Sponsorship opportunities

The IFCA are actively looking for sponsors for Financial Cryptography 2002. FC'02 represents a unique opportunity to present your company to more than a hundred key decision makers in the field of Financial Cryptography. Attendees come from a variety of areas including banking, business and consultancy as well as commercial research and academia. With senior security architects from many major international businesses in attendance, as well as representative from the key commercial players in the field, FC'02 delivers exposure to a select but highly influential audience. Sponsorship is available at a number of level as listed below.

Silver Sponsor

Silver sponsors will have their company logo displayed on the FC'02 web site, on the conference program and in the conference hall during sessions. A small exhibition area will be available along side the conference where sponsors may display a tabletop exhibition booth and company and product literature may be offered to attendees. Sponsors will be given the opportunity to make a short commercial presentation during one of the afternoons when no peer reviewed papers are being presented. In addition silver sponsors may select two people to attend the conference free of charge.

Silver Sponsorship costs US$5,000

Current Silver Sponsors:

• Datum - Trusted Time Division: Datum - Trusted Time Division provides Secure Time Management technology for those enterprises needing to manage the integrity of time within their digital business processes.
• CRYPTOMAThIC: Cryptomathic is one of the world?s leading providers of e-Security. With more than 15 years in the business, we are specialists in commercial cryptography and assist our customers in securing their businesses by providing best-of-breed e-Security software and services.

Gold Sponsor

Gold sponsors get all the benefits of silver sponsorship and more. In addition to the benefits listed above they may select one of the major evening events to be held in their name (choice on a first come, first served basis) and they may provide a branded giveaway bearing their logo provided that it also bears the FC'02 logo. The gold sponsor logos will be displayed in prominent locations on the web site, on the program and in the conference hall. Gold sponsors may send three attendees to the conference free of charge.

Gold sponsorship costs $9,500

Current Gold Sponsors:

• nCipher: nCipher is a leading developer of hardware and software Internet security products that maximize information security, system scalability and transaction processing speed in electronic commerce and public key infrastructure applications.
• PayPal: PayPal enables any business or consumer with an email address to securely, conveniently and cost-effectively send and receive money online.

Sponsor in kind

The IFCA is looking for companies to help with the provision of services for the conference. In particular, we are looking for high speed Internet access, computers for use by the delegates for the duration of the conference, and Internet payment processing services for the conference registration. If you are able to help then please contact us.

Current sponsors in kind:

• Quo Vadis: Based in Bermuda, QuoVadis is the first offshore commercial certificate authority in the world. QuoVadis provides digital certificate solutions to international organizations, as well as to their global networks of employees, business partners, and clients.

Any company (or individual) interested in sponsorship of FC'02 should contact the General Chair for more details.