Sponsor Information Pack

The top 5 reasons to sponsor the Sustainable Water Resource Conference 2012

Brand Association and Connection

By connecting your brand with the Sustainable Water Resource Conference and Exhibition, the partner organisations and the various VIP speakers and guests, your organisation can be positioned as a leader in this exciting space. Depending on strategic objectives, sponsors are able to connect their brands with the various ideals and themes that are associated with Sustainable Water Resource.

Demonstrate Corporate Responsibility

Sponsors of the Sustainable Water Resource Conference and Exhibition enjoy the benefit of being able to profile their social/environmental initiatives, projects and programmes. Current market perception of companies who are targeting triple bottom line strategies has never been higher. Within the water sector there are meaningful opportunities for companies that are prepared to embrace and demonstrate a responsible approach to the way that they do business. Customers want to do business with responsible companies and employees want to work for these same companies.

Maximise Exposure to a Targeted Audience

Sponsors of the Sustainable Water Resource Conference and Exhibition enjoy significantly higher exposure to the attending audience and the broader industry both leading up to and during the event. In a relatively suppressed media environment, sponsors are able to leverage their event involvement to the full by enjoying significant exposure within one of the sectors that appears to have avoided the recession. Water industry professionals are under pressure to impress and deliver to new standards and are alive to corporate messages that are aligned with their work.

Maximise Return on Investment

Massive investment in green technologies, renewable energy sources and sustainable materials has produced the emergence of a new green economy. The organizations that embrace these trends now and demonstrate thought leadership in environmental concerns will be the organizations that benefit from the emergence of this new market. The nature of the Sustainable Water Resource Conference and Exhibition is such that Sponsors are able to use the facilities and features at their disposal to engage with their most important clients and suppliers in order to drive sales and relationships.

Maximise Return on Objective
In addition to the pure commercial outcomes that sponsors aim for, there exists a platform for sponsors to achieve a return on other objectives such as communication, brand equity and association, relationship building, PR content creation and staff development/training. Sponsors are assisted by the alive2green team to explore the various secondary returns that exist for them around the event.

The Greatest Reason

It is up to us to take a stand on what matters. It matters to your employees, to your customers and your suppliers and to our future generations. We cannot continue to ignore pressing issues such as climate change, deforestation and the myriad other conditions that beset a struggling planet. These are not the idealistic fantasies of a few fundamentalist tree-huggers; these are very real threats to our civilization. Together we must make a difference to reverse these trends. By sponsoring you are playing a part by bringing innovative ideas to those that have the power to make changes. Demonstrate your corporate desire to be a part of the solution!

Partner Sponsors

The Opportunity
Partner Sponsorship delivers a powerful suite of branding, marketing and selling opportunities. Partner Sponsors have significant presence at the event, with their company name and logo integrated throughout the conference experience. Partner Sponsors enjoy exclusive access to key marketing and promotional opportunities that increase brand awareness and build relationships with VIP’s and attendees. The Partner Sponsor package includes our most significant exhibition space, prominent plenary branding, integrated marketing exposure in the program guide and website, pre-event attendee marketing opportunities, branding on conference report on flash drive, Build-up PR & marketing.

Partner Sponsorship Package

• Dominant co-branding on pre-event marketing material
• Dominant and prominent co-branding in the Conference Plenary
• Dominant co-branding in the exhibition hall
• 6m X 6m booth space and premium location in the exhibition hall
• Dominant co-branding in all pre-event marketing material
• Dominant co-branding on www.waterresource.co.za
• Full-page company/product profile on www.waterresource.co.za
• Dominant co-branding in the event programme
• Full page advertisement plus company/product profile (30 words) and your logo in the event programme
• Partner listing of company/product profile in the event programme
• Partner PR package leading up to the event
• Sponsor White Paper included on the Delegate Bag CR-Rom
• Promotional insert in the Delegate Bags
• Right to use event logos
• 8 x VIP Conference Delegate passes
• Up to 40 free exhibition day-passes for invited guests
• Up to 20 free Cocktail Reception passes for invited guests

Package Price R93,500 plus vat

Associate Sponsor

The Opportunity
The Sustainable Water Resource Seminar in 2012 is a power-packed highly focused two module event. This presents the opportunity for companies to only sponsor those aspects of the event that are highly relevant to their business, and in this case Sustainable Water Resource.
•    Branding on all conference material
•    Prominent branding alongside the sponsored module promotional material
•    Branding at stage in plenary
•    4 conference delegates catering for three days, includes full access to all conferences.
•    Exhibition stand – 3mx3m for the full five days of Sustainability Week
•    Branding within the Sustainability Week materials as an associated company

Package Price R60,000 plus vat

COCKTAIL FUNCTION SPONSOR

Cocktail Function Sponsors receive an opportunity to welcome guests and to deliver a brief presentation and may also brand the entire area, including the big screen during the evening’s events. A Cocktail Reception photograph and editorial-review PR-pack is made available to the sponsor and also to selected Editors and media owners representing the national press. Address VIP’s and delegates in an informal yet powerful environment, distribute promotional literature and exclusively brand the area. Cocktail Function Sponsorship Package also includes a stand on the Exhibition floor

Package Price R60,000 plus vat

REGISTRATION SPONSOR

Be the first to welcome the attendees to the event with your logo and literature prominently displayed at the registration desk, on the delegate bags and on the attendees’ lanyards. Also include your pens, pads and literature in the attendees’ welcome kit. 2 conference Delegates catering for three days, includes full access to all conferences.

Registration Sponsorship Package Price R30 000 plus vat

All rates exclude VAT and Agency Commission