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Are you in the business of selling great experiences to sports fans? Do you supply goods and services to clubs, teams, venues and events? Fan Experience Forum 2013 provides the perfect platform to enhance your client base, explain your approach to the market and to better understand the industry’s key trends.

A limited number of exclusive sponsorship and exhibition opportunities are available for Fan Experience Forum 2013. For an exhibitor & sponsor information pack please contact our Conference Director Angelina Tennino via email or telephone her: +44 (0) 20 8133 5226.

Green 4 Solutions

Green 4 Solutions is the CRM market leader within the Sport and Leisure industry. Their joined-up solution has taken CRM to the next level by incorporating a world class fan loyalty programme and also through the development of a customer focused ticketing solution, built on the CRM platform.

Green 4 are a Microsoft Gold Partner with Microsoft Dynamics CRM at heart of all solutions. Their philosophy is focused on building long term relationships with fans and customers by using technology to provide a personal, targeted strategy that improves the fan experience as well as commercial revenues.

The full joined-up solution from Green 4, with its familiar Microsoft look and feel, has a powerful CRM engine as well as full functionality for ticketing, retail and hospitality sales, inbuilt marketing and eCommunications modules, food and beverage sales, loyalty programme and cashless. By providing functionality for all stadium requirements on one single platform, the marketing team has complete power over their data. All customer touch points will provide a valuable data source which can be used to trigger automated communications and build loyalty.

Green 4’s client base now includes over 150 worldwide clients from a number of sports, associations, national governing bodies, leisure venues and entertainment businesses.

For more, visit www.green4solutions.com

THE FAN EXPERIENCE COMPANY

The Fan Experience Company uses the ‘customer’ experience as a catalyst for growth in sports and leisure organisations.

Established by Mark Bradley (author of Inconvenience Stores and Retails of the Unexpected) this consultancy firm uses a range of innovative research and engagement methods to help clients develop a customer mindset. The English Football League reports a 12% increase in the number of families attending matches since working with The Fan Experience Company to establish the Family Excellence Awards. That’s nearly 2 million people.

There’s a growing acknowledgement that different attitudes are required to meet our future challenges – and the Fan Experience Company has the knowledge, networks and expertise to support sports and leisure businesses on this journey. Click here for more

Fanwaze

Fanwaze is a leading provider of real-time marketing and fan engagement software in the Sports and Entertainment market.

Fanwaze is a marketing platform empowering Sports Organisations to increase loyalty and revenues with real-time personalised and contextual communications with their fans.

Fanwaze innovative technology provides a unique platform for marketers and digital media teams to deliver fan experience interactions based on the viewed event, location, demographics and stadium operational data through existing and future digital communication channels. Utilization of the system enables the sports organization to develop and deploy effective marketing strategies aimed at fans in the stadium as well as towards remote, “second screen” fans.

In addition, Fanwaze innovative Partner Marketplace technology enable the sports organization to maximize its business relationships with partners, sponsors and affiliated organizations on a local, regional and international scale, thus creating new revenue streams and maximizing its fan eco-system on a truly global basis.

For more, visit www.fanwaze.com

Extricom

Extricom is a manufacturer of next generation enterprise WLAN solutions, based on its Channel Blanket™ technology architecture.

Extricom’s patented interference-free architecture for Large Venues is an innovative WLAN architecture that makes it possible for the FIRST time to offer a true Wi-Fi platform for thousands of users in a very challenging environment, crowded with fans, and smartphones providing a proven solution that works!

Extricom solutions are used by customers in numerous industries worldwide, including Education, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Warehousing, Retail and LPV. Extricom serves its growing global customer base through offices in the USA, Europe and Japan, and with a global network of partners.

SKIDATA Group

SKIDATA Group is a global leader in access solutions and their efficient management.

With almost 7,500 installations worldwide, SKIDATA provides ski resorts, shopping malls, major airports, municipalities, sports stadiums, trade shows and amusement parks with secure and reliable access solutions for people and vehicles. SKIDATA places great value in offering solutions that are intuitive, easy to operate and secure.

The integrated concepts of SKIDATA solutions help clients optimize performance and maximize profits. SKIDATA Group (www.skidata.com) is a member of the publicly tradedSwiss Kudelski Group (www.nagra.com), a market leader in digital security solutions.

Daktronics

Daktronics, founded in 1968 in the USA, has been recognized as the world’s leading provider of full-color LED video systems since 2001, having installed worldwide more than 8,000 LED video displays.

Daktronics installed its displays in well known European venues including PGE Arena in Gdansk, BV Borussia in Dortmund, St. Jakob Stadium in Basel, Swissporarena Events AG in Lucerne, Kinnarps Arena in Jonkoping, O2 Arena in Berlin, Bercy in Paris and O2 Arena in London, Old Trafford in Manchester, Olympiastadion in Berlin and Stadion Letzigrund in Zurich. Daktronics also installed video displays for the World Cup 2010 in two South African stadia: Mbombela and Nelson Mandela. In the USA, Daktronics has equipment at 20 of 29 NBA facilities, 23 of 30 NHL facilities, 29 of 31 NFL facilities and 9 of 17 MLS facilities. The Nordic region is served by Daktronics through its local subsidiary located in Wiesbaden, Germany. For additional information on Daktronics, visit www.daktronics.com

Huggity

At Huggity we combine our photography, technology, creative and marketing skills with our love of sport to create a positive experience for fans and a powerful engagement tool for brands, venues and clubs.

We developed a new digital sponsorship inventory called FanPics which are giant 360º panoramic, multibillion pixel crowd images taken at games. When fans tag themselves on these images they create branded messages that display on Facebook. These messages create real fan engagement, introduce new revenue streams for clubs and provide reliable data capture and audience profiling for sponsors.