With a little less than two months left for Scandinavias largest market research event, the Swedish Market Research Day, we open up our books for registrations. In this article you find all you need to know about how to sign up for SMRD, which is arranged at Berns and the China theatre in central Stockholm, March 11, 2010.

For international delegates, living and working outside Sweden, we offer a discounted price of 2500SEK (including 500SEK VAT, which you can reclaim from the Swedish tax authorities, www.skatteverket.se). Prices for Swedish delegates are 3500SEK for payments made before February 11 (early-bird) and 4500SEK after that date. The price includes all presentations, two coffee breaks, lunch, dinner and entertainment in the evening and networking drinks.

Sign up by emailing smrd@smrn.se, stating name, company name, address and phone number. We provide contact information for all delegates to the exhibitors. Please state if you wish not to be on this list.

The main reason for keeping a lower price for international delegates, is that we can not guarantee a full day of presentations in English (but rest assured you will be able to communicate in English with all delegates, speakers and exhibitors). We have however some really good presentations which everyone will be able to enjoy:

- Ray Poynter, The Future Place, UK: WOW effects  through advanced quantitative methods.
- ESOMAR’s Young Researcher of the year: Annelies Verhaege, InSites Consulting, Belgium: Social Media Netnography or "how to get answers without posing questions".
- Val Karruck, ToLuna: Mobile and wireless research - what is done and what could be done.

Do you need a hotel room? Stay with the speakers and exhibitors in the same house as the conference: Berns Hotel! Book directly with the hotel via phone +46-(0)8-566 322 50 or e-mail reservations@berns.se or fax 08-566 320 30. State our booking code ”EFMUD” to obtain our reduced SMRD price.

Welcome!

Henrik Hall, Kerstin Ahne, Jörgen Johansson
EFMUD

Questions? Email henrik@smrn.se

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