ACIconnect Exhibiting & sponsor opportunities

Australia’s dedicated automation, control and instrumentation conference and exhibition

EXHIBITING & SPONSOR OPPORTUNITIES Exhibition & Conference: 9–10 April 2014 Melbourne Park Function Centre, Melbourne Olympic Park

Association Partner:

Organised by:

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Magazine partner:

WFevents, a division of Westwick-Farrow Media - ABN: 22 152 305 336

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ACI Connect 2014 Automation/Control/Instrumentation ACI Connect is the new, targeted conference and exhibition brought to you by Westwick-Farrow Media, publisher of What’s New In Process Technology and ProcessOnline.com.au, and developer of successful industry-focused events including the Industrial Technology Regional Roadshows and (Radio) Comms Connect conference and exhibition.

ACI Connect will focus on Automation, Control & Instrumentation and has been developed to help you market your products and services to a highly targeted audience with which our business has a longstanding relationship. It is both a conference and an exhibition, allowing delegates and visitors to see, hear, listen and learn from leading experts, including your technical staff involved in the exhibition.

The event will attract industrial technology professionals looking to enhance their knowledge base in order to deliver better outcomes in terms of efficiency, safety and production processes across a broad range of disciplines and industries. The multistream conference will feature technical papers, case studies, training workshops and mini-labs, delivered by both training organisations and industry professionals, while the world-class exhibition will allow buyers and specifiers to interact with your team in order to learn about the products and services you offer.

The event will be a focal point for engineers, managers, systems integrators and consultants looking for opportunities to enhance their understanding of currently available automation, control and instrumentation solutions.

With the conference and training workshops positioned within close proximity to the region’s only dedicated exhibition in the space, it will offer you the ideal platform to market your products and services to a highly targeted audience.

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why should you be involved?

Over the past nine years, our team has been responsible for planning, organising and marketing dozens of events targeting diverse market sectors that include ICT, radio communications, the food industry and, most importantly, the automation, control and instrumentation sectors.

don’t just take our word for it ...

This is what some of our exhibitors and sponsors have said when involved with shows we have organised:

Industrial Technology Roadshows:

The feedback from this combined experience, from remote and regional towns and cities, along with all state capitals, has told us that the formula of running ‘of value’ educational content, such as training workshops and seminars, alongside a highly focused exhibition, is an ideal environment to foster long-term relationships and forge new partnerships.

Regional

Having been involved in WF Media’s roadshows for the past 4 years, I found them to be very beneficial in identifying the relevant companies and contacts in the regions visited and having the opportunity to talk to them in a relaxed environment.

We had many leads generated from the shows that were converted directly into purchased orders... They were a great starting point for us to develop relationships with customers and were very professional in regards to set-up and managing of the shows, which made the experience very enjoyable.

Kurt Martin — SICK Powerflo Solutions Australia have for the past 5 years been involved as an exhibitor on the North Queensland & Western Australian Roadshows and have no hesitation in commending the organisers on the professional & operational standard provided to Powerflo Solutions over that time. Their ability in undertaking such programs in remote locations across Australia, from a planning & a logistical standpoint, has never been in question and I would have no hesitation in participating in other exhibition ventures with this company in the future.

Chris Herbert — Powerflo Solutions

Join us at ACI Connect - help your customers realise their potential, so that your organisation can realise theirs.

The roadshow was extremely worthwhile, both professionally and socially. Good contacts were made both with clients and industry colleagues, and we have already received enquiries as a direct result of the tour. We will definitely be signing up next year.

Tony Buckingham — Emerson Process Control

(Radio) Comms Connect: This is an excellent opportunity for clients, integrators and manufacturers to get together to discuss business requirements in line with new and emerging technologies and listen to subject matter experts.

Warren Green — CSE Uniserve Another great event which produced some quality leads. The event is well organised, all the event staff are helpful, friendly and professional.

DC — CEO, Control Synergy

A fantastic event; once again the variety of attendees gives us a great opportunity to promote our brand and products to a broad cross-section of the community. For attendees to be able to view and experience the variety of technology available to them all under one roof must assist them in their decision making.

Doug Bowden — Sepura The show was outstanding for us. The growth in both exhibitors and attendees over the past 3 years has been fantastic. We remain amazed by the quality of attendees and the positive impact this show has had on our business. We look forward to exhibiting at the 2012 show.

Dave Hicks, Logic Energy

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a diverse audience From mining, metals and minerals processing to oil and gas, to utilities and other essential services, from food and chemical processing to water treatment and distribution, ACI Connect will attract those that you need to meet with — industry leaders who are essential in the decision-making process when it comes to keeping at the forefront of new technology.

By delivering you and your team direct access to a high-calibre audience, ACI Connect will help you to not only cement existing relationships, but uncover those important new contacts that you need to develop and win new business.

who attends?

Many attendees will come via Westwick-Farrow Media’s wellestablished and market-leading magazines and online communities, including readers of What’s New In Process Technology, ECD Solutions, Safety Solutions, What’s New in Food Technology and Manufacturing and Sustainability Matters and their associated website communities.

The broad reach of these print and online vehicles allows us access to one of the largest (and most engaged) industrial databases in Australia.

As the Association partner for ACI Connect, the IICA (Institute of Instrumentation, Control & Automation) will promote the event heavily to its member base and add value to the conference program.

These are just some of those that will be targeted to attend ACI Connect 2014 via WF Media’s in-house databases: Maintenance Co-ordinator, Woodside Energy Ltd Senior Engineer, Western Power Corporation Senior Electrical Engineer, Rio Tinto Iron Ore Supervisor Installation/Electrical, KBR Water Services Senior Process Control Engineer, Alcoa Australia Principal Engineer, Worley Parsons Pty Ltd Lead Instrument/Electrical Engineer, Worley ABB Maintenance Engineer, Warrnambool Cheese & Butter PET Business Manager, Visy Industrial Packaging Engineering Manager, Toyota Australia Electrical/Instrument Technician, Thiess Engineer, The Laminex Group Production Technician, Snowy Hydro Limited Water Supply Engineer, Portland Water Supply Engineers Process Technician, Patties Foods Ltd Process Technologist, Orica Australia Pty Ltd Maintenance Manager, Murray Goulburn Co-op IC&E Process Team Leader, Loy Yang Power Process Manager - R&D Chocolate, Kraft Foods Instrument Engineer, Hazelwood Power Validation Specialist, GlaxoSmithKline Australia Electrical Automation Engineer, Fosters Wine Estate Instrument Technician, Esso Australia Pty Ltd Senior Asset Reliability Engineer, Energy Australia

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Plant Control Technician, Ballarat Health Services Engineering Manager, Alcoa of Australia Ltd Instrumentation Engineer, Tasmanian Alkaloids Instrument Electrical Technician, Santos Ltd Reliability Manager - Electrical, Kraft Foods Production Manager, Inghams Enterprises Pty Ltd Control Systems Engineer, Clarke Energy Senior Technician, Xstrata Copper Refineries Pty Ltd Infrastructure Engineer, Origin Energy Senior Instrument Engineer, Mount Isa Mines Ltd Process Engineer, Mackay Sugar Ltd Engineering Manager, Goodman Fielder Production Manager - Food, Golden Circle - Heinz Automation Manager, Carlton & United Breweries Australia Electrical/Instrument Reliability Eng, Caltex Refineries (Qld) Electrical/Instrument. & Controls Manager, Veolia Water ANZ Maintenance Planner, Unilever

Principal Engineer, Sydney Water Corporation Modernisation Manager, Schindler Lift Instrument Technician, NSW Sugar Milling Co-op Manufacturing Services Manager Oceania, Nestle Australia Ltd Electrical Engineer, Kimberley-Clark Australia Electrical/Instrument Supervisor, Kellogg Australia Pty Ltd Electrical Maintenance Co-ordinator, BlueScope Steel

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... and the experience of exhibitors: This was the experience of exhibitors who responded to the post event questionnaire of our last event:

How would you rate the number of delegates and visitors to the event?

93% said satisfied to excellent How would you rate the quality of delegates and visitors to the event?

97% said satisfied to excellent How important is Comms Connect in your marketing agenda?

97% said important to most important exercise

how do we attract this audience for you?

To help attract the right individuals to an event, you need great content marketed to the best possible audience — ACI Connect will achieve this ...

By delivering a first-rate conference line-up in a user-friendly format, along with a world-class exhibition, we make it difficult for potential visitors and delegates not to attend.

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event marketing For over 30 years we have been engaging and interacting with industrial technology professionals across the region. As publisher of a stable of industrial titles and associated web portals, it’s our job to understand the market and know our readers and members. Direct access to this audience enables us to focus in on and target numerous stakeholder groups like no other event organiser in the space.

ACI Connect will be promoted using a varied and extensive mix of available media: Direct mail and eDM campaigns will take place in the weeks and months running up to the event, targeting extensive lists of potential delegates drawn from numerous sources. These include WF Media’s in-house databases, in addition to up-to-date lists brought from leading list rental companies. Personalised letters, flyers and brochures will be distributed in their tens of thousands to potential delegates and visitors.

Print advertising will play a very important role in the marketing of ACI Connect. Carefully chosen titles, both in-house and external to WF Media’s stable, will be targeted with advertising and editorial in the lead-up to the event to ensure that those with responsibility are made aware of when and where ACI Connect is taking place and what they can see and learn by attending.

Digital media, including LinkedIn, Google AdWords, along with advertising on traditional targeted websites, will be used to help attract and expose potential visitors to the ACI Connect message.

Telemarketing is an integral and key element of our marketing strategy for all of our events. Potential delegates and visitors in numerous vertical sectors — from the mining and resource sectors to food and chemical processing — will be identified and targeted by our experienced telemarketing team to ensure they know when and where ACI Connect is taking place and what the benefits of attending will be.

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event marketing ...

Exhibitors and sponsors will be offered discounted entry passes that they can make available to clients and prospects to encourage attendance and to help attract key personnel that should be at the conference. Hard and soft copies of flyers for event promotion, including special offers, will be made available well in advance to help with marketing ACI Connect via participants’ databases.

Our exhibitors and sponsors play a very important role in spreading the message about our events and ACI Connect will be no different. We actively encourage exhibitors to promote their attendance as this is their chance to help make their involvement even more rewarding by showing their prospects what they are capable of while on neutral ground.

We will supply all exhibitors and sponsors with the ACI Connect 2014 logo to host on their company website with a hyperlink to the event website to help promote the event and their involvement at the event.

Call us today to discuss how you can take part in the promotion of ACI Connect 2013.

Industry Support Institute of Instrumentation, Control and Automation

As organisers, we are very pleased to be working with and to have full support from the institute. As a key organisation representing its many members and helping to deliver key messages and training to industry support for ACI Connect, it is ensured that a broader base of stakeholders can be reached.

For further information or to find information about joining the IICA please visit www.iica.org.au or email admin@iica.org.au.

ACI Connect will also work with a number of other relevant associations and media organisations to help bring about the greatest level of exposure possible to ensure that those involved as sponsors and exhibitors generate the leads and new business opportunities expected from an event of this calibre.

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Exhibition and Sponsorship Opportunities Event Partner (One Only) This exclusive ACI Connect 2014 partnership is the highest level sponsorship category available. It will deliver your organisation extensive acknowledgement and exposure before and during the event. The Partner will be clearly seen as the lead sponsor for the 2014 conference and exhibition, helping to position you as a leading player in the industry.

• Large exhibition space in prime location — 54 m2 • Free conference registrations for clients and prospects • Exhibition-only passes for clients and prospects • Logo on conference guide cover as Event Partner • Event website exhibitor listing — logo, profile and hyperlink included • Event partner on home page and throughout event website, with logo and hyperlink • Listing and 400-word profile in conference guide with logo and contact details • Double-page spread advert in conference guide • Delegate satchel insert — max. 4pp, A4 brochure • Registration desk — prominent logo displayed • Press releases include Event Partner mention • Event newsletters, emails and advertisements with logo as Event Partner • Exhibition entrance — prominent logo displayed • Dedicated Event Theatre conference slide in each theatre • Freestanding banner at registration desk and on way to theatres (total 2) • Email broadcast to all pre-registered delegates and visitors in the week before event opens inviting them to visit your exhibition stand • 80,000 conference and exhibition flyers with logo as Event Partner

Your Investment: POA

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Platinum Sponsors (4 only) • Premium exhibition space — 36 m2 • 10 full conference registrations for clients and prospects • Discounted conference registrations for clients and prospects • Event website listing — logo, profile and hyperlink included • Listed as Platinum Sponsor throughout event website, with logo and hyperlink • Listing and 200-word profile in conference guide with logo and contact details • Full-page advert in conference guide • Rotating logo on all pages of website as Platinum Sponsor • Delegate satchel insert • Logo displayed behind speaker in plenary theatre • Registration desk — prominent logo displayed • Event newsletters, emails and advertisements with logo as Platinum Sponsor • Exhibition entrance — prominent logo displayed • Dedicated Platinum Sponsors PowerPoint group slide in each theatre • 40,000 conference and exhibition flyers with logo as Platinum Sponsor

Your Investment: $25,000*

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Gold Sponsors (8 only) • Premium exhibition space — 18 m2 • 5 free full conference registrations for clients and prospects • Discounted conference registrations for clients and prospects • Logo on conference guide cover as Gold Sponsor • Event website listing — logo, profile and hyperlink included • Listed as Gold Sponsor throughout event website, with logo and hyperlink • Listing and 200-word profile in conference guide with logo and contact details • Half-page advert in conference guide • Registration desk — prominent logo displayed • Event newsletters, emails and advertisements with logo as Gold Sponsor • Exhibition entrance — prominent logo displayed • Dedicated Gold Sponsors PowerPoint group slide in each theatre • 40,000 conference and exhibition flyers with logo as Gold Sponsor

Your Investment: $13,000*

Silver Sponsors • Exhibition booth space — 9 m2 • Discounted conference registrations for clients and prospects • 5 free full conference registrations for clients and prospects • Event website listing under Silver Sponsor — logo, profile and hyperlink included • Listing and 100-word profile in conference guide with logo and contact details • Quarter-page advert in conference guide • Registration desk — prominent logo displayed • Exhibition entrance feature — prominent logo displayed • Silver Sponsors PowerPoint group slide in each theatre

Your Investment: $6500*

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Exhibition-Only Options

Option 1 Space only (minimum 18 m2) Rate — $485*/m2 Space only includes: • Floor space, carpeted • Listing and 100-word profile in conference guide with logo and contact details • Standard event website listing — logo, profile and hyperlink included • Electrical testing is the responsibility of the exhibitor

Option 2 Shell scheme (minimum 9 m2) Rate — $525*/m2 Shell scheme includes: • • • • • • •

Floor space, carpeted Aluminium frame construction White walling (where applicable) Signage with company name and stand number on each open side Lighting: 2 x 120 watt lights per 9 m2 Power: 1 power point, regardless of size — 1000 watt, 4 amp max load Listing and 100-word profile in conference guide with logo and contact details • Standard event website listing — logo, profile and hyperlink included • Electrical testing included

Option 3 Shell scheme 6 m2 Rate — $3900* Package includes: • • • • • • •

Floor space, carpeted Aluminium frame construction White walling (where applicable) Signage with company name and stand number on each open side Lighting: 2 x 120 watt lights Power: 1 power point — 1000 watt, 4 amp max load Listing and 100-word profile in conference guide with logo and contact details • Standard event website listing — logo, profile and hyperlink included • Electrical testing included

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additional ways to be noticed …

Conference Delegate Satchel Sponsor (1 only) $5000* • Sponsor logo to appear on conference delegate satchels • Logo coverage in conference guide as conference delegate satchel sponsor • Event website listing as delegate satchel sponsor • Sponsors group slide in each seminar theatre with logo • 2 full conference registrations

Theatre Naming Rights $5000* • • • • • •

Exclusive logo coverage on event website as category sponsor Theatre will be referred to as, ‘Sponsor name’ Logo coverage in conference guide as theatre naming sponsor Event website listing as theatre naming sponsor Sponsors group slide in each seminar theatre with logo 2 full conference registrations

Digital Partner (1 only) $4000* • • • • • •

Exclusive logo coverage on event website as Digital Partner Logo coverage in conference guide as Digital Partner Event website listing as Digital Partner Splash Page of event App Sponsors group slide in each seminar theatre with logo 2 full conference registrations

Lanyard Sponsor (1 only) $3000* • • • • •

Exclusive logo coverage on delegate lanyards Logo coverage in conference guide as lanyard sponsor Event website listing as lanyard sponsor Sponsors group slide in each seminar theatre with logo 2 full conference registrations

Networking Drinks Sponsor $3000* • • • • • •

Sponsor will be given opportunity to address delegates prior to drinks Exclusive logo coverage on signage Logo coverage in conference guide as networking drinks sponsor Event website listing as networking drinks sponsor Sponsors group slide in each seminar theatre with logo 2 full conference registrations

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additional ways to be noticed …

Prize Draw Sponsor $3000* • Sponsor will be given opportunity to address visitors prior to prize draw • Logo coverage in conference guide as prize draw sponsor • Event website listing as prize draw sponsor • Sponsors group slide in each seminar theatre • Logo on prize ‘passport’ as category sponsor • 2 full conference registrations

Delegate Lounge Sponsor $3000* • Exclusive logo coverage on signage • Logo coverage in conference guide as delegate lounge sponsor • Event website listing as delegate lounge sponsor • Sponsors group slide in each seminar theatre with logo • 2 full conference registrations

Conference Delegate Satchel Insert (4 only) $1000* • Flyer/brochure inserted into every satchel given to delegates and visitors at conference and exhibition (based on max. 4pp, A4 brochure. Extra — POA)

Chair Drop (4 Only) $1000* • Flyer placed on every delegate chair at start of chosen session (AM or PM, Day 1 or Day 2) (based on max. 4pp, A4 brochure)

Conference Program Advertising • Enhance or upgrade your company’s exposure during the event by appearing in the official ACI Connect Conference Program.

Full page — $2000* Half page — $1300* Quarter page — $900* *All prices are ex-GST

Call OR EMAIL paul davis or narelle granger today to discuss your involvement:

+61 2 9487 2700

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