Call for Sponsorship

For five years Storage Technology Showcase (STS) has been a great success with significantly positive feedback from attendees and sponsors. Including through COVID-19 and a virtual event. The conference will have continued and growing interest in the storage community. Attendance is globally attended by executives, system architects, and decision-makers from major national and international companies, laboratories and institutions. STS presents a significant opportunity for sponsors to promote their ideas and solutions in the domain, catering to large national and International institutions and laboratories.

Attendees are faced with the challenges of managing data volumes in the Petabyte and Exabyte range. STS presents a significant opportunity to promote your company and products, ideas, best practices, and solutions directly to the decision-makers attending this conference, as well as an excellent chance to network with the people who support large-scale data systems and to share in the educational opportunities.

Sponsorship Highlights

  • Learn about end-users concerns as the needs of metadata and storage costs grow
  • Position your storage products as end-user storage trends change and grow
  • Access to 100+ storage subject matter experts and end-users
  • Opportunity to invite a customer who has solved a challenge utilizing your product, to present his/her use case as a speaker

STS 2024 promises to be an exciting event with prime meeting space. Sponsors will have exhibition space with options to add a la carte features to the sponsorship such as additional social media recognition, break or meal sponsorship, lanyards at registration, etc.

We expect 100+ attendees and are seeking sponsorship from well-respected companies like yours.

The conference organizers are offering qualified companies the chance to sponsor the conference and to participate in the event. Sponsorship is available 

Bronze Sponsorship $6,000
  • Complimentary conference passes: free registration for up to two delegates
  • Customer distributable discount code (20% off standard registration rates)
  • Standard 10'x10' exhibit space, bring your booth or we can provide 2 chairs and 6' table
  • Standard voltage power if requested in advance
  • In addition, all sponsors will receive acknowledgement of sponsorship at the conference.

Sponsorship a la carte Options:

Larger Exhibit Space $15000

  • A four times larger exhibit space of 20'x20', with additional power as requested
  • Complimentary conference passes: 6 additional delegate passes included
  • Platinum sponsorship recognition

Speaking Slot Sponsor $10000

  • Required: Submission of abstract for consideration for symposium committee approval
  • Complimentary conference passes: 4 additional delegate passes included
  • Sales content prohibited, must be technical in nature
  • Platinum sponsorship recognition

Prime exhibit space $5000

  • Selection of choice of exhibit space from options available
  • Complementary conference pass: 2 additional delegate passes included
  • Gold sponsorship recognition

Dinner sponsorship $5000 

  • Acknowledgement of dinner sponsorship in the main presentation hall and opportunity to place branding near dinner
  • Complementary conference pass: 2 additional delegate passes included
  • Gold sponsorship recognition

Break sponsorship (2 per day available) $2000

  • Acknowledgement of break sponsorship in the main presentation hall and opportunity to place branding near refreshments
  • Complementary conference pass: 1 additional delegate passes included
  • Silver sponsorship recognition

Breakfast sponsorship (1 per day available) $2000

  • Acknowledgement of breakfast sponsorship in the main presentation hall and opportunity to place branding near breakfast
  • Complementary conference pass: 1 additional delegate passes included
  • Silver sponsorship recognition

Sponsor provided marketing material distributed with registration (5 available) $2000

  • Brochures, bags, pens, etc. materials to be distributed with registration
  • Complementary conference pass: 1 additional delegate passes included
  • Silver sponsorship recognition

Name Badge Lanyards (2 available) $1000

  • Branded lanyards for name badges provided by you to be distributed with the registration

Additional a la carte options may be negotiated

 

Any additional delegates may register at the standard registration rates.

It is a great privilege and advantage to be an STS sponsor, as you are directly presenting your company and products to technology experts, scientists and executives, who are currently at the forefront of Big Data Management.

Companies interested in sponsorship should contact Quinn D Mitchell and make a commitment by January 31, 2024.

Final sponsorship decisions will be made by February 1, 2024. Instructions on fulfilling the pledge will be provided upon sponsor notification.