1. Vendor Presentations: Guidelines
Sara Schleutker, Qualcomm
IRT Vendor Liaison

2. 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

3. 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 

4. 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
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