Corporate Sponsorship Opportunities

The Cyber Resilient Energy Delivery Consortium (CREDC) is a leading academic research and development effort focused on cybersecurity and cyber-resiliency of energy delivery systems for the electric power and oil & gas industries. As part of our mission, CREDC will be hosting a Summer School at the Q Center in Chicago, Illinois, June 12-16, 2017. We welcome your sponsorship support in making the 2017 Summer School a success that also helps to increase your brand awareness with top-tier emerging practitioners and researchers in this area.

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Questions about sponsorships?
Tim Yardley, Associate Director of Technology
Information Trust Institute
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
217-333-4494 | yardley@illinois.edu

Basic Conference Statistics

  • Mixture of academic and professional attendees
  • Some of the best emerging talent in the sector
  • Expecting approximately 150-200 attendees
  • Open to anyone to attend and participate

Sponsorship Highlights

  • Company recognition. This is a premier event with lasting exposure.
  • Talent recruiting. Want to increase your pipeline of high-quality talent? They will be here.
  • Digital archives. Video and media archives will be accessible to all attendees and will be distributed to other interested stakeholders in following years.
  • Hands-on lab opportunities to showcase your equipment, software, etc. Want your technology in front of people so they can understand and leverage it? Here’s a chance.
  • Help promising students attend Summer School. Want to make sure that pipeline stays filled? Your support of this school invests in current and future talent.
  • Networking events.

Sponsorship Levels

Bronze Sponsor ($2,000)

Benefits

  • Corporate logo will appear on pre-event promotional literature.
  • Corporate logo linked to sponsor’s website will be included on the Summer School event website.
  • Corporate logo displayed during breaks and other opportunities during the entire Summer School.
  • Resume book distributed at Job Fair & Information Session (of submitted resumes from attendees).
  • 1 one-day pass for attendance during the Job Fair & Information Session.
  • Access to digital media archives from Summer School.
Gold Sponsor ($4,000) — all benefits above, plus …

Benefits

  • Reserved high-top table at the Job Fair& Information Session.
  • 2 one-day passes for attendance during the Job Fair & Information Session.
  • Option to provide marketing give-away item(s) that display sponsor’s corporate name and/or logo. Items must be provided in advance of event to be included with registration materials.
  • Corporate recognition included in digital media archives resulting from Summer School.
Platinum Sponsor ($6,000) — all benefits above, plus …

Benefits

  • Reserved full-sized table (or space for small both set-up) at Job Fair & Information Session.
  • 2 additional one day passes for attendance during Job Fair & Information Session (up to 4 total).
  • Brief speaking slot for company remarks during Summer School closing session. Alternate opportunities may be available pending agenda development and suitability of sponsor request (i.e., demo at open lab sessions, remarks at networking reception).
  • Corporate logo and recognition included in digital media archives resulting from Summer School.

Questions about sponsorships?
Tim Yardley, Associate Director of Technology
Information Trust Institute
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
217-333-4494 | yardley@illinois.edu