The City of Ryde is home to some of Australia's biggest and most innovative companies, with more global corporations choosing to call the North Ryde/Macquarie Park precinct home every year. It's anticipated that by 2020 this region will be the second-biggest CBD in NSW.
We offer corporates three distinct sponsorship opportunties: Support Partner, Event Sponsor and CEO Club Sponsor.
Support Partner
This is a level above Patron Member. We are looking for support partners to help us market Ryde as an innovative business destination nationally and internationally. We need a partner to enable us to draw topline international speakers to Ryde. Think big - think Steve Jobs, Daniel Pink and other innovation stars. We want to bring them to the business people of Ryde, but we need your help to do it. We are a not-for-profit association, but that doesn't mean we're thinking small. The sky's the limit - come fly with us! Contact us and we will arrange a meeting with our Chairman to discuss how we could work together to raise Ryde's profile along with your own.
Individual Event Sponsor
On a strategic level, RBF has partnered with the City of Ryde to market this region Australia-wide and internationally. Ryde is Australia's innovation destination, and RBF is the City's premier business speaker and event provider. We are currently negotiating with high-level international and national speakers to address members and guests at keynote speaker events.
Already we have been able to draw on well-known Australians to speak for us, such as Prime Minister of Australia The Hon Kevin Rudd MP, who addressed a sellout crowd in 2009. During his time as Prime Minister The Hon John Howard was a keynote speaker for us no on no less than six occasions. We regularly enjoy hearing from senior federal and state politicians and well-known business people at breakfasts and luncheons; they recognise we're a catalyst for business in Ryde. We will continue to bring topical Australian speakers to our guests as well as sought-after international innovators.
RBF is seeking partnership sponsors to assist us in producimg and promoting these events. Because of the nature of speaker we will be providing, we expect exposure to be high not simply here in Ryde but across Sydney and potentially other Australian capitals. Our sponsorship partners for these events will hit a targetted business audience. It's a priceless opportunity - but it's affordable, too.
Single event sponsorship is negotiable for each event, so contact us if you'd like to see your banner behind the guest speaker. When you sponsor one of our events, we will include your logo on all material associated with the event - invitations, advertising, electronic mailouts, and an internet page which covers the event itself including photos of the event (with your banner clearly visible on the page as a logo link to your own site).You'll be able to use the opportunity for your own corporate relations needs - and your key person will be seated next to the guest speaker at the event. What could you achieve in an hour with the Prime Minister over lunch? Think about it - and contact us about sponsoring our breakfasts and luncheons.
Over the next twelve months we are planning at least two major events with highly sought-after speakers; we set the bar high for our keynote luncheon speakers (see photo above!) and canny sponsors will secure themselves unique opportunities.
CEO Club
We are also running a series of keynote speaker events for our CEO Club. You won't find the activities of the CEO Club advertised widely in our material, as it is a low-key but high-powered forum which offers CEOs the opportunity to network over lunch and enjoy hearing and meeting top-quality speakers from Australia and internationally. The CEO Club luncheons take place four times a year, and give senior executives from Ryde - and all over Sydney - the opportunity to enjoy such functions without traveling to the Sydney CBD. There is currently no other organisation providing our local executives with this kind of high-powered luncheon experience.
CEOs from within RBF's membership base and a wider circulation would be invited; up to 1,000 invitations will be sent for each event, but spaces at each event are limited to between 20 and 50 attendees to provide a level of intimacy and facilitate networking. CEOs regularly attend business lunches in the Sydney CBD and elsewhere; but they may never get to talk to the speaker directly on a one-on-one. Our CEO Forums give our guests that priceless opportunity. Spaces at these events are highly sought-after.
In order to provide this service, RBF needs sponsorship. As a not-for-profit association RBF is not in a position to provide these luncheons without the support of sponsors. Please click here to read our CEO Club sponsorship package.
