The APEC 2006 Exposition is sold out!

If you are interested in exhibiting at APEC 2007, contact the APEC Exposition Manager for more information!

New information on the permitted size and height of your booth has been posted. [January 7, 2006]

Why Exhibit At APEC 2006?

The key value of APEC to the Exhibitors is the highly qualified audience. APEC Exhibitors praise, year after year, the high quality of the contacts made at APEC. APEC attendees are directly involved in the design, development, manufacture or procurement of power electronics systems, products and components. If you are involved in selling power electronics products or related services, you need to exhibit at APEC.

APEC 2005 had over 2000 people visit the Exhibit Hall. Approximately 70% were from the power electronics industry, about 25% were from various universities around the world and the remaining 5% were from government laboratories, the press or market research firms.

Of the more than 1700 attendees from the power electronics industry, about 75-80% are either designers or users of power electronics products including power supplies and dc-dc converters. The rest are typically design managers, procurement engineers or managers or component engineers.

Although you won't see thousands and thousands of people at APEC, what you will see are the highest quality contacts. The typical APEC attendee is the person you want to see your products and services.

Who Should Exhibit

Simply, any company selling products or services related to any field of power electronics.

Invite Your Friends And Customers - Admission To The Exhibit Hall Is Free!

APEC offers free admission to the Exhibit Hall! So please, invite as many of your current and prospective customers as you like to stop by and see you at APEC.

To make sure that all Exhibit Hall attendees are qualified, APEC does require that they stop by the APEC Registration Desk and pick up a badge.

APEC Focuses The Attendees On The Exhibit Hall!

Nothing is worse for an Exhibitor at a conference than to be working a booth in an empty Exhibit Hall. APEC does all it can to make sure that when the Exhibit Hall is open, the APEC attendees are there visiting with the Exhibitors.

No Conference Events Conflict When The Exhibit Hall Is Open

APEC does not schedule non-Exposition related activities while the Exhibit Hall is open. This means that you are not competing with sessions or seminars while the Exhibit Hall is open. This means focus for both the Exhibitor and attendee - maximizing traffic in the Exhibit Hall whenever it is open.

Attracting APEC Attendees To The Exhibit Hall

In addition to not scheduling other conference events when the Exhibit Hall is open, APEC makes the Exhibit Hall the social center of the conference. Events being planned for the Exhibit Hall include:

• Welcoming Reception with open bar and hors d'oeuvres for the entire time the Exhibit Hall is open on Monday evening. There is nothing like free food and drink to get an engineer to show up anywhere you want them to!
• Subsidized lunch served in the Exhibit Hall on Tuesday and Wednesday from Noon to 1:30 PM
• Coffee break and ice cream social on Tuesday afternoon from 3:00 PM to 3:30 PM
• Drawing for super prizes at the end of the day Tuesday where the winner must be present to win. Last year one of the giveaways was a laptop computer from Dell!
• Coffee break on Wednesday morning from 10:15 AM to 10:45 AM - right after the morning presentation sessions so that attendees are encouraged to come into the Exhibit Hall

Maximizing Exclusivity Of Access To APEC Attendees

To support our Exhibitors, APEC has a policy of not allowing access to the APEC attendees by companies not participating in the Exposition. This means that:

• We prohibit and make every effort to prevent the distribution of commercial literature by those not participating in the Exposition
• Do not allow the advertisement of hospitality suites or other meetings by companies not in the Exposition

Promoting Your Participation

APEC Web Site

All confirmed Exhibitors who wish will have their names listed on the APEC Web pages. Exhibitors who provide a URL will have their company names made into a hyperlink to their corporate Web pages.

All confirmed Exhibitors at the time of publication will also have their names in the APEC Advance Program, distributed in advance and at the conference.

APEC Exposition Directory

Each year APEC prints an Exposition Directory. This directory includes:

• A map of the Exhibit Hall with booth numbers
• A listing of all confirmed Exhibitors at press time (early January 2006), including:
  • Company name
  • Brief description of what is being exhibited (as supplied by the Exhibitor) and
  • Booth number
• A listing and description of all confirmed Exhibitor Seminars

Exposition Hours

Over the years, APEC has worked to refine the Exposition hours to give you the maximum effective exposure APEC's attendees while:

• Minimizing the amount of your time that is wasted
• Giving you the time to host a Hospitality Suite if you like, and
• Giving you the chance to get out and see some customers local to APEC

The expected hours for the APEC 2006 Exposition are listed below. These may change so please check with the Exposition Manager for the latest information.

Load In

Sunday, March 19, 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Monday, March 20, 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM

All booths must be assembled, all packing materials and trash removed from the Exhibit Hall by 3:00 PM. Booths must be manned and ready to go at 5:00 PM. The Exhibit Hall will be opened as soon as the Plenary Session concludes, which could be any time from 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM.

Exhibit Hall Open To Attendees

Monday, March 20, From the end of the Plenary Session to 8:00 PM
Tuesday, March 21, Noon to 5:00 PM
Wednesday, March 22, 10:15 AM to 2:00 PM

Tear Down And Load Out

Wednesday, March 22, 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM

Exhibitors must keep their booth intact and manned until 2:00 PM. No tear down and packing may start before then. Once the Exhibit Hall closes at 2:00 PM, Exhibitors have until 6:00 PM to tear down the booths and pack all of their materials for shipment.

Dedicated Time For Hospitality Suites

Conferences are busy times with activities planned from early in the morning to late into the evening. APEC knows that you want time to socialize with your customers - current and prospective - and has set aside a dedicated time for hospitality suites on Tuesday evening from 6:30 PM until as late as you choose.

Also available is time to host breakfasts, although we ask that all breakfast meetings be concluded by 8:30 AM when the conference activities get underway.

To be fair to all Exhibitors, APEC prohibits public meetings, seminars or hospitality suites or functions, in or out of the APEC hotel space, during any time APEC has activities scheduled. We know that you will understand and appreciate your cooperation in scheduling your meetings and events.

Exhibitor Seminars

What Are Exhibitor Seminars?

APEC 2006 is offering an expanded program of Exhibitor Seminars. This year we are offering thirty(!) half hour time slots for Exhibitors who would like to make an extended presentation to the APEC attendees. The Exhibitor Seminars are popular and give you a chance to showcase your products and services with a more commercial presentation than a refereed paper or Professional Education Seminar would allow.

Note that the only registration needed to attend an Exhibitor Seminar is the free Exhibits Only Registration so be sure to invite as many friends and customers as you wish to come to your presentation.

Exhibitors must submit their request to present an Exhibitor Seminar to the APEC Exposition Manager no later than November 23, 2005, stating their first, second and third choices of time slots. See below for the list of time slots. The same priority list used for advance booth sign-up will be used to assign Exhibitors to time slots. That is, the Exhibitor with the highest priority number will get their first choice. The Exhibitor with the next highest priority number, and all remaining Exhibitors requesting to present an Exhibitor Seminar, will be assigned their most preferred time slot that is still available.

APEC recommends the following format for an Exhibitor Seminar:

• Describe a problem commonly encountered by people in the industry
• Describe ways this problem has been addressed in the past or by you or by others
• Describe how your product or service provides a better way of addressing the problem than other available approaches
• Unlike in the Technical Sessions or Seminars, you may distribute commercial material in the Exhibitor Seminars.

Exhibitor Seminar Times

The thirty Exhibitor Seminars are held five at a time in six sessions. The currently scheduled times for seminars are listed below. Please be sure to contact the Exposition Manager for the latest information.

• Session 1, Exhibitor Seminars 1-5: Tuesday, March 21, 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
• Session 2, Exhibitor Seminars 6-10: Tuesday, March 21, 2:15 PM - 2:45 PM
• Session 3, Exhibitor Seminars 11-15: Tuesday, March 21, 3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
• Session 4, Exhibitor Seminars 16-20: Tuesday, March 21, 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
• Session 5, Exhibitor Seminars 21-25: Wednesday, March 22, 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
• Session 6, Exhibitor Seminars 26-30: Wednesday, March 22, 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM

Booth And Decoration Details

Booth Size

Booths in the APEC 2006 Exposition are 8 feet deep and 10 feet wide. All parts of the booth must fit within this footprint. Tables, chairs, stools, display cases, shelves, signs, banners, displays or any other furniture or material may not overhang or extend beyond the booth footprint and may not extend into the aisle way adjoining the booth.

The ceiling in the Marsalis Ballroom is approximately 15 feet from the floor. Booths may be of any height so long as they do not touch the ceiling.

Included With Each Booth

• Standard back wall drape and draped sidewalls 36 inches high
• Carpeted ballroom
• 24 hour security
• Complimentary refreshments at the Monday evening reception
• 50 flyers sent to each company for alerting their customers of their participation in the APEC 2006 Exposition
• An opportunity to sign up for a booth at APEC 2007 at APEC 2006 rates

Not Included With Each Booth

• Lunch tickets for either Tuesday or Wednesday
• Admission to the Wednesday evening social function. Tickets can be purchased from the Registration Desk as long as they are available.

Decorating Company

APEC 2006 has contracted with GES Exposition Services for Exhibit Hall decorating.

Exhibitor Bonus!

Each company that has a booth in the APEC 2006 Exposition receives:

• One pass to the Professional Education Seminars
• One pass to the Presentation and Dialogue Sessions
• One copy of the Professional Education Seminar workbook
• One copy of the APEC Conference Proceedings on CD-ROM

The passes to the Professional Education Seminars and the Presentation/Dialogue Sessions will be issued in the company name. These passes allow the company to send one employee at a time to the Professional Education Seminars or Presentation/Dialogue Sessions for no additional charge. These passes can be shared so that different people can attend different sessions. For example, one person could see a session on VRMs in the morning while someone different could see a session on magnetics in the afternoon.

Additional registrations can be purchased as needed at the published rates.

Exhibit Hall Diagram

The APEC 2006 Exposition will be held in Marsalis Hall of the Dallas Hyatt Regency. There are about 160 booth spaces available in the APEC 2006 Exposition. Booths are available on a first come, first served basis.

The booths are 8 feet deep and 10 feet wide, although there are some peninsula booths that are 10' deep and 16' wide. The minimum aisle width is 10 feet.

Please contact the APEC Exposition Manager for the latest booth floor plan and booth availability.

Cost To Exhibit

APEC's booth fees are among the lowest in the business.

• Corner booths: US$3000
• In-line booths: US$2850

Another Bonus!

Exhibitors at APEC 2006 will have a chance to sign up for booths at APEC 2007 (back to Disneyland in Anaheim, California - a perennial favorite of the APEC attendees!) at APEC 2006 prices.

APEC uses a priority system where those exhibitors with the most continuous booth-years have the highest priority for choosing their booths for following year's APEC. For details on how the sign-up for APEC 2007 booths will be managed at APEC 2006, please contact the APEC Exposition Manager.

Distribution Of Commercial Material

Exhibitors may only distribute commercial materials in their booth, at Exhibitor Seminars they are conducting and at press conferences they are holding.

Distribution of commercial material in any other APEC meeting or hotel space, including distribution to the sleeping rooms, is prohibited.

APEC Exposition Manager

To sign up for a booth at APEC 2006 or request more information on exhibiting at APEC, please contact the APEC Exposition Manager:

Ms. Pamela Wagner
APEC Exposition Manager
2025 M Street, NW, Suite 800
Washington, DC 20036 USA
Phone: +1-202-973-8664
Fax: +1-202-331-0111
Email: exhibits@apec-conf.org

Disclaimer

While APEC will make every effort to provide all of the services described above, Exposition hours, services and social functions are subject to change. Please contact the Exposition Manager for the latest information.