Sponsorship Guidelines

Product Demo Presentation: Your organization may be invited to provide a 60-minuted educational session about your products or services. If you are interested in providing a product demo, please respond promptly to the invitation as there may be a waiting list for your spot. If you would like to be placed on the waiting list should space become available, please contact us. Please begin and end your presentation promptly on schedule as another sponsor will follow close behind you. You may wish to invite attendees back to your exhibit for an extended discussion of your presentation content.

Additional Sponsorship: If you purchased an ad in the event guide, please send us your creatives in both full-color and black-and-white. If you purchased a totebag, notebook, or lanyard sponsorship, please email us your logo. Be sure that you receive a response from us indicating that we have received it.

Tote Bag Dropins and Seat Drop: We encourage you to share information about your organization by purchasing ad space in the Event Guide. Tote bag dropins and seat drops are also available for a fee. Please ship your tote bag dropins and seat drop items to the following address: SCOE2016: RHONDA SCHNEIDER, Doubletree by Hilton - Center City, 237 S Broad St, Philadelphia, PA 19107 USA. We strongly encourage you to provide us with the your tracking number at the time you ship the product. We also encourage you to include your email address and phone number inside the package so that we can contact you to confirm that we have received the package.

Deliverables Due Four Weeks Prior to the Event

Description and Logo: Please review the information found on the SCOE sponsors page. If you would like to change it, send us a description of your company up to 100 words and a print-quality version of your logo for the event guide.

Print Ad: If you purchased an ad, please send a print quality jpeg version of your ad for the event guide.

Educational Articles: If you have educational content available, we invite you to share it in the form of a 200 - 800 word article for the printed event guide. White-paper style content is acceptable. Advertising and testimonial content will not be included in the guide. Educational content will be included on a space-available basis.

Presentation Notes: If you will deliver a presentation or product demo, please use the SCOE Thought Leadership signup page to send us a 1 - 3 page summary of your message (Powerpoint speaker’s notes, detailed summary, outline, etc.) two weeks prior to the event so that we can ensure that everyone receives your message. Be sure to include the title of your presentation, the presenter’s name and brief bio, as well as the summary of your presentation. It might also be helpful for you to include contact information near the end, so that individuals can follow up with you after the event.

Presentation Note Requirements: If your organization will be delivering one of the 75-minute educational presentations, we require that you provide printable notes in .doc, .docx, .ppt, .pptx, or .pdf format. Printable notes are recommended but not required for your 20-minute product demo presentations. Providing printable notes will help attendees decide if your presentation is right for them and let them follow up with you in case they miss your presentation. If you do not wish to provide speaker’s notes, simply state your preference in your response.

Setup

Timing: Setup begins at 7:00 am on the first official day of the event and continues until noon that same day. Sponsors who wish to do so may introduce themselves in front of the general assembly at 8:30 that morning. Teardown begins at 5:00 pm on the second day of the event. Sponsors are asked to be clear of the space no later than 7:00 pm. Setup and Teardown is not permitted while VendorLand is open.

Shipping Your Exhibit: We encourage you to ship your exhibit materials to arrive between one to three days prior to the event. The address is SCOE2016: YOUR COMPANY NAME, Doubletree by Hilton - Center City, 237 S Broad St, Philadelphia, PA 19107 USA. The venue will provide storage of your display materials for up to three days prior to the event for a fee. However, neither they nor SCOE can accept responsibility for loss or damage of your ship-ahead materials. We encourage you to use the exhibitor rental request form provided by the venue to facilitate your exhibition at SCOE.

Participation

Delegates: Please register your delegates here: http://scoe.biz/advertise/. Additional seats are available for purchase at the prevailing rate. Sponsor delegates may participate in nearly all sessions including lunch, but we ask that they yield their seats to attendees in standing-room-only sessions. You may speak to attendees, distribute materials, and promote your product throughout the event, but please do not interrupt educational sessions with promotional activities.

Attendance: Exhibiting sponsors should plan to be present for all four days of the event. On the evening of the early check-in day, you will probably want to network with attendees and verify that all of your materials and other resources have arrived. Setup begins the following morning. We encourage you to complete your setup quickly if you are interested in participating in the special sessions for sponsors.

Hours: VendorLand will be open throughout the event. Generally, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm each day. On the first day, VendorLand will be closed to attendees until noon to allow time for setup. VendorLand may open early if all exhibits are setup early. We will offer hosted networking from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm on the first day. On the last day, VendorLand will be closed early to allow time for tear down. Please ensure that your exhibit is staffed by at least one person throughout the entire time VendorLand is open, except for lunch and hosted networking hours. On the final day of the event, sponsors may wish to invite their favorite attendees to lunch and/or hold office hours to train attendees on product usage.

Encore Presentation: We expect that your presentation will be very popular at the event, and that your assigned conference room might not have enough space to hold everyone who would want to participate. We would like to make a print copy of the presentation notes available to all attendees. In some rare cases, we will make additional space available for you to deliver the presentation or meet with attendees separately. This allocation is based on extremely high demand from attendees.

Active promotion of a specific product or service is prohibited during education sessions except as described in the section on the purchase of additional sponsorships. Sponsor delegates may, of course, freely promote your organization during your product-demo session, at your display table, during hosted networking sessions, and during casual interactions with attendees. Promotional activity must not be ambiguous. Sponsor delegates must disclose their name, their organization, and identify themselves as a sponsor when actively promoting products or services. Simply wearing your event sponsor name badge in a visible location above the waist is sufficient for this purpose. This guideline is strongly enforced. If you notice any attendee engaging in promotional activity that is competitive to your interests, please report it to the event organizers.

Accommodations: We recommend that you stay at the Doubletree by Hilton - Center City. If you have special dietary needs (Kosher, Halal, Vegan, Gluten-Free), please indicate your needs on the sponsor delegate registration page.