FAQ for Sponsors and Exhibitors
- What are deadlines?
By April 20th:- Please send the advertisement that will appear in the program booklet to SIGMOD Proceedings Chair: Ariel Fuxman (arielf@microsoft.com).
- Please email SIGMOD Exhibit Chairs Berthold Reinwald
(reinwald@almaden.ibm.com) and Wen-Syan Li (wen-syan.li@sap.com) about
your
- Commitment to participate in the exhibition
- Request an exhibition table
- The number of free registrations you need
- Please send your commitment about each recruiting event to SIGMOD Mentorship Chairs: Feifei Li (lifeifei@cs.utah.edu), Nan Zhang (nzhang10@gwu.edu).
- Please email Berthold Reinwald (reinwald@almaden.ibm.com) and Wen-Syan Li (wen-syan.li@sap.com) if you have any print material that you want to include in the registration package.
- If a sponsor has material to be included in the conference bags for
conference attendees (estimated 600 attendees),
- Please mail them to
the following address,
and have them received by May 11.
- Please send the collateral to the following address, to be received by May 11 (Friday), 2012, and we will put them to the conference bags.
ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2012
Prof. Suzanne Dietrich
HYATT REGENCY SCOTTSDALE RESORT & SPA
AT GAINEY RANCH
7500 E. Doubletree Ranch Road
Scottsdale, AZ 85258
(480) 444-1234 -- hotel phone number
- What are specifications of company supplied banners?
- Note that SIGMOD will not provide banners or retractable systems.
A sponsor can supply banner(s) to be displayed in the conference based on the sponsorship document. We'd like to request the same standard across the board, in order to have a uniform look.
- Diamond sponsor: 39'' width (84-5/8 height), 2 banners
- Platinum sponsor: 33'' width (84-5/8'' height), 2 banners
- Gold sponsor: 22-1/2'' width (59-1/16'' height), 1 banner
- Silver sponsor: 8-1/2'' width (20-1/16'' height), 1 banner
- Platinum publisher/exhibitor: 33'' width (84-5/8'' height), 1 banner
- Gold publisher/exhibitor: 22-1/2'' width (59-1/16'' height), 1 banner
- Silver publisher: 8-1/2'' width (20-1/16'' height), 1 banner
One possible vendor for banner is
http://www.dpsbanners.com/products/13/banner-stands-retractable-trade-show/ whose banner sizes are consistent with the above guideline: http://www.dpsbanners.com/prodimages/BannerBug-BannerStand-Info.pdf .
A sponsor may also bring a table cloth with logo. - What are the sizes for exhibition tables?
- Diamond sponsors: 2 tables of 6' x 18"
- Platinum sponsors/exhibitors/publishers: 6' x 30"
- Gold sponsors/exhibitors/publishers: 8' x 18"
- Silver sponsors/publishers: 6' x 18"
- What can be included for a sponsor in the program booklet (A5 size
5.83" x 8.27", color)?
- Diamond/Platinum sponsor: full page advertisement in program
- Gold sponsor: half page advertisement in program
- Silver sponsor: quarter-page advertisement in program
- Platinum publishers/exhibitors: quarter page advertisement in program
- Gold publishers/exhibitors: quarter page advertisement in program
- Are there any wifi during the conference?
-Yes - What the recruiting events (open for Diamond, Platinum, Gold Sponsors) are?
- We will have two recruiting events!
- May 21 (Monday) evening, during the SIGMOD reception, qualified sponsors will interact with conference attendees in a social setting about career opportunities.
- May 22 (Tuesday) 16:45-18:15pm, there will be a "SIGMOD Information Session on Careers in Industry" where qualified sponsors will give a short presentation to attendees. To increase participation, we scheduled this event such that there is no regular SIGMOD research sessions in parallel.
- What is the exhibition time?
- The conference is May 21 to May 24, each day starts 8:00am and runs till 6:00pm or so. Sponsors are also welcome to start the exhibition on May 20 (workshop day) starting from 8:00am. - Is everyone coming to the conference required a registration?
- Yes, except one additional "support staff registration" is allowed per sponsor. The "support staff registration" can be used for staff person who stay with the sponsor's exhibition table, but donot attend conference sessions or events. - How does a sponsor claim the complimentary registrations and support
staff registration?
- To claim a sponsor's complementary conference registration, please choose "Sponsor" in "Program Selection". To claim a support staff registration, please choose "Sponsor Support Staff" in "Program Selection". Both require a sponsor-specific access code that you have received from our sponsorship chair: Vasilis Vassalos (vasilis@gmail.com). If you have not received it yet, please send your inquires to Vasilis.
We look forward to seeing you soon in Scottsdale!
