The Package

 

Pre-event – audience awareness

• Increase brand awareness through our extensive pre-conference marketing campaign, featuring your company as the platinum sponsor. Utilise our global reach to present your expertise to thousands of industry professionals. Beginning up to 12 months prior to an event, our marketing team deliver a targeted and focused delegate acquisition programme to promote and engage interest and then secure sign-up to the conference, comprising

• Monthly and then weekly promotional messages and pre-conference updates via social media, LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook

• Weekly pre-conference updates in our e-newsletters that link our audience to our dedicated web pages

• Up-to-the minute news on the conference programme, our invited speakers, panelists and supporting organisations on our dedicated web pages

• Promotion as a platinum sponsor on the event’s website

• Promotion as a platinum sponsor in pre-event marketing campaigns

• Bespoke conference VIP invitations to a carefully selected audience of stakeholders and decision makers

• Pre-conference advertising in prominent industry publications and third-party websites including industry associations to further extend the reach of our marketing campaign.

 

Event – audience engagement

• Enhance and reinforce market position by featuring prominently as the platinum sponsor on all conference signage and stage sets, and

• Provide the conference welcome address given by a senior representative of your company

• Provide the full page welcoming introduction to the conference handbook and in addition, a dedicated page for your company profile and corporate information

• Extend your latest marketing campaign with a full page colour advertisement in the conference handbook

• Offer delegates a corporate gift or product literature in the delegate bag (discouraged during COVID)

• Engage with your target market directly through a Platinum Sponsor’s Dinner with select ‘delegate’ guests

• Showcase your products and services with a dedicated double-spaced stand at our conference exhibition. Our exhibition hall forms the delegate networking hub for the duration of the conference, hosting coffee breaks, lunches and drinks receptions for all attendees and guaranteeing you the quality flow of delegates you expect from the best trade exhibitions. Situated prominently within the exhibition hall, your exhibition stand is a valuable addition to the brand presence generated by your platinum sponsorship of the event

• In addition, your platinum sponsorship package also includes two complimentary delegate passes and 25% reduction for further delegates you would like to attend.

 

Post-event – audience reinforcement

• Submit your whitepaper to our Maritime Technology Knowledge Bank post-event and benefit from the specific lead generation opportunities this offers your business

• Post-conference analytics are compiled specifically for you as the platinum sponsor and provide a comprehensive review of your sponsorship package against your target objectives, including delegate demographic profiling, digital images for further promotional use and delegate feedback from the conference

• Your brand visibility continues within the post-conference marketing campaign comprising event video, review supplement (where available), YouTube, direct e-mail and social media.

• Promotion as a platinum sponsor in post-event marketing campaigns

 

Package Summary:

 

• Prominent promotion as the platinum sponsor in our pre- and post-conference marketing campaigns

- print, digital, online, video and social media

• Feature prominently as the platinum sponsor on conference signage and stage sets

• Provide the welcome address by a senior representative of your company

• Conference handbook contributions:

- full page welcoming introduction

- dedicated full page company profile and corporate information

- full page colour advertisement

• Corporate gift or product literature in the delegate bag (discouraged during COVID)

• Exhibition stand

• Post-conference whitepaper in Maritime Technology Knowledge Bank and lead generation campaign

• Post-conference analytics

• Two complimentary delegate passes and 25% reduction in delegate rates for additional delegates.