Food Blogger Connect #FBC15,

Opportunity All that fun and knowledge exchange which happens over the three days can drain attendee’s (smartphone) batteries. Create a recruiting area for bloggers to recharge while you connect and build relationships with them throughout the entire weekend with over 12 hours of tailored networking time. Save the day by fueling their batteries through branded table-top mobile phone charging stations so bloggers can continue Tweeting, Instagramming and live sharing activity with their audience. Launch your app and hub activity here with a dedicated and highly visible space to reach, connect and build relationships with the audience. Benefits Chances are you’re going to have a hard time keeping the bloggers out of your tent (along with the rest of the FBC15 influential brand partners to boot). They’re likely to thank you and share the great time they’ve had and all the fabulous messages they’ve taken on board with their readers, followers and good old face-to-face word of mo

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Opportunity This is the space where up and coming talent will showcase their passions for creative pursuits of dining, drinking, art and entertainment. The Krackin Kitchen will present an eclectic mix of chefs, food experts and food producers who are pushing the boundaries in food and thinking out of the box. From our Number 1 DJ Seth Troxler waxing lyrically about the science of BBQ to Ole Hansen serenading his personally smoked salmon with some piano sounds- a daily ritual he believes adds to the unique taste of his sought after salmon- Krackin Kitchen demos and happenings are guaranteed to be the talk of the conference! Benefits These are the foodies of the future and they’re guaranteed to have the wow factor! Cutting edge brands who want to attach themselves to cool, new talent before they hit the big time can use this opportunity to help drive their unique message in a fun, and out of the kitchen box kind of way. This is very tailored.

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Opportunity Bloggers are always looking for a sassy professional headshot to use on their blog, media kits, press and more. Get personal, build a friendship and help them out by creating the perfect scene/backdrop for their posing dreams. Bring along a professional (popular) photographer, hair & make-up artist, branded suitcases, kitchen pins, find some wicked costumes, the latest fashions... Benefits Watch them play dress up with your message and maybe even snap a few selfies for their Social Media stream. Inspire some creative headshots for them to use on their about pages and they’re likely to take to blogging the behind the scenes process it took to get that money shot.

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Opportunity This area will host our favourite chef’s demos, so if you want your kitchenalia, special spices or new sauces put to the test in front of transfixed bloggers this is the place to be. Benefits Bring in top chefs to demonstrate your products with images of this shared online by hundreds of bloggers in the audience. This is a powerful opportunity for you brand message to be communicated and to engage the audience into action (purchase or become incredibly wishful and recommend the purchase to their readers)

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Opportunity We’ve put aside some quality time during the conference where our published speakers/ authors can sign books and connect and engage in fun banter over a couple of drinks. So, if you are a publishing house with a fantastic list of food and travel books to push, then this is the perfect space. Also suitable for a design company that has a great book shelf or reading chair - a wonderful design with genius functionality. Benefits There are lots of opportunities to get involved during the network hour/book signing. This is the place to showcase your amazing products, get bloggers using them, conversing about them. Watch them share their cool finds excitedly via their Social Media feeds. This is an engaging opportunity for you to build rapport, valuable relationships and gain feedback from key industry influencers.

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Opportunity Gone are the days of limited wifi! Exclusively connect over 250 bloggers, content creators, influencer and industry leaders with 3G speed Wifi over the weekend powered with a custom branded internet access code to push your brand message further. Extend your brand presence across the conference, by having the internet code (ex. #YOURBRAND) graffiti’ed (subject to venue terms) on varying locations across the conference venue, on name badges as well as being acknowledged as the brand that is POWERING FBC15 on the programme, website and via our Social Media platforms. Now that’s a very strong presence they’re unlikely to forget. Benefits This is a very powerful way to extend your brand awareness and create positive association further creating online buzz as attendees take to their social media platforms to thank your brand for powering their internet throughout the weekend. This further shares your brand with the event audience and the online audience throughout event

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Opportunity Giveaways and competitions are a great way to create buzz and build a social conversation with engagement around your product or services either pre, at or post event! Showcase through an at event competition to win the prize giveaway while offering the opportunity for bloggers to spread your message and engage with your brand all while reaching out to their readers and audience online. The competition would go out via FBC social media platforms at event with tailored activity and messages to be shared through social media to be entered to win the prize giveaway, engaging with your brand across the weekend. The prize giveaway will be announced on Sunday during the closing ceremony through an engaging comedy game-show and or activity.

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Opportunity Our interactive labs create great opportunities for your products to be put to display or to test within a very enthusiastic and receptive blogging community. We’re hosting a number of engaging labs this year including Food Photography & Styling, Vlogging, Travel and Lifestyle Photography, Food Writing and much more. Benefits Whether to photograph, use while filming a cookery demo or used as a focus in descriptive writing workshops, attendees will be immersed in an intimate brand experience, images of and messages about your brand will be shared within their multitude of online platforms as they capture and communicate tips & tricks they’ve gained from the lab.

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Opportunity Sometimes the best way to get your message across is by delivering small bouts of information in an engaging, fun and witty or thought-provoking way. We have two remaining Lighting Talk slots (15+ minute speaking slot) available for you to engage an audience of over 300 bloggers and influencers Benefits Lightning talks are a great window to get the audience thinking about your message and chew it over. Delivered well they’re likely to be so inspired and gladly help you spread that message to their readers and followers.

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Opportunity To be heard, it’s important to join the conversation. At FBC, we have a number of speaking panels that are focused on creating a thought-provoking and engaging conversation between speakers and attendees. There will be some fantastic and very relevant conversations taking place this year such as “Food Trends,” “Future of Blogging” and “The Great Big Ethics Conversation”. The topic of this talk can be arranged once we have finalised the authors who will be able to attend. Please refer to the programme for more details and opportunities. Benefits Conversation panels are a great opportunity to directly position yourself with industry influencers and to discuss your brand message. Participating in conversation panels allows you to put out key messages and appeals, discuss and defend that message or get other key influencers supporting that message publicly. 


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Opportunity The FBC goodie bags are one of the biggest highlights of FBC and that’s not just for all the spectacular goodies that they hold, but because they make for great carrier bags that can be used through the year. Benefit The FBC committee are not the only one’s crazy about them; we’ve had some attendees come and ask if we had empty extras they could pass on to their family members! While this may seem like a traditional form of sponsorship, we think it’s still one of the best ways to keep your brand in the memory of our attendees (and viewed by all wherever they should like to go shopping)

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Opportunity Place your product directly into attendees hands with the opportunity to take your items home and share with others. Attendees can walk away from the event after having tasted the product and geared with recipe ideas and product to re-create flavours on their own and to their potential readers. Benefits By having your products included in goodie bag, you'll be benefiting from a unique opportunity to spread the word to over 250 attendees and more! Excited and engaging social media activity about products included in the goodie bag begin as soon as attendees got their hands on them and continue well after the conference as they put the products into good use and even showcase them in recipes on their blogs. 300 products and or leaflets

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Opportunity Every year, we ask renowned photographer Sarka Babicka to capture these beautiful moments. Armed with your objectives and needs, Sarka is at the ready throughout the conference to capture still product & interaction with product, plus stall and presenter images, if applicable. Of course, we can tailor this more specifically to your requirements. (subject to disclosure from attendees) Benefits 5 edited, high-res, engaging images of industry influencers using, interacting and loving your brand/product/service to use as part of your media kits, advertisements, etc.

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Opportunity Host an opening party with canapés and cocktails on Thursday evening with meet and greets entertaining FBC speakers and attendees Benefits Schmooze international and local speakers with exclusive one on one time at your property as they network and mingle while sampling you tailored menu

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