Current Exhibitor, Attendee Advisories
EXHIBITOR AND ATTENDEE CONTACT INFORMATION PRIVACY
The Southern Forest Products Association only shares exhibitor and attendee information, as needed, with our official partners to produce the Forest Products Machinery & Equipment EXPO. Those official vendors include:
- GES
- MCI
- Map Your Show
- The Music City Center
SFPA nor its official EXPO partners listed above do not sell or share your information. That’s why we work with these partners to keep all data behind password-protected sites. SFPA does, however, provide a post-EXPO report of attendees and their contact information to exhibitors who are SFPA members to allow for follow-ups, as necessary.
The only legitimate emails you will receive come from SFPA, MCI, GES, Map Your Show, or the Music City Center.
AVOID HOTEL SCAMS
Unfortunately, there are many companies that try to present themselves as being an official part of the Forest Products Machinery & Equipment EXPO. They are NOT. They frequently offer attractive prices for familiar hotels but be aware: these offers are usually untrue.
Several housing agencies, including fraudulent companies, typically present themselves as official booking agencies for Forest Products EXPO each year, contacting exhibitors and attendees to make hotel reservations using their services.
The official – and only – Forest Products EXPO contracted hotels and ensuing rates, which are contracted by SFPA, must be booked directly through SFPAexpo.com/hotels.
Reservations made through any other agency cannot be guaranteed by SFPA or the Forest Products EXPO and may result in additional charges, incorrect hotel placement, inflated room rates, canceled rooms, or worse for EXPO exhibitors and attendees. use only use the links at SFPAexpo.com/hotels to safely secure your hotel reservation within the approved Forest Products EXPO block.
WATCH OUT FOR EXHIBITOR AND ATTENDEE LIST DATA SERVICE SCAMS, TOO
As mentioned above, SFPA does not sell exhibitor or attendee lists or contact information to anyone and only provides this information to official EXPO partners to inform exhibitors and attendees of show-related services.
Solicitations from unofficial vendors are often the result of obtaining public information available on the internet.
EXPO exhibitors are frequently targeted by companies no associated with SFPA and Forest Products EXPO, offering attendee lists, booth enhancements, and other services from the “Forest Products Machinery & Equipment Exposition” and/or other variations on the EXPO or SFPA name or logo. Please be aware that these companies have nothing to do with EXPO or SFPA.
The attendee contact is only issued to official EXPO partners, as needed, and a post-EXPO report of attendees and their contact information is sent to exhibitors who are SFPA members to allow for follow-ups, as necessary.
STAY INFORMED: CHECK YOUR SPAM FILTER
The Forest Products EXPO team and its official partners listed above may send email communications containing important information, deadline reminders, and EXPO updates to exhibitors and attendees through a third-party email service provider.
If your email account is managed in a corporate environment or on an organizational level, please forward the domain names below to your email accounts administrator (usually in your IT department) and ask that these domains and addresses be whitelisted in your organization-wide email settings.
Additionally, certain individual recipients may have a layer of message filtering set up beyond the ISP level. To ensure emails regarding EXPO reach your inbox, make sure emails from the following domain names are also whitelisted in your email account's settings. This protects important emails from being filtered into your junk mail, spam, or quarantine folders.
- mapyourshow.com
- sfpa.org
- ges.com
- nashvillemcc.com
- wearemci.com
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION OR QUESTIONS?
Contact the Forest Products EXPO team at (504) 443-4464 or [email protected].