Think New Brunswick ICT Industrial Showcase

This is to up-date you on the Think New Brunswick ICT Industrial Showcase taking place at the Aitken Center Complex, Fredericton, the evening of November 20 and day of November 21, 2007.

Now over 50 exhibitors …several more coming!

We now have fifty (50) ICT exhibitors accounting for 85% of available booth space and our focus is now on recruiting target attendees from government departments, agencies, industrial sectors, and businesses in New Brunswick. See all contracted exhibitors on the website.

In addition to ICT companies exhibiting, we are pleased to advise that we will also have a number of important government departments and agencies in the showcase for you to make a connection between their needs and your capabilities. Our focus will to be to aggressively recruit the target audience right until opening evening.

We have sold 85% of our booth space!

50 ICT companies may not seem like a lot …until you look at the list of ICT firms in New Brunswick. Did you know that with the companies that produce ICT products and services, twenty have more than fifty employees, seventy six have more than ten employees, and two hundred and thirty have more than one employee…and that the complete sector has an estimated three hundred and sixty four companies, but a third have only one employee.

We are pleased to report that as of today all but two of our top fifteen ICT firms are in the showcase. We are also very pleased to have an excellent turnout of companies who as a norm “do not do business in New Brunswick” but are coming out to forge new networks, relationships and partners in support of our local industry, and to be on hand for prospective employees looking to enter the industry from our universities and colleges (many are involved in the showcase).

A full account of all exhibitors is listed on the website at www.ThinkNBPenserNB.ca.

All booth spaces come with a turn-key booth!

Many ICT companies value the turn key package offered when you acquire a booth. When you acquire a booth in the showcase, it comes complete with a professional white hard wall exhibit booth, furnishings, carpet, electrical and hi speed wireless internet. All you need when you arrive is your lap top (and monitor if you wish), business cards, a hand out. Other than that its smile, greet and go meet your industry partners.

While in planning stages we arranged for smaller less costly booths, but, as it turns out, the over whelming preference has been for the larger booths in the showcase.

Booth space includes access to all functions!

Program activities for Think New Brunswick are also included in the booth space cost. The showcase opens for exhibitors only Tuesday evening, November 20 for an exhibitor reception on the show floor for exhibitors to go and meet the industry players in a relaxed setting. Food and beverage will be served during this time (4:00 PM TO 7:00 PM).

Next morning on Wednesday, November 21, beginning at 8:00 AM, a breakfast for exhibitors only will be served on the show floor. At 9:00 am the show floor opens for attendees until close at 5:00 pm. At noon, a lunch will be served on the show floor for all in attendance at Think New Brunswick. Also leading up to and at noon, we will have brief addresses from the Minister of Business New Brunswick and from an exciting key note speaker (to be posted on the website in a few days).

In addition to contracted ICT exhibitors, we are very pleased, and proud to have in our showcase important support groups involved including PropelSJ, CIPS, KIRA (Knowledge Industry Recognition Awards), Rising Stars, Geeks on Ice, the Enterprise Network, Business New Brunswick and others.

Attendees get in free with your VIP CODE!

All exhibitors are given a VIP CODE to pass along to anyone they would like to invite free of charge to Think New Brunswick. Otherwise, the charge is currently $15 for attendees up until show day on Wednesday, November 21, at which time registration is $25. We hope through this process we encourage the right audience attending the showcase. To register as an attendee, you just go to the Think New Brunswick website and register, www.ThinkNBPenserNB.ca.

We are now focused on marketing Think New Brunswick throughout the province …to key officials in government departments and agencies, industrial sectors and businesses with the explicit aim of raising the profile of the ICT industry to promotion support of made in New Brunswick ICT. The Steering Committee (see website for list) is very focused on ensuring that not only will Think New Brunswick deliver an important opportunity for networking and profiling to ICT exhibitors but we are working to ensure the vision of exploiting made in New Brunswick ICT is turned into reality.

With only six weeks to go, we are well on our way to delivering you the ICT industry a premium business development event that we hope will reinvent itself to a much greater event next year at Harbor Station.

As an exhibitor or attendee we hope to see you at the showcase. For up-dates on Think New Brunswick, check the website daily at www.ThinkNBPenserNB.ca