Vendor Presentations: Guidelines Sara Schleutker, Qualcomm IRT Vendor Liaison

Vendor Presentations = Value Add Vendors contribute solutions, ideas and lead the path to possibilities Vendor presentations are needed to share expertise, guidance, insight and opportunities to the IRT membership Vendor presentations justify attendance and sponsorship Thank you to our Vendor Community

Guidelines for Vendor Presentations Presentation should: relate to the meeting theme and/or consistent with topic request address a CDMA roaming industry issue, pain point or ecosystem problem include a best practices solution that is available to all carriers i.e. Based on standards, recognized organization or is widely deployed be available for the CDG to post to their meetings page, no proprietary information be thought provoking to both business and engineering professionals Presentation can: choose to use own temple or standard meeting template (as provided at least 6 weeks before the meeting) include company logos make mention of products/services so long as they relate to the topic, are not the main focus of the presentation and are available to all carriers encourage members to meet with the company after the presentation to hear more about specific company information such as product/service offerings Presentation should not: include any type of pricing information be solely focused on selling products or services (i.e. No sales presentations such as company information, market share, office locations, sales contacts, etc) compare and contrast competitor products provide biased information/messaging provide inaccurate information 

Vendor Presentation Submission Process A call for contributions will be distributed to the vendor list along with key dates Contribution close date Journal submission close date Skeleton presentation close date Final presentation close date Vendors provide presentation topic and descriptive bullets to the leads team roaming@cdg.org Leads will review on monthly call. The vendor liaison will responded back to each submitting vendor after the call Leads team typically approves all vendor presentations related to the meeting theme When the vendor accepts the time slot , the vendor then agrees to submit final presentations by the due date. Presentation content will be reviewed by the leads team. Feedback/Comments/suggestions/approval will be provided as presentation confirmation Late submissions may result in time slot bump or may not be considered Leads team reserves the right to edit or delete inappropriate content