SQL Saturday Albany 2024 Sponsorship

SQL Saturday Albany is an all-day technical training event organized by the Capital Area SQL Server User Group. This event provides data-centric training to anyone interested in making the trip to New York's Capital Region for this in-person event.

SQL Saturday provides technical and professional development sessions geared towards software developers, data professionals, IT professionals, students, and anyone else interested in learning in-demand skills. While there is a strong focus on the Microsoft data platform, sessions span many data platforms, products, and technologies.

As a sponsor of SQL Saturday Albany, you are enabling us to provide free high-quality technical training to our local and regional communities. As a driving force behind this event, you will help shape what the attendees see, hear, and take away from this event. Your presence at our event, as well as your promotion of the event, will ensure the value of your sponsorship of this conference.

Breakfast and lunch are provided on-site as a way to promote networking between the attendees, speakers, and sponsors. A dedicated area is available for the sponsors so that attendees will have the opportunity to meet with them throughout the day.

We work hard to ensure that this event will be a great experience for everyone, particularly our sponsors, who help to cover the cost of the event. This not only allows us to plan a better SQL Saturday, but also to keep the cost to attendees as low as possible. This is our 8th SQL Saturday event in Albany, NY. Our goal is to provide the best SQL Server training possible, and we hope that you’ll join us!

How Much Does It Cost To Be a Sponsor?

Sponsorship ranges from $250 to $2500 depending on the package selected. We are always willing to discuss customized solutions to meet your needs.

Bronze Sponsorship — $250 prepaid.

• Name and logo with a link on our SQL Saturday website.
• Name and logo with a link in all communications before the event.
• Printed materials in the attendee event bag
• Raffle item to attendees ($100+ value). Event staff will scan raffle tickets for you.

Silver Sponsorship — $750 prepaid.

All benefits the Bronze Sponsorship including:

• Sponsor table for advertising, recruiting, networking, etc.
• Raffle item with a special sponsor introduction (Raffle item be provided by the sponsor ($200+).
• Conclusion slide in all speaker presentations
• Giveaway item in attendee event bag
• Banner and sponsor intro on the SQL Saturday site

Gold Sponsorship — $1500 prepaid.

All benefits the Silver Sponsorship including:

• eBlast to all registered attendees prior to the event, sent on behalf of SQL Saturday
• Copy of opted-in mailing list provided after the event
• Additional news about the sponsor with promotion on the Capital Area SQL Server Group site
• Banner (provided by the sponsor) at the event.
• 30 minute demo or sponsor session during lunch

Platinum Sponsorship — $2500 prepaid (limited to three)

All benefits the Gold Sponsorship including:

• Name and logo on attendee bags
• Choose from one of the below platinum sponsorship opportunities:

Speaker Dinner Sponsor: A private dinner is provided for speakers the night before SQL Saturday. Your company will be listed as the sole sponsor of the speaker dinner on the website, literature, and at the event. You are welcome to coordinate this dinner and customize your presence as you see fit.

Post-Event Party Sponsor: A party is held after SQL Saturday as a thank-you to our volunteers, speakers, and sponsors. Your company will be listed as the sole sponsor of the post-event party on the website, literature, and at the event. You are welcome to coordinate this gathering and customize your presence as you see fit.

Shirt Sponsor: We provide event shirts to the speakers and volunteers to wear throughout the weekend. Your company will have their logo and name added to the sleeves of these shirts, as well as be recognized as the sole sponsor of our event shirts.

All fees must be paid in advance.

The Raffle – Your Key to Success!

The biggest challenge with community events is capturing contact information for follow ups. Few attendees will have business cards, and having them hand-write their info often leads to data loss due to the inability to read what they wrote! We provide attendees with a set of pre-printed raffle tickets (see below) that contain their name and email address; they are then able to put these tickets into the raffle box at each sponsor table to attempt to win a prize. This gives you 100% readability and 0% loss! It is also more effective than any other technique we’ve seen for trying to capture contact information and that includes scanning their name badge.

Because we want you to be successful, all of our sponsorship levels include the requirement that you provide a raffle prize of at least $50 in value. This prize highlights your creativity and involvement in the technical community and can be a significant draw for attendees.

We provide the raffle boxes. We will have one table for all absentee vendors placed in the same areas with our onsite vendors. Raffle ticket collection will proceed through the end of the day. If someone from your team is present we’ll ask them to draw the winning ticket, otherwise we’ll draw the ticket. Attendees must be present to win. If there is a physical prize, we will give it to them, otherwise we will forward you their contact information for you to follow up with (for shipping/delivery information, etc).

After the event we will mail you the attendee information from the raffle tickets from your box so you can follow up. Please note that we cannot share attendee contact information with you unless they have entered your raffle and/or provide explicit permission to do so.

Event Logistics

We’ll open the doors to sponsors at 7:00am EST. Sponsors will be provided with a table, chairs, and limited access to power. Please let us know what you need in advance, and we will do everything we can to accommodate your needs. Sponsor tables will be centrally located in the same area as registration to make it easy for attendees to stop by at any time during the day. We encourage sponsors to remain on site throughout the event and, if possible, to have a representative present at the end of the day to personally present your prize when the raffle winners are announced.

Breakfast and lunch will be provided to sponsors that have registered. Please have everyone from your team that will be attending register at SQL Saturday Albany 2024 (#1083) so that we can have enough food available for everyone. There is no need for sponsor representatives to pay the lunch fee. We are covering this for you.

Contact Us

We hope you’ll support this event! If you have any questions, please contact Edward Pollack at [email protected].

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Massry Center for Business and School of Business Accolades, Massry Center for Business and School of Business Accolades, Albany, United States