The best way to judge a chair is to sit in it. This October, 9to5 Seating is heading to two of the year’s biggest shows for the spaces where people wait, heal, learn and gather. Find us at the Healthcare Design Conference + Expo in New Orleans, then at EDspaces in Kansas City. Pull up a chair, try our latest seating, and meet the team behind it.

HCD 2026: Seating for long waits and long shifts

New Orleans · October 18–20 · Booth #2411

Healthcare seating has two jobs at once. It has to keep patients and families comfortable through hours in a waiting room, and it has to hold up to rigorous cleaning day after day. At our booth, you can test both.

Take a seat in Koble, our modular lounge system with built-in lumbar support. It configures into lobby and waiting area layouts that stay supportive through long sits. Then try Nolan, new this fall, for consult rooms, staff meetings and hospital cafés.

This year HCD shares its expo hall with the IFHE World Congress, so healthcare engineers and facility managers will be on the floor alongside designers and planners. If you’re the one who maintains the furniture after move-in, bring your questions about materials, cleanability and durability. We’d love to talk shop.

Explore healthcare seating · Download the Healthcare Brochure

EDspaces 2026: Seating that keeps up with campus life

Kansas City · October 28–30 · Booth #2503

Classrooms, libraries, cafés and student commons see more wear in a semester than most offices see in a year. Our booth is set up to show what holds up and stays comfortable through all of it.

In Kansas City, we’re setting up the same two collections for a campus crowd. See how Koble links into benches and soft seating clusters for libraries, study commons and student lounges, with tech-integrated options for charging between classes. Planning a layout? Our Koble design services can map one to your floor plan. Nolan brings that comfort to faculty meeting rooms, training rooms and campus cafés, where chairs get moved and sat in all day.

The exhibit hall opens at 10:45 a.m. on Wednesday and Thursday.

Explore education seating · Download the Education Brochure

New this fall: Nolan

We previewed Nolan at NeoCon in June, and it launches this fall. It’s in both booths, so you can be one of the first to sit in it.

Nolan is a collection of meeting, conference and café chairs with a wide seat and back for real support. Customization options let it fit a conference room, a break room or a café.

See you in New Orleans and Kansas City

Can’t make it to either show? Your 9to5 Seating rep can bring the chairs to you for a product demonstration.

Find your rep and plan your visit →