A sneak peek into the Vision Expo East 2025 show floor

According to Ashley Mills, The Vision Council's CEO, the Vision Expo East 2025 show floor will highlight the integration of healthcare, technology, fashion, and lifestyle, exemplified by the EssilorLuxottica booth and others like Nuance and Ray-Ban. Additionally, there will be a program called the AI Advantage, discussing AI's role in shaping eye care, with AI integration in various exhibitor booths for care, diagnosis, management, and practice management.

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Editor's note: This transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.

Ashley Mills:

We're adding a tech talk stage this year, and we have several different companies presenting on what's new and next in treating patients or making it easier for patients to access vision care, and even better, making it easier for doctors to help patients with diagnosis and treatment. So plenty of new debuting at the show, and we have programming on a main stage, as you would imagine, in the middle of the hall at the back. It's booked solid on all 3 days of the show. So that's non-continuing education, but innovative EHR technologies, for example, consumer searches revealing what the consumer and the patient is searching for now on Google – that should be really interesting – and help practices orient to where the consumer's heads are, cultivating innovation in business, of course, with Venus Williams, our keynote on Friday afternoon, [which] we're thrilled about. So we have plenty of programming. And then also, our show floor itself has been moving more towards an integration of healthcare and technology. I think that's exemplified by the EssilorLuxottica booth. They're really focusing on bridging technology and fashion. You'll see that with Nuance and Ray-Ban Meta, as well as other products that they're launching. And so I think the feel throughout the show is much more of an integration between fashion, lifestyle, healthcare, and tech, and how it all fits together.

I think [AI] be integrated throughout so you'll see it everywhere, some specific call outs on Friday morning at 10:45 on the main stage. We do have a program called the AI Advantage: Shaping Eye Care Today and Tomorrow. So talking conceptually about trends and how AI can play a role. And then you'll see it in most of our exhibitors booths in different ways. So obviously several exhibitors have different ways to integrate it, in terms of care, diagnosis, management, but also in practice management.