Hosted by the British and Irish Region of the International Biometric Society the IBC 2008 will be the largest statistics meeting to be held in Ireland and only the second time that the region has held the IBC - the first time was in Cambridge in 1963.

Through sponsorship and participation in the meeting you can meet with biometricians and biostatisticians from around the world and have an ideal forum for publicizing your activities and products. Obviously publishers and software developers/distributors may wish to display their latest offerings, but there are also opportunities for educational institutions to advertise courses and research openings, while employers can advertise and recruit from the pool of great talent that will be attending the meeting.

All sponsors of IBC 2008 will be acknowledged in the Conference Programme and in the Opening Session (9:00 Monday 14 July) and corporate logos will be displayed on the Sponsorship Board at the meeting and on the conference website.

The sponsorship items listed below can of course be combined into a larger sponsorship packages and we would be delighted to discuss possibilities with you. We are happy to include additional benefits for larger sponsorship offers, as indicated in the sponsorship packages noted below:

- 1 Free delegate registration

- Free Poster Board Display or half-price Exhibition Stand

- ½ page advert in Conference Programme

- 2 Free delegate registrations

- Free Exhibition Stand

- 1 full page advert in Conference Programme

- Conference Bag (with logo) €5,000

- Pen (with logo) €1,000

- Paper Pad (with logo) €2,000

- Memory stick (with logo) - abstracts €5,000

- Morning or Afternoon Tea (single session) €1,000

- Leaflet Insert in delegate packs €1,000

- Advert in Conference Programme - (subject to VAT @ 21% )

¼ page € 700

½ page €1,000

Full page €1,500

- Drinks €3,000

- Food €5,000

- Entertainment €1,500

Each item includes 1 free dinner ticket and Display Board

- Pre-dinner drinks reception €3,000

- Wine during meal €4,000

- Entertainment €2,500

- Manned Exhibition Stand (includes 1 delegate registration) €1,500

Booth size of approx = 6 sqm (3m x 2m) floor space

Furnished with table, baize and 2 chairs

1 power point (13 amp socket)

- Poster stand display € 400

Leah Duxbury

Conference Partners

2nd Floor, Heritage House, Dundrum Office Park, Dundrum, Dublin 14

Tel: + 353 1 29 68 688 Fax: + 353 1 29 68 678 E-mail - leah@conferencepartners.ie

Please include the following details:

Items interested in

Name

Company position

Company

Contact Address

Phone

Fax

Email

To encourage student participation we are awarding two prizes for the Best Student Oral presentations. The winners will receive a free year's membership of the International Biometric Society (donated by the IBS) and we are looking for publishers to sponsor book voucher prizes for each winner - each voucher to a value of €250 to be redeemed against statistics books from the publishers list.

We also intend to award two prizes for the Best Poster Presentations with the aim of raising the profile of the Poster Sessions. Again we are looking for publishers to sponsor €250 book voucher prizes for each winner.

A further possibility for prize sponsorship is in awards for outstanding contributions (oral or poster) from Special Circumstance Country participants and we would be happy to discuss this with you.

These prizes will be announced at the Closing Session (Friday 18 July). Prize sponsorship will be acknowledged at this closing session and in the prize details on the website and in the Conference Programme.

If you would like to donate one or more vouchers please contact either

John Hinde, Chair LOC john.hinde@nuigalway.ie

or

Leah Duxbury, Conference Partners leah@conferencepartners.ie