The Erlang Factory Conferences in San Francisco Bay Area and London are the major events in the Erlang calendar. In 2009, the first year of the Erlang Factory Conferences, a total of over 300 people attended, showing the level of interest for the technology.

Erlang Factory
SFBay Area
25 to 26 March 2010

Erlang Factory
London
10 to 11 June 2010

Erlang User Conference
Stockholm
11 November 2010

These conferences draw all levels of the technological business community – from owners and senior technical officers to developers and programmers. Previous delegates have been drawn from large corporations who are looking to Erlang to provide the capability to move into new products and services as well as individual consultants including Erlang in their list of competencies.

We are expecting 150-200 delegates from all over the world to be attending each of the Erlang Factory Conferences. This year the origins of the delegates were:

SF Bay Area 2009

London 2009

The Erlang Factory brings together speakers from all sides of Erlang. There are wide-ranging talks both from the “old-guard” who have been involved with Erlang since its inception - such as Joe Armstrong and Robert Virding - and the increasing number of developers who are using the strengths of Erlang to develop powerful applications and tools, such as Eugene Letuchy from Facebook and Damien Katz – the inventor of CouchDB.

The Erlang Factory also includes talks on other functional languages such as Ruby and Haskell with Ezra Zygmuntowicz from EngineYard and Simon Peyton-Jones from Microsoft Research having spoken in 2009.

If you want to be seen as a supporter of Erlang by the Erlang community then consider sponsoring at the Erlang Factory in SF Bay Area or London!

Sponsorship Opportunities

Platinum Sponsorship – $5000/£3000 (Effective sponsorship cost - approx $2200/£1400)

1. Logo displayed permanently on the respective Erlang Factory Platinum Sponsors' panel
2. Name, logo and a short corporate description on the Sponsors' page of the respective Factory website.
3. Logo on the Factory Sponsors' banner.
4. Opportunity to provide a marketing stand at the conference.
5. Opportunity for a corporate flyer or other marketing collateral to be put into the delegate bags.
6. Introductory announcements at the beginning and end of both conference days.
7. 4 conference delegate passes

Gold Sponsorship – $2500/£1500 (Effective sponsorship cost - approx $1500/£1000)

1. Logo rotating on the respective Erlang Factory Gold Sponsors' panel
2. Name, logo and a short corporate description on the Sponsors' page of the respective Factory website.
3. Logo on the Factory Sponsors' banner.
4. Opportunity to provide a marketing stand at the conference.
5. Opportunity for a corporate flyer or other marketing collateral to be put into the delegate bags.
6. Introductory announcements at the beginning and end of both conference days.
7. 2 conference delegate passes

Silver Sponsorship – Over $500/£300

1. Logo rotating on the respective Erlang Factory Silver Sponsors' panel
2. Name, logo and a short corporate description on the Sponsors' page of the respective Factory website.
3. Logo on the Factory Sponsors' banner.
4. Opportunity for a corporate flyer or other marketing collateral to be put into the delegate bags.

Specific sponsorship scenarios

1. Sponsorship of a lunch on either day or the Erlounge – $5000/£3000
1. Logo displayed permanently on the respective Erlang Factory Platinum Sponsors' panel
2. Name, logo and a short corporate description on the Sponsors' page of the respective Factory website.
3. Logo on the Factory Sponsors' banner.
4. Opportunity to provide a marketing stand at the conference.
5. Opportunity for a corporate flyer or other marketing collateral to be put into the delegate bags.
6. Introductory announcements at the beginning and end of the conference.
7. Opportunity to have two corporate roller banners in place at the lunch room or Erlounge event room
8. (Note: Cost of the roller banners will be additional).
9. Introductory announcement at the lunch or Erlounge.
10. V-cards with "Lunch sponsored by" plus your corporate name and logo, on each table.
2. Sponsor of a Speaker

We have a budget for bringing-in speakers from out of town. If a sponsor covers these costs then we can bring more outside speakers. Would you like to sponsor a speaker? Your Company can become a sponsor if you cover the costs for travel and accommodation of a speaker. The level of sponsorship will vary slightly from that outlined above:

• Speaker's transport involves intercontinental travel (from Europe to US or vice-versa for example). This would cost $1500/£1000 and would be shown as a Gold Sponsorship, but without the delegate passes.
• Speaker's transport involves domestic travel (within the US or Europe for example). This would cost $800/£500 and would be shown as a Silver Sponsorship.

Other sponsorship scenarios

We welcome alternative sponsorship opportunities including that of conference bags, lanyards etc. We are happy to work with sponsors who might want to only sponsor a part of an event e.g. lunch or Erlounge or who have something different in mind too. Please contact Joanna to discuss your ideas or proposals: joanna@erlang-solutions.com.