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• Meeting Overview
• General Sessions
• Symposia
• Panel Discussions
• Tutorials
• Workshops
• Technology & Training Forums
• Hotel Reservations
• Registration
• Program
• Exhibitors
• Sponsorship & Exhibitor Information
  • Entire Prospectus (PDF)
  • Exhibit Information
  • Key Dates and Times
  • Why Support the Exhibit?
  • Meeting Exhibit Floor Plan (PDF)
  • Exhibit Space Contract (PDF)
  • Corporate Sponsorship Opportunities
  • Sponsorship & Advertising Form (PDF)
  • SFB Exhibit Rules
  • SFB Staff
  • Technology & Training Forums
• Photo Gallery

Corporate Sponsorship Opportunities

Sponsorship opportunities will be awarded based on several factors including:

• Order in which sponsorship forms are received,
• Total amount of the committed sponsorship, and
• Relationship the sponsoring company has had with the Society in past years.

Social Functions

• The SFB “Bash,” a highlight of the Annual Meeting, provides members and attendees with the chance to relax and enjoy some palate-pleasing cuisine while catching up with friends and colleagues.
• The opening reception will immediately follow the keynote address, and will provide attendees with a great networking opportunity.
• The student luncheon is an opportunity for young researchers to network with each other and to discuss the business of the SFB National Student Chapters.
• Coffee and refreshment breaks will be scheduled throughout the meeting, in the River Exhibition Hall of the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers. There are several opportunities to sponsor these welcome breaks in the program schedule.

Internet Cafe

Sponsorship of the Internet Café provides registrants with computer stations to send and receive e-mails without leaving the convention center. Registrants can also use this service to download selected abstracts while on-site. The sponsor’s company name and logo will appear on each screen and the company’s web site will be linked to the browser’s launch page.

Registration Materials

• Convention tote bags are durable bags that will be distributed to all meeting registrants on-site and will serve as a convenient carry-all during and long after the meeting. Bags will include the meeting logo and sponsor company name and logo. Sponsors will be responsible for production and shipping costs.
• There are also opportunities to sponsor a meeting pen, notepad, badge holder, and lanyards.

Meeting Advertisement

Final Program and Transactions Book/CD-Rom

When you advertise in the Society For Biomaterials Final Program, you will receive an advertisement on the Transactions CD-ROM and in the Annual Meeting Transactions Book (if printed) at no extra cost!

Final Program

The Final Program, distributed to every meeting attendee, will be an 8.5-by-11-inch, spiral-bound booklet that will include the full program, sponsor recognition pages, workshop descriptions and exhibitor listings.

Transactions CD-Rom

The CD-ROM, distributed to every meeting attendee, will contain the full program and all accepted abstracts, and will be searchable by title, keyword and lead author.

Transactions Book

The Transactions Book will be an 8.5-by-11-inch bound volume distributed at the Annual Meeting to attendees that have purchased a copy. The Transactions Book will contain all of the accepted transactions, and keyword and author indices, as well as a full program for the meeting.

Please contact Dan Lemyre at (856) 642-4201 or dlemyre@biomaterials.org for advertising materials specifications.

General support of the meeting at any level is also welcome!

Sponsorship Benefits

GOLD LEVEL: $10,000 OR MORE

• Complimentary 8-foot-by-10-foot Exhibition Booth ($2,180 value)
• Complimentary half-page advertisement in Biomaterials Forum* ($625 value)
• Three complimentary registrations (more than a $1,000 value)
• Sponsorship recognition and complimentary listing in SFB Resource Guide** ($295 value)
• Recognition in signage at registration area
• Recognition from lecture podiums (slides before each presentation)
• Recognition in the Annual Meeting Transactions CD and Final Program
• Listing on SFB Annual Meeting Web page as a Gold Level Sponsor
• Meeting bag inserts

SILVER LEVEL: $5,000-$9,999

• Complimentary quarter-page advertisement in Biomaterials Forum* ($485 value)
• Two complimentary registrations (more than a $700 value)
• Sponsorship recognition and complimentary listing in SFB Resource Guide **($295 value)
• Recognition in signage at registration area
• Recognition from lecture podiums (slides before each presentation)
• Recognition in the Annual Meeting Transactions CD and Final Program
• Listing on SFB Annual Meeting Web page as a Silver Level Sponsor
• Meeting bag inserts

BRONZE LEVEL $2,500-$4,999

• One complimentary registration (more than a $350 value)
• Sponsorship recognition and complimentary listing in SFB Resource Guide ($295 value)
• Recognition in signage at registration area
• Recognition from lecture podiums (slides before each presentation)
• Recognition in the Annual Meeting Transactions CD and Final Program
• Listing on SFB Annual Meeting Web page as a Bronze Level Sponsor

*Biomaterials Forum –The Biomaterials Forum is the Society For Biomaterials' newsletter that is published four times per year. For advertising, or editorial information regarding the Biomaterials Forum, please contact Frank Scussa, managing editor, at (856) 439-0826 or fscussa@biomaterials.org.

**Resource Guide – The Resource Guide is a fully searchable listing of biomaterials-related products and services, found on the Society For Biomaterials' Web site. If you would like to place an ad in the Resource Guide, please contact Dan Lemyre, Assistant Executive Director, at (856) 642-4201 or dlemyre@biomaterials.org.

Technology and Training Forums

In 2007, the Society For Biomaterials will again offer sponsors the opportunity to host Technology and Training Forums. “T&T Forums” are intended to be technical-based educational opportunities for members/attendees of the SFB Annual Meeting. The forums may be hosted by corporations (e.g., sponsors and exhibitors) or federal government agencies, and they should focus on technology and training. Programs may consist of a “how-to” session, or expose participants to new guidance documents, standards or government initiatives. T&T Forums are not intended to be sales or marketing opportunities and SFB reserves the right to decline a T&T Forum proposal that includes a competitive comparison or resembles an “infomercial.” T&T Forum hosts receive:

• Theater style seating for up to 250 attendees in an SFB-assigned meeting room
• LCD projector and laptop
• Podium microphone
• Promotion of the forum in the Final Program book
• One complimentary use of the Society For Biomaterials membership list and pre-registrant mailing list to advertise the session being held in conjunction with the Annual Meeting
• Table in rear of room for handouts

Additional meeting room/speaker needs will be the responsibility of the T&T Forum host and all arrangements must be made directly with the convention center. All expenses for the speaker(s) and handout materials will be the responsibility of the T&T Forum host.

T&T Application Submission

Applications, including a description of the intended program, must be submitted to the SFB headquarters no later than December 11, 2006. You may download and print your own Corporate Sponsorship and Advertising Form or contact Dan Lemyre for a copy. Program organizers will be notified if their proposal has been accepted by the week of January 1, 2007.