Many of these partners will be on full display at the IMTS 2020 Exhibitor Workshop on Jan. 20-21 in Schaumburg, Ill., and will spend the next nine months ramping up for IMTS 2020 on Sept. 14-19 at McCormick Place in Chicago, Ill.
For the workshop, the Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel & Convention Center has set aside 150 rooms. For IMTS 2020, Connections Housing will negotiate the best rates with around 90 Chicago hotels for roughly 88,000 hotel rooms.
At the workshop, Choose Chicago and Connections Housing will hold a session presenting Chicago as a destination venue. They will suggest new locales and restaurants that could serve as spots to treat clients and staff, host receptions, and hold special events. During IMTS 2020, Choose Chicago and Connections Housing will host booths at McCormick Place to assist you with your hospitality requests.
Convention Data Services (CDS) is managing registration for nearly 400 workshop attendees. For IMTS 2020, CDS will handle registration for, hopefully, close to 135,000 visitors and lead retrieval services for approximately 1,500 IMTS exhibitors.
Freeman will support the main theater and more than 30 learning sessions. At IMTS 2020, Freeman will manage almost 100 employees to provide electrical and audio-visual equipment as well as LED bright and custom signage for approximately 1,500 exhibitors, 250 educational sessions, and dozens of media events held throughout the week at McCormick Place.
IMTS media partner Gardner Business Media will host a 10-by-20 booth with staff who will brief interested exhibitors on the variety of sponsorship and marketing opportunities for IMTS 2020. In their booth, Gardner plans to display one of the new “Find-an-Exhibitor” kiosks that will be situated in about 50 locations throughout McCormick Place during IMTS 2020.
IMTS media partner GIE Media Inc. will host a 10-by-10 booth to highlight marketing opportunities for the Miles 4 Manufacturing (M4M) 5K Run/Walk that takes place on the Wednesday morning of IMTS week. GIE Media handles the management and logistics for M4M. IMTS pays for all the hard costs, so every dollar is donated to programs that prepare students for careers in manufacturing technology. At IMTS 2020, GIE Media will also coordinate around 80 educational sessions for the IMTS Conference held during the first four days of IMTS.
Since 2002, Global Experience Specialists (GES), has partnered with us to manage the process of accepting, storing, moving in, and moving out exhibitor freight. At the workshop, they’ll bring close to two dozen employees and host a 500-sq.-ft. booth with close to 500 lbs. of freight. At IMTS 2020, they will bring approximately 200 employees, handle roughly 82.5 million pounds of freight, and lay about 38 miles of aisle carpet.
Savor … Chicago at McCormick Place is a long-time IMTS partner that handles all the catering services at McCormick Place. At the workshop, Savor will host a 10-by-10 booth to present their plethora of services available to IMTS exhibitors. From in-booth bistro service to large buffet lunches in the meeting rooms of McCormick Place, Savor will provide all the food and beverage services for thousands of exhibitors and their guests at IMTS 2020.
THE PREFERRED IMTS 2020 VENDORS JOINING US AGAIN THIS YEAR ARE:
CIMCOOL Metalworking Fluids and ExxonMobil will provide lubricants.
CMAC handles shuttle bus and transportation sponsorships.
DSV Fairs and Exhibition Services coordinates international shipments.
Floral Exhibits offers plants, greenery, and flowers.
G3 Installation & Dismantle Inc. organizes heavy warehousing, uncrating, and recrating.
IMTS Exhibitor Passport is the show’s sales and marketing tool that contains all contact information for IMTS visitors from IMTS 2018 and IMTS 2020.
Judy Venn & Associates Inc. supports exhibitors with professional staffing such as greeters, presenters, crowd gatherers, and reception hostesses.
McCormick Place, our host, organizes the building’s internet and telephone connections.
Midwest Promotional Group and Summit Marketing Group supply promotional giveaways and clothing.
Oscar & Associates captures photography.
Rainprotection Event Insurance provides comprehensive protection.
Security companies include United Security for the North & South Buildings; Lincoln Security Services LLC for the East Building; and AF Services Inc. for the West Building.
NEWEST PARTNER
I am proud to announce our newest partnership with Women in Manufacturing (WiM)! This key partnership will help us provide specific programming geared toward women in our industry.
IMTS EXHIBITORS AND VISITORS
I’d like to extend our warmest appreciation to our vendor partners and to you, our treasured industry partners, the hardworking and creative people of advanced manufacturing, and the IMTS exhibitors and visitors! We look forward to working with you to produce IMTS 2020. My exhibitions department and all AMT staff are available to help you make IMTS 2020 your best IMTS yet.
