What is EIC (European Identity Conference)?

With more than 450 attendees from 23 countries and 50 exhibitors, the European Identity Conference (EIC) 2008 in Munich has been the major platform in Europe to create, support and foster the dialog between GRC and identity management thought leaders and users, but as well between thought leaders themselves, between Europeans and Americans, vendors, vendor partners and users, between Open Source initiatives and the market.

EIC is the place to meet with enterprise technologists, thought leaders and experts to learn about, discuss and shape the market in most significant technology topics such as Identity Management, Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). With its world class list of speakers, a unique mix of best practices presentations, panel discussions, thought leadership statements and analyst views, EIC has become an absolute must-attend event for enterprise IT leaders from all over Europe and has been intensively covered in the news, in many blog entries, newsletters and Kuppinger Cole Reports.

More information on EIC 2008: http://www.id-conf.com/eic2008

Have a look at some of the EIC keynotes and interviews: http://www.youtube.com/kuppingercole

The character of EIC + EIC Expo:

• A unique combination of best practices presentations and panel discussions in 5 parallel session streams, combined with thought leadership keynotes.
• Strong coverage in the news, blogs and newsletters
• All social & networking events like coffee breaks, lunch and evening reception, is taking place within the Expo area with its open, individual and communication oriented booth layout.
• The European Identity Awards will be handed over to the winners during an evening reception in 6 different categories

What will be new at EIC09?

• The complete Expo with all sponsors and exhibitors will be on ground floor (please see attached floorplan), which this time will include the restaurant area and the Beergarden. The basement area will not be used for the Expo.
• The conference schedule will offer increased space for social networking within the Expo area
• One conference call per month with all interested sponsors, beginning in July 2008, preparing the show including agenda
• We will intensify market communication before EIC and will offer lots of opportunities for joint campaigns
• Kuppinger Cole will offer new services to invite "named targets" to EIC and to arrange meetings between delegates and sponsors/exhibitors
• Ethernet based Internet access for each booth

How to best benefit from EIC 2009

EIC is not just a tradefair. 95% of the delegates who were asked for a rating, gave the highest available score to the conference agenda. Your success as an EIC sponsor and/or exhibitor will strongly improve, if you contribute to the Agenda. These are your possibilities to propose contributions to EIC:

Propose Agenda Input through our Call-for-Speakers Form

The EIC 2009 agenda offers input opportunities for the following session formats:

• Best Practice Presentations: The speaker has to be an employee of your customer. 
• Moderated Panels: You represent your company´s position in moderated panels and discussions on best practice and thought leading topics
• Keynotes: Demonstrate your thought leadership and talk about your company´s strategic view of threats and changes in the market in front of the conference plenum through a keynote held by a speaker from your company who is well known in the market.
• Workshops: Conference day #4 is the workshop day. We welcome your proposals for educational workshop sessions.

The online call for speakers form is already open for next year´s event: http://www.id-conf.com/events/eic2009/callforspeakers.

Propose a Project for the European Identity Award

The award ceremony during EIC 2008 got intensive coverage in the media. Here you find the official press release describing the nominations and winners: http://www.id-conf.com/blog/2008/04/25/the-winners/. Kuppinger Cole will celebrate the second European Identity Awards as part of the European Identity Conference (EIC) 2009. You can propose a project which is being finalized between May 2008 and April 2009 in one of the following categories:

• Best project: Internal use of Identity Management
• Best project: B2B use of Identity Management
• Best project: B2C use of Identity Management
• Best project: Identity Management in eGovernment

Award nominations for the following two categories will be decided by Kuppinger Cole:

• Best innovation in Identity Management
• Best new standard/improved standard in Identity Management

On April 10th, 2009, in each of these categories 3 projects will be nominated for the award and two persons from each nominated organization will be invited to take part in EIC 2009 and represent their project during the award ceremony. It would be highly appreciated, if the invited persons would be available for a best practices presentation. You can propose a project online through http://www.id-conf.com/events/eic2009/award.

Take Part in our Monthly Conference Call

As from July 2008, we will arrange a monthly web conference where we will discuss the status of the conference preparations and ask you for input. Besides general conference and expo setup questions, we will discuss program inputs, the networking part of EIC, and marketing/PR campaigns. The monthly conference call is open for all EIC 2009 Platinum Sponsors.

Take Advantage of our Conference (Direct) Marketing + PR Campaigns

For EIC 2009, we will further focus on a value oriented marketing approach, streamlining report and webinar topics with EIC agenda and products/standards/technologies to be showcased at EIC. Overview:

• Analyst Reports: Kuppinger Cole (KC) will release at least one report (product report or vendor report) for each Platin and Gold Sponsor signing a sponsorship agreement before January 31st, 2009. For sponsors signing after this deadline and for Silver Sponsors, KC will release reports depending on available analyst capacities and market demands. The reports will be promoted through the KC website and through the KC newsletter. The reports are strictly neutral, providing the view of KC on products and vendors.
• Webinars: Starting in October 2008, KC will dedicate a whole series of Webinars to the key topics of EIC. We offer different opportunities for all sponsors to participate in these Webinars.
• Announcements: If you are planning to announce a new product or release during EIC, we will support your PR communication throughout Europe.

Meeting & Appointment Services

KC will offer all registered participants to create appointments and get directly in touch with sponsors and exhibitors through a new online service. This service will be available within the registration process and any time after successful registration.

Invitational Services

As a Sponsor, you will receive a defined number of VIP tickets, which you can forward to your customers who are not software & service providers/vendors. For EIC 2009, we additionally offer to all sponsors a service, where KC take over the task to invite persons from a defined company to attend EIC. The person(s) in question will receive a printed and personalized VIP ticket which will show, by whom the ticket had been sponsored. The sponsor will be informed, if a person from the target company registered through the complementary VIP ticket.  

Sponsoring & Exhibition Opportunities

As a sponsor of the European Identity Conference, you will very visibly be part of this event and show presence with your company logo in all marketing related campaigns promoting this event. We will distribute the printed conference brochure to more than 20,000 persons throughout Europe. Our value-oriented sponsor packaging contains VIP tickets for your best customers, conference tickets for your employees, and the possibility to promote discounted tickets to your leads. If you wish to do your own direct marketing campaigns, Kuppinger Cole provide you with large quantities of event brochures. Furthermore, an exhibition booth is part of the sponsoring package as well, giving you the possibility to be in pole position at next year´s event.

Sponsoring Packages

You want to jointly exhibit with your partners at the European Identity Conference 2009? For Platinum Sponsors we offer XL and XXL exhibition spaces where you can place your partners next to your own booth:

• XXL Partner Space: 70 sqm (10 x 7m) booth where you can present together with a minimum of 7 partners
• XL Partner Space: 49 sqm (7 x 7m) booth where you can present together with a minimum of 4 partners

There is no additional fee for the sponsor, if the required minimum of partners is provided. Both partner spaces are currently reserved. Please ask for additional opportunities, if you are interested to host partners.

Exhibitor Packages

Individual Sponsoring Opportunities

Please find below some examples for individual sponsoring opportunities.

Delegate Registration Fees

All prices plus VAT

Speakers are invited to participate the complete conference for free.

Payment Terms

70% of sponsoring and exhibition fees will be invoiced after the contract is closed. The remaining 30% will be invoiced 10 days before the event.

Contact

We are looking forward to welcome you as a sponsor and/or exhibitor at the European Identity Conference 2009 in Munich.

Additional information

You may also wish to download additional information in printable form:

Sponsors and Exhibitors Information

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For an online booking of your sponsor and exhibition package, please click here (registration required).