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  PLATINUM HEADLINE SPONSOR SUMMIT		PLATINUM HEADLINE SPONSOR AMEC AWARDS & SUMMIT DINNER
  GOLD EDUCATION SPONSOR
  GOLD PLENARY DAY SPONSORS
  GOLD WORKSHOP DAY SPONSOR
  SILVER SPONSORS
  WELCOME DRINKS SPONSOR
  SPONSOR
  SUMMIT NATIONAL SUPPORTER
  SUMMIT INDUSTRY SUPPORTER

  Take this outstanding opportunity to showcase your business to delegates through a Showcase Exhibitor sponsorship.

  To discuss sponsorship packages please contact Barry Leggetter at barryleggetter@amecorg.com or +44 (0) 7748 677504.

  We have packages which all include Exhibitor space in a special area adjacent to the conference room which will also be used by delegates for all conference networking breaks.

  Platinum Headline Sponsor – Summit

  
  Publistat is the largest media evaluation company in the Netherlands. Publistat was founded in 2001 by Public Affairs consultant Jeroen Scholten. The company now has more than 30 employees which analyse media for companies, NGO´s as well as local, regional and national governments. Publistat has a broad experience in the fields of financial services, telecom, industry, pharmaceutical companies, infrastructure, national health and transport.

  Our analysts are all academics from various disciplines such as: Communication Science, Business Administration and Political Science. We attach great value to the further development of the field of media research. Therefore, we often collaborate with scientists; both within the Netherlands and abroad. Furthermore, Publistat is the first media evaluation company in the Netherlands that is a member of AMEC.

  Contact:
  Jeroen Scholten, Founder
  Tel: +31 (0)20 5289295
  Email: Jeroen.scholten@publistat.nl

  Platinum Headline Sponsor – AMEC Awards and Summit Dinner

  
  Ninestars Information Technologies Ltd. provides smart, IP-driven digital content solutions to clients worldwide. We have over a decade’s experience in the digital content industry and understand the market needs, technology trends and changing user behavior. From digital clipping services to transcription, analysis, and multi-platform mobile apps, we have end-to-end media monitoring solutions.

  Clipping and beyond

  We offer platform and cloud-based services across media and across verticals.

  Media analysis, our latest offering, delivers critical insights understanding into brand exposure, effectiveness and value generated by media coverage. Our domain specialists help convert volumes of unstructured information into impactful business statistics for you.

  StarClips, our live service platform, converts print, audio and video content to tagged digital clips, allowing you to repurpose the content into user-specified collections. Automated processes and live dashboards provide control back to you while the zero-touch managed services model provides operational flexibility and immense cost benefits.
  With our mobile app solutions for media monitoring agencies, you can explore more paid content possibilities and get access to new streams of revenue through advertising and subscription.
  We help media monitoring companies create value for their customers without compromising on relevance, quality and speed of delivery.

  Contact:
  Michelle Harold, VP – Global Sales
  Tel: +34 91 127 8510
  Mob: +34 638 52 15 75
  Email: michelle@ninestars.in

  Summit Sponsors

  Gold Education Sponsor

  
  Gorkana will film the two days of the Summit and then share the presentations on AMEC’s Knowledge Share website.

  Whether building and managing your brands reputation or driving bottom line growth through earned media, Gorkana supply the tools and expertise you need to ensure that all your communication activities are a success. Easily accessible through one integrated portal and through our unique smartphone and tablet app, Gorkana provides the UK’s most recommended Media Database, Multi- channel Media Monitoring and PR Analysis services.

  Everyday over 35,000 communication professionals use our global services to help them plan campaigns more accurately, develop closer relationships with journalists, keep track of mainstream and social media coverage, manage brand reputations and demonstrate the impact of their communication strategies. Gorkana Group also runs the U.K.’s leading journalist and PR recruitment site and provides daily media and PR industry news through its Media Alerts and PR News services.

  Contact:
  Name: Alex Bates
  Tel: +44 (0)20 7074 2489
  Email: alex.bates@gorkana.com

  Gold Plenary Day Sponsors

  
  Retriever is the leading company in the Nordic countries for media evaluation and media monitoring with offices in Sweden, Norway and Denmark.

  Retriever serves clients in the private and public sector across all business segments with publicity in the Nordic countries as well as in the rest of the world. We offer qualitative media analyses of all types of media, providing our clients with insights beneficial to both business and communications efforts.

  Retriever’s Media Analysis Team has extensive experience from a wide variety of different sectors. This is fundamental in helping to provide you with operative and strategic support in evaluating and developing your communication work in an ever-changing global environment.

  Contact:
  Helén Damberg
  E-mail: helen.damberg@retriever.se
  Telephone: +46 8 546 121 00
  www.retriever-info.com

  
  Founded in 1998, Moreover Technologies is an industry-leading content delivery service that tracks and organizes global business news and media coverage. Moreover gives companies a customizable delivery channel for enterprise-wide media access, turning global media coverage into actionable media intelligence through powerful media monitoring and news distribution tools. Organizations have access to millions of new articles a day for a 360 view of the media landscape, in any industry, language or region, and across open and licensed content, news and social media, print and broadcast. Moreover’s Newsdesk service scooped several industry awards including Dual Codie Awards 2011, Stevie Business Award 2011, and Digital Impact Award 2011. Leading international media evaluation agencies rely on Moreover’s unique, near real-time news index for in-depth coverage and quality data. Worldwide, Moreover Technologies clients include Shell Oil, BP, Citigroup, Siemens, Reuters UK, Hill & Knowlton, BBC, Kingfisher, Simon & Schuster, Grant Thornton, Allen & Overy.

  Contact:
  Mark Denn, Managing Director EMEA
  Tel: +44 (0) 20 7253 5003
  Email: Mdenn@moreover.com

  Gold Workshop Day Sponsor

  
  Talkwalker is an easy to use and incredibly powerful social media monitoring and analytics tool. It delivers high value insights in a user-friendly dashboard recommended by agencies and brands worldwide. With a focus on big data crawling the Talkwalker search index is one of the largest, covering over 150 million sources in 187 languages and 247 countries. The dashboard is extremely user friendly and features intuitive filters and reporting functionalities. Talkwalker is developed by Trendiction, a privately held and rapidly growing company founded in 2009 and based in the European capital city of Luxembourg. Website: talkwalker.com

  Talkwalker was rated one of the top 5 best social media monitoring tools and online reputation management tools globally in 2013. The free Talkwalker Alerts launched in March are a preferred replacement of Google Alerts to receive free notifications by e-mail or RSS feed.

  Contact
  Christophe Folschette – Founder
  Tel: +352 20 33 35 39 02
  Email: c.folschette@talkwalker.com

  Silver Sponsors

  
  Braun Research was founded in 1995, employs 50 full time and over 700 part time employees engaged in data collection via telephone, and internet for various survey research firms, government and advertising agencies, foundations, universities and academic entities as well as religious organizations. In over eighteen years in business, we have conducted 8,000 research projects by telephone, internet and mail worldwide.

  Braun Research operates telephone call centers in the United States and Canada. We also operate our network of vetted operators throughout Europe, Africa, North and South America and Asia and Australia. Among the internationally-known firms that have hired Braun Research Include the Gallup Organization, the Pew Research Center, IBM, Dow Chemical, Samsung and Ketchum Public Relations. Braun Research has worked for the US Department of Treasury and Defence. Braun Research also work for multiple universities including Princeton University.

  Braun Research is known for developing sampling strategies that pinpoint efficient efforts in representative polling and research. Our interviewing for custom survey data collection include residential studies, health care (physician, specialist and nursing) as well as high level business surveys, and elected officials and their staffs.

  Contact:
  Paul Braun or Dave Oshman, VP of Client Relations
  Tel: +1 609-279-1600
  www.braunresearch.com

  
  Founded in 1996, Digital Nirvana provides knowledge management solutions for an increasingly media-centric world. With the proliferation of media channels, formats, and platforms, today’s organizations need intelligent, scalable, automated solutions to help them handle the information overload.

  With Digital Nirvana solutions, large volumes of data can be automatically acquired, compiled, and organized in a readily accessible form for monitoring, analysis and decision-making.
  Our core services include media analysis & coding, content management, news report generation, broadcast news summarization, transcription and broadcast content acquisition.
  Products include AnyStream IQTM live stream monitoring, Monitor IQTM broadcast monitoring, MediaProTM content repurposing, and the RAD suite for song/ad tracking.

  Industries like Media Monitoring companies, Advertising & PR agencies, Broadcast station management, Broadcast news operations, Music industry, Financial news aggregators, Education & E-learning, Legal transcription, Government etc. can benefit from our powerful, scalable knowledge management products and services.

  For more information, please visit www.digital-nirvana.com

  Contact:
  Rahul Amin
  Head Sales – Media Monitoring Services
  T: +1 510 226 9000 x 725
  E: rahul@digital-nirvana.com

  

  eMedia Monitor is an Austrian technology company, which has become a leader in worldwide Radio and TV Monitoring, both for News and Advertisment Monitoring. Since its foundation in 2007, the company is leading innovation in the Media Monitoring industry without any costly or time­consuming manual monitoring. eMM is completely focused on quality and service to our partners and customers, and provides personalized information in real­time (typically on average 25­30 seconds after broadcast).

  Leading innovation is an important ingredient to our success, as is our monitoring quality and customer service. Over the years the expertise of eMM has steadily grown to meet and exceed the challenges of a globally competitive environment: ongoing technical innovations, additional languages and an increasing coverage on a daily basis.

  Industries in the public and private sector across all business segments can benefit from our powerful, scalable Media Monitoring products and services globally.

  Contact:
  Helena Gugumuk
  hg@emediamonitor.net
  www.emediamonitor.net
  phone: +43 1 581 2630 ­ 109

  Welcome Drinks Sponsor

  
  BurrellesLuce is at the forefront of providing copyright compliant solutions; our Compliant Article Program (CAP) is a one-stop-program for media monitoring and evaluation services -and their clients- providing timely, comprehensive, licensed content and a cost effective way to be copyright compliant. Unlike other programs limited to online newspapers, CAP covers all publisher-distributed media.

  At BurrellesLuce, quality content is our top priority. The US leader in comprehensive media monitoring, we curate media coverage from thousands of print and online versions of newspapers, trade journals, magazines, blogs, social media, and broadcast television and radio. Content reaches you, your client, and your software with full text AND accompanying images.

  Contact:
  Tel: +1 (866) 524-3329
  Email: CAP@burrellesluce.com

  Sponsor

  

  Faselis is a media and client relations management service owned by Bilgiodasi. Faselis is the common tool with 80% penetration in Turkish PR market and is the choice of all Global PR companies operating in Turkey. Faselis is a cloud based platform which has unique functionalities like the most up-to-date media database, unique “media distribution lists” technology and easy-to-use client management. By these functionalities of Faselis, productivity of PR agency media departments increases dramatically.

  With more than 99% customer fidelity and 40% average growth rate, Faselis is the tool that changed Turkish PR industry. Now, Bilgiodasi is planning to expand its Faselis service into the new markets with partnership model, and the potential partners are local media monitoring companies.

  Contact:
  Aydın Sun, CEO
  Tel: +90 850 200 4950
  Email: info@bilgiodasi.com

  
  iSentia is the Asia-Pacific region’s leading business intelligence company, providing over 5,000 clients with media information, analysis and advice 24/7/365. iSentia has more than 1,200 employees across 15 countries filtering information from over 10,000 print, radio and television media outlets and over 250 million online conversations per month. Our talented people, innovative search technology, comprehensive coverage and expert research provides the tools and insight to allow our clients to manage media relationships effectively, track and analyse issues of interest across all media, and discover and share valuable insights that drive smarter decisions.

  Contact:
  Patrick Baume, Group Communications Manager
  Tel: +61 2 9318 4012
  Mob: +61 458 651 000
  Email: Patrick.Baume@iSentia.com

  

  IQ Polls is easy-to-use voting tool for interactive presentations. It makes presentation fun, engaging and productive. The presenter just shows the question to the audience and the response is immediately displayed on the screen. Unlike other oldschool voting tools and voting software, IQ Polls doesn’t require specific IT skills or knowledge. Everyone can use it. Installation of voting software is not needed. We want to give
  you an easy voting solution for audience polling.

  IQ Polls replaces traditional audience response systems based on hardware with easy-to-use mobile and web-based technology. This means that everyone in the audience can vote. IQ Polls supports various smartphones, tablets and laptops. Audience can vote with internet browsers or SMS

  Contact
  Arturas Jonkus, Co-Founder
  Tel: +370 686 42 450
  Email:arturas@iqpolls.com

  Summit National Supporters

  
  The Dutch Association of public relations consultancies VPRA is the biggest national PR association in Netherlands, covering over 50 independent consultancies and global network affiliates in the country. The VPRA is a platform for discussion and for the development of members, their management and staff. The association encourages and facilitates contact between members in both the professional and social spheres. VPRA aims to improve the quality of the profession and to serve as a portal for potential clients of member firms.

  VPRA supports the continuous development of high quality services by promoting informed discussion of the (practice of the) profession and modern and healthy business practice. To ensure the latter, the association has developed a BureauManagement Standard (BMS) with certification requirements that indicate how firms must be run. Members must be prepared to conform to the Bureau Management Standard.

  Contact
  David Gribnau, Chairman
  Tel: +31 (0) 620415329
  Email voorzitter@vpra.nl

  
  Logeion is the Dutch association of communication professionals, a non-profit organization with 3150 members in the Netherlands. Logeion is the host of about 80 classes and networking events a year where professionals can connect with each other and learn about the latest developments in communications and related fields. Logeion is also editor of a monthly printed magazine, called C, and hosts an online platform where members and non-members can interact with each other, discuss trends in communications and post blogs.

  Check out our website www.logeion.nl

  Summit Industry Supporter

  
  The International Communications Consultancy Organisation (ICCO) is the voice of public relations consultancies around the world. The ICCO membership comprises national trade associations in 29 countries across the globe in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australasia. Collectively, these associations represent over 1,700 PR firms.

  www.iccopr.com
  T @ICCOpr
  F www.facebook.com/ICCOpr

  Contact
  Anastasia Demidova MPRCA, ICCO General Manager
  Tel: +44 (0) 20 7233 6026
  Email: anastasia.demidova@prca.org.uk

  
  The Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) is the largest professional organization serving the U.S. public relations community. With a mission to “advance the profession and the professional,” PRSA provides news and information, thought leadership, continuing education and networking opportunities; sets standards of professional excellence and ethical conduct; and advocates for the business value of public relations and greater diversity among public relations professionals. Based in New York, PRSA comprises 112 local Chapters; 14 Professional Interest Sections that focus on specific industries and practice areas; and the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA), which is active at more than 320 colleges and universities

  Contact:
  Eileen Lintao, Membership Manager
  Tel: +1 212.460.1490
  Email: Eileen.lintao@prsa.org

  AMEC Awards Media Partner

  
  Communicate is a monthly trade magazine for the UK corporate communications community. ‘The single voice for stakeholder relations,’ Communicate focuses on communications with stakeholders, the press, investors, employees, regulators and the supply chain. With a mix of news and features,

  Communicate covers PR, reputation management, CSR, community engagement, investor relations, rebranding, monitoring and evaluation and more.
  It is read in print and on iPad by in-house communicators and by communications consultancies across the UK. Communicate organises conferences and awards, including the Reputation in Oil, Gas and Mining conference, the Digital Impact Awards, Transform Awards, and the Corporate & Financial Awards.

  Contact:
  Andrew Thomas, Publishing Editor
  Tel: +44 (0) 20 7498 7008
  Email: Andrew.Thomas@communicatemagazine.co.uk