BGANZ 2017

Botanic Gardens Australia & New Zealand th 8 Congress 22-25 October 2017 Adelaide Botanic Garden

Sponsorship Prospectus

Botanic Gardens Australia and New Zealand Botanic Gardens Australia and New Zealand (BGANZ) is the peak body representing all botanic gardens in Australia and New Zealand.

BGANZ promotes the interests and activities of all Australian and New Zealand botanic gardens through its 140 member gardens, enhancing the state of botanic gardens internationally.

BGANZ conducts a biennial international congress, attracting key decision-makers for botanic gardens across Australia and New Zealand. The Congress offers delegates the opportunity to network, learn and participate in an international dialogue of all things botanical.

The Botanic Gardens of South Australia will host the BGANZ 8th Congress 22 -25 October 2017 at the National Wine Centre of Australia, adjacent to the Adelaide Botanic Garden.

BGANZ invites you to be part of the 8th Congress

Hosting Organisation- Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium The Botanic Gardens of South Australia comprises three beautiful botanic gardens – Adelaide Botanic Garden (and Botanic Park) in the city, Mount Lofty Botanic Garden in the Adelaide Hills and Wittunga Botanic Garden in suburban Blackwood.

The Botanic Gardens attract 2.2 million visits annually, and have provided a range of cultural, recreational, educational and scientific facilities for over 160 years.

Our mission is to build an understanding and appreciation of the botanical world. Our vision is an inspired community who actively contributes to the sustainability of our world.

Congress Theme Preservation: Exploring and Adapting.

The theme underlines the need for botanic gardens to adapt in their environment and to the ever-changing needs of the community.

This covers both the natural, cultivated, financial and political environment, and the strategies required to ensure the preservation of threatened species.

How do we ensure proper connection with the community and their ongoing engagement?

How do we inspire younger generations, friends and volunteers to gain their vital support - an integral part of all botanic gardens?

How do we safeguard our commitment to botany, science and conservation, horticulture and education?

BGANZ is offering you a unique opportunity to sponsor the BGANZ 8th Congress.

Your sponsorship is important because sponsorship funding: • Provides your business with marketing opportunities to promote your products and/or services to a captive audience • Contributes to the operation and continuation of BGANZ to build the quality of botanic gardens in Australia and New Zealand to cater for over 13.5 million visits per annum • Allows for greater variety of keynote speakers to attend to challenge our thinking of the role of botanic gardens and to adapt to the ever-changing needs of the community • Provides opportunities for international networking and knowledge sharing Sponsoring the BGANZ 8th Congress is an excellent opportunity for you to connect directly with 140 botanic gardens across Australia and New Zealand, and their passionate staff and volunteers, allowing for second-to-none exposure to this industry.

Benefits The 8th BGANZ Congress will be attended by over 20 Directors, General Managers and Presidents of botanic gardens from Australia and New Zealand, providing you with direct access to key decisionmakers.

More than 50 botanic gardens, 12 local government bodies and more than 60 organisations are represented at the Congress, with more than 150 delegates expected to attend.

As a sponsor you’ll have exposure to all delegates through the Congress handbook, website and acknowledgements throughout the Congress including guest speaker/presenter opportunities.

By sponsoring the BGANZ 8th Congress you will have the opportunity to market and promote your business while building stronger profiles with delegates and their organisations.

Four internationally-respected keynote speakers will present over the course of the three days.

BGANZ will accept sponsorship payments over two financial years (2016/17 and 2017/18) if sponsorship is confirmed and first payment is received prior to 30 June 2017. All sponsors are asked to confirm and pay for their level of sponsorship by 1 September 2017.

Sponsorship Benefits For Your Organisation

$19,900 Name rights ‘Presented by’ (one only)

Company logo on outside of delegation satchel ‘presented by..’

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Colour advertisement on the back page of the Conference A4 handbook (artwork to be supplied by you)

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Company logo on Congress signage and delegation material

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Company listing with editorial content in Congress handbook including a foreward (copy supplied by you)

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Company listing with editorial content in Congress handbook (copy supplied by you) Company banner at the opening ceremony and closing dinner

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Opportunity to present one 5 minutes speech at opening and closing ceremony of Congress

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Opportunity to present one 25-minute session on day three of Congress

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Colour advertisement in the Conference A4 handbook (artwork to be supplied by you)

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$9,500 Congress Closing Dinner (one only)

$7,500 Opening Ceremony (two only)

$4,500 Field trip sponsor (two only)

$2,500 Emerging and early career sponsor (Five only), Keynote sponsor (Four only)

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Half page A4

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Company banner at Field trip Complimentary registrations to the Congress (includes opening ceremony, closing dinner and social functions) valued at $1200 each.

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Complimentary tickets to both the opening ceremony and closing dinner valued at $215 each

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Acknowledged as a sponsor in three-minute address at the opening ceremony or closing dinner

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One 90-second presentation played in the room prior to the start of selected sessions (advertisement to be supplied by you)

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Holding slide loop played at opening ceremony, official dinner and social functions

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Exhibition space at the Congress

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All sponsors will receive • Complimentary tickets to 8th BGANZ Congress social functions • Verbal acknowledgement of sponsorship at the opening and closing sessions • Company logo on the 8th BGANZ Congress website • Company listing in the Congress handbook • Place material in the delegation bag • Access to the Congress delegate listing (name, organisation, state and country. Emails are limited to those who have agreed to disclosure) Other sponsorship opportunities • Prizes for competition winners $500 (three only) • Supporter in-kind (multiple)

Open Sponsor If none of the sponsorship options fits your profile, you can choose an Open Sponsorship option. As an Open Sponsor, you define how much you wish to contribute to supporting the 8th BGANZ Congress. Your gift would contribute to the general costs of the congress, or to a specific activity of your choice. Depending on your needs, we can also propose a tailor-made offer.

Exhibitor $1,000 (10 only) As an Exhibitor you will have a single trade display space in the designated Congress Exhibition location where delegates will congregate to enjoy refreshments i.e. morning and afternoon tea, lunches. Exhibitors will be provided with a clothed 1.8 metre trestle table, two chairs and space for one standard pull-up banner.

Exhibitors do not have access to the Congress program and activities unless holding a full Congress registration.

Advertising Sponsors, exhibitors and interested parties are able to purchase additional advertising space in the Congress handbook at the following rates; • • • •

Whole page $1,000 Half page $500 Quarter page $250 One-third page $330

(Back page is reserved for naming rights rights ‘presented by’ sponsor.)

Additional advertising must be confirmed and paid for by 1 September 2017.

Keynote Speakers Peter Boyce

Peter Boyce is the author or co-author of over 300 publications and is currently an associate of the Department of Biology at Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich. An international aroid expert, Peter began his career in 1987, spending 15 years at Kew Gardens’ Herbarium before moving to Malaysia where he researched and wrote extensively, co-authoring The Araceae of Peninsular Malaysia (2011) and The Flora of Thailand Araceae (2012).

He’s also an associate of the Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation at the Universiti Malaysia Sabah, an Honorary Research Fellow of the Institute of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation at the University of Malaysia Sarawak, and a member of the Board of Governors of the International Aroid Society.

Wong Sin Yeng

Wong Sin Yeng is a senior lecturer at the Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, an associate of the Harvard University Herbaria, an Honorary Research Scientist of Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich and a research fellow of Universiti Malaysia Sabah. Her research involves taxonomic and molecular systematic studies of Araceae and her publications exceed 110 papers published in various international journals. She recently published a book on the Aroids of Borneo in the Malay Language with the Hall of Language and Literature Malaysia. All her research projects are fully funded by the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia.

Professor David Mabberley AM

Professor David Mabberley was formerly Director of the Herbarium, Library, Art and Archives at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and Executive Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust in Sydney. With degrees from both Oxford and Cambridge and 20 years as a Tutorial Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, Mabberley has had a distinguished botanical career in academia and is recognised as an eminent botanist, historian and authority on botanical art. Currently he’s an Emeritus Fellow, Wadham College, University of Oxford, and Extraordinary Professor at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands. Mabberley is a prolific author with almost 300 publications including 17 books. Mabberley’s indispensable Plant-Book is a classic botanical reference, which gives an overview of the world’s flora and is currently in its third edition.

Michael Lovave

Michael works with Papua New Guinea Forest Research Institute as Curator of the National Botanic Gardens (LAE) in Papua New Guinea. He has been with the Institute for over 16 years, three years as Curator.

He holds a Masters Degree in Environmental Sciences from Tohoku University in Japan (2007). Michael is a botanist and has explored many rural parts of Papua New Guinea for floristic surveys and collected more than 2,000 plant collections, which are now held at the LAE National Herbarium.

Field Trips Two field trips will be offered as part of the Congress on Tuesday 24 October. Delegates must choose between the two when registering.

Field Trip One

Each field trip includes morning or afternoon tea and lunch. The field trips are a great way for delegates to get to know each other, while sitting back in an air-conditioned coach bus, taking in beautiful scenery, then enjoying guided walks at the Gardens and Arboretum, with “behind the scenes� access not publicly available.

Delegates will take a tour of the Mount Lofty and Wittunga Botanic Gardens, which form two-thirds of the Botanic Gardens of South Australia, followed by a visit to the Waite Arboretum.

Mount Lofty Botanic Garden, Wittunga Botanic Garden and Waite Arboretum

Field Trip Two Currency Creek Arboretum and Cox Scrub Delegates will visit the Currency Creek Arboretum, which is run by Dean Nicolle, a specialist in eucalypt research. Delegates will also visit Cox Scrub Conservation Park, which is classified as an IUCN Category III protected area.

Sponsorship Booking Form

Secure your position today. Bookings close 1 September 2017 2017 BGANZ Congress | 22-25 October 2017 | Adelaide Botanic Garden Name:________________________________________________________________

Please invoice me $_____________ prior to 30 June 2017

Position:______________________________________________________________

P lease invoice me $_____________ post 1 July 2017 with full payment balance paid by 1 September 2017

Organisation:__________________________________________________________ Postal Address:_________________________________________________________ State:__________ Postcode:____________ Phone:____________________________ Email:_________________________________________ Mobile:________________ My organisation would like to place a booking request for the following sponsorship package/s: Naming rights ‘Presented by’ (Sunday 22 - Wednesday 25 October 2017) $19,900.

Closing Congress Dinner (Wednesday 25 October 2017) $9,500.

Opening Ceremony (Sunday 22 October 2017) $7,500.

Payment details I will pay by EFT, and note that the banking details will be on the invoice I will pay by credit card, and authorise the amount of $_______________ plus card fees to be charged as follows: Visa (+2%)

Mastercard (+2%)

AMEX (+3%)

Card number:___________________________________ Expiry date:____________ Card holder name:______________________________ Signature:_______________ Please note that debits to your credit card will appear as “Kaigi Conferencing and Events” on your credit card statement.

Field Trip (Tuesday 24 October 2017) $4,500.

Keynote Sponsor (Sunday 22 - Wednesday 25 October 2017) $2,500.

Emerging and early career sponsor (5 attendees) $2,500.

Exhibitor (Monday 23 & Wednesday 25 October 2017) $1,000.

Advertisement in Programme Handbook: Full page $1,000 Half Page $500 Quarter page $250 One-third page $330.

BGANZ will accept sponsorship payments over two financial years (2016/17 & 2017/18) if sponsorship is confirmed and first payment is received prior to 30 June 2017.

Please send the completed booking form to the Conference Secretariat: Kaigi Conferencing and Events Level 1, The Realm 18 National Circuit Barton ACT 2600 Email: bganz@kaigi.com.au Fax: 02 6198 3232 For sponsorship enquiries please call Sophie Hastwell on (o8) 8222 9460 or email Sophie.hastwell@sa.gov.au