Vendor FAQ
The Smart Water Summit invites 100-120+ C-level Utility Executives of Municipal/Rural Electric Distribution/ Investor Owned Utilities and Water Utilities from across the United States. As a vendor, you will participate in Boardroom Vendor Presentations, Summit Solution Showcases, Executive Premier Showcases, and more, deigned to maximize the Utility Executives' exposure to your products and services and create solid sales leads.
In comparison with classic Trade Shows, we target, pre-qualify, and deliver only C-Level or equivalent Decision Makers of the Utilities invited to our Summits. Unlike the typical expo-type trade shows, the Summits deliver a structured and intimate environment conducive to conducting business with these prime prospects. You are provided with the format and tools needed to identify, meet with and present your products and services to Executives in a variety of settings: one-on-one meetings, group boardroom presentations, educational settings and an endless variety of networking and social activities. You will also profit from face time with customers, Industry authorities from government, leading publications and professional associations.
Our number one priority is to provide you the means to achieve productive connections with our VIP Utility Attendees Executives.
The Boardroom Vendor Presentations enable Vendors to meet with and discuss their product(s), service(s) and solutions to select groups of Utility Executives. The Summit Solution Showcase enables Vendors and Utility Executives the perfect means to follow-up on Boardroom Presentations. Furthermore, the Executive Premier Presentations and a dynamic series of networking events, are designed to reinforce and solidify interaction between all Summit participants.
Contact John Huff or Ron Hewett , Directors of Sales for the Smart Water Summit!
At a Summit, you as a Vendor are able to make scores of successful face-to-face sales calls during an intense, highly concentrated three-day period. The Summits represent an incredible consolidation of marketing expenditures, sales calls, travel time and expense vouchers.
Companies of all sizes and types have recognized the potential advantages of the Summit(s) as the premier business development event for the Utility Industry. The unique opportunity the Summits provide to establish customer relationships, recruit partners, educate/ train, and gain valuable feedback is incomparable. As participating Vendors have realized, a boardroom based event spells success for small and medium companies, as well as the top Industry leaders.
Your opportunities are virtually endless - before, during and after the Summit:
- If you opt to sponsor an Executive Premier Breakfast Presentation, you are able to deliver your message to every attending Executive at one time
- At your Summit Solution Showcase booth, you can introduce and discuss your products and solutions at length, face-to-face
- As a participating Summit Vendor, your company is eligible to work with the Summit Marketing Staff on customized opportunities for reaching and engaging the attending Utility Audience enhancing your company's opportunity for success.
- You will benefit from inclusion in all marketing materials, website content, signage and Summit directory materials.