AAI IMMUNOLOGY 2027Exhibitor guide: booth costs, dates and deadlines in Los Angeles

AAI's booth rates go out in the prospectus SPARGO sends on request, so space is quoted to you. For the booth itself, an antibody or reagent company usually spends $7,500 to $15,000 on a 10×20 rental, and a cytometer island starts around $50,000 custom. LACC union labor and Olympic-expansion freight routing move the number most.

Applications made after October 28, 2026 are due in full on receipt, and the Exhibitor Service Kit with advance-order discounts arrives in February 2027. Island booth models or drawings are due to AAI Exhibit Management by March 3, 2027. We ask for design approval by mid-January to meet that date.

We rent complete inlines and islands for IMMUNOLOGY2027: back wall graphics at AAI's 8-foot limit, a 4-foot front counter, one-color carpet as AAI requires, lighting, monitor mounts and lockable storage, with shipping and both labor calls priced together. AAI's fee covers the drape, side rails and identification sign.

Booth installation at the LACC falls under Local 831, and how much an exhibitor may set up by hand depends on each show's rules. We read AAI's Service Kit when it arrives in February, tell you exactly what your team may do by hand, and book union labor for the rest.

Demos must stay inside your booth space, and AAI forbids events, meetings or invitations that draw attendees away from the exhibit hall or scientific sessions during official hours. Gatherings in the booth need written approval from AAI Exhibit Management. Exhibitor Workshops and sponsored coffee breaks are the approved routes.

The exhibitor pays, by weight. For the LACC we budget near $175 per hundredweight in 2026–27, with 200 pounds as the floor; AAI's exact tariff arrives in its Service Kit. Padded cytometer crates weigh a lot, which is why that charge is listed separately when we quote.

AAI has not published the hall; it is not confirmed yet. The LACC's exhibit space spans South Hall, West Hall and Kentia Hall, and South and West Halls are being joined in the Olympic expansion, so we plan freight once the floor plan assigns your booth.

The same inline walls fit the 10×10 grids of ASBMB in Boston and ASM Microbe in Chicago, and SITC in the fall. We keep the frames in storage between meetings and reprint graphics when your panel or product line changes.

IMMUNOLOGY2027 runs Friday, April 30 to Tuesday, May 4, 2027, and the exhibit hall is open Saturday, May 1 to Monday, May 3. Hall hours for 2027 are not confirmed yet. The following meeting, IMMUNOLOGY2028, is April 30 to May 4, 2028 in San Antonio.

The meeting fills the LACC on South Figueroa Street in downtown Los Angeles, near Metro's Pico Station on the A and E Lines. On-site registration is in the South Lobby, and onPeak is the only official hotel provider.

Just under 4,000 attendees and exhibitors came to IMMUNOLOGY2026 in Boston, per AAI. The meeting drew more than 4,500 at IMMUNOLOGY2025 in Honolulu, more than 4,300 at IMMUNOLOGY2024 in Chicago and more than 4,100 at IMMUNOLOGY2023 in Washington, D.C.

Only an island can. AAI's 2027 terms allow hanging signs that are part of an island's structure, measured to the same 20-foot limit as the rest of the island, with drawings due March 3, 2027. Standard inline booths may not hang signs and stay at 8 feet in the rear half.

IMMUNOLOGY2027 is a registered scientific meeting, not a public event: anyone visiting sessions or the Exhibit Hall must be a registered attendee, children under 13 may not enter, and no one under 18 is allowed in the hall during installation or dismantle. Exhibitors get four Exhibit Hall Only badges per 100 square feet.

Reserve exhibit space on the IMMUNOLOGY2027 exhibitor site run by SPARGO, Inc., AAI's exhibit management firm, and request the prospectus there. AAI accepts or denies applications and assigns space first come, first served.