Why exhibit at CARTES & IDentification 2010?

Strengthen your market position

Be part of your industry's key business event

CARTES & IDentification is the leading international business event for the digital security, smart technologies, payment and contactless sector.

Exhibit alongside all the players of your industry

Your whole industry's value chain is represented!

By participating in your sector's leading trade show you are positioning yourself among the sector's key players. Being present at this event will also enable you to audit your market and monitor the competition!

Cards, devices, data processing equipment manufacturing

Data security
Mobile and terminal security
IT security and authentication

Engineering / Services
Engineering, software & systems
Electronic Data Interchange / Dematerialization (M2M, Trusted third parties)

Identification
Biometric, technologies, Identification,
Authentication, Trusted technologies
Physical and logical access control
Auto ID and Internet of Things

Raise your profile

By taking part in CARTES & IDentification, you are exhibiting alongside the whole industry and ensuring your company's presence at the heart of the key event for your business sector!

CARTES & IDentification is the leading business event to:

• Make yourself known and strengthen your image
• Promote your brand
• Demonstrate your leadership or your ambitions

Present your innovations

CARTES & Identification is a trade show, a congress and the Sesames Awards, where innovations and new market trends are presented.

Exhibiting at CARTES & IDentification is a special occasion and a unique opportunity to:

• Present your services, products and innovations to a targeted audience
• Test your new products
• Communicate about your products in the media and launch new ones
• Organize a product launch or a press conference

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Develop your smart business

Accelerate your business 

• Generating orders and/or contacts
• Guaranteeing turnover

27% of exhibitors confirmed they took orders during the trade show, half of which were unexpected.

2009 exhibitors survey

Develop an effective international business 

Multiply your contacts

• Prospect new customer bases
• Meet your existing customers
• Meet professionals from every area of the industry
• Enhance your databases

Meet international professionals and decision-makers from every part of the industry

Thousands of professionals from all around the world, from every part of the sector and all specialties will be there to meet you at CARTES & IDentification!

View the 2009 visitors' list

Visitors from every part of the sector: all user sectors are represented

Breakdown by business sectors

Source: 2009 exhibitors survey

International visitors: 44.5% of visitors are from outside the EU!

Source: 2009 visitors survey

90% of exhibitors are satisfied with the quantity and 91% with the quality of non-French visitors.

Source: 2009 exhibitors survey

Visitors involved in the purchasing process: 86% are decision-makers

Breakdown by position

Source: 2009 exhibitors survey

Very good quality of internationals customers and contacts.

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Benefit from an international promotional campaign

Global media coverage

• Advertising campaign covered in the sector's specialized and general business press worldwide - Nearly 200 advertising inserts (web + print)
• Press relations reaching 800 journalists:

- 22 press releases and alerts
- a press conference, 5 months before the event
- over 616 articles in the press in 2009

• Development of new partnerships in 2009: Les Echos, Le Monde (les Cahiers de la Compétitivité), 01 informatique, silicon.fr...

Targeted marketing actions

• Segmented databases: banking, telecoms, transportation, government, security, IT...
• New database acquisitions
• Invitation cards: more than 230 000 cards distributed
• A free invitation code for each exhibitor and e-invitation system
• Enews: 15 newsletters, video-mails and flash info sent to over 80 000 contacts
• The early-bird and conference programmes: over 100 000 copies sent 
• Specific actions for VIPs: more than 8 000 contacts

A very popular website

• Increasing visitor numbers: 159 000 visitors in 2009
• A web site regularly updated with exhibitor and market news

Blog: open throughout the week of the trade show in 2009

• 44 posts: exhibitor information, trade show news, expert advice, as well as videos and photos
• Content quality appreciated by journalists and seven out of 10 web-users.

Would you like to exhibit at CARTES & IDentification?

Don't put it off, download the admission form to find out all the information you need.

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