• Who are the visitors?  We obtained a visitor list of about 600 persons last year from the organizer.  Unfortunately about half of them were in sales and they were interested in leads and have asked to unsubscribe as they were not interested in info other than leads.  The other half consists of a mix of backgrounds but mostly small businesses and single person practices.  We would be pleased if each team member present in the event obtains one genuine customer as a direct consequence of presence. 

• The most positive effect any organization can achieve in such type of events is to leave the public with a professional and reliability image.  The worst image anyone can create is to push people to buy.  Obviously we want to obtain the most positive effect and avoid creating a bad image but the demarcation between positive and negative is a fine line.  Anyway we will just provide info to the public for their reference and let them make the judgment.  The info shall be able to convey to the public who we are, what we do, and where to contact us.  For the Business Expo on 15 May 2014, we have shortlisted the following types of info to provide at Stand #1 and #2.

• Who is Compucon?  Compucon is a computing system integrator established in 1992 with engineering research and development capabilities.  Provide a list of achievements over the years (ISO-9001 in 1995, DX Server in 1998, Heavy Data in 2005, IPVS in 2008, GPGPU in 2011 and SKA in 2013). 
•  What does Compucon do?  Compucon runs 4 teams of computing system development and production- standard PC and servers, heavy data systems, IP videal surveillance systems, and parallel computing systems.  Compucon is developing high performance computing systems as a spinoff of participating in SKA design.  Compucon serves business customers along the FFP and TCO principles.
•  How to contact Compucon?  Compucon peers planned to be present at the stands are Andy J (standard computing platforms), David A (accounting and taxation computing), Hamish (enterprise level computing), and Ratan (video surveillance systems).  Compucon staff members are Raymond (heavy data systems) and TN (GPGPU, HPC, and SKA).

•  As a static tool to provide the above info, we will run 2 data projections on the wall.  They will be out of sync by half cycle.  One cycle will take about 5 minutes which is short enough for a visitor to afford and long enough to convey our messages.  The same info will be on printed sheets for visitors to take away. Names of people with specialization and contact details on our stands will be printed on sheets for visitors to take away.  The sheets will be bounded into a manual.

• We take 2 stands only this time instead of 3 stands last time. We observed that visitors would stop at a stand but would skip extra space of the same display.  However, we will need the space of 2 stands to accommodate our presence.  Apart from the 2 data projections on the wall and hand-out manuals on the table, we plan to have a 2m portable poster at the stand and some chairs.  Should we have a Platinum, Superhawk, Diamond, and Onyx chassis there as stationery display?  

• TN will speak at 11:15am for 30 minutes in an Expo Seminar room.  The theme will be on a breakthrough of New Zealand on the world stage of computing, and how businesses can benefit from the efforts of Compucon to spinoff the know-how at an industry level in New Zealand. 

• Our team will have dinner after the event in the evening presumably at the same restaurant as last year.