Sponsorship that funds a programme, not a pitch.
Global Tech Advocates is volunteer-led and not-for-profit, financed by sponsors and collaborating partners. GTA Cyber works the same way.
Klarvant
Klarvant is the founding title sponsor of GTA Cyber, and an existing member of the Global Tech Advocates community.
Klarvant builds Namespace Command, a digital governance intelligence platform used by security, GRC and brand teams to discover and govern their external digital estate. Their support funds the guild’s programme in its first year.
As with any sponsor, that support buys no editorial control. Guidance published by the guild stays vendor-neutral, including in the categories Klarvant competes in.
What sponsorship actually pays for
Nobody draws a salary from GTA Cyber. Sponsorship covers the cost of running things: session platforms and production, venue and catering where we cannot get a room donated, research and publication, and travel for practitioners who could not otherwise take part.
One partner, annual commitment
- Named as title sponsor across the guild’s materials
- Logo on the site and in session furniture
- Invitation to the annual practitioner roundtable
- No editorial control, no member list, no lead generation
A small number, annual commitment
- Named as a programme partner on the site
- Support a defined strand, such as the policy work or the guidance for small organisations
- Invitation to the annual practitioner roundtable
- Same editorial firewall as every other sponsor
No cash, real help
- Host a roundtable: a room and coffee
- Provide production, design or translation help
- Release a practitioner’s time to lead a strand
- Credited alongside funding partners
What sponsors get, and what they do not
- You get association with a credible practitioner community and the knowledge that the programme happened because you funded it.
- You do not get the membership list. Not in any tier, not for any amount.
- You do not get speaking slots by default. If someone from your team has genuinely relevant operational experience, they are welcome to propose a session on the same basis as anyone else.
- You do not get editorial influence. Guidance names practices, not products, including yours.
- You can walk away. Annual terms, no multi-year lock-in, and we will say so publicly and without rancour if a partnership ends.
This is deliberately a worse commercial offer than most sponsorships. It is also the only version that practitioners will actually turn up for, which is the thing worth sponsoring.