Vendor Participation in the CSC Symposium

The first annual UCSC CSC Symposium is being held on May 5, 2023. Vendors who sell products related to chemical screening have an opportunity to help sponsor the event and participate in the following ways:

  • Registration is free for all who want to attend. It is a 5 hour scientific event with talks, posters, networking, and a free lunch, located on the beautiful UCSC campus in the beach town of Santa Cruz.
  • A vendor table will cost $500. These will be located in a room adjacent to the main lecture hall. This room is where the coffee will be served in the morning, so attendees will be forced to come past all the vendor tables. Feel free to include on your table: demos, screens with videos or data, brochures, freebie swag, etc. We currently have at least 5 vendor tables confirmed. Space is limited, so hurry to get yours! Right now, $500 will get you 3ft (half) 0f a 6ft table, shared with another vendor. A whole 6ft table is $1,000. We’re discounting that by 50% for vendors who participated on our S10 grant (Perkin Elmer, Beckman Coulter, Agilent, LiCONIC, HJ Bioanalytik, CDW, Vertiv, TargetMol, ChemDiv).
  • Sponsor a gift/award/prize to be presented during the symposium with your name mentioned:
    • We need two gifts for our visiting guest speakers. An appropriate example idea could be an Amazon gift card (i.e. not something bulky to travel with).
    • We need 16 gifts for the faculty who contributed to our S10 grant (this offer is limited to vendors who had instruments in the S10 application: Perkin Elmer, Beckman Coulter, Agilent). An appropriate example idea could be a gift basket with luxury snacks.
    • We need 3 awards for our poster presenters. An appropriate example idea could be a mug printed with the CSC logo and your company’s logo, that says on it “Winner of the 2023 UCSC Chemical Screening Center Symposium Best Poster Award”. I’m sure they also like gift cards and snack baskets!
    • We could offer prizes for the most frequent user(s) of your company’s equipment at our center. We have archived electronic logs of all use so this would be easy to compute for Perkin Elmer, Molecular Devices, BioTek, and/or Thermo. An appropriate example idea could be swag similar to the poster award (e.g. a notebook, mug, T-shirt, lunchbox, tumbler, water bottle, etc.).
  • Sponsor a portion of the event’s budget:
    • Sponsor the lunch for $1,200. The lunch will be announced during the symposium as being provided by you and reflected in the program. You can bring a sign to place next to the lunch table.
    • Sponsor the morning coffee for $200. Your sponsoring the coffee will be reflected in the program. You can bring a sign to place next to the coffee table.
    • Sponsor the venue fees, A/V setup, poster boards, chair rental, etc. for $3,000. Your name would be at the forefront of all our materials alongside Perkin Elmer (whose gift was $3,000 – for travel expenses for one of our guest speakers, Roger Linington).
  • Any monetary donation is appreciated and we will allocate it as we see fit towards the symposium budget. If we collect more funds than our expenses, then the funds stay in the account designated for CSC Symposium, and will go to next year’s. To make a donation, use this link.