout that turns a session break into booked meetings.

The March calendar

Advance deadlines land in January

For the exact dates, see the facts strip at the top of this page — it updates automatically each edition. What doesn’t change: advance-order deadlines for a March show land in January, right after the holidays. Teams that start design in the autumn file everything at advance rates; teams that start in the new year pay floor rates for the same services.

What we handle at AAD
  • Floor-specific design — sightlines planned for your actual placement
  • Layout submission and show approval, filed early
  • Electrical, rigging and material handling calculated and filed at advance rates
  • Union labour coordination and on-site supervision
  • COI, EAC and exhibitor-manual deadlines mapped to our calendar
  • Dock target times, dismantle, pack and outbound freight
Billed by the show, not by us

Booth space, electrical, drayage, rigging and cleaning are billed to every exhibitor directly by the show and venue — no exhibit house can absorb them and none should claim to. What we do is calculate them for your exact booth before you commit, and file every order at advance rather than floor rates.

  • Booth space
  • Electrical drops and floor distribution
  • Material handling (drayage)
  • Rigging, if you’re hanging a sign
  • Daily cleaning · internet
Why a fixed price matters most here

The budget you present in autumn should survive March

Medical congresses are where exhibit-house invoices go to grow: labour hours over estimate, revisions rebilled as change orders, graphics reprints, supervision time nobody flagged. Our model is the opposite — the number you approve is the number you pay, contractually. Design revisions are unlimited until you approve. The quote and the final invoice are the same document.

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One number, and it holds

Design, fabrication, graphics, furniture, lighting, freight, installation, dismantle and project management in a single fixed price.

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Proven before it ships

Your booth stands fully assembled and lit at our 65,000 sq ft facility, and you approve photographs of the actual build — not a render.

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Show costs, known up front

Space, electrical, drayage and rigging calculated for your exact booth before you commit — so the total is a number, not a range.

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The paperwork is ours

COI, EAC, electrical, rigging, freight windows — filed at advance rates, mapped to every exhibitor-manual deadline. Nothing lands on your desk three days before it’s due.

We quote higher and cost less. That’s the whole argument, and it’s why every booth below is published with its price rather than hidden behind a “request a quote” form.

Available for AAD

AAD-ready booths, with real prices

Every booth below is priced for San Francisco and available as a custom build for your brand — rented, not bought. Use the finder at the top of the page to narrow by size and budget.

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One click — the catalog opens already filtered to your size and San Francisco pricing.

Working backwards from March

Your real deadline is in January

The advance-order cutoff lands roughly eight weeks before the show — the exact date is in the facts strip at the top of this page, and it updates automatically each edition. For a March show that puts the binding deadline in late January, with the December holidays sitting squarely inside the production window before it. Plan as if the holidays don’t exist as working weeks — because they don’t.

SEP–OCTBrief, concepts and the fixed price locked. Full design freedom.
NOVEMBERLayout submitted for show approval — placement confirmed.
DECEMBERGraphics finalised and sent to production — before the holiday slowdown.
LATE JANAdvance-order window. Design locked; electrical, rigging and material handling filed at advance rates. After this, everything costs floor rates.
MID-FEBFreight window and dock target time booked for Moscone.
EARLY MARBooth built, lit and photographed at our facility for your approval.
SHOW WEEKCrew installs in your move-in slot. You walk in at handover.
Take this to every vendor

Five questions to ask anyone quoting your AAD booth

Put these to every exhibit house you’re comparing — including us. They separate the vendors that stand behind a number from the ones whose estimate is an opening position. Our answers are printed here so you can hold us to them.

1 Will you put the total price in writing before I sign — and hold it? Ours: yes. Every booth on this page is published with its price. The quote and the final invoice are the same number, contractually. Printed above · hold us to it
2 Do design revisions become change orders? Ours: never. Revisions are unlimited until you approve, and the price is locked before design starts — a better idea after your regulatory review costs nothing.
3 Will I see my actual booth before it ships — or a render? Ours: the actual booth, fully assembled and lit at our facility, photographed for your sign-off weeks before move-in. Renders are promises; photographs are evidence.
4 Who files my advance show orders, and at which rate? Ours: we do, at advance rates, mapped to every exhibitor-manual deadline. For a March show those deadlines land in January — if a vendor can’t answer this immediately, that’s your answer.
5 Who is on site at Moscone when something goes sideways? Ours: your project manager and our install supervisor, through move-in and reachable across show days. Because the booth was assembled and checked before it shipped, the usual move-in surprises were found on our floor, weeks earlier.
In their words

What event managers say after the show

★★★★★
“They never just build the booth and disappear — I always know I have someone on call and ready to jump in when the unexpected inevitably happens. That level of responsiveness makes a huge difference in high-pressure event environments.”
Amanda Horner · Three years of booth programmes · Google Review
★★★★★
“I’ve worked with Pure Exhibits for almost a year now, and have had such a great experience! They are our go-to for trade shows, and create memorable booths that represent our brand well. The team is incredibly responsive and reliable.”
Lexi von Schottenstein · Google Review
★★★★★
“It’s always a pleasure to work with Utsav. The process is simple, straightforward, and high quality. I have worked with them for 3 years now and will continue!”
Carlos Bautista · Three-year client · Google Review
★★★★★
“Their team is incredibly flexible throughout the design process and truly collaborative in bringing ideas to life. I highly recommend Pure Exhibits to anyone looking for a reliable, thoughtful, and experienced exhibit partner.”
Amanda Horner · Google Review
Questions AAD exhibitors actually ask

AAD booth rental FAQs

How much does an AAD booth rental cost?
Every booth on this page is published with its San Francisco price — fixed and covering design, fabrication, graphics, furniture, freight, labour coordination and project management. Separately, the show and venue bill you directly for booth space, electrical, drayage, rigging and cleaning; we calculate those for your exact booth before you commit, so the total is known before you sign anything.
When should I book a booth for the AAD Annual Meeting?
Work backwards from the advance-order deadline, which lands roughly eight weeks before the show — the exact date for the next edition is in the facts strip at the top of this page and updates automatically. For a March show that means late January, with the December holidays inside your production window. Start the conversation in the autumn for full design freedom.
What’s different about exhibiting at Moscone Center?
Moscone is a downtown venue: freight arrives through city streets on scheduled marshalling and dock targets, and the floor runs on union labour. None of it is difficult if it’s planned — we book your freight window and dock target time, coordinate labour and supervise the install. It only becomes expensive when it’s improvised during move-in week.
Our booth needs private meeting space for HCP conversations. Can a rental do that?
Yes. Enclosed meeting rooms, semi-private consult corners and hospitality counters are standard parts of the medical-congress layouts we build — several are in the gallery above. Because the structure is custom-fabricated for your brand, the split between open demo space and closed conversation space is a design decision, not a constraint of the kit.
Our graphics go through medical-legal review and will be approved late. Is that a problem?
It’s normal, and the process is built for it. The structure is designed, priced and fabricated while your review runs; graphics are the last element to lock. Revisions are unlimited until you approve and never become change orders, so an MLR-driven change costs nothing — it just needs to land before the production dates your project manager maps out with you.
Will a rental look custom, or will it look reused?
Every booth is fabricated for your brand — custom graphics, layout, lighting and finishes on a modular structure underneath. The builds shown above are rentals. Before yours ships, it stands fully assembled and lit at our 65,000 sq ft facility and you approve photographs of the actual booth, not a render.
Can I install the booth myself to save on labour?
San Francisco show floors run on contracted union labour, and the show’s rules govern who may build what. Either way it isn’t your problem to arrange: labour coordination and on-site supervision are inside our fixed price, with the related show orders filed at advance rather than floor rates.
A vendor just fell through. How fast can you deliver an AAD booth?
Four to six weeks from approval to show floor for complete pre-built, photo-verified booths from 10×10 through 20×40 — at the same fixed price as a six-month lead time, with no rush surcharge. The earlier you call, the more of that window sits at advance rates instead of floor rates.
Do you handle events off the show floor — advisory boards, hospitality suites, satellite events?
Yes — hotel suites, meeting spaces and satellite activations around the meeting run under the same fixed-price model, coordinated by the same project manager as your booth.
Fixed pricing · Pre-built & photo-approved · Full-service support

Exhibit at AAD with zero surprises.

Tell us your footprint, your placement if you know it, and what the booth needs to do. You’ll have design concepts and one fixed price back within 24 hours — including what the show will bill you directly.

Or call us directly — (800) 379-8451