Press passes do not provide access to pre-conference and post-conference full-day and half-day workshops, technical classes or certification sessions. Those sessions are available to paid conference attendees only.
Press-pass recipients are not eligible to enter or win prizes in any event drawings.
By registering as press for a BZ Media event, you are giving us permission to share your contact information with the event sponsors and exhibitors, as well as to their PR agencies. Sponsors and exhibitors may contact you before, during or after the event as part of their own media-relations outreach.
Some, but not all, BZ Media events have facilities for the working press, such as a press room. For details, please contact the conference organizers.
BZ Media, at its sole discretion, reserves the right to offer or restrict press passes on a case-by-case basis.
Press Pass Requirements
Press passes are offered to professional journalists and analysts affiliated with recognized and relevant media outlets or technology analyst firms.
To request a press pass, please contact Katie Serignese at kserignese@bzmedia.com. Pre-registration is strongly encouraged; there may be a delay in issuing a press pass onsite.
Be prepared to present the following upon request:
Professional journalists and editors, employed by media organizations:
At least two recent and substantive bylined articles in relevant media-company publications, websites or blogs. The articles must clearly display authorship.
Freelance journalists:
Documentation of a specific assignment to cover the event for a relevant media-company publication, website or blog. The documentation must include the assigning editor's contact information.
Professional technology analysts:
An appropriate title showing employment by a recognized and relevant technology analyst firm.
Who Doesn't Qualify?
Free press passes will not be given to: Public relations professionals, marketing professionals, advertising professionals, sales professionals, IT professionals, financial/investment analysts, venture capitalists, writers for user-group/community newsletters or blogs, writers for vendor or in-house publications, bloggers for personal or vendor websites, book authors and editors, technology consultants and freelance analysts.
Media company executives do not qualify for press passes, unless they are also bona fide professional working journalists, as described above.
If you do not qualify for a press pass, you may register for a no-cost “expo only” pass or as a paid conference attendee. Registering as a paid attendee also gives you access to the conference's workshops and technical classes.
For more information, please contact Katie Serignese at kserignese@bzmedia.com. |