McKesson ideaShare 2027Exhibitor guide for Las Vegas: booth costs, key dates, deadlines

For ideaShare most suppliers spend $7,500 to $15,000 renting a 10×20 from us, and a 20×30 rental runs $25,000 to $55,000; custom builds of that size run $75,000 to $175,000. Shelving for front-store products, ordering stations and Mandalay Bay's in-house electrical move the number. McKesson bills your exhibit space separately and has not published its rates.

Companies that have never exhibited fill in McKesson's exhibitor interest form for 2027, and McKesson contacts them. Returning exhibitors register through the Exhibitor Hub, McKesson's Cvent exhibitor site, and the ideaShare exhibitor team helps anyone who cannot get in. The form asks whether you already supply McKesson's distribution business and whether a competing distributor owns you.

The 2027 interest form lists 10×10, 10×20, 20×30 and 30×30 spaces, plus custom or large-format space of 1,200 square feet or more. We build from 10×20 upward. A 10×20 suits one product line with a demo; a 20×30 or 30×30 suits wholesalers and system vendors who show dispensing, front store and services together.

We rent ideaShare booths out of our Las Vegas hub: frame, printed fabric graphics, LED lighting, an order counter with lockable storage, shelving if you sell front-store products, and flooring. Install under your Purple project manager, dismantle and return are on the same fixed proposal, and nothing has to be shipped across the country.

McKesson's ideaShare FAQ answers yes: attendees can order products on the exhibit floor, and registered attendees get ideaShare promotions and show specials. We design for that moment with a counter, a tablet or scanner station and space for your show-special pricing, so an owner can commit before the next CE session starts.

Full-time employees can generally put up a small booth with hand tools at Mandalay Bay, but freight from the dock is Teamsters Local 631 work, and MGM keeps electrical, internet and rigging with its own in-house teams. For anything with a hanging sign, a header or heavy shelving, Purple handles the build with union labor, run by your project manager.

McKesson has posted no 2027 exhibitor deadline yet, and its interest form is open now. For a custom ideaShare booth we need your approved design around mid-April 2027, which leaves our 30 to 45 day production window plus three weeks of freight. A rental from our Las Vegas inventory can wait a few weeks longer.

We design ideaShare booths to travel. The same frame and shelving can go to the NCPA Annual Convention in San Antonio in September, NACDS Total Store Expo in August or the Asembia AXS27 Summit in Las Vegas. Between shows we keep it in storage and swap graphics for each audience.

McKesson ideaShare 2027 runs June 24–27, 2027, at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. McKesson has published the event dates only, so the exhibit floor days and hours are not confirmed yet. The 2026 edition ran June 18–21, 2026, in Denver.

At Mandalay Bay, 3950 S Las Vegas Blvd, on the south end of the Las Vegas Strip. McKesson has not named the hall. The resort's convention center keeps its Bayside exhibit halls on one level, with ballrooms and meeting rooms above them and in the South Convention Center.

McKesson reported more than 2,500 attendees at ideaShare 2025 in Nashville, nearly 2,700 attendees and 150 exhibitors at the 2024 meeting in New Orleans, and more than 2,800 attendees in Las Vegas in 2023. For 2026 in Denver it cited more than 200 exhibitors. 2027 attendance is not confirmed yet.

ideaShare is closed to the public: it is a registered conference for independent pharmacy owners, pharmacists, technicians and their teams, with paid attendee packages and accredited continuing pharmacy education. Exhibitors are companies McKesson accepts through its exhibitor process.

McKesson Corporation runs it with its Health Mart franchise and Health Mart Atlas, its pharmacy services administrative organization. Because the host is a drug distributor, exhibiting runs through McKesson's own exhibitor team rather than an independent show organizer.