Platinum Sponsor
	HighBeam Research HighBeam Research, Inc. runs an online research engine for individuals, filling the gap between free search engines and high-end information services. By delivering sophisticated research tools with convenient access to the free Web, paid online services, and our proprietary databases, we empower individual researchers to efficiently locate, organize and deliver answers.
Gold Sponsors
	Copyright Clearance Center Copyright Clearance Center is the world's premier provider of copyright licensing and compliance solutions for the information content industry. We are a trusted intermediary between copyright holders and content users, facilitating the exchange of reuse rights and royalties through a wide range of licensing services. Copyright Clearance Center manages the rights to over 1.75 million works and represents more than 9,600 publishers and hundreds of thousands of authors and other creators.
	The Jordan, Edmiston Group Founded in 1987, The Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc. (JEGI) is widely recognized for its leadership in middle-market merger and acquisition advisory services for the media and information industries. Leveraging the shared insights and wisdom gleaned from hundreds of transactions, JEGI has built a client base that ranges in size from the largest media and information companies consolidating their portfolios to entrepreneurs selling their businesses or taking them to the next stage of development. JEGI's impeccable reputation reflects its knowledge and record of superior performance on behalf of its clients. Clients routinely acknowledge the firm's extensive senior-level media and information industry experience as a critical factor in increasing the prospects for successfully completing a transaction.
Silver Sponsors
	ECNext In today's fast paced self-service world more and more business professionals turn to search engines to find the information they need. ECNext helps content companies leverage this shift in behavior and create a new direct sales channel. We illuminate publisher's "hidden Web" assets, turning searches into revenue by enabling users to go directly from search results to the authoritative information they need. ECNext's Web marketing services and technology platform combine to turn searches into traffic and traffic into content sales. We serve publishers by building, managing and marketing their branded site or by licensing content for sale on Manta.com, ECNext's business information site.
	FAST Publishing, a division of Fast Search & Transfer™ Fast Search & Transfer™ (FAST™) creates the real-time search and filter technology solutions that are behind the scenes at the world’s best known companies with the most demanding search problems. Fast's flexible and scalable integrated technology platform elevates the search capabilities of enterprise customers and connects people to the relevant information they seek regardless of medium. This drives revenues and reduces total cost of ownership by effectively leveraging IT infrastructure. Six of the top nine commercial publishers and more than 500 corporate publishers around the world rely on FAST® to quickly deliver and update professional reference, scientific, technical, medical and business information online, on CD/DVD and within corporate intranets. FAST publishing applications include optimized data storage, secure and flexible rights management or access control, award-winning search and navigation, configurable presentation templates and personalized views for different groups of users. FAST operates globally with presence in the US, Europe, and Japan. FAST is traded under the ticker symbol 'FAST' on the Oslo Stock Exchange.
	IRIS IRIS has two businesses. We are a leading information and research company, providing India content and tools, serving India’s financial markets. Best known for India’s leading financial portal, www.myiris.com, our clients include banks (e.g. Citibank), mutual funds (DSP Merrill Lynch), stock brokerages (HDFC Securities) who license our content, technology or both. We provide news, analysis & research, databases (financial, mutual funds, industry) and technology tools and applications, including web services. We offer bespoke solutions as well. IRIS is a recent entrant to the outsourced research and information space. We seek to be the partner of choice for players in the financial information markets, media and publishing, who wish to outsource the generation, aggregation or transformation of content. We combine state-of-the-art technology solutions with high quality research and information services to deliver cost effective solutions to our clients.
	Mark Logic Corporation Mark Logic Corporation provides the industry's leading XML content server. Mark Logic works with providers of information products to accelerate new product creation, deliver products through multiple channels, integrate content from different sources, repurpose content into multiple products, build custom publishing systems, and mine content for previously undiscovered information. MarkLogic Server does this by enabling companies to convert, query, manipulate, and render XML content using the W3C-standard XQuery language. Designed for high performance and scalability, MarkLogic Server can deliver millisecond response times against multi-terabyte contentbases. Mark Logic is privately held and backed by Sequoia Capital and Lehman Brothers.
	Business Intelligence Services Business Intelligence Services, a business of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC), is a premiere provider of online research information and news to leading businesses and corporations worldwide. Offering Thomson Business Intelligence, an integrated, single-source solution for market and broker research, current awareness, news archives and breaking news, Business Intelligence Services delivers unparalleled visibility into business and market performance that better supports strategic planning and decision making. Business Intelligence Services brings together essential research information and news in an intuitive interface with a sophisticated taxonomy and powerful workflow features that help organizations capitalize on today's emerging business trends and make business decisions with confidence.
Bronze Sponsors
	Berkery, Noyes & Co. Berkery, Noyes is a full-service investment banking firm serving the information, publishing, and communications industries. What differentiates Berkery, Noyes is our broad and deep knowledge of the publishing and information industries acquired during 20+ years of intense mergers and acquisitions activity, coupled with a keen understanding of the strategic imperatives driving the market.
	Convera Convera is a leading provider of search technologies to commercial enterprises and government agencies. Through its two offerings, Excalibur™, a newly developed Web search solution and RetrievalWare®, its “flagship” enterprise search product, Convera offers unique search technology capable of providing an integrated results page derived from both intranet and Internet content.
	DeSilva & Phillips DeSilva & Phillips is an investment bank specializing in the media and information technology industries. We provide M&A services and private placements of debt and equity to the magazine, Internet, digital media, business information services, trade show and educational services industries. DeSilva & Phillips Corporate Finance is a member of NASD/SIPC.
	EDGAR Online EDGAR® Online, Inc. is a leading provider of value-added global business and financial information to the financial, corporate and advisory sectors. EDGAR Online makes aggregating and analyzing information quick and easy. All of our products provide timely and cost-effective access to critical business information.
	emeta eMeta is the leading provider of access control and ecommerce solutions for media and software companies. eMeta helps companies like nytimes.com, iVillage and Wolters Kluwer maximize the value of their digital assets. Recently, eMeta was recognized by Red Herring and Deloitte & Touche for its outstanding achievements.
	Genesys Partners Genesys Partners, Inc. is an investment banking, venture capital and venture development company that specializes in the Internet-based information industry. We focus on early-stage companies who are developing information products and services with significant market potential. We assist young companies in a highly hands-on way to increase their chances of success, and to make the crucial transition from start-up to IPO or sale of the company.
	LexisNexis As a world-leading provider of enhanced information services and management tools, LexisNexis® delivers comprehensive and authoritative business, news, legal, government, and tax information in 100 countries worldwide. It unites proprietary brands, advanced Web technologies, and premium information sources to offer an extensive range of products and customized tools that address job-specific and organization-wide information needs, driving productivity and confident decision-making. LexisNexis recently was named one of KM World magazine's "Top 100 Companies in Knowledge Management."
	Really Strategies Really Strategies, Inc. provides world-class content solutions and services to publishers, media companies, and other content-centric companies. We bring strategy, content, and technology together to analyze, architect, and implement appropriate tools and technologies. For additional information and to see a complete list of services and solutions, please visit www.reallysi.com or call (215) 631-3107.