World Workplace 2010 Sponsors and Sponsorship Opportunities

The education grid is a signage structure measuring approximately 6-ft tall by 8-ft wide. This structure will list the full schedule of World Workplace educational sessions, times and room numbers.  Attendees will refer to this grid frequently throughout the conference.  Sponsorship recognition will be provided via the World Workplace Web site, on-site signage, the Facility Management Journal, and other World Workplace collateral materials.

Held October 23-26 (4 days prior to World Workplace) at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis, the Fall Symposium will offer The Business of FM Course and five of the nine core competency courses necessary to achieve a broad understanding of the FM profession and to obtain the Facility Management Professional (FMP) designation. A Certified Facility Manager (CFM) exam review course will also be offered for experienced facility professionals pursuing the industry’s most prestigious designation.  In addition to the courses being offered, the Fall Symposium will also have it’s own “cocktail reception”.  Get in front of this prestigious audience prior to World Workplace with this sponsorship.  Sponsorship includes on-site signage, recognition in the FMJ, IFMA Web site, one complimentary course at the Fall Symposium and a brief (3-min) speaking opportunity at the reception.

The purpose of this reception is to recognize the editorial and advertising contributions to IFMA’s premier publication, the Facility Management Journal (FMJ).  The reception will take place in the Press Room, located on the expo floor, on Thursday, October 28th at 1 p.m.  This event is by invitation-only.  Sponsorship recognition will be done on the event invitations, on-site signage, the World Workplace Web site, and World Workplace printed materials. Sponsor will also have the opportunity to make a brief “speech” – not to exceed 3 minutes.

The IFMA Central booth will host a “Photo Shoot” for World Workplace attendees to have their pictures taken and printed on a sample FMJ cover!  In addition to the FMJ and IFMA logos, the sponsoring company’s logo will also print on the picture. Additional sponsorship recognition will be provided via the World Workplace Web site, on-site signage, the Facility Management Journal, and other World Workplace collateral materials.

On Friday, October 29th, each Power Speaker will do two presentations: one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Immediately following each presentation, book signings will be held for each speaker. Extend your company’s presence from the expo floor to the education area by sponsoring one of these dynamic speakers. Sponsorship includes the opportunity to introduce the speaker at the beginning of each session. Sponsorship recognition will be provided via the World Workplace Web site, on-site signage, the Facility Management Journal, and other World Workplace collateral materials.
 
David Nour, Consultant, Professional Speaker, Author, CEO, The Nour Group Inc.
Relationship Economics® - The Art and Science of Relationships
Personal and professional success depends on the diversity and quality of your relationships with others; yet most of us don't spend enough time building and nurturing the key relationships we need to achieve success. That's where Relationship Economics® comes into play. Learn how to invest in people for an extraordinary return. Take a proactive approach to turning everyday interactions into customer, revenue, alliance partnership, employee and shareholder value.
 
Linda Edgecombe, BPE, Best-Selling Author, Speaker, Certified Speaking Professional, Humorist, Life Perspective Specialist
Batteries Included: Lessons to Energize and Balance Your Life
Give your organization an Energy Boost. Take an educational, hands-on and humorous ride that will re-focus, re-energize and re-invent how you see your life and your work. Gain an honest snapshot of yourself and how your energy affects your work and home life. Take away ideas about how to change negative drainers and produce more positive outcomes; and learn five keys to increase the Energy Levels of those around you.
 
Jim Mathis, Reinvention Strategist & Author
Leaders vs. Losers
Everyone can become a leader! A challenging economy often separates the leaders from the losers—we can spot them at a glance. In prosperous times even the worst executives looked good from a distance; but now you can tell just by their attitude who the leaders are...and who the losers are. This session will give you the steps necessary to turn yourself into a leader.

The Welcome Reception will be held Wednesday, October 27th at the Georgia Aquarium – the largest aquarium in the world! Sponsorship recognition includes on-site signage, the World Workplace Web site, the on-site show directory, and your company’s logo placed in your sponsored exhibit. 

Exhibits available:

Ocean Voyager - Journey with Giants - SOLD!
Walk through an acrylic tunnel or stand in front of a gigantic acrylic viewing window, and you will feel like a SCUBA diver in an endless blue sea, mesmerized by thousands of fish swimming overhead. Ocean Voyager is home to the gentle giants of the sea, including whale sharks and two manta rays, Nandi and Tallulah.  They are the only manta rays in a U.S. aquarium, ever. This exhibit was specially designed to house whale sharks, the largest fish species in the world. Schools of predatory trevally jacks, squadrons of small and large stingrays, enormous goliath grouper and hammerhead sharks all ply the waters of this ocean habitat containing more than six million gallons of saltwater. With 4,574 square feet of viewing windows, a 100-foot-long underwater tunnel, 185 tons of acrylic windows and the second largest viewing window in the world at 23 feet tall by 61 feet wide and 2 feet thick, visitors will have multiple opportunities to view all of these magnificent animals. No other aquarium in the world has ever attempted to manage the variety and size of fish in this major exhibit.

River Scout - Freshwater Mysteries - SOLD!
Rivers are a source of life for animals, people and cultures throughout the world. In the River Scout gallery, you will discover a wide diversity of animals found in the rivers of Africa, South America, Asia and Georgia.  American Alligators inhabit the waters of River Scout, along with red-eared sliders and yellowbelly sliders. Electric fish of Africa and South America are presented in aquariums and highlighted in video programs. The highly sociable Asian small-clawed otter is sure to spark interest. All of these animals, and more, are presented in a themed environment of waterfalls, logjams and a simulated meandering North American river that flows over your head!

Tropical Diver - The Coral Kingdom - SOLD!
While you can visit any gallery in the Georgia Aquarium at any time, you may wish to visit this gallery last. After a long journey through all the regions of the world, we have saved the most relaxing for the end: tropical coral reefs. These exhibits are appropriately arranged like a gallery of living art. You will encounter curious garden eels popping up out of the sand and above them a swirling mass of thousands of tiny glassy sweepers. You can finally “find Nemo” as well as seahorses, fairy basslets, yellow-head jawfish and other jewels of the sea. Further along, three impressive exhibits of jellies (“jellyfish”) will mesmerize you. At the center of this gallery is one of the largest living reef exhibits of any aquarium in the world. Living corals and thousands of colorful reef fish are presented in a faithful recreation of a tropical Pacific coral reef, complete with an overhead crashing wave.
Georgia Explorer – Discover Our Coast
The Georgia Explorer gallery is a highly interactive gallery with touch pools full of horseshoe crabs, sea stars, stingrays and shrimp. Several large habitats feature a loggerhead sea turtle and the fish of Gray’s Reef – an underwater area off the Georgia coast designated a National Marine Sanctuary. Whales live right off the Georgia coast! This gallery will connect you with right whales, which are one of the most endangered mammals on the planet. Georgia Aquarium's newest exhibit is now open!  Venomous lionfish from the Pacific Ocean have invaded the Georgia coast. Like kudzu, these fish don’

The annual World Workplace Tweet-Up will take place on the expo floor on Wednesday, October 27 at 3 p.m. Sponsorship recognition will be done in the form of IFMA “Tweets” (pre-show, during show and post-show), on-site signage, Twitter name badges, the World Workplace Web site, and World Workplace printed materials.  Sponsor will also have the opportunity to make a brief “speech” – not to exceed 3 minutes.