ACM SIGAda's annual conference is the oldest, largest, and most prestigious event dedicated to Ada technology in the world. Our 20^th annual conference, SIGAda 2002 will be held December 8-12, at the Holiday Inn-NASA virtually across the street from the home of the International Space Station, one of Ada's success stories.  Featuring technical sessions, tutorials, and a vendor exhibition, SIGAda 2002 promises to draw our usual rich mix of Ada practitioners, researchers, vendors, academics, and Government representatives for the highest level forum of technical exchanges and business contacts. Last year's conference in late September in Minneapolis attracted over 100 participants despite the events of that month, following 3 straight years of 150-200 attendees. A conference program featuring our tradition of refereed papers and "big name" invited speakers on nationally important topics, registration fees competitive with any other technical conference, and lower hotel rates than any recent year are generating strong early interest in SIGAda 2002 and the promise of increased attendance at SIGAda 2002.

SIGAda conference attendees' interests include software-engineering technologies such as high-integrity systems, distributed computing, real-time processing, and open systems & standards. Because of its reputation for safety and reliability, Ada is used in aerospace, biomedical, transportation, and embedded systems. Because many of today's systems are developed in multiple programming languages and rely heavily on COTS software, our attendees are also interested in non-Ada libraries, tools, related applications technologies, and mixed-language solution support. Our typical attendee is a senior engineer who influences software purchasing decisions in a high maturity organization.

COST EFFECTIVE EXHIBITING: Of particular interest to potential exhibitors, SIGAda is continuing to make our Exhibit Hall an even more cost-effective experience for you. Due to limited hotel exhibit space, our exhibits rental provides a draped Table-Top booth  with two chairs and electrical access. (No extra "decorating charges" are necessary.)  Single Table Top booths are the only space option we offer. Like all recent SIGAda conferences, the exhibition will be one and a half days (Tuesday-Wednesday, December 10-11), which prove to be sufficient time for our attendees to visit all exhibitors and for you to make the contacts you need. And, every exhibiting company at the $2K Silver Sponsorship level or higher gets one free full-conference registration (two for $4K Platinum sponsors!) and a vendor presentation integrated into our technical sessions.

CORPORATE SPONSORSHIPS: SIGAda again invites companies to contribute to, and become a part of, SIGAda 2002 and SIGAda's success by becoming SIGAda 2002 Corporate Sponsors, starting at the lowered fee of $2000 which used be the basic exhibiting fee and we hope will be the beginning choice of all of SIGAda's supporters. Your sponsorship enhances the value of the event for attendees and presents you,  our Corporate Sponsors, more visible opportunities to be recognized as industry leaders. Several tailorable levels of Corporate Sponsorship have been established, each providing benefits greater in value than making similar contributions under previous separately priced sponsorship arrangements. All Corporate Sponsors' names and your logos will be prominently recognized in the SIGAda 2002 Final Program (FP), in online conference publicity, and on tote bags given to all attendees. Benefits and options at SIGAda 2002 for Corporate Sponsors are shown in the following table. Contact the Exhibits Chair for case-by-case tailoring discussions.