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| American
Electronics Association (AEA)
Offices: Santa Clara, California
AEA is advancing the business of technology, AeA is the nation's largest
high-tech trade association. AeA has more than 3,500 member companies that
span the high-technology spectrum, from software, semiconductors and computers
to Internet technology, advanced electronics and telecommunications systems
and services. With 18 regional US councils and offices in Brussels and Beijing,
AeA offers a unique global policy grassroots capability and a wide portfolio
of valuable business services and products for the high-tech industry. |
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| American
National Standards Institute (ANSI)
Offices: Washington, DC & New York, New York
ANSI has served in its capacity as administrator and coordinator of the
United States private sector voluntary standardization system for more than
80 years. Founded in 1918 by five engineering societies and three government
agencies, the Institute remains a private, nonprofit membership organization
supported by a diverse constituency of private and public sector organizations. |
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| Apache
Software Foundation
Offices: Forest Hill, Maryland
The Apache Software Foundation provides support for the Apache community
of open-source software projects. The Apache projects are characterized
by a collaborative, consensus based development process, an open and pragmatic
software license, and a desire to create high quality software that leads
the way in its field. They consider ourselves not simply a group of projects
sharing a server, but rather a community of developers and users. |
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| Asia
America MultiTechnology Association (AAMA)
Offices: San Jose, California
AAMA is Silicon Valley's leading MultiTechnology business network promoting
the success of the Asia America region's technology enterprises. Through
its diverse programs ranging from monthly Speakers Series to the Asia-Silicon
Valley Technology Investment Conference, AAMA provides a forum in which
members can network, exchange ideas and share resources to promote and build
one another's companies and careers, ultimately benefiting the larger Pacific
Rim technological community. Today, the AAMA represents more than 1,100
members from about 800 companies. |
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Association
for Automatic Identification and Mobility (AIM)
Offices: Warrendale, Pennsylvania
AIM is the global trade association for the Automatic Identification and
Data Capture (AIDC) industry. Their members are manufacturers or service
providers of technologies such as radio frequency identification (RFID),
bar code, card technologies (magnetic stripe, smart card, contactless card,
optical card), biometrics, and electronic article surveillance (EAS). |
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| Association
for Information & Image Management (AIIM)
Offices: Silver Springs, Nevada
AIIM is the international authority on Enterprise Content Management (ECM),
is leading the way to the understanding, adoption, and use of ECM technologies.
These technologies, tools, and methods are used to capture, manage, store,
preserve, and deliver content across an enterprise in support of business
processes. As a non-profit association for more than 60 years, AIIM provides
industry news and information, education and training, market analysis,
industry standards development, publications, regional chapters, and executive
networking. |
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| Association
for Multimedia Communications (AMC)
Offices: Chicago, Illinois
Founded in 1990, the Association for Multimedia Communications (AMC) is
Chicago’s premier networking and professional organization for people who
make New Media happen. Whether it’s the web, CD-ROMs and DVDs, interactive
kiosks, streaming media, or other digital forms, the AMC promotes understanding
of technology, e-learning, and e-business. Their goal since inception has
been to help members achieve success through education and networking. |
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| Association
of Information Technology Professionals (AITP)
Offices: Chicago, Illinois
The Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP) offers opportunities
for Information Technology (IT) leadership and education through partnerships
with industry, government and academia. AITP provides quality IT related
education, information on relevant IT issues and forums for networking with
experienced peers and other IT professionals for nearly 9,000 members. |
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| Association
of University Technology Managers (AUTM)
Offices: Cambridge, Massachusetts & Northbrook, Illinois
AUTM is a rapidly growing organization of academic technology transfer professionals
and professionals with related interests. AUTM is an individual membership
organization that has as its primary roles the professional development
of its members and creating networking opportunities. Technology transfer
managers are required to balance multiple roles. Technology transfer managers
are asked to be knowledgeable in patent law, commercial development, negotiation,
contract law, and, most important of all, relationship management. |
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| ASTIA
Offices: San Francisco, California
ASTIA (formerly, The Women's Technology Cluster) is the pre-eminent business
incubator in the US dedicated to women leaders building technology-driven
businesses. Their mission is to increase the number of successful companies
and to leverage their influence. Through their dedicated community of proven
CEOs, investors and industry experts, they provide extensive advisory services,
coaching, and access to business and capital networks. ASTIA was founded
as part of the Three Guineas Fund in 1999, by Cate Muther, former CMO of
Cisco, and was spun off in 2003 as an independent non-profit. |
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| Biotechnology
Industry Organization (BIO)
Offices: Washington, DC
In 1993, two small Washington-based biotechnology trade organizations merged
to create the Biotechnology Industry Organization, better known as BIO.
BIO represents more than 1,000 biotechnology companies, academic institutions,
state biotechnology centers and related organizations in all 50 US states
and 33 other nations. BIO members are involved in the research and development
of health-care, agricultural, industrial and environmental biotechnology
products. |
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Bluetooth Special Interest Group (Bluetooth)
Offices: Overland Park, Illinois
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) is a trade association comprised
of leaders in the telecommunications, computing, automotive, industrial
automation and network industries that is driving the development of
Bluetooth wireless technology, a low cost short-range wireless specification
for connecting mobile devices and bringing them to market. The Bluetooth
SIG includes promoter member companies Agere, Ericsson, IBM, Intel, Microsoft,
Motorola, Nokia and Toshiba, and thousands of Associate and Adopter member
companies. |
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Business Software Alliance (BSA)
Offices: Washington, DC
BSA is the foremost organization dedicated to promoting a safe and legal
digital world. BSA is the voice of the world's commercial software industry
and its hardware partners before governments and in the international marketplace.
Its members represent the fastest growing industry in the world. BSA educates
consumers on software management and copyright protection, cyber security,
trade, e-commerce and other Internet-related issues. |
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