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Two Midweek Nights and 2,000 Delegates in Indianapolis

The Indiana Convention Center publishes the Henry Schein National Sales Meeting for February 2 to 4, 2027 in Exhibit Hall A-B at a forecast 2,000 attendees. Two midweek nights come to 4,000 room nights against a 7,100-room downtown base, and Engine puts the city's February average at $107.

The published window

The Indiana Convention Center publishes the Henry Schein National Sales Meeting for February 2 to February 4, 2027. The venue page names Exhibit Hall A-B and gives a forecast attendance of 2,000. That figure is the venue's forecast. No source publishes a confirmed attendance count.

A delegate who attends the full meeting books the nights of February 2 and February 3 and checks out on Thursday February 4. Both nights sit inside the business week.

The window against the room base

The venue's footer gives 7,100 hotel rooms in downtown Indianapolis and 4,700 rooms connected to the Center by skywalk. Two nights at the 2,000 forecast come to 4,000 room nights. That total equals 56.34 percent of the downtown base and 85.11 percent of the skywalk-connected base.

The venue publishes no room block for this meeting, no rate and no cut-off date.

The rate basis for February

Engine's city page gives Indianapolis an average nightly rate of $128 across 1.2M public rate observations from May 2024 to April 2026. February averages $107, the lowest month on the table and 16 percent below the city average. May averages $158, the highest, 23 percent above it.

Engine reports par rates, the cheapest publicly available price at the time of each search. The observations sit 10 to 180 days before check-in.

The venue publishes no block rate for this group. A reservations desk prices the window from the market table.

The supply that changes the base

The venue's news item of April 21, 2026 records that the Signia by Hilton Indianapolis takes reservations for stays beginning February 1, 2027. The item gives the hotel 800 rooms, seven dining experiences and Indiana's largest ballroom. The venue's expansion page and the city bureau's connected-hotels page give 803 rooms for the same building.

That first stay date falls one day before this group arrives. The city bureau counts twelve connected properties with 5,200 rooms.

The week around the booking

The venue's event feed over January 20 to February 28, 2027 returns 14 records, six in January and eight in February. Monday February 1 and Friday February 5 carry no record.

The Indianapolis Royal Weekend holds January 31. The Indiana Health and Safety Conference and Expo holds February 7 to February 10.

What the sources publish

The venue publishes the dates, the hall and the forecast. The venue page carries no doors time and no session grid. Its event link resolves to henryscheinevents.com, which returns no match for the meeting name and no match for Indianapolis.

The block, the rate, the cut-off date and the conference programme stay unpublished on both pages.

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