Partner with IoT Slam
Put your expertise
in the conversation.
Connect your organisation with the enterprise practitioners shaping IoT, AI and connected edge intelligence.
Your expertise. Their next decision.
Make your contribution count.
01
Give the audience something worth taking back to work.
02
Show where your perspective can move a discussion forward.
03
Build relationships around a shared challenge.
Scale with context
A community with a track record.
50,000+
Community members
IoT Community’s published global network size. This describes the community, rather than attendance at an individual event.
2015
Established roots
IoT Community has connected leaders and practitioners since 2015.
IoT Slam
See the format in action
IoT Slam brings business and technical perspectives together around practical connected technology challenges.
Why partner
More ways to make an impact.
01
Share a useful point of view.
Bring a clear perspective to a practical challenge. Build your contribution around experience, evidence and ideas the audience can use.
Thought leadership · Panels · Roundtables
02
Make the right connections.
Meet the people evaluating connected technology and turning it into operational decisions.
Enterprise dialogue · Practitioner engagement
03
Give your expertise a longer life.
Explore how your contribution can continue through session recordings, editorial coverage and the wider community.
Content · Visibility · Community participation
The audience
Bring your expertise
to the people applying it.
IoT Slam brings technology and business perspectives into the same discussion.
Who you’ll engage
CIOs & CTOs
Enterprise architects
IoT & AI practitioners
Product & innovation leaders
Across connected industries
Manufacturing
Energy & utilities
Mobility & logistics
Infrastructure
Connectivity
Partnership in practice
Real organisations. Practical contributions.
HOST ENVIRONMENT / 2024
Oracle
The Grand Slam Live 2024 announcement placed the event at Oracle’s conference centre in Redwood Shores, with an enterprise-focused programme and a member showcase.
EXPERTISE / 2025
KMS Technology
KMS’s membership announcement connected community participation with sharing IoT and AI deployment experience, peer learning and a keynote contribution.
CONNECTED INFRASTRUCTURE / 2026
Verizon
The Live 2026 announcement centred the programme on connected edge intelligence at the Verizon Innovation Lab, with in-person and virtual participation.
These examples show participation formats and programme context; they do not establish sponsor sales returns.
Your measurement plan
Define success before you sponsor.
Choose a primary objective, agree what counts as a result, and measure consistently from the first interaction to the final sales outcome.
| Objective | Measure | How to evidence it |
|---|---|---|
| ObjectiveReach the right accounts | MeasureTarget-account coverage; relevant contacts engaged | How to evidence itMatch consented contacts to your named-account list. Keep audience reach separate from engagement. |
| ObjectiveEarn useful conversations | MeasureQualified leads; meetings held; cost per qualified lead | How to evidence itAgree qualification criteria. Deduplicate contacts and record meetings actually held. |
| ObjectiveCreate sales opportunities | MeasureAccepted opportunities; sourced pipeline; cost per opportunity | How to evidence itTrack campaign IDs in the CRM. Count a deal once and separate sourced from influenced pipeline. |
| ObjectiveExtend thought leadership | MeasureSession engagement; content views; attributable enquiries | How to evidence itUse tagged links and available platform reporting. Agree which reports are available in the package. |
| ObjectiveMeasure commercial return | MeasureClosed-won revenue; gross profit; acquisition cost; ROI | How to evidence itCompare attributable gross profit with the complete programme cost over an agreed reporting period. |
Before the event
Agree objectives, baseline and attribution
30 / 60 / 90 days
Review contact quality and opportunity progress
Through your sales cycle
Reconcile wins, revenue and gross profit
Suggested reporting cadence. Tailor the window to your sales cycle and the reporting agreed with the sponsor team.
Build your business case
What would a worthwhile return look like?
Use your own assumptions to explore the economics. The starting values are an illustrative scenario—not IoT Slam prices, historical results or conversion benchmarks.
Your assumptions
Include travel, staffing, production, promotion and follow-up in other costs. Use leads and revenue attributable to this programme.
Modelled gross-profit ROI
100%
Illustrative scenario: 2 expected wins.
Total programme cost
$20,000
Qualified pipeline
$400,000
Expected revenue
$80,000
Expected gross profit
$40,000
Cost per qualified lead
$500
Cost per opportunity
$2,000
Cost per expected win
$10,000
Break-even wins
1
Pipeline is potential opportunity value. It is not revenue and is not added to the ROI calculation. Expected wins can be fractional in a planning model.
How sensitive is the plan to lead volume?
| Lead volume | Leads | Expected wins | Expected revenue | Gross-profit ROI |
|---|
Total cost = sponsorship fee + other programme costs. Opportunities = qualified leads × opportunity conversion. Pipeline = opportunities × first-year revenue per win. Expected wins = opportunities × win rate. Expected revenue = expected wins × revenue per win. Gross profit = expected revenue × gross margin. ROI = (gross profit − total cost) ÷ total cost × 100. Break-even wins = total cost ÷ gross profit per win, rounded up to a whole win.
Cost metrics divide total programme cost by leads, opportunities or expected wins respectively. Currency selection changes the unit label; it does not convert values. Zero denominators display “N/A”. Keep the same attribution and revenue period across your inputs; this estimate excludes unquantified brand value and does not guarantee future returns.
Before you commit
Ask for the evidence behind your package.
The most useful proposal connects the activity on offer with the audience, reporting and outcomes relevant to your business.
AUDIENCE DATA
Who will you reach?
Discuss event-specific registration and attendance, seniority, industries, geography, target-account fit and digital engagement data where available.
ACTIVATION & REPORTING
What will be measured?
Confirm the activity, content distribution, reporting access, opt-in contact arrangements and the period covered by your proposal.
COMMERCIAL TERMS
What are you investing?
Agree the package price, deliverables, timing and your full activation budget before setting a return target.
Public sources reviewed do not establish current event attendance, sponsor lead volumes, conversion rates or realised sponsor ROI. Request available evidence from the sponsor team.
Build the right partnership
Start with the outcome you want.
Tell us what you want to achieve. Together, we can explore a partnership that fits your priorities and the programme.
01 / YOUR PRIORITY
Set the direction.
What should the right audience understand about your organisation?
02 / YOUR CONTRIBUTION
Find your strongest angle.
Which experience, use case or question will make your participation valuable?
03 / YOUR PLAN
Agree the scope.
Discuss the event, activity and package with our sponsor team.
The community ecosystem
In good company.
Meet the organisations in our current community ecosystem.
Alumni & legacy members
Recognising earlier participation in the community.
Let’s start a conversation
What do you want
to put on the agenda?
Share your priorities with the IoT Slam sponsor team.