26–28 April 2027 · Obi Wali International Conference Centre, Port Harcourt, Nigeria Sponsorship enquiries · programs@tmiafrica.org
Sponsorship & Exhibition

Partner with the tenth edition

400 to 600 delegates, nearly all of whom specify, approve or influence maintenance spend. Three days. One floor.

The case

This is not a general industry audience

Most conferences sell you reach. This one sells you concentration.

A Nigerian energy week puts 5,000 people in a hall, of whom perhaps 200 have anything to do with maintaining equipment. The Maintenance Summit puts 400 to 600 people in a hall, of whom almost all of them do.

If you sell rotating equipment, condition monitoring hardware, lubricants, CMMS or EAM software, inspection services, spares or technical training, the cost per qualified conversation here is lower than anywhere else in West Africa. That is the entire argument, and it is the one to take to your budget holder.

What the room looks like

SectorShare
Oil & gas — upstream, midstream, refining35%
Power & utilities22%
Manufacturing & process20%
Senior leadership / C-suite15%
Consultants, trainers, academics8%

Indicative mix based on prior editions. Verified demographics are supplied to sponsors in the post-event report.

The Port Harcourt advantage

The Summit sits inside Nigeria's densest concentration of maintainable assets. NLNG at Bonny, Renaissance at Rumuobiakani, Indorama at Eleme, the terminals at Onne, and the refining and petrochemical corridor — all within an hour of the venue.

For delegates that means near-zero travel cost, which is why attendance holds up in a hard year. For you it means the decision-makers are local, reachable, and back at the plant on Thursday.

Ten editions of standing

Very few technical conferences in this region reach a tenth edition. The anniversary carries genuine press and social weight, and a headline sponsor's name is attached to that milestone permanently — in the programme, the communiqué and every retrospective published afterwards.

Sell-out risk is real on two items

There are only six workshop-host slots and one headline sponsorship. Workshop hosting sells first every year, because it is the one package that qualifies as training expenditure — see funding routes below.

Rate card

Sponsorship packages

Priced in naira. Dollar figures are conversions for international sponsors and are re-struck at contract date.

One only

Headline Sponsor

Exclusive · naming rights

₦25,000,000

approx. US$18,800

  • The event carries your name: "The 10th Maintenance Summit, in association with [you]"
  • Exclusive top-line logo on stage backdrop, delegate badges, website and all digital assets
  • 20-minute opening keynote by your executive
  • 6m × 3m premium exhibition space, first choice of position
  • 20 complimentary delegate passes
  • Branded plenary session of your choice
  • Full-page inside-front-cover programme advertisement
  • 3-minute video played at the opening and at the gala
  • Delegate-bag insert · joint press release
  • First right of refusal on the 11th edition
Enquire about Headline

Platinum

Maximum 2 available

₦15,000,000

approx. US$11,300

  • Second-tier logo placement across all collateral
  • Plenary session sponsorship with a 15-minute address
  • 3m × 3m premium booth in a prime position
  • 12 complimentary delegate passes
  • Full-page programme advertisement
  • Delegate-bag insert
  • Logo on every email campaign
  • One hosted networking activity
  • Post-event delegate list (opt-in only, NDPA-compliant)
Enquire about Platinum

Gold

Maximum 4 available

₦8,000,000

approx. US$6,000

  • Third-tier logo placement across all collateral
  • 10-minute technical presentation in a parallel track
  • 3m × 3m standard exhibition booth
  • 8 complimentary delegate passes
  • Full-page programme advertisement
  • Delegate-bag insert
  • Logo on session holding slides
Enquire about Gold

Silver

Maximum 6 available

₦4,500,000

approx. US$3,400

  • Logo on banners, website and programme
  • 5-minute address slot in one parallel session
  • Tabletop exhibit
  • 5 complimentary delegate passes
  • Half-page programme advertisement
Enquire about Silver

Bronze

Maximum 10 available

₦2,000,000

approx. US$1,500

  • Logo on banners, website and programme
  • Tabletop exhibit
  • 3 complimentary delegate passes
  • Quarter-page programme advertisement
  • Delegate-bag insert
Enquire about Bronze
Sells first

Workshop Host

6 available · 26 April

₦5,000,000

approx. US$3,760

  • Your own 90-minute branded workshop room with full AV
  • Listed in the main programme with your branding
  • Full attendee list for your workshop (opt-in)
  • 3m × 3m exhibition booth included
  • 6 complimentary delegate passes
  • Promoted in all pre-event marketing
  • Co-branded certificates where CPD-accredited
  • Qualifies as training expenditure — see funding routes
Enquire about hosting

Signature activity sponsorships

PackageAvailablePriceWhat it includes
The Decade Awards & Gala Dinner1 — exclusive₦10,000,000 Exclusive naming of the tenth-anniversary awards and gala. Your executive presents the headline award. Branding on stage, tables, menus and trophies. 5-minute address, 10 dinner seats plus 8 conference passes, full-page advertisement, photography rights.
Lanyard & badge sponsor1 — exclusive₦3,500,000 Your logo on every delegate lanyard and badge — the highest-impression item at any conference. 4 passes, logo on the registration desk backdrop, directory listing.
Delegate bag sponsor1 — exclusive₦3,000,000 Your logo on every delegate bag, plus one insert of your choosing. 4 passes, directory listing.
Coffee break sponsor4 — one per break₦1,500,000 Branding across all refreshment stations for that break, branded cups and napkins where practicable, roll-up banners in the break area, 2 passes, and a mention from the chair.
Media partner6–10Contra Logo on website and programme, 2 press passes, access to the press conference and interview slots — in exchange for an agreed written schedule of coverage. No cash changes hands in either direction.
Exhibition

The Maintenance Technology Expo

The exhibition floor runs alongside the whole programme, with every break and both lunches served on it.

That is deliberate. There is no separate exhibition hall that delegates have to be persuaded to walk to — the floor is where the conference eats, so footfall is the entire delegation, four times a day, for three days.

Around 20 booths and 12 tabletops are available. Booth positions are allocated in the order contracts are signed, and headline, platinum and gold sponsors choose before open sale.

Reserve a stand
Delegates crowded around an exhibition stand at the 9th edition
The floor at the 9th edition
Delegates in conversation at an exhibitor stand
Every break is served here

Exhibition booth — 3m × 3m

₦1,800,000

approx. US$1,350 · 18–24 available

Shell scheme, fascia name board, two spotlights, one power socket, table and two chairs, carpet. Three exhibitor passes. Listing in the exhibitor directory and on the website.

Tabletop exhibit

₦850,000

approx. US$640 · 10–14 available

Draped table, two chairs, one power socket, space for a pull-up backdrop. Two exhibitor passes. Directory listing.

Add-ons

Bolt-ons, available with any tier

ItemPrice (NGN)approx. USD
Delegate block — 25 places (for training-budget purchases)₦5,000,000$3,760
Delegate block — 50 places₦9,000,000$6,770
Networking lunch sponsor — per day, 3 available₦2,500,000$1,880
Welcome reception sponsor — 26 April evening₦2,500,000$1,880
Conference WiFi sponsor — splash page branding₦2,000,000$1,500
Charging station / device bar₦1,200,000$900
Conference notebook & pen₦1,200,000$900
Programme — outside back cover₦900,000$680
Programme — inside front or inside back cover₦700,000$530
Programme — full interior page₦400,000$300
Programme — half page₦220,000$165
Delegate-bag insert (non-sponsor)₦350,000$265

Dollar equivalents are conversions for reference only and are re-struck at contract date. Nigerian sponsors are invoiced in naira to avoid exchange-rate renegotiation.

Funding routes

This may not need to come out of a marketing budget

The single most useful thing to know before you take this internally.

NCDMB Project-Based Human Capacity Development

Operators and contractors executing Nigerian oil and gas contracts above the prescribed threshold are required to set aside a human capacity development budget drawn from contract cost, administered under the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board's project-based HCD regime.

Why this matters here: delegate blocks and workshop places are training expenditure. They can be purchased against an approved, ring-fenced capacity development line rather than a contested marketing budget — which is very often the difference between an approved purchase and a deferred one.

PTDF capacity development

The Petroleum Technology Development Fund supports technical capacity building in the Nigerian energy sector. It is a realistic route for underwriting a delegate cohort or a scholarship block, particularly for early-career engineers on the Young Professionals track.

CPD accreditation is the unlock

Attendance carries up to 24 structured CPD hours and up to 24 SMRP CPE points toward CMRP recertification, and has been accepted as structured CPD evidence by COREN, NSE, IMechE and IEEE.

For most corporate training approvals, formal CPD recognition is the condition that releases the budget. It is worth putting in the internal request.

How to structure the ask

The pattern that works: buy the workshop host slot and a delegate block from the capacity development line, and take only the booth and branding from marketing. Two smaller approvals from two different budgets clear far faster than one large one.

This is a summary of publicly documented funding mechanisms, offered as commercial guidance. Confirm the current thresholds, rules and eligibility with NCDMB, PTDF and your own finance and compliance functions before relying on them.

Next step

Talk to us

Tell us what you want out of the three days and we will put a package together, including combinations that are not on this page.

Packages can be tailored. If what you actually need is a private customer dinner, a branded demonstration area, or a co-hosted technical session with an operator, say so — most of the best sponsorships across ten editions were built rather than bought off the card.

Discounting policy, stated openly

We do not cut the price. Where there is room to move, it is given as added value — extra passes, a better booth position, an additional insert — so that the card holds for the eleventh edition and early committers are never worse off than late ones.

Direct contacts

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Six workshop slots. One headline. Ten editions.

The packages that carry the most weight are the ones with the fewest units. Early conversations get first choice of position, session and audience.

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