46th Midwest
39th Great Lakes
Joint Regional ACS Meeting
Exposition & sponsorships

The 46th Midwest/39th Great Lakes Joint Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society will be held in St Louis, October 19–22, 2011, at the Sheraton Westport Chalet Hotel. We expect that this will be the largest ever Midwest Regional Meeting—with an industry and academic exposition to match.

Expo Hall

The exposition is in the Versailles Ballroom, on the lower level of the meeting space. Rows of industrial and academic booths are intermixed with rows of easels for poster sessions. The room also serves as “Coffee Break Central”. The Exposition floorplan locates the booths. Exhibitors are listed below, with their chosen booth positions.

You can also mouse over the booths in the diagram to see who’s who. Clicking on a booth will open the exhibitor’s web page in a new window.

The exposition will be open to visitors:
 — Wednesday, 7–9 pm
 — Thursday, 8:30 am–5 pm
 — Friday, 8:30 am–12 noon

Key to Exhibitors

Event sponsors

We’re grateful to the following companies and organizations for their sponsorship of special events at the 2011 MWRM/GLRM — and we’re sure you attendees are, too.

• Half-day technical symposia
  These sponsors are listed and acknowledged on the Program page along with the symposia they have supported.
• Wednesday night SciMix
• Awards Banquet Reception
• Coffee/snack breaks
  
• ACS Governance Luncheon
  
• In-kind donations/giveaways/door prizes

Information for exhibitors

We invite you to represent your products and services at the Exposition, a central feature of the conference. The exposition will be open to visitors:
 — Wednesday, 7–9 pm
 — Thursday, 8:30 am–5 pm
 — Friday, 8:30 am–12 noon

The value of personal contact in this age of online networking cannot be overestimated. Our exhibitors will obtain maximum exposure to conference attendees, sharing space with technical posters, coffee breaks and other refreshments. Technical session chairs will periodically remind attendees of the Exposition.

We have space for only 46 exhibitors, ensuring a lot of attention from attendees. The cost is $550 for a 10 × 8-ft booth (width × depth), which includes meeting registrations for two people. A reduced price of $280 for an 8 × 6-ft booth (width × depth) applies to academic and non-profit exhibitors, but no meeting registrations are included.

Each booth includes an 8-ft skirted table, two chairs, and an ID sign. Electric power and Wi-Fi are also included. If you will not be sending a representative to the meeting, you can book a literature-only table. We will attractively display the literature you send and keep it stocked. Leftover literature will be returned to you, if you request, at your expense.

We are working with Paramount Convention Services, a major national company, for our exposition arrangements. We are confident that we will have an excellent event.

If you are interested in participating, please return the industry contract form or academic contract form, and note the rules that pertain to all exhibitors at the conference. Booth space can be selected on a first-paid, first-choice basis. Additional sponsorship opportunities are shown below.

We look forward to hearing from you. Please contact either of us if you have any questions.

Regards,

Ted Gast
CEO, Carl F. Gast Co.
314.993.2870

Lisa M. Balbes, Ph.D.
Balbes Consultants, LLC
314.966.5298

Exposition Co-Chairs
exhibits@mwrm2011.org

Sponsorship Opportunities

All sponsors will be listed in the program, along with a brief description of the company, as well as being listed on our web site with a link to the URL of your choice.

• Meeting Level Sponsorships
  
  • Platinum Level ($5,000) includes one free booth in the Expo, two free meeting registrations, logo on front cover of program, and a full-page interior ad in the program. Only one (1) platinum level sponsor will be accepted for the meeting.
  • Gold Level ($3,000) includes logo on cover of program, and a half-page interior ad in the program. Only three (3) gold level sponsors will be accepted for the meeting.
  • Silver Level ($1,000) includes logo listed in program, and a quarter-page interior ad in the program
• Event Sponsorships: Providing food or drink for scientists is a great way to engender good will, and only a limited number of events will be sponsored. When they’re gone....
  
  • Half-day technical symposium ($2,500) includes signage at that symposium
  • Wednesday night SciMix ($2,000) provides one drink ticket per person with your logo
  • Awards Banquet Reception ($1,000) provides one drink ticket per person with your logo
  • Sold out: Coffee/snack break between sessions ($500) Wednesday pm, Thursday am or pm, Friday am or pm
  • In-kind donations/giveaways such as key cards, water bottles, pens, bags, etc. included in attendee goody bags; door prizes