ABOUT
The IT Poster Slam is a dedicated event for major actors of innovation in a conducive and enabling environment geared to spark synergies and create impact on topics particularly affected by digitalization by making all efforts to create communities of interest and boost open innovation.
Specifically for researchers, the IT Poster Slam is an inspiring and impactful event, because participating it promotes and highlights participating group’s research while connecting them with diverse range of research consortia. Clearly, such partnering events are an efficient way to make contact and meet different organizations and often a way to locate professional support services and to bridge the gap between research and the market.
Such technology partnerships empower research and maximize on innovation capacities so that in end effect society moves forward through collaborative intelligence, which is nurtured and brought about through the synergies formed by diverse range of participants and the through the appropriate setting, business-academia collaborations for innovation where one provides the source for new technologies and the other the business application.
PARTICIPATION
To participate, research groups pay the event's organizers a small fee to become a sponsor of the event and in turn get their projects promoted through their participation. Clearly, it’s a mutually beneficial arrangement: The event makers will have its participants and the research groups will be able to present. Spread the news and engage with other professionals about their research and gain visibility virtually out into the net. So, for Start-Ups, participation in the project means one thing: Getting your research on the map.
The participation fee for Research Groups is 150.- sFr. For this small fee, the event organizer will offer each research group placement in the IT Poster Slam maze with their own poster-both, be able to use of the Meet & Greet Spaces and have the option to use a breakout room for ad hoc meetings and presentations. An invitation to the Meet Up Apero Riche Event is included during which they will find opportunity to meet with a wide range of individuals from institutes for education, research, and the industry.
WHAT YOU GET
Poster Booth: Research Groups will be able to present their themselves and distribute their marketing materials at the event in simple but unique setting that is geared toward client contact and spread the news about their services. A poster booth consists of a high-quality stand for use with a poster presentation.
Event Animator: During the event an event animator is present who is responsible for covering the bases during times when no representative from the Research Group is available for consultancy.
Blog Presentations /Email Campaigns: Those Research Groups that are participating in the event will also be offered the opportunity to position themselves better by having their info packets circulate the various social media channels set up for the event as well as to have specialist articles published in the blog for the event and to gain access to tracked results.
The Meet Up: The meet up is a one point of contact event, where all participants come together to blend and bend. The various spaces inside the IT Poster Slam structure are readily available so that Research Group Teams can use them to meet and greet other participants, invited guests, and visitors to the event.
Break Out Space: In addition, a Research Group can schedule a presentation session in one of the rooms that will made available for ad hoc presentations, making it possible to “get the message” across to expert circles.
VIP Apero Riche: All participants are invited to attend the Apero Riche Event. Several VIP guests who have been invited to attend the event for purposes of networking and for farming a client base will be available to all.
eProceedings: All of the research posters can be included in a electronic proceedings. Along with the poster for the poster booth, participants are welcome to include a standard academic poster in the proceedings as well.
POSTER BOOTH DESIGN
There are two levels to the design of the poster booths that involve two separate print elements which are the Presentation Poster and the Information Brochure. The Presentation Poster acts as the info hanger at the poster booth. It is suggested that the design of it be kept very simple so that the information on it can be absorbed quickly and even while passing by. To speed up time and to cut to the chase, participating Start-Ups can use the available power template. As an infographic, it includes the following infographic areas:
- The Project Message (Plain language with 1 to 2 sentences about your Start-Up)
- The QR Code Link (Direct link to download you're the Research Groups own info brochure)
- The Ammo Bar (column on the right side with all tables and figures etc. needed to pitch)
- The Silent Presenter Bar (team infos, research info, key milestones, and contact info in short form when you are not present or busy with another client)
The second print element, the Information Brochure is a print document that offers information about the team and the research. It is used to offer extended information about the group and a description of research and the various project the ground is involved with. The brochure might also include any elements that are common to the Start-Ups’ original business plan along with achievements, milestones, investors pitches, and key customers portraits.
Example Start Up PosterTemplate
Note: Graphic services are available from the organisers at a reduced rate for those who prefer to have their graphic needs handled by us.
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