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How can WAF help you achieve your global business objectives?

WAF is important because it's a forum for us to engage with architects and to share ideas, to identify trends we see coming, WAF seems to get better every year.

Andrew Best, Director, Buro Happold

World Architecture Festival: Where architects meet you, your products and your services

To discuss sponsorship opportunities available to you contact:

By becoming a partner of WAF you become a partner of the global architecture community, reinforce your company as a market leader and position yourself as a natural choice for architects worldwide. Your sponsorship package can be developed and tailored according to your specific needs. We will work with you to create packages that meet your business objectives and enhance your offering, both during and around the event. Here's how we do it:

Thought leadership - The opportunity to position your business solutions at the forefront of the architectural thinking and be seen as a partner of the global profession.

Networking - Over 24 hours of dedicated networking time, including formal receptions, dinners and a dedicated networking floor with its own central bar, plus bespoke opportunities for you to meet speakers and attendees in the most appropriate way to suit your business needs.

Exchange - Establish and reinforce your relationship with senior architects through meaningful contact with partner level attendees and unparalleled access to crucial decision makers. 40% of WAF attendees are partner level or above.

PR - The architectural press gather at WAF alongside leading mainstream titles. WAF's communications partner FTI Consulting work year round to ensure maximum press coverage for WAF and its supporters.

Marketing - Exposure through the WAF multichannel marketing campaign that incorporates direct mail, telemarketing, email, social media, web and PR. Expand your global reach and target the people you want to meet.

WAF is exciting and dynamic and is a showcase for some of the most inspiring pieces of architecture in the world today. Rider Levett Bucknall's sponsorship of this event not only reflects the importance we place on our relationships with architects but it provides an amazing backdrop for us to learn more about how we can continue to support the profession in delivering the very best in global design for a world that will be fit for our future.

Lance Taylor, CEO of Rider Levett Bucknall