GLOBAL ALLIANCE PARTNERSHIP

	BrightTALK provides online events for professionals and their communities. Every day, thousands of thought leaders are actively sharing their insights, ideas, and most up-to-date knowledge with professionals all over the globe through the online event technologies BrightTALK has created. www.brighttalk.com
	Eloqua is the category-defining marketing automation leader and provider of best practices expertise for marketers around the world. The company’s mission is to make its customers the best marketers on earth. Thousands of customers including Aon, Apple, Fifth Third Bank, Dow Jones, Fidelity and Sybase rely on Eloqua to execute, automate and measure programs that generate revenue. www.eloqua.com
	Lenos Software is revolutionizing Relationship Event Marketing. The Lenos Campaign Platform puts the power of Event Marketing in the hands of Marketers for rapid, custom site creation without coding to drive revenue generation and lead management. Lenos enables actionable business intelligence, critical customer insight, campaign measurement, compliance, and dramatically improves productivity. www.lenos.com

STRATEGIC NON-PROFIT PARTNERS

	The Association of International Product Marketing and Management (AIPMM) is the world’s largest professional organization of product managers, brand managers, product marketing managers and other individuals responsible for guiding their organizations and clients through a constantly changing business landscape. It is the only organization that represents those who manage the entire product life-cycle throughout any industry.
	The Appropedia Foundation is building a crowd-sourced multi-lingual sustainable knowledge base at Appropedia.org. Beyond providing infrastructure, Appropedia also fosters a community of volunteers, foundations, academic institutions, international development organizations and for-profit firms that support open sharing of practical wisdom to enable better living with a sustainable environmental footprint.
	BMA is the business marketer's first line of defense in changing business marketing environments. Today, we're even better at delivering membership benefits that make a difference to your business...today and tomorrow. From our information-packed web site to our online skills-building and marketing certification program, to papers and industry surveys, to interaction with peers, no other organization delivers the same level of commitment to the information and networking needs of business-to-business marketers. www.marketing.org
	The Carbon War Room (CWR) - a global, independent non-profit - harnesses the power of entrepreneurs to unlock market driven solutions to climate change. Under the platform of ‘Climate Wealth’, CWR aims to eliminate market inefficiencies, focusing on insufficient information and high transaction costs, to enhance the movement of institutional capital into the marketplace and achieve gigaton-scale reductions in greenhouse gases.
	greeenstar.org is an entrepreneurially managed nonprofit social enterprise working to motivate reductions in companies’ carbon emissions. Using a unique model greeenstar publishes ‘best-in-class’ ratings comparing corporate carbon footprints within sector, based on hard science. The ratings are distributed to consumers as simple green stars, on search engines and social media.
	SCIP is a global, non-profit organization providing education, networking, and professional development opportunities to business professionals involved in developing competitive intelligence that enhances organizational decision-making.

GIL 2011 AFRICA EVENT PARTNERS

	The Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) is an initiative of the Department of Science & Technology mandated to enable and support technological innovation across all sectors of the economy in order to achieve socio-economic benefits for South Africa and enhance its global competitiveness. TIA mobilizes and provides financial and non-financial support across broad technology areas in various sectors of the economy.
	MTN Business is the business channel of the MTN SA, focused on providing business communications solutions to small-to-large businesses and the public sector. As organisations around the world rely more and more on communications, the ability to communicate 24/7 with absolute uptime is a not negotiable. MTN Business is structured in such a way to best deliver on reliability and availability to organisations both big and small while ensuring our customers receive a service experience second to none.   MTN Business takes great satisfaction in assisting our customers and watching them expand and grow to eventually become multinational organisations. Our custom solutions are specifically designed to help you along your path to success.   As a one-stop, converged communications provider, we enable cost efficiencies in your organisation, assisting you to consolidate your ICT requirements and benefit from economies of scale.   Find out more go to: www.mtnbusiness.co.za.

MEDIA ALLIANCES

	25° in Africa’s Independent Energy publication is a bimonthly publication dedicated to comprehensive coverage and reportage on all forms of energy and related environmental impacts, technological developments and research. http://www.25degrees.net/
	African Power, Mining & Oil Review is the only publication in Africa that provides a quarterly reference platform, industrial insights, independent research features and updates on the Power, Mining and Oil sectors, while instilling a sense of unity in considering the way forward on the continent. http://www.sham-media.net
	Africa Telecoms is the first fully integrated Africa Telecoms publication and website aimed at carriers, service providers, network operators, ministers and regulators. This monthly magazine is the industry leading guide providing the very latest telecoms news, expert analysis, key issues and trends affecting the telecoms industry across the African continent. http://www.africatelecomsonline.co.za/
	Alternative Energy Africa magazine has a continental focus, international reach and is the ONLY publication focused on Africa’s alternative/renewable energy sector. http://www.ae-africa.com/
	With a qualified directory of more than 2,000 Venture Capital and Mid-Market/LBO private equity firms, BoogarLists is an excellent place for entrepreneurs to begin their search for investment capital. Whether starting a new company or striving to take an early stage company to the next level, CEO’s and CFO’s will invariably want to seek out new sources of capital or other financial services. BoogarLists provides an extensive directory of financial, operations and marketing services, as well as a comprehensive directory of conferences and associations, across the technology, media and communications industries.
	African Business Review is a pioneering digital media site for business professionals and executives across the continent. Through its digital magazine, online website, daily news and weekly e-newsletter, African Business Review helps executives stay up-to-date with the most important issues in the demanding and ever more competitive African business scene. www.AfricanBusinessReview.co.za
	Business in Africa Magazine is the leading source of high-quality information and analysis of developments in the commercial centre of Africa. The Publication provides business information in key areas where information supply fails to meet the increasingly specialized demand. http://www.businessinafricagroup.com/
	ConferenceGuru knows that the reasons you attend conferences are to help establish your leadership position in the marketplace and network with your peers. A worthwhile conference experience generates new contacts, sales leads, potential strategic partners and investors; helps gather competitive intelligence and even provides inspiration for new products and services. Conference Guru helps find the right conference for you and hopefully save you a few bucks along the way. http://www.conferenceguru.com
	With all forms of energy now crucial to the future economic, political and social futures of every country in the world – especially Africa – Energy Forecast provides a comprehensive coverage of exploration, development and innovation every quarter. While attention is given to traditional carbon fuels and nuclear power we provide plenty of news about alternative sources of energy being developed with ingenuity around the African continent together with emphasis on water and climate change. www.energyforecastonline.co.za
	Engineering News provides timely information about economic developments, including in-depth reporting on industrial project developments and on the policies and personalities shaping the real economy. http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/
	ITWeb is South Africa’s leading technology-focused publisher. With products and services across online, print and events, it is recognised as the most trusted voice in SA IT. http://www.itweb.co.za/
	Leadership magazine is one of the oldest and most prestigious magazines in South Africa.  Founded by Hugh Murray in 1983, Leadership became the choice read for the country’s business and political leaders. Leadership’s aim is to give insights, intelligence and interviews with those leaders who are defining the world around us.  It offers leaders a space to express their views, fears and hopes, without those being travestied by truncation, or refracted through the ideological prism of the commentariat. www.leadershiponline.co.za
	Technology Digital is a pioneering digital media site for Technology professionals and executives responsible for all aspects of managing this environment. Through its online website, daily news and digital magazine and weekly e-newsletter coming soon, Technology Digital helps executives stay up-to-date with the most important issues in this demanding and ever more competitive global business sector. www.Technology-Digital.com
	The Business Diary is a premier source of Southern African news on economic developments in the most important industries. The Business Diary provides in-depth coverage of various projects and the personalities reshaping the economic development. The publication is an essential source of information for those involved in the global industry. www.thebusinessdiary.co.bw/
	The online communities at Toolbox.com help professionals do their jobs better by enabling them to easily share knowledge with experienced peers. Leveraging a proprietary contextual matching system, Toolbox.com packages advertising content into the community interaction process to add value to users and deliver market-leading ROI to vendors advertising to this community of 3 million professionals. http://www.toolbox.com/
	TradeInvestAfrica is the ideal online channel for stakeholders in Africa to attract investment and for the international community to find specific opportunities. Sign up for our free monthly newsletter: www.tradeinvestafrica.com