If you represent a company (or even an individual) interested in sponsoring C++ on Sea, welcome! This page sets out the options available. For the tl;dr - if you're just looking for the table of tiered benefits - click here.
Background
C++ on Sea has been running every year since 2019 - weathering the pandemic in its second and third years. We're now getting back to the growth that 2020 original promised.
In our first year we had 250 in attendance in total. A small conference, but a strong start. We had expected to grow from there, but the pandemic had other ideas.
In 2022 we had 175 in-person (with another 44 online) - which was a good comeback compared to the industry in general. 2023 saw 200 in-person. So we expect that growth to continue.
Predictions are hard, especially about the future.
We tend to attract a little over 50% of our attendees from the UK. The vast majority of the rest are from western Europe, with a small number from further afield.
Most of our attendees are full-time C++ developers, spanning the range of experience, but with a skew towards expert level.
Types and Levels
We offer a few types of sponsorship: a traditional tiered set of packages: "Bronze", "Silver", "Gold" and, the exclusive, "Platinum". This year we have split out a couple of options as bolt-ons, "recruitment" or "sponsored talk". As a result we've been able to reduce the price of the core tiers.
We also have a number of more specific options that can be obtained in addition to, or even instead of, the tiered packages. These include Video Sponsorship, the speaker's dinner, registration reception and coffee tokens.
And, finally, Community sponsorship - for meetups, blogs, podcasts, etc.
Tiers
Tiered packages progressively add features, so Gold includes all the features of Silver and Bronze, for example.
| Bronze | Silver | Gold | Platinum | |
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All tiers |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
- and/or -
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✔ (one or the other) |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
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Silver+ features
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✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
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Included registrations
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✔
1 free registration
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✔
3 free registrations
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✔
4 free registrations
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Gold+ features
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✔ |
✔ |
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Platinum only features
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✔ |
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Price All prices are exclusive of UK VAT. |
£995 | £2,250 | £4,250 | £12,500 |
| Bolt-ons | |
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| The following may be purchased in conjunction with one of the above tiers: | |
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Recruitment
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£2,000 + VAT |
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Sponsored talk
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£995 + VAT |
Video Sponsorship
All talks are recorded and will eventually be made available on YouTube (note that, due to technical incidents, one or two sessions may not make it to YouTube).
At time of writing we have 12.5K subscribers. Most of our videos are in the 5k-10k views range, with many in the 10s of thousands and a couple over 230k!
We have two forms of video sponsorship available:
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Branded channel For the year following the event, up to the next edition, your branding and links will appear on the YouTube channel and you may provide a short video to play as the channel autoplay video for at least six months. |
£4,950 + VAT |
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Pre-roll An embedded intro, up to 8 seconds long, baked into the start of every video. |
£6,950 + VAT |
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Logo Logo to be baked into the duration of most of the videos (please note that a small number of videos may be reserved for other branding purposes). |
£8,500 + VAT |
Speakers Dinner
We hold a gala dinner in the venue, with views over the sea. Attendees may purchase tickets for the dinner, but all speakers receive a free ticket - so most will be present.
This sponsorship involves covering approximately half of the cost of the speakers. In return the dinner will be branded the <your name> dinner, and you will be thanked during the evening for helping to cover the cost of the speakers' meals.
£1,950 + VAT
Coffee Sponsor
Attendees have access to coffee urns during two breaks a day. This coffee is fine - but a good, hand served, barista coffee is hard to beat. Above the part of the venue we use is a public cafe area serving just such barista coffee!
This sponsorship would let you provide branded tokens or vouchers in the conference bag that can be redeemed in the coffee shop for up to three coffees (one a day).
This would also be highlighted in the opening address and the sponsor thanked for buying everyone coffee!
We introduced this sponsorship in 2022 and it proved very popular with the attendees.
£2,500 + VAT
Registration Reception Sponsor
The evening before the main conference (immediately after the workshops) we open the registration desk and invite
everyone that has already arrived to come and register early and enjoy a drink from the bar.
If this event is sponsored we can offer registrants free drinks and will brand the event "The <sponsor name> Registration Reception" in the schedule and you may place a roll-up by the registration desk.
£1,500 + VAT
Travel & Team Sponsorships
If you send three of more employees from the same company, we offer to mention and thank you in the opening sessions and (if arranged in time) your logo in the "Bronze" section of the website.
Or if you are an employer of a speaker and you cover their travel and accommodation expenses we can offer the same deal.
Please be sure to contact us to make arrangements if you wish to take advantage of this option.
Upgrades to full Bronze sponsorship (or beyond) are also available.
Community Sponsorship
The community works best when it works together. Swapping logos and links is an effective way to cross-promote events, services and resources within the community. Typical examples are: blogs, meet-ups, podcasts and other conferences. No money changes hands,
Logos will be featured on the website - on the sponsors page and also further down the front page and on the schedule page but randomised on load (not all community sponsors will be on every page view).
Let's talk
To discuss any of these options, or if you have other ideas you'd like to talk over, please contact us.
