PROGRAM COORDINATORS

" Richard Bricaire, Strategies Telecoms & Multimedia " Sabine Delaitre, JRC Seville European Commission " Antonio Maña, Prof. Univ. of Malaga " Pierre Paradinas, Prof. CNAM

Institutions and industry recognition
- Institutions
Over 30 smart card industry and trade associations, European universities, international institutions and standardisation bodies, R&D laboratories and technological consortia recognize the quality of the "Smart Event" content and support the event.


Smart Card Alliance (US), Smart Card Forum of China, Asia IC Card Forum, European Biometrics Forum, EHTEL, Multimedia Card Association, New Media Development Association, , CNAM, IPTS Joint Research Centre European Commission, London School of Economics, IHP/BTU Joint Lab at the Technical Univ. of Cottbus (Germany), Interdisciplinary Centre for law & ICT Catholic Univ. of Leuven (Belgium), Johann Wolfgang Goethe Univ. of Frankfurt (Germany), Albert-Ludwigs Univ. of Freiburg (Germany), Jozef Stefan Institute (Slovenia), Univ. of Milan (Italy), Univ. of Sassari (Italy), Univ. of Twente (Netherlands),SCS pole of competitiveness, Arcsis ...

- ICT Industry
Key players and leading organizations of the smart card and e-ID industry support the event since it was first set up:





In 2006 the "Smart Event":
- developed a worldwide promotional action reaching several professional communities of over 30 000 people through direct e-mailing, advertising and PR campaigns, the Internet and
- gathered an audience of 480 expert participants (growth:+25%/ 2005)

In 2007 the "Smart Event" impact will be quite higher:
- in terms of promotional and media campaigns, as well as
- in terms of audience: total of 650 participating professionals are expected

Informing the smart card, e-ID and Ambient Intelligence worldwide community (30 000 professionals)
Communication actions begin with the issuing of the "Call for papers" that addresses stakeholders of the smart card, e-ID and Ambient Intelligence sectors. Six months prior to the event, our promotional actions aim at making Smart Event's new edition familiar to the whole IT and Communication community

- Outstanding media partners
Financial Times, La Tribune, SmartCards Trends, Cards Tech & Security, Cards Systems & Technology, Cardweb.com, Cardworld, Fraud Watch, The Nilson Report, Cartes Mag., Securité Informatique, Ubifrance, Fight Fraud, Find Biometrics, SmartCards Today, Electronics Today.

- Efficient promotional campaign combining direct mails, emailing and fax mailing operations

Direct mail operations	60.000 printed conference programs
Emailing operations	300 000 emails (from May to Sept)
Fax mailing operations	Specific targets: academics (8.000),governmental dept. and agencies (5.000)
Website (Strategies Telecoms & Multimedia portal and conferences websites)	Statistics running from June to September 2006 show continuous growth in the number of visitors, with a 12.5 percent increase in unique visits (101,300 up from 90,000 in 2005) and a 23 percent increase in the number of visits (123,000 vs 100,000 a year ago). The Google page ranks for the Smart Event'06 home pages is about 5-6

- Intensive PR campaign
Additional editorial coverage and visibility are brought through the PR campaign addressing some 200 ICT media (print, online)

- Part of the "Industry Events" short list
The "Smart Event" is now regularly listed as one of the major events that professionals should attend.

Gathering a core target audience of 650 participants
(after a 25% growth in 2006/2005)

Conference	2005 Audience	2006 Audience	obj. Audience in 2007
e-Smart	150	190	250
World e-ID	170	170	200
Smart University	60	75	110
AmId	-	45	110
TOTAL	380	480	650

Segmenting decision-makers participants from both the industry and the market


Setting up an unrivalled platform of networking opportunities and exchanges
In the current professional environment, the well established "Smart Event" offers a level of high calibre participants relevant to the development of valuable exchanges. It helps in the generation of leads and in raising your company profile.
To view the list of the 277 organizations which sent delegates to attend the 2006 edition, click here.




Make your choice according to
- the market you want to address and select the event (s) accordingly: smart card, e-ID, Ambient Intelligence, educational programs.
- the marcom objectives: brand image/partnership, innovative technological image/table top or booth hosting your demo(s), media communication towards the complete professional community or on site promotion to address exclusively the event audience.

Smart Packs'07  Strategic Partner Packs (max. 4 strategic partners / conference) Strategic partnership (large logo on all media communication - conference website - printed program - ad pages - 2008 call for papers ) + Proceedings partnership + slide projection + 1x6 sqm booth with 2 registration fees + bag presence.

e-Smart or World eID  (1 conf.)	e-Smart + World eID  (2 conf.)	Smart U. or AmiD (1 conf.)	e-Smart + World eID + SU or Amid  (3 conf.)	e-Smart + World eID + SU + AmId  (4 conf.)
12 500 €	15 500 €	10 000 €	17 500 €	20 000 €

 Media Partnership
- Strategic partnership: your logo appears in prominent place (upper position vs the other logos position) on the conference website (all pages, permanent visibility, link to our own website) and the front cover of the printed program; it also appears on the add pages and on the 2008 call for papers.
- Regular media partnership: your logo appears on the conference website (all pages) and the front cover of the printed program, the ad pages & the 2008 call for papers.

	e-Smart or We-ID	Smart U or AmId	eSmart + We-ID	Smart U + AmId	We-ID + e-Smart + 1	Smart U + AmId +1	4 conf.
Strategic if available	7 500 €	5 000 €	n/a*	n/a*	n/a*	n/a*	n/a*
Regular	4 500 €	3 000 €	7 500 €	5 000 €	9 000 €	7 500 €	10 000 €

(*) n/a = not available

Individual Offerings

Social Event Partnership

6 000 €

The Social Event constitutes a good opportunity to emphasize the awareness of your brand. It enables contacts in a comfortable and relaxed context. Your logo appears on the promotional material (websites, on-site materials) + opportunity to address the participants with a 5' speech and to provide them with any gift packs. The Social Event takes place on the evening of Sept. 20th. It will gather participants from the 4 events.

Exclusive Partnership of the "e-Smart" research track proceedings to be published by Springer Science

3 000 €

Ideal for prototype demos

Table top:	2 500 €
1 table, 2 chairs, 1 Internet connection, 1 signage - Promotional support for your demo: mention in the "demos" section on each website of the "smart event" (logo together with a text presentation) - 1 registration to the conference of your choice
Booth:
- 6 sqm equipped booth (carpet, side and rear partitions, signage, 1 rectangular table, 2 chairs, 1 internet connection, electricity power supply) - Promotional support for your demo: mention in the "demos" section on each website of the "smart event" (logo together with a presentation text) - 1 registration to the conference of your choice	3 750 €
- 9 sqm equipped booth (carpet, side and rear partitions, signage, 1 rectangular table, 2 chairs, 1 Internet connection, power supply) - Promotional support for your demo: mention in the "demos" section on each website of the "smart event" (logo together with a presentation text) - 2 registrations to the conference of your choice	5 000 €

On site Visibility

Bag presence: Logo of your organization on the bag + integration of 1 document. The bag is distributed to all participants of the 4 events.	2 000 €
Slide projection: Your slide message projected 6-8 times/day in all the conf.rooms and during the whole event	1 200 €
Lunch Partnership: Partnering the lunch reception is an opportunity to give prominent recognition to your company. The reception strengthens the presence of your company during the event. It also increases the acknowledgment of your company in a relaxed context. Your logo appears on the Conference Program in the appropriate place. Signage with your logo is displayed in the lunch room. Opportunity to provide any imprinted gift packs to be displayed in the lunch room. 1 lunch	1 500 €
Coffee break Partnership:	800 €

AmI.d specific offers

AmI.d Social Event Partnership AmI.d will offer its own "social event" on the evening of the 2nd day of the conference (Sept. 18th).	3.000 €
Exclusive Partnership of AmI.d's research track proceedings to be published by Springer Science	3.000 €
AmI.d table top (Sept.17-19)	1 500 €

On demand

 Proprietary workshop
 Business Meeting

* rates in euros, before vat

Feel free to propose your own ideas and we can discuss how to make them happen.

Interested in becoming partner: