Sponsors | Sponsor Information for 2015
Organizing a User Group and events for free (for attendees), can only be done by the generosity of sponsors.
For our next 2-day event, coming up on March 30-31, 2015, we expect over 320 attendees (per day), consisting of Business Partners, End-Users and IBM-ers.
This is our 14th event/meeting!
On previous occasions, we had some famous speakers (2014) and also in 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010.
We'll have great speakers from around the world again, and our keynote speaker will be this top executive from IBM: Jeff Schick, General Manager, Enterprise Social Solutions, IBM SWG.
Our keynote speakers for 2014 where Katrina Troughton, Vice President, IBM Social Business & Smarter Workforce Solutions; Kramer Reeves, Director, Product Management, IBM Messaging and Collaboration Solutions and Suzanne Livingston, Lead product manager for IBM Connections.
Louis Richardson, Social Business Evangelist and Storyteller at IBM ICS, and Scott Souder, Product Manager for IBM Notes, iNotes and IBM Connections Mail, honored us in 2013.
In 2012 Chris Crummey joined us, in 2011 Kevin Cavanaugh came, in 2010 Alistair Rennie was our honored guest; in 2009 we had Ed Brill.
Engage (by BLUG) gives you the opportunity to meet and present your products and services to the top IBM software users in Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, and surrounding countries.
This year, the event is taking place at 'Het Pand' in Ghent, Belgium, about 30 minutes from Antwerp and 40 from Brussels.
Here's more info regarding the nearby hotels and reduced rate room-reservation.
Details about the venues and how to reach them are available here.
We got 4 simultaneous sessions in 4 tracks. In the big Refectory lunch and coffee is served, and here are the sponsor booths located. This way you'll get plenty of exposure.
For each booth, we provide at least 1 high table, 2 bar stools and your own custom roll-up banner(s) with your logo and website (printed by Engage), a power plug and wireless internet.
If you like a booth, the deadline for submitting the sponsor form is Feb. 15th.
Of course you can bring your own (limited) booth material (max. 4 m²).
You need to bring your own PC/Laptops, monitors (don't forget adapter plugs).
If you are giving away a goodie (we hope you do) during the Closing Session, for your booth visitors only, make sure you bring a 'jar' to collect business cards.
All attendee badges will have QR-code. If you scan these, you have essential info like name, company and email address.
On Sunday afternoon (the day before the event!) you can set up your booth as of 16.30h (4.30pm) to 19.00h . The conference area will be safely locked during non-event hours.
For Monday evening, we provide a social event the 'VIP Dinner' (for speakers, sponsor representatives (max. depending on sponsor level) and IBM delegates) at another cool venue in the center of the city: the Foyer!
We'll start around 20h (8pm). Do drop in if you are later.
On Monday evening, there is also Speedsponsoring (4-minute elevator pitch, 15 times in a row), which will help you to get your message across to ALL attendees.
The bar is open, and we'll throw in some prizes to make it more appealing for people to stick around. Let us know if you have a special prize for Speedsponsoring.
At the bottom of this page is a link to a form we require you to fill in.
We would like you to be there this time too, just like these generous sponsors for 2015.
This is the list of sponsors for 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010 and for 2009.
Sponsor entries need to reach us before Feb. 15, 2015!
Due to limited number of booths, we had to decline some sponsors on previous occasions.
Don't wait too long!
We have assembled different packages. All details in the table below.
The package fees are in EUR, exclusive VAT. If you are not located in Belgium, no VAT is charged.
IMPORTANT:
On the sponsor form, you can enter an increased invoice amount yourself. This allows you to donate more than the level requires.
This is one way for us to keep this event free to attend, so please be generous!
You can invite extra people to attend the Social Event 'VIP' on Monday evening.
*Free for Bronze: Freebies, give away goodies, discounts are a must!
**All submitted sessions are subject to the Engages approval
IMPORTANT: As we had some problems at previous occasions, new sponsors have to have the invoice paid, before we mention anything more than your Logo on the sponsor page.
As soon as we get your payment, we will put all your information on the page, and your logo on the homepage. We will also send a tweet about you becoming a sponsor.
For silver level and up, that also confirms your booth.
*INCENTIVE: We expect to reach the maximum number of attendees rather quickly.
We want to give priority to users/customers!
Each sponsor is therefore limited in the number of staff members they are allowed to register, depending on the level (see above)!
However, we will supply each sponsor with a unique URL. Use this URL in your mailings to your own customers, and/or on your website.
For every 4 registrations we receive, using this URL,
you are granted 1 extra staff member to attend.
Every sponsor is encouraged to submit one or more give-away for the Closing Session and/or Speedsponsoring. If you do, it's up to you to collect business cards or custom entry forms at your booth and/or during your session. You can also choose to have names picked from all attendees/speakers/sponsors.
The give-away will take place during the general Closing Session on Tuesday (we prefer you to be present).
Content for the event guide needs to be in our possession before March 6th, 2015.
Make sure your advert is a good print quality letter on A4 (scalable .eps preferred), we can resize and embed.
Platinum level: The ad size is a A5 sized paper (portrait)
Gold level: The ad size is 1/2 of an A5 sized paper (thus an A6, landscape)
Silver level: The ad size is 1/4 of an A5 sized paper (thus an A7, portrait)
If you require any further information, please contact Theo Heselmans (theo@engage.ug).
Note that everyone is entitled to submit non-commercial abstracts for sessions. Here's some more information about abstracts.
Submit your sponsorship here.
Summary of deliverables:
- Advert art: March 6th (by email, scalable artwork, .eps preferred)
- Banner art: March 6th (by email, scalable artwork, .eps preferred)
- Bag fillers: March 16th (shipment)
- Names for VIP dinner: March 16th (email
If you have items (flyers, documentation, discount vouchers, pens, gadgets,...) to be included in the attendee bags (subject to our approval),
we need them at least 1 week before the event, in a minimum quantity of 350 copies. Unused copies will be returned to you at the event.
If you 're looking for a local printer, contact Alex at info@itprint.be. I work with them a lot. Good quality, excellent service and cheap too.
If you tell him it's for Theo (at Engage), shipping the stuff to me is free.
Please ship them to, BEFORE March 16th, and notify us, so we know what to look out for:
BLUG/Engage
attn. Theo Heselmans
Heiblokken 1
B-2250, Olen
Belgium
If you hand over those items to us at the main venue, before 16.15h. on Sunday, there is no need to ship them.
If you are too late, and the attendee bags are already filled, you need to hand them out at your booth yourself.
We've started about 7 years ago, and we currently have over 1200 members.
For our next 2-day event, coming up on March 30-31, 2015, we expect over 320 attendees (per day), consisting of Business Partners, End-Users and IBM-ers.
This is our 14th event/meeting!
On previous occasions, we had some famous speakers (2014) and also in 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010.
We'll have great speakers from around the world again, and our keynote speaker will be this top executive from IBM: Jeff Schick, General Manager, Enterprise Social Solutions, IBM SWG.
Our keynote speakers for 2014 where Katrina Troughton, Vice President, IBM Social Business & Smarter Workforce Solutions; Kramer Reeves, Director, Product Management, IBM Messaging and Collaboration Solutions and Suzanne Livingston, Lead product manager for IBM Connections.
Louis Richardson, Social Business Evangelist and Storyteller at IBM ICS, and Scott Souder, Product Manager for IBM Notes, iNotes and IBM Connections Mail, honored us in 2013.
In 2012 Chris Crummey joined us, in 2011 Kevin Cavanaugh came, in 2010 Alistair Rennie was our honored guest; in 2009 we had Ed Brill.
Engage (by BLUG) gives you the opportunity to meet and present your products and services to the top IBM software users in Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, and surrounding countries.
This year, the event is taking place at 'Het Pand' in Ghent, Belgium, about 30 minutes from Antwerp and 40 from Brussels.
Here's more info regarding the nearby hotels and reduced rate room-reservation.
Details about the venues and how to reach them are available here.
We got 4 simultaneous sessions in 4 tracks. In the big Refectory lunch and coffee is served, and here are the sponsor booths located. This way you'll get plenty of exposure.
For each booth, we provide at least 1 high table, 2 bar stools and your own custom roll-up banner(s) with your logo and website (printed by Engage), a power plug and wireless internet.
If you like a booth, the deadline for submitting the sponsor form is Feb. 15th.
Of course you can bring your own (limited) booth material (max. 4 m²).
You need to bring your own PC/Laptops, monitors (don't forget adapter plugs).
If you are giving away a goodie (we hope you do) during the Closing Session, for your booth visitors only, make sure you bring a 'jar' to collect business cards.
All attendee badges will have QR-code. If you scan these, you have essential info like name, company and email address.
On Sunday afternoon (the day before the event!) you can set up your booth as of 16.30h (4.30pm) to 19.00h . The conference area will be safely locked during non-event hours.
For Monday evening, we provide a social event the 'VIP Dinner' (for speakers, sponsor representatives (max. depending on sponsor level) and IBM delegates) at another cool venue in the center of the city: the Foyer!
We'll start around 20h (8pm). Do drop in if you are later.
On Monday evening, there is also Speedsponsoring (4-minute elevator pitch, 15 times in a row), which will help you to get your message across to ALL attendees.
The bar is open, and we'll throw in some prizes to make it more appealing for people to stick around. Let us know if you have a special prize for Speedsponsoring.
At the bottom of this page is a link to a form we require you to fill in.
We would like you to be there this time too, just like these generous sponsors for 2015.
This is the list of sponsors for 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010 and for 2009.
Sponsor entries need to reach us before Feb. 15, 2015!
Due to limited number of booths, we had to decline some sponsors on previous occasions.
Don't wait too long!
We have assembled different packages. All details in the table below.
The package fees are in EUR, exclusive VAT. If you are not located in Belgium, no VAT is charged.
IMPORTANT:
On the sponsor form, you can enter an increased invoice amount yourself. This allows you to donate more than the level requires.
This is one way for us to keep this event free to attend, so please be generous!
You can invite extra people to attend the Social Event 'VIP' on Monday evening.
Level | Platinum | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
Available to | 3 comp. all gone! | 5 comp. all gone! | 12 comp. only 1 left | all |
on or before January 20, 2015 after January 20, 2015 | € 7.500 € 8.500 | € 4.500 € 5.000 | € 3.000 € 3.500 | free* |
| Prime logo placement and info on website | - | - | - | |
| Logo and info on website | - | |||
| Tweet when sponsorship is confirmed | - | |||
| Logo on Sponsor banners throughout the year | XL | L | M | S |
| Advert/Info in Event Guide | 1 page A5 | 1/2 page A6 | 1/4 page A7 | - |
| Logo on cover of the Event Guide | - | - | - | |
| Logo on attendee bag | - | - | - | |
| Goodie and/or flyer for attendee bag | ||||
| Booth at 2-day event | Large | Standard | Standard | - |
| High Table in booth | 2 | 1 | 1 | - |
| Bar stool in booth | 4 | 2 | 2 | - |
| Roll-up banner with logo | 2 | 1 | 1 | - |
| Logo in Opening/Closing Session slides | XL | L | M | - |
| Speedsponsoring | - | |||
| Commercial session** | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| People invited to the VIP Dinner | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Extra per person for VIP Dinner | €250 | €250 | €250 | €250 |
| Staff allowed to attend the event | 10 | 7 | 5 | 2 |
*Free for Bronze: Freebies, give away goodies, discounts are a must!
**All submitted sessions are subject to the Engages approval
IMPORTANT: As we had some problems at previous occasions, new sponsors have to have the invoice paid, before we mention anything more than your Logo on the sponsor page.
As soon as we get your payment, we will put all your information on the page, and your logo on the homepage. We will also send a tweet about you becoming a sponsor.
For silver level and up, that also confirms your booth.
*INCENTIVE: We expect to reach the maximum number of attendees rather quickly.
We want to give priority to users/customers!
Each sponsor is therefore limited in the number of staff members they are allowed to register, depending on the level (see above)!
However, we will supply each sponsor with a unique URL. Use this URL in your mailings to your own customers, and/or on your website.
For every 4 registrations we receive, using this URL,
you are granted 1 extra staff member to attend.
Every sponsor is encouraged to submit one or more give-away for the Closing Session and/or Speedsponsoring. If you do, it's up to you to collect business cards or custom entry forms at your booth and/or during your session. You can also choose to have names picked from all attendees/speakers/sponsors.
The give-away will take place during the general Closing Session on Tuesday (we prefer you to be present).
Content for the event guide needs to be in our possession before March 6th, 2015.
Make sure your advert is a good print quality letter on A4 (scalable .eps preferred), we can resize and embed.
Platinum level: The ad size is a A5 sized paper (portrait)
Gold level: The ad size is 1/2 of an A5 sized paper (thus an A6, landscape)
Silver level: The ad size is 1/4 of an A5 sized paper (thus an A7, portrait)
If you require any further information, please contact Theo Heselmans (theo@engage.ug).
Note that everyone is entitled to submit non-commercial abstracts for sessions. Here's some more information about abstracts.
Submit your sponsorship here.
Summary of deliverables:
- Advert art: March 6th (by email, scalable artwork, .eps preferred)
- Banner art: March 6th (by email, scalable artwork, .eps preferred)
- Bag fillers: March 16th (shipment)
- Names for VIP dinner: March 16th (email
If you have items (flyers, documentation, discount vouchers, pens, gadgets,...) to be included in the attendee bags (subject to our approval),
we need them at least 1 week before the event, in a minimum quantity of 350 copies. Unused copies will be returned to you at the event.
If you 're looking for a local printer, contact Alex at info@itprint.be. I work with them a lot. Good quality, excellent service and cheap too.
If you tell him it's for Theo (at Engage), shipping the stuff to me is free.
Please ship them to, BEFORE March 16th, and notify us, so we know what to look out for:
BLUG/Engage
attn. Theo Heselmans
Heiblokken 1
B-2250, Olen
Belgium
If you hand over those items to us at the main venue, before 16.15h. on Sunday, there is no need to ship them.
If you are too late, and the attendee bags are already filled, you need to hand them out at your booth yourself.
