Hello,I'd like to bring your attention to next year's CeBIT in Hannover. CeBIT is amongst the longest and most important trade shows, at least in Europe, and we have been there ever since, mostly due to the laudable efforts of Jacqueline and Thomas. It takes place early March and lasts (IMHO) 5 days.
Given the international recognition and audience of CeBIT, it definitely makes sense to represent TDF internationally here, should we attend, e.g. by having people join for one or two days from the various at least European countries we are active in, and be present with talks.
Thomas Krumbein from FrODeV kindly checked prices and conditions, and is willing to organize CeBIT and staff the booth for the full week (but of course, more than just one person is needed, see above).
The drawback of CeBIT is the high costs, ranging around 7-10k € for the booth and booth rental, for about 12 m². While there are surely options of having a smaller booth, those don't make much sense - I'd rather prefer to not exhibit there, or to solely send in talk proposals, than joining at a small booth nobody looks at.
Last year, we paid about 4k € or so, but feedback was that by not having an individual booth, our recognition was rather low.
How do people generally feel about attending CeBIT and the associated costs? Is this something we should look forward into planning, and start looking for sponsors to cover parts of the cost, or shall we go for a different approach?
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