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The Education Forum is a highly focused event that brings together buyers and suppliers, for one-to-one business meetings and valuable networking opportunities; in two days!
The event will guarantee:
– An audience of pre-qualified, senior decision makers
– Selected and ‘matched’ meetings
– One-to-one meetings throughout, generating new business connections
– Networking dinner to further develop connections
– Full partner package, including marketing, stand, electrics, lighting and furniture
Tailored to meet your requirements like no other event
Your time is precious, valuable, and limited. At the Summit, we will deliver a first-rate return on investment, and put you in touch with education professionals who have specifically asked to meet you, would like to discuss your products and services, and are pro-actively looking for solutions for their upcoming projects.
The Forum also offers an unparalleled opportunity for you to promote your service solutions to senior decision-makers, who have the authority to spend and are reviewing their current suppliers.
Key benefits
We organise personalised appointments between buyer and supplier to meet within a private meeting stand. Each supplier will have a series of one-to-one meetings with key decision-makers over two days.
You are guaranteed an audience of professionals, for genuine business meetings, without hidden costs.
Testimonials
‘Thoroughly informative and enjoyable two days; making great contacts, quickly’.
‘A very well organised event with great opportunities to meet with new suppliers and keep up to date with industry changes.’
‘An excellent, well organised event with superb pre-event information and informative networking opportunities.’
‘Excellent facilities with focus on delegate requirements; organised very well, keeping interest over the two days.’
Supplier FAQs - LIVE
Your package will include your appointment schedule, stand with electrics, furniture and name board, all meals and refreshments, overnight accommodation, WiFi and detailed information on attending delegates. Your company logo and information will also be included on email, website and social media marketing for the event.
At the event, we will supply you with a meeting stand consisting of 4 grey material panels. Two back panels and two side panels. Your stand will include a company name board, light, power, furniture and Wi-Fi access. Each grey panel measures: 2134mm high. (You can affix marketing material to this area) and 1000mm wide.
The focus of the event is the pre-arranged meeting schedule. With this in mind, any additional marketing material to dress your stand (as detailed in the previous question) and that you wish to give to delegates is at your discretion. You will be provided with electrics to charge any laptops/tablets and will be supplied with an event information pack at registration, detailing delegate contact details and information (with space for making notes).
You will be updated periodically on attending delegates, from the time of confirming your place, right up until the event itself.
In the run up to the event, you will be sent login information for our online pre-event selection process. From here, you will be able to confirm your details, shortlist and prioritise delegates you would like to meet at the event, add information on the representatives attending the event (including dietary or accessibility requirements) and review and submit all your information.
Working on selections that you have made online, and those from attending delegates, we put together individual itineraries following the priorities below:
- Perfect matches; where a delegate and supplier have both requested to meet one another
- Delegate requests; where a delegate has an interest in a supplier’s product/service
- Supplier requests; where suppliers have registered an interest in meeting a delegate
Once you have your online login, you will be prompted to upload your single A5 page company profile, logo and synopsis, as well as selecting products and services that you provide. This will enable delegates to see some information on your organisation, and select to meet with you closer to the event. This process is all explained to you in more detail closer to the event. You will also need to prepare any event specific marketing that you wish to bring, but other than this, pre-event preparation is minimal.
It is unlikely that you will not be selected by any delegates, as we work with an active delegate analysis to ensure that participating suppliers cover the products and services of interest to delegates.
The dress code during the day is business attire. For the networking dinner, attendees are expected to wear smart dress or evening wear; but the event is not black tie.
Supplier FAQs - VIRTUAL
At the heart of our Forums and Summits is an itinerary of pre-arranged, online one-to-one meetings between industry relevant delegates and suppliers. Meetings are hosted via video meetings and are all bespoke to you and your business, all you need to do is log on to your attendee page and click on the links to join a meeting.
If you are attending one of our Forums or Summits, we will send you login information for our online pre-event selection process. From here, you will need to confirm your details, select seminars to attend, shortlist suppliers that you wish to meet, add any additional information such as dietary or accessibility requirements, and review and submit this information.
We will create your personalised itinerary based on the information you supply and on your own personal preferences.
At our Forums and Summits, we work on selections that you have made online, cross-referencing with those from attending suppliers. Your individual itinerary is put together based on the following priorities:
- Perfect matches; where a delegate and supplier have both requested to meet one another
- Delegate requests; where a delegate has an interest in a particular supplier
- Supplier requests; where a supplier has registered an interested in meeting a delegate
The seminars you select will be added in-between these meetings on your personalised itinerary.
As an attendee, you will be sent a link to your personal attendee page, here you will see your itinerary of meetings. These meetings have been allocated through either delegate or supplier choices.
At each appointment time, a notification will appear in the activity box and ask you to join. Please click on the join now button on your screen and you will be connected to your meeting.