The Farms.com Virtual Precision Agriculture Conference & Ag Technology Showcase (V.P.A.C.T.). will be a multi-day virtual event featuring some of the world's leading precision ag experts and companies. With over 50 keynote presentations, featured and concurrent speaker sessions, the Farms.com V.P.A.C.T will have information for all precision ag enthusiasts.
Two pre-conference webinars will also be presented prior to the conference: Precision Ag101 and 201-- to get participants who are new to precision agriculture up to speed withthe basics before delving into the full conference.
The Virtual Precision Agriculture Conference & Ag Technology Showcase will be hosted over 3 days and will include keynote,featured, and concurrent breakout session speakers, as well as a virtual tradeshow. The format of the conference will allow participants to choose the topics that they are most interested in attending.
The virtual tradeshow will give exhibitors the opportunity to interact directly with visitors at their virtual booths and is expected to attract over 500 precision ag farmers, agronomists and industry leaders.This format will allow sponsors and exhibitors to engage attendees in a variety of ways, ranging from scheduled meetings, chats, speed networking, networking lounges or filling out forms or surveys.
The culmination of the event we will be the ever-popular Farmer Panel where representative farmers will share what they have tried, what they think works, they will also share their thoughts of what they have seen during the conference, as well as answer live questions from the audience.
The Virtual Event Environment
Virtual events will take place within a highly interactive, online environment with rich content,opportunities to interact, virtual sessions accessible to an audience that has registered to attend, as well as provide attendees with opportunities to meet and interact with each other.
While the functionality will be interactive, it will be easy to use to ensure maximum participation.
Sponsorship Opportunities
Precision Agriculture ScholarshipSponsorship $8000.00
This “Scholarship Contest” will be promoted in three different countries.It will be presented by Farms.com and AgCareers.com in the US and Canada, and Farms.com and De Lacy Executive in the United Kingdom.Each country will have an exclusive sponsor.
Students will be invited to submit a social media video (Twitter and Facebook) that describes their research/thesis or new idea regarding precision agriculture and its positive impact on the environment.
We will then determine the top ten submissions in each country, and post on Farms.com, AgCareers.com, and DeLacyExecutive.co.uk, after which farmers will be invited to vote on the best submission. The winning student from each country will be invited to participate in a student panel as part of Farm.com Precision Ag Virtual Conference where they will share the details of their submission and answer questions from the audience.
To accomplish this, we will connect with universities and colleges that have an agriculture program and broader, to invite the students to submit their videos.
We will do this through outreach to universities and colleges in the form of mailed letters and email to appropriate individuals, as well as through social media, eblasts, newsletters, media releases, etc.
Scholarship value:$2000/country
Package Components:
- Included in emarketing to students and university contacts in Farms.com and AgCareers.com databases
- Recognition as official sponsor of the program
- 15 conference attendee registrations (for staff and/or clients)
- Exclusive opportunity to play 30-second pre-roll video prior to session
- Featured banner ad displayed on Farms.com Precision Agriculture Conference website
- Logo displayed on agenda pages and directories
- Virtual exhibitor booth
- Attendee activity reports on content they viewed, forms they filled out
- Opportunity to add an item to the virtual swag bag dashboard
- Opportunity to include forms for attendees to complete
- Opportunity to interact with live chat
- Opportunity to schedule virtual meetings with attendees
- Recognition at the welcome and overview of day
- Sponsor logo on presentation platform background image
- Sponsorship recognition in 15 promotional tweets prior to the conference, 6 during the conference
- Sponsorship recognition in 5 promotional messages prior to the conference
- VIP discount code will be provided for additional guests and staff
- Recognition with other two country scholarship sponsors in a full-page ad in precision ag digital magazine distributed to 30,000 subscribers
Platinum Sponsorship:$7,000.00•
- Host of your own featured speaker session
- 20 conference attendee registrations (for staff and/or clients)
- Opportunity to play 30-second pre-roll video prior to keynote, featuredand concurrent speaker sessions
- Featured banner ad displayed on Farms.com Precision Agriculture Conference website
- Logo displayed on agenda pages & directories
- Virtual exhibitor booth
- Attendee activity reports on content they viewed, forms they filled out
- Opportunity to add an item to the virtual swag bag dashboard
- Opportunity to include forms for attendees to complete
- Opportunity to interact with live chat
- Opportunity to schedule virtual meetings with attendees
- Recognition at the welcome and overview of the Day
- Sponsor logo on presentation platform background image
- Sponsorship recognition in 10 tweets prior to the conference, 6 during the conference
- Sponsorship recognition in 5 promotional messages prior to the conference
- VIP discount code will be provided for additional guests and staff
- Full page ad in precision ag digital magazine distributed to 30,000 subscribers
Farmer Panel: $4500.00
- Farmer Panel discussion,where producers will educate the audience on their success in precision agriculture and answer questions from the audience gathered throughoutthe main event
- Moderator of the panel session
- Exclusive opportunity to play 30-second pre-roll video prior to session
- 10 conference attendee registrations (for staff and/or clients)
- Virtual exhibitor booth
- Attendee activity reports on content they viewed, forms they filled out
- Opportunity to add an item to the virtual swag bag dashboard
- Opportunity to include forms for attendees to complete
- Opportunity to interact with live chat
- Opportunity to schedule virtual meetings with attendees
- Recognition at the welcome and overview of day
- Sponsorship recognition in 5 tweets prior to the conference, 3 during the conference
- Sponsorship recognition in 3 promotional messages prior to the conference
- VIP discount code will be provided for additional guests and staff
- Half page ad in precision ag digital magazine distributed to 30,000 subscribers
Gold Sponsorship: $4,000.00
- Host of your own breakout speaker session
- 10 conference attendee registrations (for staff and/or clients)
- Opportunity to play 15-second pre-roll video prior to breakoutspeaker sessions
- Virtual exhibitor booth
- Attendee activity reports on content they viewed, forms they filled out
- Opportunity to add an item virtual swag bag dashboard
- Opportunity to include forms for attendees to complete
- Opportunity to interact with live chat
- Opportunity to schedule virtual meetings with attendees
- Recognition at the welcome and overview of day
- Sponsorship recognition in 5 tweets prior to the conference, 3 during the conference
- VIP Discount code will be provided for additional guests and staff
- Half page ad in precision ag digital magazine distributed to 30,000 subscribers
Speed Networking & Virtual Cocktail Sponsorship: $3,000.00
- Host of Speed Networking and Virtual Cocktail event
- Virtual exhibitor booth
- Attendee activity reports on content they viewed, forms they filled out
- Opportunity to add an item virtual swag bag dashboard
- Opportunity to include forms for attendees to complete
- Opportunity to interact with live chat
- Opportunity to schedule virtual meetings with attendees
- Sponsorship recognition in 5 tweets prior to the conference, 3 during the conference
Precision Ag 101 &201: $2,000.00
- Sponsorship pre-conference of free Precision Ag 101 and 201 webinars
- Virtual exhibitor booth
- Attendee activity reports on content they viewed, forms they filled out
- Opportunity to add an item virtual swag bag dashboard
- Opportunity to interact with live chat
- Opportunity to schedule virtual meetings with attendees
- Sponsorship recognitionin 5 tweets prior to pre-conference webinars and 1 during each webinar
Sponsorship Contract
To discuss sponsorship opportunities further please contact Andrew Bawden, Andrew.Bawden@Farms.com or 1-888-248-4890 x 5030