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SPONSORSHIP FOR 2025 ANNUAL COMIC INDUSTRY MEETING

The 2025 Comic Industry Meeting will be held in Glendale, California on February 20-22, 2025.

Click here for the ComicsPRO Sponsorship Information Package that will explain all the options for sponsorship.

If you can't make the meeting in person, you can still participate via WHOVA - our online web software.

Thursday, February 20th focuses on vendors with longer speaking time slots. (eg. longer than 15 minutes). Thursday is also the day that our Showcase exhibitors are set up in the Exhibit Hall, and when most of our classes are.

Friday and Saturday (February 21 and February 22) are when most vendors have their speaking slots, when the roundtable discussions occur, and when we have our Keynote Speech.

For more information, or if you have any questions, please e-mail marco@comicspro.org

SIX TYPES OF EXHIBITOR SPONSORSHIP

There are six types of Exhibitor Sponsorship Levels. Three of them are NON SPEAKING SPONSORSHIPS. (i.e. no speech in front of entire group). Three of them are SPEAKING SPONSORSHIPS. For more information, please download our ComicsPRO Sponsorship Package (2025 Version)

Here is the application for sponsorship.

NON-SPEAKING SPONSORSHIPS

Virtual Sponsors: Exhibitors who can't make the meeting in person. These exhibitors create a virtual booth in our conference software - WHOVA. - $350

Showcase Sponsors: Exhibitors who attend the meeting in person and display on a six foot table in our Exhibit Hall. The Exhibit Hall will be open for 1.5 hours on Thursday Morning and 1.5 hours on Thursday Afternoon. Showcase sponsors can also have a FREE virtual exhibit booth. Showcase Sponsors attend the conference on Thursday. $800

Roundtable Sponsors. For those exhibitors who want to talk to retailers in a controlled "speed-dating" process. Exhibitors will sit at a round table. Every 9-10 minutes a new batch of 3-5 retailers will come to your table to talk. Through this process, you will be able to chat with practically ALL the retailers who attend the in-person meeting. Roundtables will be held on Friday and Saturday. Roundtable sponsors can also have FREE virtual exhibit booth. - $1500.

SPEAKING SPONSORSHIPS

Premier Sponsors: Speeches will be 7 min, 11 min, and 15 minutes long. Premier Sponsors participate in the Roundtables and also have a free virtual exhibit booth. Most Premier Sponsors will speak on Friday and Saturday. Some will speak on Thursday. (From $2500 to $3500).

Platinum Sponsors: Speech is 25 minutes long. Platinum Sponsors participate in the Roundtables, have a free virtual exhibit booth and physical booth on Thursday in the Exhibit Hall. Also included is a seat on the ComicsPRO Advisory Board. ($5500).

Prime Sponsor: Speech is at least 50 minutes long. (May be longer if we have the time). Sponsor gets advertising in common areas of convention, in-app advertising, logo/name on bags. Designed for the vendor who wants to use the ComicsPRO meeting to make a BIG announcement! Also included is a seat on the ComicsPRO Advisory Board. - $7,500

We also have other sponsorship opportunities (reception sponsorships, virtual sponsorships, etc). Please e-mail marco@comicspro.org for more information.

Please fill the application and email it back to marco@comicspro.org. We will email you back, after December 1st, with a confirmation.

2 TYPES OF RETAILER REGISTRATIONS

ONLINE: ComicsPRO members and non-members can go to virtual exhibit hall and some of the lectures. Retailers DO NOT participate in roundtables.

INPERSON: ComicsPRO members and non-members are invited to attend the meeting in Glendale. In-person retailers participate in the roundtables.

EXPECTATIONS

>> Vendors interact with retailers who come to the meeting.

>> Vendors can also reach out to retailers who stay at home! (Through WHOVA our online conference software).

>> The event will stay up on WHOVA for 3 months after the conference, so attendees can go back to see what they missed!

>>. We will have a videographer attend the conference. He or she will work with vendors, retailers, and other attendees to disseminate videos taken at the conference.

INTERACTIONS

>> PRESENTATIONS

LIve at the meeting. Vendors can also provide a recorded presentation that we can upload to WHOVA for those that can't make the meeting.

>> MEET-UPS

Education/Networking. Attendees can use WHOVA to schedule meet-ups for in-person or virtual connections. So if you want to schedule a meet-up to show off your recent software .... or to schedule a dinner .... or a discussion about manga .... you are able to do that in-person or virtually.

>> VIRTUAL EXHIBIT HALL

Each vendor can set up a virtual booth that will go live 1 week before the meeting starts. This is a good way to put up pdfs of projects, order sheets, info for both online and in-person participants.

>> EXHIBIT HALL

Showcase vendors join us on Thursday and set up at a six foot table. There will be two sessions (1.5 hours on Thursday Morning, 1.5 hours on Thursday afternoon) when the exhibit hall will be open to retailers.

>> ROUNDTABLES

Up to 36 roundtable sponsors. Roundtables are held at in Glendale. No virtual component.

>> ONLINE FORUMS

some official forums, others participant generated. This is a great way to see what's on the mind of retailers.

>> PANELS/WORKSHOPS

focusing on subjects of interest to comic retailers.

If you would like to participate in a lecture, panel, or workshop - please email marco@comicspro.org with any idea/proposals.

CONFERENCE HOTEL

HILTON LOS ANGELES NORTH GLENDALE
100 West Glenoaks Blvd.
Glendale, CA 91202
(818) 956-5466.

Conference rate is $179.00 a night.
Here's the link to reserve the room at that rate.

WHOVA - OUR CONFERENCE PLATFORM

We are partnering with WHOVA to run most of our conference.

https://whova.com/

We plan to use WHOVA in the following way:

to post the schedule of the conference. (Both online and in-person)
to post attendee information.
As a messaging tool. Atttendees can contact each other.
To allow attendees to schedule meet-ups.
As a repository to hold pdfs, order sheets, etc.
As a way to create forums that attendees can use to discuss whatever is on their mind.

WHOVA will be up and running 1 to 2 weeks before the in-person conference starts. And it will stay up for 3 months after the conference ends.

MEET-UPS

You will be able to interact with retailers by starting and/or attending meet-ups.

Meet-ups can be in-person in Glendale. (eg. We want to take a group to dinner! Who wants to join us?" .... or "We are thinking of hanging out at this place to talk about manga!).

Meet-ups can also be virtual. You link up a virtual room using Zoom or any other video conferencing software.

ONLINE FORUMS

You will be able to interact with retailers and other vendors/distributors by posting and responding to forum posts. Forum topics can be started by any participant. There may be forums such as: Graphic Novels for Children, Best Manga, Using Grading Services, etc.

Both in-person and stay-at-home attendees can participate.

VIRTUAL EXHIBIT BOOTH

Each Vendor can set up a Virtual Exhibit Booth. The Virtual Exhibit Hall is designed both for retailers who are attending the meeting virtually and for those coming to Glendale to find out a little bit more about the vendor before the meeting. The virtual booth is a good place to display pdfs of comics, order sheets, vendor contact information, videos, etc.

In the virtual booth you wil have: A - Alphabetical List of Exhibitors, B - Prerecorded Video, C: ways that you can sign up for more info., D Coupons, Special offers, E - PDFs and Photos. , F- Chat Function . Text chats can be turned into video chats. Also links to zoom discussions.