The generous sponsors of IABC’s 2012 World Conference make it possible for us to bring you and other professional communicators the most relevant content and enlightened speakers in the industry. Please support our sponsors and consider their investment in IABC and the communication profession when selecting services for your organization.
IABC’s Exhibit Hall: The Meeting Place
Sponsors and exhibitors will showcase the latest communication products and services to help you improve your effectiveness and results. Open Monday at noon through 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, the Exhibit Hall offers exceptional networking opportunities during the lunch break, themed daily coffee breaks, and a Tuesday Networking Reception. An Internet Café and complimentary Wi-Fi in the Exhibit Hall will be available to all attenders during exhibit hours:
Monday, 25 June, 12–5:30 p.m.
Tuesday, 26 June, 10 a.m.–6:30 p.m.
Platinum Sponsors
Welcome Reception and IABC Research Partner
Marketwire advances the way the world communicates. Serving more than 12,000 clients worldwide through 20 offices on four continents, Marketwire is a dominant distributor of company news releases and other communications. Marketwire electronically delivers global news and information to traditional, new and social media outlets including newspapers, magazines, databases, analyst terminals, online portals, blogs, and more. Marketwire maximizes the power of its clients’ communications by leveraging the latest in search engine optimization (SEO), multimedia, social media, and new technologies. Sysomos, a Marketwire company, provides unparalleled business intelligence for social media through advanced monitoring and analytics. Talk to us: marketwire.com, @marketwire, markewireblog.com.
Gold Quill Awards® Program
Towers Watson is a leading global professional services company that helps organizations improve performance through effective people, risk and financial management. With 14,000 associates around the world, we offer solutions in the areas of employee benefits, talent management, rewards, and risk and capital management.
Our focus is on giving you the clarity to make the right decisions and take the right actions. And our approach is grounded in perspective—the kind that comes from our deep experience working on a wide range of issues.
By connecting the big picture and your picture, we help you achieve real-world results. Visit www.towerswatson.com/IABCsponsor to learn more.
Silver Sponsors
Executive Communicator’s Summit
PwC’s Advisory People and Change practice. We help clients execute their strategies through their people and organizations. We do this by helping ensure they have the right: talent strategy, organizational design and operating model, support functions such as HR, IT and finance; change and communications strategies; and leadership.
See www.pwc.com/us/peopleandchange for more information.
IABC Research Foundation Luncheon
Buck Consultants is a global human resource, pensions, and benefits consulting firm that helps organizations develop, deploy, and manage their human capital. Buck is a wholly owned subsidiary of ACS, A Xerox Company. With our insight, research, and record of innovation in the HR and benefits field, backed by the powerful technological resources of ACS and Xerox, we offer advice and real-world solutions to your compensation, pension, and benefits program challenges. News and other information about Buck Consultants is available at www.buckconsultants.com
Track Sponsors
ROI Communication is an award-winning consulting firm that connects and inspires employees through the power of communication. We work with large companies to design and execute communication strategies that engage employees, enhance leadership credibility and improve business performance. Our areas of expertise include strategy and planning, leader and manager communication, employee engagement, culture and change management, mergers and acquisitions, measurement and analysis, visual design, and social media.
ROI Communication is sponsoring the Employee & Change Communication track.
Cisco is the worldwide leader in networking, transforming how people connect, communicate and collaborate. Today, networks are an essential part of business, education, government and home communications, and Cisco Internet Protocol-based (IP) networking solutions are the foundation of these networks. The Cisco name has become synonymous with the Internet, as well as with the productivity improvements that Internet business solutions provide. At Cisco, our vision is to change the way people work, live, play and learn.
Cisco is sponsoring the Global Trends track
Named Employee Communications Agency of the Year by The Holmes Report, and twice-named Boutique Agency of the Year by PRWeek, The Grossman Group helps unleash the power of strategic internal communications to drive business results for its clients’ defining moments—every day, every time. Leveraging the Grossman Methodology, the team uses its proprietary tools, training and thoughtpartner consultative approach with Fortune 500 companies and other large organizations to create unique solutions to their everyday and toughest challenges.
The Grossman Group is sponsoring the Media & Public Relations track.
Dow Jones & Company, a News Corporation company, is a leader in publishing and global news products including: The Wall Street Journal, Factiva, Dow Jones Newswires, Barron’s, MarketWatch and SmartMoney, providing millions of readers and business customers world-wide with unique content and innovative technology. Factiva is one of the largest, most global digital business aggregators and archives in the world. Geared for business decision making on desktop and mobile environments, its global news collection includes more than 35,000 sources from 200 countries in 26 languages.
Factive is sponsoring the Marketing & Business track.
Infomart is Canada’s leading media intelligence agency with more than 25 years of delivering media monitoring, media research and corporate data solutions to Canada’s best-informed institutions.
Infomart is sponsoring the Reputation & Brand track.
The ROC Group is a corporate communications consulting firm that specializes in employee engagement, complex information delivery and behavior change. We help senior leaders reach stakeholders, employees and families throughout the organization. Our creative and award-winning solutions encompass projects ranging from organizational transformation to HR programs and well-being. Find out more by visiting www.rocgroup.com/.
The ROC Group is sponsoring the Strategic Leadership track.
Program Sponsors
Accreditation Reception Sponsor
As Canada’s leading agriculture lender, Farm Credit Canada (FCC) is advancing the business of agriculture. FCC provides financing, insurance, software, learning programs and other business services to producers, agribusinesses and agri-food operations. FCC employees are passionate about agriculture and committed to the success of customers and the industry.
Leaders Reception
Royal Roads University delivers graduate and undergraduate degrees, certificates, diplomas, executive education and custom programs. We combine online learning with on-campus residencies so you can advance your education and continue to work. The 2010 National Survey of Student Engagement ranked Royal Roads University number 1 in active and collaborative learning and number 1 in academic challenge. Our flexible admissions acknowledge academic, professional and life experience. Visit us in the exhibit hall to learn more about our programs or online at www.royalroads.ca.