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Sponsor HackCFL

HackCFL sponsors help Central Florida’s cybersecurity community grow while keeping it community-first. Sponsorship supports the talks, food, outreach, and shared experiences that help people keep showing up, learning, and building real relationships.

Sponsors are remembered because they helped make the community stronger.

Why sponsorship matters

Build trust by helping the community grow

HackCFL is relationship-driven by design. It strives to host in-person presentations every other Saturday, creating a regular rhythm for people to keep showing up, learning, and building relationships over time. It is also built around a Discord community that connects people between events and relationships across Central Florida’s local information security communities.

Sponsors support the spaces and experiences where students, early-career professionals, practitioners, presenters, and local connectors build strong bonds over time.

Sponsors are not just reaching attendees in a room. They are becoming familiar to people who learn, contribute, present, recommend tools, join companies, influence conversations, and move through Central Florida’s local information security communities.

This is not an immediate-sales sponsorship. It is a long-term community trust opportunity: organizations become known because they show up for the local community.

Where to begin

Talk with HackCFL before choosing a sponsorship

HackCFL welcomes sponsors from any industry; the best fit is an organization that wants to help Central Florida’s information security community grow.

The best first step is a conversation. Tell us what kind of support you are interested in, what kind of connection you want with the community, and whether you want to support monthly growth, a larger annual event, food, outreach, space, or something else.

We can help match your support to a real community need. For many first-time sponsors, Happy Hour Sponsor or Community Outreach Sponsor is the easiest place to start because both directly improve the member experience.

Sponsorship Opportunities

Monthly Sponsorship Opportunities

Monthly sponsorship is the most important way to help HackCFL grow. It supports the recurring talks, food, outreach, and member experience where sponsors build long-term familiarity and loyalty with the community.

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Regular meeting space

Monthly Venue Sponsor

Helps HackCFL keep in-person events accessible, consistent, and welcoming for Central Florida’s information security community.

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What the Sponsor Gets

  • Dedicated website placement connecting their organization with HackCFL’s growing community of local information security professionals, students, and enthusiasts.
  • Ongoing visibility with members and attendees as they engage with HackCFL events, talks, and community updates.
  • Up to two educational talks per year, giving the sponsor a meaningful way to share useful knowledge with the community.

What HackCFL Gets

HackCFL and its members get a dependable place to meet, learn, and build real local relationships.

This support helps keep events accessible, gives the community room to grow, and reduces the burden of finding or funding appropriate meeting space.

How it works

This sponsorship may be fulfilled by providing event space directly or by covering venue-related costs such as facility fees, school access requirements, or event insurance when a larger venue is needed.

Become a Monthly Venue Sponsor

Feed the Community

Happy Hour Sponsor

Be part of the networking experience after HackCFL talks, when members continue conversations and build real local relationships.

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Why it matters

Some of the most memorable community moments happen over food after the presentation, when people are relaxed, open to conversation, and ready to meet someone new.

A Happy Hour Sponsorship helps make that networking experience possible and connects your organization with a part of HackCFL that members appreciate and remember.

What the Sponsor Gets

  • Dedicated website placement while the Happy Hour Sponsorship is active.
  • A sponsor-provided, HackCFL-approved Food Provided by [Sponsor] table card or small sign during sponsored meals.
  • Ongoing visibility during the networking experience after HackCFL talks.
  • One educational talk opportunity per 12-month period while the sponsorship is active, giving the sponsor a meaningful way to share useful knowledge with the community.

What HackCFL Gets

  • More opportunities for members and guests to continue conversations, meet people, and build real relationships.
  • Help covering one of the most practical costs of growing monthly attendance and keeping people coming back.

How it works

  • Start with a minimum sponsorship of $275, or contribute more to support more attendees and extend your sponsorship across more Happy Hours.
  • Pay through HackCFL’s sponsorship link, or arrange a sponsor-covered payment method with HackCFL.
  • Multiple Happy Hour Sponsors may be active at the same time.
  • Happy Hour sponsorships are applied to upcoming meals in the order they are received.
  • If needed, HackCFL can provide receipts for sponsored meals.
Become a Happy Hour Sponsor

Community Outreach

Community Outreach Sponsor

Help HackCFL create branded giveaways and outreach items that members use, share, and remember.

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Why it matters

HackCFL-branded items like stickers, shirts, mugs, hats, patches, and other giveaways help members represent the community and give guests something tangible to take with them.

These items make HackCFL more visible outside the meeting room and help turn a single event into an ongoing connection.

What the Sponsor Gets

  • Starter Outreach Sponsor — $160
    • Website placement for 30 days.
    • Helps fund stickers, patches, small giveaways, or similar low-cost outreach items.
  • Member Gear Sponsor — $420
    • Website placement for 90 days.
    • Tasteful sponsor mention near the giveaway area when appropriate.
    • Helps fund mugs, hats, shirts, or other member-facing items.
  • Community Visibility Sponsor — $800+
    • Website placement for 6 months.
    • Tasteful sponsor mention near the giveaway area when appropriate.
    • One educational talk opportunity during the active sponsorship period, limited to one per sponsor per 12-month period.
    • Helps fund a larger or mixed run of HackCFL-branded outreach items.

How it works

  • Choose the outreach level that fits your budget and desired impact.
  • HackCFL uses the sponsorship to create HackCFL-branded giveaways and outreach items for members, guests, and community events.
  • Multiple Community Outreach Sponsors may be active at the same time.

Choose your outreach level

Starter OutreachSponsor $160 Member GearSponsor $420 Community VisibilitySponsor $800+

Annual Event Sponsorship Opportunities

Annual event sponsorship gives sponsors the most visibility during HackCFL’s largest single-day events. These sponsorships support bigger moments with more event-specific attention, while monthly sponsorship remains the best path for long-term community loyalty.

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Large event space

Venue Sponsor

Helps secure space for larger HackCFL events that need more room, longer time blocks, or event-specific logistics.

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What the Sponsor Gets

  • Recognition on the Sponsor page while the opportunity is active or filled.
  • Event-page recognition for the sponsored event.
  • Optional table card, banner, or thank-you slide where appropriate.

What this funds

  • Venue or event space for larger-format HackCFL events.
  • Workshops, cyber range events, community gatherings, or special programs that outgrow the normal talk space.
  • Event-specific space needs such as room layout, tables, power, time blocks, or attendee capacity.
Become a Venue Sponsor

Feed the Event

Food Sponsor

Helps provide food, drinks, and hospitality for larger HackCFL events so attendees can stay, talk, and build relationships.

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What the Sponsor Gets

  • Sponsor Page placement while the sponsorship is active.
  • Event thank-yous when appropriate.
  • Event-page recognition for the sponsored event.
  • Tasteful recognition near the food or hospitality area where appropriate.

How the funds are used

Event Food Sponsorship helps HackCFL make larger events more welcoming and easier for people to stay engaged throughout the day.

Funds may be used for attendee meals, snacks, drinks, coffee, water, serving supplies, volunteer hospitality, and food-related logistics for the sponsored event.

The goal is not just feeding people. The goal is creating space for conversations, friendships, and community connection before, during, and after the event.

Become a Food Sponsor

Power the Experience

Infrastructure Sponsor

Helps cover the practical tools, equipment, services, and technical needs that make larger HackCFL events run smoothly.

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What the Sponsor Gets

  • Sponsor Page placement while the sponsorship is active.
  • Event thank-yous when appropriate.
  • Event-page recognition for the sponsored event.
  • Tasteful recognition on event materials or infrastructure-related areas where appropriate.

How the funds are used

Event Infrastructure Sponsorship helps HackCFL handle the behind-the-scenes needs that make a larger event reliable, useful, and professional.

Funds may be used for event Wi-Fi or networking needs, power, A/V needs, microphones, projectors or displays, check-in tools, badges, signage stands, lab or CTF infrastructure, event software, recording needs, or other operational needs tied to the event.

The goal is to make the event easier to attend, easier to run, and better equipped for hands-on learning and community connection.

Become an Infrastructure Sponsor

Send People Home Remembering HackCFL

Swag & Prizes Sponsor

Helps provide HackCFL-branded swag, giveaways, and prizes that make larger events more memorable and rewarding.

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What the Sponsor Gets

  • Sponsor Page placement while the sponsorship is active.
  • Event thank-yous when appropriate.
  • Event-page recognition for the sponsored event.
  • A tasteful “HackCFL swag and prizes made possible by [Sponsor]” note located near the swag, prizes, or giveaway area.

How the funds are used

Event Swag & Prizes Sponsorship helps HackCFL create memorable takeaways and meaningful rewards for larger community events.

Funds may be used for HackCFL-branded shirts, stickers, badges, challenge coins, lanyards, notebooks, event giveaways, CTF prizes, raffle items, or other community-focused takeaways.

Swag funded through this sponsorship remains HackCFL-branded and community-focused. The goal is to strengthen belonging, celebrate participation, and give people something that reminds them to keep showing up.

Become a Swag & Prizes Sponsor

Help Us Bring More People In

Outreach Sponsor

Helps HackCFL promote larger events, reach new audiences, and attract more attendees from across Central Florida.

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What the Sponsor Gets

  • Sponsor Page placement while the sponsorship is active.
  • Event thank-yous when appropriate.
  • Event-page recognition for the sponsored event.
  • Tasteful recognition on event outreach materials where appropriate.

How the funds are used

Event Outreach Sponsorship helps HackCFL put more effort behind larger events that need a bigger reach than a normal monthly meetup.

Funds may be used for event-specific promotion, flyers, signage, banners, attendee materials, recap content, media, volunteer needs, and follow-up that helps attendees stay connected after the event.

The goal is not just to fill a room. The goal is to help people walk in, feel welcome, build relationships, and keep showing up.

Become an Outreach Sponsor

Just Want to Support?

Support HackCFL

If you would like to just send some money to help HackCFL grow without becoming a sponsor, you can use the button below.

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