…Software vendor will be lead sponsor of inaugural online conference…

New York, NY and Oslo, Norway: October, 19th, 2010: Confirmit, the largest global software vendor for Customer Feedback, Employee Feedback and Market Research has announced that it will be the lead sponsor at The New MR Virtual Festival, a collaborative online event aiming to both define and shape the future of market research.

Pat Molloy, Chief Strategy Officer at Confirmit comments: “We’re delighted to be the lead sponsor of this innovative conference. The collaborative nature of the Festival reflects Confirmit’s position on the social media space, and gives us a great opportunity to be an integral part of an event which will bring together both new and traditional ways of discussing the future of the industry.”

Taking place between December 6th and 10th, 2010, the aim of the Festival is to make conferences, presentations, and networking accessible to people who find it hard to get to traditional conferences.  Ticket holders will take a key role in shaping the agenda throughout the conference and will be encouraged to arrange their own virtual events as part of The Fringe, a vehicle which will ensure that the lineup includes something for everyone in the MR industry.

Conference organizer, and Managing Director of The Future Place, Ray Poynter, adds: “The Festival will bring together some of the MR industry’s most influential thinkers, so I’m pleased that Confirmit has chosen to be involved in this way. Our focus has been to make the Festival accessible, global, innovative, and collaborative, all qualities which make Confirmit an ideal sponsor.”

Further information about The New MR Virtual Festival is available at http://newmr.org/