Becoming a Forum Vendor

May 18-19, 2010 - Education Breakout sessions

May 19, 2010 - Vendor exhibits

Location: Saint Martin's University in Lacey

Forum is an annual information technology seminar and trade show sponsored by the IPMA. For thirty five years, Forum has proven to be an effective opportunity for vendors to demonstrate their products, for speakers to share their expertise and knowledge, and for state employees and others to attend free seminars and product demonstrations. Forum is one of the premier technology shows in the Pacific Northwest and the largest to focus solely on the public sector. Approximately 1,000 state, county, city and private sector employees attended Forum last year.

Schedule for Vendors for Forum

January 1 - Begin recruiting vendors
April 15 - Complete sign up of vendors
May 19 - Set up vendor booths from 7:00 am to 9:00 am
May 19 - Booth exhibits open from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm

Don’t miss out on having a presence at Forum 2010 in May. Although the state is having financial problems, the problem is mostly impacting “general fund” state agencies.  Many state agencies have their own sources of funds such as the gasoline tax, licensing fees and federal grants, etc.

Some of the vendors that will be at Forum 2010 include: IBM, RSI. CA. SAS, Point B, SQLSoft, HP, Data Domain (EMC), Cayzen, UW IS, Qwest, CGI, Ciber, Verizon, Xerox, INX, Cisco, Eclipse, Symantec, Semantic Arts, Lexmark, General Microsystems, Hitachi, DIS, Capital Business Machines, Preston Data, Microsoft, CodeSmart, Gartner, and Dell.

Booth fee is $895. Each fee provides the use of one 10' X 10' booth from 7:00 am Wednesday to 8:00 pm Wednesday. This time period allows for setup and removal of exhibits. Each three-sided, drapery-walled booth will have an eight-foot back wall, three-foot sidewalls and will be carpeted. Each vendor booth will include one 3'x 6' linen skirted table, 1,000 watts of electrical power, and two chairs. There is a limit of two booths per vendor.

All participating vendors will be given access to last year's Forum attendees mailing list. Vendors will also be given access to the Forum 2009 attendees list after it is completed.

To signup as a vendor

Before you complete the following signups, please view the attachment at the bottom of this page for the Forum exhibit area layout (Excel file). and select your first, second and third choices for a booth.

Now you can complete your vendor sales contact signup. If someone else is your company's events manager, then return to this page and complete the vendor event manager sign-up.

2010 Forum Vendor sales contact sign-up

2010 Forum Vendor event manager sign-up

Upon receipt of your application by the Forum Director, an invoice will be emailed to you. The invoice will contain all pertinent billing information for your booth(s).

Please contact our Forum Director, Jim Andersen at 360-786-1445 or email to JA_Andersen@MSN.Com for any additional information.