Meeting with Investors´Café exhibitors Committee of the Regions30 August 2006

Agenda

• Investors´ Café overview

• Exhibition area/stands

• Technical arrangements

• Opening ceremony

• Q&A

Investors´ Café overview

• conglomerates (85 stands)

• private partners/banks/NGOs/media (23) INTEL, Cisco, HP, Philips, EIB, ECAS, Financial Times …

• Media Centre

• Bistro à la française

Ground floor

5th & 6th floor

• INFO Point

• EU institutions (7 stands) EU Presidency, European Commission DGs, EP, EESC, OPOCE

Exhibition area – 5th&6th floor• balanced distribution of exhibitors´ stands

• grouped by conglomerates/consortiums

• regions and cities mixed with other partners

• Bistro française (5th&6th floor)

• Media Centre (5th floor)

StandsEach stand is composed of:

• Table

• Banner (105 cm x 76 cm)

• Rack for documentation

• Internet connection/electricity

• Laptop computer (tbc)

Also available:

• table with chairs

StandsBanner for regions and cities

• drafted and produced by CoR

• orange colour

• information form Facts&Figures

Banner for other exhibitors

• drafted by exhibitor on CoR template

• produced by CoR

• blue colour

xhibitor 1 E

Monday9 October

Thursday12 October

Tuesday10 October

Wednesday11 October

8:00 – 19:00

Investors´ Café

8:00 – 19:00

Investors´ Café

8:00 – 14:30

Investors´ Café

14:30-15:30Removal of exhibition materials/packing

19:00 – 21:00

Opening ceremony

10:00-16:00

Delivering exhibition materialsFinal preparation of stands

Investors´ Café opening hours5 October – 8 October

Installation of stands

15:30 -

Dismantling of stands

Technical arrangementsStand:• provide printed documents/brochures• provide electronic promotional tools (ppt presentations/demos/DVDs…)• no other banners/posters/pop-ups allowed

Exhibitors´ staff:• must be permanently present during the opening hours• CoR to provide special badges for all days of OPEN DAYS - names of exhibition staff to be notified to Boris.Essender@cor.europa.eu before 29 September - badges to be picked-up on Monday 9 October (10:00 - 16:00) at the Info Point, CoR building

Special requirements:• to be finalised in the next few days• meeting room requests

Opening ceremony• Monday 9 October at 19:00

• 1000 guests (representatives of regions/cities, business, banking sector, NGOs, lobbyists, media)

• short opening speeches by three speakers

• tour of the stands by VIPs

• cocktail

Q&A

ContactsCommittee of the RegionsBoris Essender 02/282.23.90 Jan Bláha 02/282.20.27Ulrika Lagergren 02/282.21.40

opendays@cor.europa.eu