Sponsor !!Con West!
!!Con is a tremendous amount of fun, and we think that it brings a lot of value to its attendees, and to the programming community at large. But !!Con also costs money to run, and we’re committed to making sure that it remains affordable to everybody who wants to participate.
As such, we need your help to keep !!Con West open and available to all. In exchange, we’d love to help put your company in front of our 200+ smart, creative, thoughtful participants. Below are some sponsorship tiers that we’ve put together as starting points, but we’re happy to customize a package to meet the needs of your organization! If you’re interested in sponsoring us, please send us some mail; we’d love to chat.
Sponsorship Tiers
PHENOMENAL Sponsor!!! ($8,000)
- A staffable booth with space for swag, company information
- 3 reserved tickets for employees*
- Roll-up poster or other signage
- Verbal thanks during the conference
- Logo on welcome slide
- Logo on website
EXCELLENT Sponsor!! ($5,000)
- Space on a shared table for freebies/swag
- 1 reserved ticket for employees*
- Roll-up poster or other signage
- Verbal thanks during the conference
- Logo on welcome slide
- Logo on website
AWESOME Sponsor! ($2,000)
- Space on a shared table for freebies/swag
- Roll-up poster or other signage
- Verbal thanks during the conference
- Logo on welcome slide
- Logo on website
A note about employee tickets
Space at !!Con West is limited, so we humbly request that these tickets go to employees of your company who will really enjoy the subject matter of the talks. What that means will depend on the company, but it’s likely to mean programmer/engineer employees or programming enthusiasts.
Sponsor a conference element!
One way that your organization can stand out is by sponsoring specific portions and features of the conference. Below, we have some ideas for elements that this would fit well with. Attendees really remember the names of sponsors of the unique elements of !!Con, so these can be an opportunity for very good value and visibility for your company! If these interest you, get in touch and we can talk about including them in your sponsorship package.
Live streaming and recording. All of !!Con West’s talks are broadcast in real time to viewers around the world; we’ve even heard of groups organizing “!!Con watch parties”! We also record and upload all of !!Con West’s talks for anyone to watch on YouTube. Having your organization’s name associated with streaming and video-on-demand is the sponsorship gift that keeps on giving!
Live captioning. !!Con West aims to be a radically inclusive conference, and one of the most visible ways that we act on that is by hiring a captioner to transcribe each speaker in realtime. Our experience is that captioning is useful not just to audience members with disabilities, but to everyone, giving people more options to engage with our amazing speakers. If accessibility is important to your organization, a great way to demonstrate that is by having your name displayed right alongside the caption feed all day long, and we’d love to offer that to you!
Shuttle services for attendees and speakers. Baskin Auditorium is three miles away from Santa Cruz downtown, where many attendees will be staying and socializing. At the end of our two joyful days of !!Con, our attendees will have shuttles available to them to get them into town – something that we’ve heard has been very useful! Your company’s name could go on this valuable service.
Sponsor a meal. Lunch and snack breaks have been some of the most exciting parts of !!Cons, when attendees come together and “unconference” – not to mention getting the joy of getting to fill your stomach after a morning of invigorating talks! Our experience at conferences is that everybody remembers who fed them, and sponsor-associated food has been a big hit at the New York version of !!Con in the past. We’d be happy to get your name on the lunch or snack tables, and build some Pavlovian associations of joy with your company!
Of course, these are just ideas to start off with – there’s a lot of !!Con that we’d like to share with you! If you have other ideas, we’d love to hear about them and work with you – feel free to contact us!