The largest and most impressive conference and exhibition in the African rail industry will be hosted at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg from 30 June to 1 July 2020. Called Africa Rail, the event is for stakeholders and leaders invested in the rail and transport service delivery in Africa.

More than 7 500 attendees are expected at the event where more than 250 exhibitors will showcase their products and services. The exhibition will run alongside the conference where 250 speakers will deliver exciting and thought-provoking speeches. Discussion groups and 220 sessions are more reasons to consider visiting or exhibiting at this impressive event. Representatives from over 30 countries are expected at the two-day event too.

Key Focus of Africa Rail 2020

The event is about investment opportunities, development discussions, and technology exhibitions by and for rail stakeholders, operators, investment partners, consultants, transport experts, governments, and users of the services. It provides a platform for idea development, industry disruptions, and staying in the loop regarding freight and passenger rail transport services and needs on the African continent.

Industry professionals, end-users, and other attendees visit the exhibition and participate in the conference because they have a vested interest in rail technology and innovative projects in transportations of goods and people.

The Africa Rail 2020 will be hosted for the 23^rd time. As a long-standing event, it has become the most important of its kind for all role players in Africa. It is the go-to-event for networking with solution providers in the rail industry.

Among the many important speakers are:

• Professor Johan du Plessis from the University of Johannesburg
• Victor Radebe as the Executive Director at the Mobility Centre for Africa
• Duncan Bonnett as Director at Africa House, South Africa
• Howard Rosen as Chairman of the Rail Working Group from Switzerland
• Leonard Makwinja as CEO of Botswana Railways

With more than 245 other speakers also on the list, the event will be jam-packed with important discussions.

Sponsors and Exhibitors

The event organisers have called for sponsors and exhibitors to book their stands and pledge their sponsorships. The target audience is mostly senior-level decision-makers in the rail and transport industry. Africa Rail’s event organisers provide tailored spaces for exhibitors. Sponsors benefit from naming rights, opportunities to host panels and guaranteed meetings, in addition to keynote branding.

Top Reasons to Attend Africa Rail 2020

Attendees benefit from the exceptional programme packed with innovative keynote addresses, product launches and demonstrations, and peer-to-peer meetings. The event will also feature:

• Skills development seminar
• Workshops on leadership
• Rail tech academy
• Start-up pavilion
• Rail maintenance discussion
• Inter-model display
• Smart mobility display
• Hosted purchaser programme
• Operators pavilion
• Site visits
• Women in transport
• Transport awards
• Africa Rail bursary

Influential buyers will attend, while top brands and players in the industry will exhibit. Past sponsors and exhibitors include names such as RailPro, Liquid Telecom and Union Tiles, to name only three.

Interested parties should not pass on the opportunity to visit, host, and participate at the Africa Rail 2020.

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The Mining Indaba 2020 is set to be hosted for the 26^th time next year. The Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) at 1 Lower Long Street in the Foreshore of Cape Town is where it all will happen.

This coming event is expected to be even more impressive than previous events, as more space has been allocated to the junior and mid-tier participants at the Investment Pavilion. The organisers are planning the Mining Indaba 2020 to be bigger than ever.

The CTICC is located close to the V&A Waterfront, where several of the top hotels of Cape Town can be found, in addition to numerous entertainment options ranging from harbour cruises to fine dining.

If your company operates within the mining industry or you report on the sector, then this is one event not to miss. It is noted as the largest and most important of its kind on the African continent.

The main stage will be used for hosting presidents and ministers from around the world alongside CEOs from companies in the industry. Several industry experts at all levels of the supply chain will address topics of critical importance. Such topics range from sustainability measures to climate change and the reduction of the carbon footprint for the next ten years.

The giants in the industry will participate and exhibit at the formidable event. Trailblazers, influencers, and disruptors of the future are expected to rub shoulders, making attendance essential for networking with the best-of-the-best in the industry.

The 3 Main Reasons to Attend the Mining Indaba 2020 Are:

• Staying abreast with what is coming, what is trending at the moment, and which partnerships and strategies are to take centre stage during the next ten years.
• Learn about the drivers in the industry and how they will affect businesses operating within the mining sector.
• Participate in networking and partnership opportunities over the course of four days.

The 3 Reasons Companies Sponsor the Event:

• Optimise exposure opportunities for better deal-making and partnership structuring.
• Gain greater exposure to role players in the industry.
• Increase brand awareness for credibility in securing new business deals.

Why Businesses Attend for Match-Making:

• Ample networking opportunities.
• Introduction to suitable project financiers.
• Access to investment funding opportunities.

Why Companies Exhibit:

• Gain international exposure with several large media corporations attending, including but not limited to Bloomberg, Dow Jones, Reuters, Business Day TV, and CNBC.
• Position your brand amongst the giants in the industry.
• Connect with executives from top companies and government organisations.
• Create a deal-making platform.
• Showcase products and services.

Companies can host their own round tables for the week, set up networking hubs, and make use of several advertising opportunities. Whether sponsoring or exhibiting, having an award-winning stand or space at the eventwill add to your company’s prestige.

If you haven’t yet booked space or connected your brand with the Mining Indaba 2020, do so right away. Visit their website at www.miningindaba.com for more information about the event. Speak to our consultants should you require help with the creation of an exhibition space at the event.

Since you will invest a lot of time and money to display your services, brand, and products at trade shows, it makes sense to ensure that your exhibition booths are attractive, functional, and unique. We share a few tips below to help you maximise the potential of your exhibition booths.

1. Work with Available Space

If the space is restrictive, you need to minimise obstructions, especially stands, display cases, and furniture at the entrance or exit areas of the exhibition booths. You want a natural flow. As soon as visitors feel restricted in their movement, they will become irritated and won’t pay attention to the exceptional displays.

• Use Vertical Space to Your Advantage

It is not all that easy to stand out from the crowd, especially if all the exhibition booths are of superior design. To this end, enquire if there is a vertical space limit. If not, use the space above your exhibition stand for tower signs, and hang displays or any other type of advert that can draw attention to your stand. This is especially helpful if the trade show is rather crowded. Attendees are likely to see the displays above the booths and follow them to find your particular stand.

• Work with Fewer Rather Than More Words

Visitors to trade shows have limited time. They are bombarded with information. Give them something easy to remember. Think of a slogan that’s catchy and go with it, rather than use long sentences to convey messages. Grab their attention with the displays by making them memorable with short action verbs and drive the message home with a catchy slogan. Place text at the top part of the booth to minimise the risk of it being obstructed by people passing it.

• Light Up the Message

Far too many exhibition booths rely on the trade show’s lights for illumination. Be different. Use uplights, downlights, angle lights, LED light boxes, and even colour lights to highlight messages. Create the right mood with lights and use angle lights at the entrance to direct people into the stand.

• Images Sell More Than Words

People are lazy when it comes to reading, especially if bombarded with thousands of text ads. They scan and they walk past. If you want them to stop, pay attention, and remember, use images. Make sure that the images are powerful or memorable. Go big on this with life-size images to attract attention. The images must be visible, so avoid placement at the bottom part of the stand.

• Be Creative with Materials

Speak to our consultants about possible materials to use. You can create different textures – highlight your involvement in tech products with aluminium materials for counters or use graphic walls to display nature images if you supply natural products. Smooth and silky materials work well if you operate within the medical industry, while a feeling of ruggedness can be attained with roughly textured materials if you operate a 4×4 dealership.

The above tips are only starting guidelines. Speak to our design consultants for professional assistance in making exhibition booths successful.

Research on exhibition stands shows most trade-show visitors have buying power, so every visitor is a potential buyer. Having a booth at a trade show provides tremendous brand exposure and income-generating potential. But this is true for every exhibitor; if your competitors exhibit at the same trade show, you have to pull out all stops to make your booth stand out from the rest of the exhibition stands. You have limited space and time to make an impact and create an unforgettable experience for visitors. To this end, follow these tips on how to get the most from trade shows with great exhibition stands. Before you start with the design or selection of the booth, you must understand your goals. List them in order of priority. What do you want to achieve? Who is your audience? What brand message do you want to convey? What do you sell?

Everyone Has A Story – Tell Yours with Passion

Limited time and space mean you cannot waste money with a vague message. Don’t make your booth a mere space filler. It either fades into the background or makes an impact. To do so, you need to tell your brand’s story in a striking way. If told right, it makes your brand offering more valuable. You want the audience to listen, see, ask, learn, buy, and become loyal supporters. Think of ways to tell the story in a way that creates interaction with the visitor. Every element must work together to bring the visitor to your call to action – and thus the desired outcome:

• Does the lighting highlight the brand message?
• Does the layout lead the visitor through the journey?
• Does the counter provide exhibition possibilities?
• Does the colour scheme support the story and the feel you want to create?
• Is it an immersive experience?

Create an environment in which the visitor becomes part of the brand, gets the opportunity to ask questions and receive answers. They must explore. The banners, walls, flooring, lighting, LED light boxes, furniture, and brochure stands all work together to create that immersive and positive environment.

Give Visitors What They Want

Exhibition stands form part of a larger event. For the duration of the event, the brands have set addresses. As such, your booth has only one store front. You have to create a welcoming atmosphere. Visitors want to relax and they want to be entertained. Give them both. People are creatures of comfort. Create an environment with all the comforts they want, such as inviting seats, a bottled-water bar, beverages and snacks, interactive displays, information kiosks, and demonstrations. Give visitors opportunities to participate in demonstrations.

What do you want after a long day of visiting exhibition stands? You are thirsty, hungry, and tired. You want a welcoming oasis where you can linger longer. Re-energise your visitors with displays using bold colours and eye-catching messages. Create the “Wow!” factor and give them something to take home.

Unleash the power of your brand with our design expertise and award-winning exhibition stands. Get in touch for professional assistance to create showstopping spaces for all your trade-show events.

Even with the best exhibition display stands available, you still need to make the right choice regarding layout, ambience, and functionality. In addition, you and your marketing team need to plan for the event day. This means marketing ahead of time.

1. Pre-Exhibition Marketing

Of course, you depend on the visibility of exhibition display stands to attract visitors, but with pre-trade marketing, you can ensure that your loyal customers will visit your booths. Use your email newsletters to announce where you will host a stand or several such trade stands. Invite your clients to drop in at your booths. Better yet, offer an incentive to do so.

Have your clients register online at your website to attend the exhibition where you will have display stands. Give them free tickets to the event and offer further freebies for attending your exhibition display booths. Create a Facebook event and invite your page followers to attend. Add an incentive for sharing and provide them with useful information about particular trade fair events where your brand will be represented.

2. Offer Skills Workshops at Your Exhibition Display Stands

If you have space, consider hosting short skills courses in your particular product or service offering. Make sure you notify your current clients of the workshops. With such offered, visitors stay longer.Boothsthat look busy attract more visitors.

3. Offer Product Demonstrations

As an alternative to skills workshops, you can offer product demonstrations. Advertise such on your website and social media pages well ahead of time. Also be sure to advertise such on banners or LED light box displays at the venue. You can even offer freebies for attending or provide certificates for attendance. Discount vouchers should form part of the marketing campaign to drive current clients to your trade booths. The benefit of such is that the customers will want to use the vouchers while they can. Make the vouchers redeemable only at your trade booths if you use such as pre-trade marketing items. If you use such at your trade booths, make sure the vouchers can be used at your stores as well.

4. Social Media Hub

People no longer leave home without their iPhones, tablets, or smartphones. They tweet, like, post, share, and upload the entire time. They often do so even more when at trade fairs. Make sure your booths are interactive to attract attention. Indeed, by turning your booths into social media hubs, you create focus points. Have relaxation spaces in addition to live projected feeds. Tap into the power of hashtags to have your product demonstrations go viral.

5. Interactivity Creates a Bond

People do not just want to observe while visiting trade booths. They want to participate. Games enable them to interact with your product. This can be a solar experiment or perhaps a 3D puzzle. You can even create a social experiment. Think of your product and how you can have visitors interact with it, using some type of game set-up.

If you have not yet reserved space at the DENTASA Summit on 19-20 July at the Century City Conference Centre in Cape Town, you need to do so as soon as possible. Do not be concerned about not having time to set up your display stands, as we provide a full range of products and services to help create inviting and functional booths.

Why You Should Book One of the Display Stands for the DENTASA Summit

DENTASA stands for the Dental Technicians Association of South Africa. Membership of the association is voluntary. The association is an industry advocacy body that offers its members several benefits, such as keeping members informed on national issues pertaining to the dental technology industry. It offers liaison with medical schemes, the Department of Health, and other regulatory bodies.

Delegates of the DENTASA Summit include dental technicians and key stakeholders in the industry. Various top brands have booked display stands and as such, you will be among the prestigious exhibitors at the summit.

How to Make Your Exhibition Count

Of course, simply being an exhibitor at the event is not enough. You want to connect with key players in the industry and introduce your innovative technologies and services to the visitors. With an extremely targeted audience, you can expect the visitors to be in the market for your products or services related to dental technology. However, with other exhibitors also targeting the same audience, it is imperative that your exhibition has all the bells and whistles to ensure optimal engagement and visual appeal.

To this end, you can benefit from our expertise in the design of custom display stands, provision of modular booths to meet your space and exhibition requirements, branding expertise, and printing services. In addition, we provide innovative solutions to enhance the appeal and functionality of your exhibition space.

Our product and service offering is extensive and includes, but is not limited to:

• Exhibition booths – modular box and portable.
• Counters – custom, Mo5, and registration.
• Furniture – ottomans, chairs, tables, and couches.
• Brochure holders.
• Accessories.
• Audio visual – laptops, TV screens, computers, projectors, DVD players, plasma screen brackets, iPad holders, and touch screens.
• Tension fabric systems.
• Roll-up banners.
• Poster display equipment.
• Showcases.
• LED fabric lightboxes.
• Infrastructure development.
• Carpet and flooring.
• Design, printing, and branding.

We can thus help you with all your exhibition needs. As a provider of display stands for DENTASA Summit, we understand the target audience, space requirements, and showcase needs of the exhibitors.

Why Us?

We have many years of experience in the exhibition and design industries. Our history dates back to 1996 and since then, we have won several awards and accolades, including the Bronze Award in the US-based Exhibitor Magazine Best Green Stands Awards. Our firm was also a finalist in the Loeries Live Event Category for our involvement at COP 17. Justin Hawes, our MD, was a finalist in the Sanlam/Business Partners Entrepreneur of the Year Awards (2012).

We were a finalist in the Most Empowered Tourism Business category at the FEDHASA’s Imvelo Responsible Tourism Awards event in 2012. Our firm was the winner of the IFES Sustainability Award in 2013 and we have been acknowledged several times at the EXSA Awards. The above awards are only some of our many accomplishments, showing our commitment to sustainability and top-quality products and services.

Get in touch for more information about our display stands for the DENTASA Summit and other exhibitions or conferences in South Africa.

Scan Display offers practical options regarding custom exhibition stands with our tension fabric systems being viable options for almost any event and environment. With various in-house divisions that can assist our clients in the design of custom exhibition stands and graphics, our tension fabric stands offer durable and reusable options to give you a viable solution for travelling and constant usage. These stands are also ideal for temporary use, especially within a retail environment.

The large and seamless graphic prints are displayed on aluminium frames and result in a professional and aesthetically pleasing marketing presentation for your exhibition stand or retail store. The aluminium frames offer robust and lightweight structures for these exhibition stands, which are made according to your specifications to match your preferences, and deliver easy-to-use frames for displaying your custom graphics. These frames feature hidden brackets for a seamless and professional result, putting the focus on the fabric display, as opposed to the area where the fabric is tensioned over the frame.

These stands are easy to set up, move, and take down again, giving you the solution to professional displays without having to break your back when setting them up. Since these stands can be incorporated for various expos and similar events, you should consider Scan Display for the upcoming International Congress of Endocrinology being held in Cape Town for 2018, starting on the 1^st of December and covering four days of incredible medical and scientific topics regarding endocrinology from around the world.

ICE 2018 Cape Town

Cape Town is considered by many people across the world as a city full of diversity, natural beauty, and tourist-friendly environments, making it the perfect place for hosting the International Congress of Endocrinology 2018. This congress brings people from across the world together to express their views and research topics such as diabetes and obesity – two of the more threatening diseases of the current 21^st century. The congress will also feature 12 international speakers, hailing from all over the world to deliver a comprehensive approach to endocrinology at the congress. Academic congresses have become a very popular method of delivering brand-new research and academic papers to an international audience, creating a viable platform to get various angles and feedback before publishing new research or academic papers.

As a result, these events cover more than just speakers by providing exhibition areas to take full advantage of and reach an international crowd. This is where we can provide professional and seamless exhibition stand displays to use at the ICE 2018, giving you a cost-effective method to reach people attending the event. We offer a wide selection of custom exhibition stands, resulting in a comprehensive approach to expo display stands, so that we can give our customers the display options to optimise their exhibits at events such as the ICE 2018.

If you are looking for exhibition stands, Scan Display is the company to choose for an all-inclusive choice of quality stand designs to fit your budget and preferences. For more information, have a look at our company’s portfolio to give you an idea of what we can offer you.

When it comes to mining expos for the African industry, the Electra Mining Africa Expo is not to be missed, as it grants a platform for meeting people in the industry whom are familiar with what to expect and how to approach the industry, as well as gives newcomers the opportunities they need to make it in the business. For veteran attendees, this expo is a fantastic opportunity to grow brand recognition, broaden the boundaries of your business, and check out the competition to ensure that the upcoming business year will be as successful as humanly possible.

Should you be running your own exhibition stand at the event, Scan Display can be of service to optimise your exhibition stand designs and deliver eye-catching results to pull people in and raise their interest in your company or product. This event promises to host almost 34 000 visitors and takes place at the Nasrec Expo Centre in Johannesburg from Monday the 10^th of September to Friday the 14^th of September 2018. Daily opening times are 09:00 every morning, with the doors closing at 17:00 for a complete day of Electra Mining Africa goodness.

With such a big audience expected to be present at the expo, the time has come to put your best foot forward and deliver an exhibition stand that will not only pique the interest of people passing by, but also inform potential new clients and customers about your business. Let’s take a closer look at how Scan Display can offer viable and effective exhibition stand designs to make your exhibition stand out from the crowd and deliver the necessary branded areas for you to market your business and products.

Scan Display’s Exhibition Stand Designs

We offer a range of portable stands that are ideal for travelling and setting up quickly and effectively. These stands can be reused and offer optimised durability to ensure that you can easily throw them in the back of the car and be ready for the next event. Our selection begins with the stunning Fabric Pop-Up System, offering a durable and sturdy frame base to hold up branded fabric and provide a professional look that is ideal for venues with height restrictions. This exhibition stand can also be backlit for an alternative look, which can be perfect for eye-catching stands.

We also offer Folding Systems, which are basic folding platforms for branding and information, allowing for large areas of display at your exhibition. For a selection of panorama exhibition stand designs, our Metro range provides versatile options to create a wide variety of effects using various display panels to achieve specific layouts to fit your preferences and overall style. We also offer completely custom exhibition stand designs, giving our clients the option to offer a completely custom experience for people attending their exhibition stands at events.

At Scan Display, we offer a wide variety of exhibition stand designs to ensure that our clients can get exactly what they need for upcoming events, such as the Electra Mining Africa Expo in September 2018. For more information on these stand designs, feel free to peruse our website for images and further details, or contact us directly with any enquiries.

When it comes to running your own exhibition stand, There are several options available to you, with some being the most advantageous for your business, while others will limit your marketing while hosting your own exhibition stand at an expo. Custom and modular stands with personalised designs will always be viable options for branding and conveying information to potential customers walking past, with the chance to spark their interest and turn it into a sales conversion for your business.

With the AfricaCom expo coming up in November, you want to ensure that your business’s exhibition stand will catch the eyes of all the people at the event, which is estimated at between 20 000 and 50 000 people for the 2018 event. The AfricaCom expo showcases the latest developments from the biggest communications companies on the continent, with digital communication being the focal point and serving as the main theme for the event.

This opens the door to internet service providers, telecommunication companies, and mobile network service providers to not only have the opportunity to interact with others in the business, but also display their own products and innovations to the thousands of people attending. Should you be looking for viable solutions to branded custom stands and modular stands for your exhibition at the AfricaCom expo, Scan Display offers a range of products that will be ideal for your specific implementation. Today, we will focus on our range of modular and custom-designed stands to give you the ideal equipment for a successful exhibition.

Our Exhibition Stand Range

Starting with our selection of brochure stands, we feature four distinctly designed stands for holding brochures, making it simple for people walking by to grab a brochure or pamphlet and read more about your product or service. Moving on, our Fabric Pop-Up System offers a portable modular solution, which is a good product for travelling exhibits.

The Fabric Pop-Up System features a lightweight and robust design, with reusable graphics to ensure that you can take this modular stand to any event and expo without having to replace the graphics. We also feature a host of Metro stands, consisting of a portable display stand system with complete branded graphics to make the most of your exhibition stand. With a choice between nine unique configurations, you will simply need to find the ideal layout and setup for your specific exhibition area and let the Metro stand do the rest for you.

We also offer Folding System display stands, giving you the flexibility to arrange and place your modular stand as effectively as possible to suit the environment of your exhibition. For the travelling exhibitioner, we feature our Expo Range, giving you access to modular stands with custom designed graphics that are completely reusable and ideal for travelling, thus providing you with the perfect tools to host your own exhibition stands across the world without having to worry about graphics and stands making the journey with you.

Scan Display offers viable custom and modular stands to use at large expo events such as AfricaCom and others across the world. We can even custom make stands out of wood that fit together like LEGO blocks, giving you a professional and striking looking stand. By creating a custom stand this way, it makes it easier to set up again for future events.

For more information, feel free to peruse our website for images and details surrounding our products, or contact us directly with any enquiries. Choose Scan Display today and ensure that your next expo stand blows the competition away.

 South Africa is a very beautiful country, offering a fantastic selection of internationally acclaimed wines from the Cape countryside. CapeWine 2018 will play host to some of the biggest names and brands in the South African wine business, offering the opportunity for any wine fanatic to explore and discover the very best in South African wine. Should you be in the wine business yourself and looking for viable solutions to approach outdoor branding for an event such as CapeWine 2018, Scan Display offers an array of products that will not only provide viable outdoor branding, but can also be implemented within your exhibition stands at other expos and events where the wind will not play a factor to the exhibiting environment.

CapeWine 2018 takes place in September and offers the exhibitors professional display stands to showcase their brand and wines for everyone attending. If you are in Cape Town for the event, be sure not to miss anything. When it comes to outdoor branding, Scan Display offers standardised and customisable solutions to clients, with branding at the forefront and versatility to ensure that you can easily transport and reuse them at the next expo or event. Here is a range of outdoor branding products that can take your outdoor exhibits to the next level.

Outdoor Branding

As we all are aware of, not every single day offers sunshine and clear skies. Weather will always be a factor regarding outdoor branding, which influences the way people approach outdoor branding in general. As a default rule, these products should be able to withstand specific weather conditions, with rain and wind playing decisive factors when the sun does not beat down on us. Telescopic banners offer a way to effectively display your branded graphics in the great outdoors, with flexibility to handle winds from various directions and a specific design to handle the outdoors with ease. Having a collection of three telescopic banners at your outdoor exhibit will give you more than enough display area to convey your brand and market your products effectively.

Another popular choice for outdoor branding comes in the form of the pop-up A-frame. Its design offers display space for brands, products, and other information needing to be on display at your outdoor exhibit. Both the A-frame and telescopic banner use materials that can handle and withstand wind and rain, but there is another way as well – the Modulbox. Offering a customisable modular stand, the Modulbox can be branded to suit your specific preferences and folded into a lockable box structure when the day is done. The Modulbox is ideal for a professional approach to outdoor branding, with various elements to ensure that you can successfully manage your outdoor exhibit with the least amount of problems.

CapeWine 2018 is only a couple of months away. Scan Display can offer various outdoor branding solutions to give you the tools to host a successful outdoor exhibit, as well as various products for the indoor events. For more information, please peruse our website for images and details surrounding our products, or contact us directly for any enquiries.