MAKEIDEASHAPPEN
SPONSORSHIP PACKET
2016
Contents
Confirmed Speakers
Tentative Speakers
About Us
The Conference
Our Goal
Four-Tier Funding/Benefits system
Tier 1
Tier 2
Tier 3
Tier 4
Media Coverage
Final Note
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Piyush Goyal Honorable Minister of Power, Coal and Renewable Energy
Zia Mody Founding Partner, AZB & Partners
Bunker Roy Founder, Barefoot College, Featured in the TIMES 100
Naina Kidwai Group General Manager and Country Head, HSBC
Tariq Ansari Ex-MD, Mid-Day
Pramath Sinha Founder, Ashoka University
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Speakersat HUII 2015 conference at the
Shangri La Hotel, New Delhi
in January 2015
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Jyotiraditya Madhavrao ScindiaMember of Parliament and ex Union Minister of Power
TentativeSpeakers
Arun Jaitley Honorable Minister of Finance(chief guest) Amartya SenProfessor, Harvard University
Raghuram Rajan Governor, Reserve Bank of India
Cyrus MistryCEO, Tata Sons
Amir KhanActor
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AdvisorsAnand MahindraChairman and Managing Director, Mahindra & Mahindra Tarun KhannaProfessor, Harvard University
Homi K. BhabhaProfessor, Harvard University
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ABOUT US
THE CONFERENCE
The Harvard-US India Initiative is an
undergraduate student organization
at Harvard University that provides
student groups across the world an
unparalleled platform to discuss India’s
past and future. This year, it is hosting
its annual Harvard-India Conference
in New Delhi on the 8th and 9th of
January, 2016. The conference will
focus on using young, brave minds
discussing the myriad issues that face
India today. It hopes to be the venue
du jour to initiate critical thinking on
issues ranging from economics and the
current political scenario to the cultural
and social situation of the country.
Previous conferences hosted by
HUII have received extensive media
coverage in prestigious Indian dailies
like the Times of India, the Hindu, the
Mid Day, and others.
This conference is the most ambitious
of its kind to date. It will be host to
450 students from high schools and
universities across the world, each of
whom will choose to attend any 5 of
Conference participants will be chosen
application with information about
their contribution to their institutions
of education and plans for their future.
To ensure that the conference truly
welcomes the brightest minds in the
Besides panels, the conference will
organize a case study competition,
the winner of which will be awarded
the annual HUII Recognition Award
for Best Entrepreneurial Potential and
prize money.
Furthermore, there will be both a
meet-and-greet networking event and
a social at the end that will inculcate
and cement potentially life long
professional relationships among the
academic cream of the country.
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The Harvard US-IndiaInitiative will be organizingthe second edition ofIndia's largest policybased youth conference inNew Delhi on the 8th and9th of January 2016. Our�rst edition was heldsuccessfully in New Delhiin January, 2015.
1. Financial aid
who will be unable to attend the conference due
sponsor a few of these attendees, who will be
informed of the sponsor’s generous support.
The fees for the conference is Rs. 2500 for college
students and Rs. 3500 for high schoolers and is
subject to change.
2. HUII Award for Entrepreneurship
Every year, HUII selects the best business pitch
in its case study competition. This year, we hope
to increase the scope of this award by including
this year, will be renamed after the sponsor.
3. Keynote speakers
Each day of the conference will start and
conclude with a keynote speech that will be titled
after the sponsor in the following manner: “The
XYZ Lecture on Economic Growth by Ms. ABC.”
To sponsor a keynote speaker, the sponsor must
agree to fund the cost of the venue for two hours
along with any other costs associated with the
particular speaker that the sponsor wants to
fund.
OUR GOAL
4. Events
Sponsors can also choose to fund entire events
and have them renamed after themselves. Few
examples include: “The XYZ Panel on Renewable
Energy by ABC”, “The XYZ Networking Night
for Ivy Schools”, and more. Please contact the
5. Miscellaneous expenditures
towards funding the conference itself. We need
more information about this below.
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TIER 1
TITLE SPONSOR
• All of HUII’s social media and marketing will have the title sponsor’s logo
• Sponsor will have a full page in the conference brochure, right after the front page
• Sponsor will have banners behind speakers/panelists and logos on the front page
• Sponsor will get vocal thanks at the opening and closing ceremonies
• Sponsor’s logo will be on bags and other HUII/conference merchandise
Price: 7-8 L
Four-Tier
system
The banners, posters, and other advertising materials containing the
names of sponsors will be divided up into three categories. In accordance
with the various amounts that sponsors are willing to pay, the highest
below.
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TIER 2
(PLATINUM) - “POWERED BY” SPONSORS
Price: 4-5 L
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• Sponsors will have their logos in the booklets for each speaker panel last page,
half page on brochure
• Writing pads distributed at the conference will have multiple gold watermarks of
these sponsors
• Sponsors will be mentioned in emails
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• Sponsors will have The poster you have when you enter the room containing info
about the panel: Can have GOLD logo
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• Sponsors will have their logos featured on banners, panels, and other publicity at
locations with high footfall (entrances, exits, lobbies, etc.)
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Price: 1-2 L
TIER 3
(GOLD) -“IN ASSOCIATION WITH” SPONSORS
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TIER 4
(SILVER) - GENERAL/HOSPITALITY SPONSORS
Price: 60,000-1 L
• Sponsors will have quarter page logos/advertisements featured on brochures
• Sponsors will have logos featured on banners (but not panels) in high footfall
areas (entrances, exits, lobbies, etc.)
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working aggressively towards obtaining extensive
media coverage. We are in talks with major news
channels such as NDTV, Times NOW and CNN IBN
for a potential media partnership. In the past HUII
has been featured in the Hindu and the Business
Standard, to give just two examples. For this
conference, we are in talks with major media outlets
record and the impressive speakers lined up, we are
amount of publicity.
We would like to stress that this conference
hopes to engage the youth of our nation in
the many dialogues which will determine the
trajectory of our nation. The participants will be
chosen through a rigorous application process
and deserving individuals would receive
monetary assistance so that monetary hurdles
do not prevent their talents from articulating
themselves through their dialogues.
We have a range of excellent speakers and
our format promises to optimize the gains
from bringing together a young batch of driven
individuals who are passionate to make a
However, this conference would not be possible without your support and we sincerely hope that you give us a chance to make this happen.
MEDIA COVERAGE
FINAL NOTE
Sponsorship in kind:
We are also open to sponsorships in kind and
the monetary value of their support. We will be
glad to discuss this over telephone or through
email. We are looking for �nancing for the
following:
• Printing (brochures, conference packets,
posters)
• Merchandise (tshrits, bags, conference
stationary)
• Venue for socials
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