Sponsorship

CODS COMAD has been fortunate to have support from a number of sponsors over the years and the organizers have been extremely grateful to all sponsors. The conference would not have run for so many years while growing in scale without the help of these generous organizations. In particular, the sponsorships from the organizations have enabled us to provide grants to hundreds of students and support the travel of eminent keynote speakers to raise the quality and reach of the conference.

If your organization would like to sponsor CODS COMAD December 2024 edition, please refer to the below table about sponsorship rates and benefits.

Why should you sponsor?

• Recruitment: CODS-COMAD provides multiple avenues for you to meet and recruit the best and brightest minds in the fields of data science, analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and Big Data. Avenues include live talks and recorded videos, networking sessions, social gatherings, exhibition booths etc. to showcase your company & jobs.
• Branding: CODS-COMAD is known as a home for leading industry innovations and high quality rigorously peer-reviewed research based out of India. Becoming a sponsor here is an opportunity for you to co-brand with the leading inventors from the community. This is a way for you to stay on top of minds for candidates that may look for their next place to work in a few months or years.
• Customers: In addition to facilitating recruitment and branding, CODS-COMAD also provides an opportunity for you to reach out to your potential customers. Representatives from many companies and startups use the exhibition booth as well as networking sessions and social gatherings as a venue to advertise & meet new customers.
• Community: CODS-COMAD has a vibrant and active community of researchers and practitioners. Your sponsorships help support the community of researchers that are working on cutting edge data-driven ideas, provide student travel grants, and host world-class speakers. Finally and quite explicitly, corporate sponsorship helps us keep the registration costs affordable for students and other attendees.

Academic Partners

We are excited to announce a new sponsorship category in this edition of CODS COMAD conference - "Academic Partners" tailored specifically for academic entities.

With the rapid advancements in AI, ML, and Data Science, the academic and research communities have increasingly focused on these cutting-edge fields. Numerous new programs, centers and schools have emerged, all contributing significantly to the advancement of research. In the recent past, multiple many of them have expressed interest in partnering with CODS COMAD, recognizing it as a premier venue in this field in India to interact and collaborate with the larger data community. Owing to the absence of any dedicated sponsors, we offered the same sponsorship tiers to both academic and industry entities. Starting this edition, we are introducing a new "Academic Partners" category of sponsorship. This sponsorship tier, priced at 1.5 Lakhs, provides the same benefits as the Silver Industry Sponsorship (2 Lakhs). This category is open to academic institutions and their affiliated entities, such as (hypothetical names) Institute of AI, Departments of Applied Data Science, Centers for Intelligent Data Systems, AI/ML Systems Computing Laboratories, etc. Academic Partners will be highlighted in a dedicated section on the conference website. We believe this will open opportunities for faculty and PhD student recruitment, developing collaboration with fellow sponsors from industry, gaining visibility from a large relevant community etc. apart from the listed benefits above.

Finally, institutions and affiliated entities are welcome to opt for higher sponsorship categories (Platinum, Diamond, and Gold) at the same sponsorship levels as industry sponsors, with the corresponding benefits.

Sponsorship tiers & benefits

Specific benefits associated with different tiers of sponsorships are listed below

Benefits	Platinum (₹ 10 Lakhs)	Diamond (₹ 5 Lakhs)	Gold (₹ 3 Lakhs)	Silver (₹ 2 Lakhs)	Academic Partner (₹ 1.5 Lakhs)
Free conference attendance passes*	5	4	3	2	2
Special thanks during the opening ceremony
Promotional video displayed during the conference	60-sec max	45-sec max	30-sec max	15-sec max	15-sec max
Live talks by Leader(s) of the company	15-mins (at Banquet)	10-mins (in Sponsors’ Session)	5-mins (in Sponsors’ Session)
Logo and link on the conference website	1st row	2nd row	3rd row	4th row	Final Row
Logos in the conference background
Mention in the social media posts
Promotional material through welcome email
Promotional material for participants
Sponsors’ Booths (space and position of booths vary depending on tier of sponsorship)
Contact list and CVs of student participants who provide consent to share

[Update on 18-Sep-2024]: Based on the interest from some of the academic institutions - we are introducing a new category of sponsorship for the Academic Partners as “Student Networking Lunch Sponsors”. This is targeted to facilitate sharing of information by the institutions, provide them an opportunity to interact with the students including pitching for faculty or other research positions. Partners in this category will get to host a lunch session with all the student participants (including PhD students). In these sessions, the Partners can address the students for a duration of up to 15 minutes as well as interact with them over lunch. All the benefits of “Academic Partner” category will be there plus (i) 1 extra free conference attendance pass (total 3); (ii) Promotional material through welcome email and (iii) Contact list and CVs of student participants who provide consent to share.The sponsorship amount will be INR 2.5 Lakhs.

Apart from the above tiers of sponsorships, companies can sponsor specific tracks, travel support, etc. Interested companies may reach out to shourya.roy@gmail.com for discussing rates and benefits for the same.