OGC Sponsorship Opportunities

The Premier Community Partner is the most important and visible community-focused opportunity at the event, directly supporting the networking, relationship-building, and informal collaboration that are at the heart of the OGC community experience throughout the week.

Use of Funds:

• Hospitality and beverage service at the evening reception and networking receptions
• A meaningful contribution to participant travel stipends for delegates

Partner benefits include:

• Recognition as the official Premier Community Partner across all event materials and communications
• Recognition during the CEO’s opening remarks to all attendees
• On the night of the reception a chance to address all attendees
• Branded signage at the reception
• On-screen acknowledgment at the evening session opening
• Prominent logo placement on the event program
• Opportunity for a 10-minute plenary contribution focused on a real-world challenge, implementation approach, or area relevant to the OGC community (subject to program committee review)
• Acknowledgment as a Champion of Participation across event materials

Access and Participation Sponsor, $12,500 

The Access and Participation Sponsor directly expands participation from across the geospatial community. This tier is dedicated to enabling participation from the geospatial community and to supporting the operational delivery of the event itself.

Use of Funds:

• Travel, accommodation, and per diem stipends for participants, including students, researchers, experts, and smaller member organizations from across the continent
• Operational delivery costs for OGC to run the event on the ground

Sponsor benefits include:

• Recognition in post-event communications and reporting
• Opportunity for a 5-minute plenary contribution focused on an area relevant to the OGC community (subject to program committee review)
• Acknowledgment as a Champion of Participation across event materials

Event Co-Supporter, $6,000 each

The Event Co-Supporter opportunity is designed for organizations that want to actively support OGC Connect, participate in the community, and be visibly connected to the event without requiring a formal speaking role or plenary presence.

Use of Funds:

• Support for a specific session block, break, or networking gathering within the program
• A contribution to participant travel stipends for delegates

Benefits include:

• Logo placement in the event program and across event materials
• Recognition on signage at the sponsored session or moment
• Named in event communications

Why Sponsor?

OGC sponsorship opportunities are designed around participation, collaboration, and community engagement in addition to branding visibility.

Sponsor support helps make OGC events possible and helps bring together the mix of government leaders, researchers, developers, implementers, startups, and smaller organizations that make the conversations and collaboration valuable.

Sponsors participate as peers within the community and are recognized as organizations helping support the event, the participants, and the broader collaborative work happening across OGC.

OGC Build & Code Sprint Sponsorship Opportunities

OGC Build initiatives, including code sprints and implementation activities, provide hands-on technical environments where developers and standards experts work directly with APIs, standards, data models, and interoperability challenges to build and test working solutions in practice.

For information about sponsorship opportunities for OGC Build initiatives and code sprints, please contact the OGC Membership Team at me********@*gc.org.