The IEEE SA Industry Affiliate Network (IAN) is a broad-based growth platform focused on bringing together consortia, industry alliances and other industry organizations looking to rapidly evolve their specifications into global IEEE standards. IAN is open to any consortia, industry alliance or other industry organizations, looking to bring forward specifications for standards development and market adoption.
IAN provides an open and strategic framework to identify and actively engage organizations to:
Foster strategic activities to achieve greater impact on standards deployment process
Drive global market visibility and acceptance through the creation of industry standards
Enable the creation and release of new market-relevant standards
Accelerate paths from specifications to standards development
Increase visibility of market-relevant specifications
Participate in IAN
As a participants of IAN, your organization has a broad array of opportunities available to help drive your technology acceptance on a global stage.
Benefits of IAN participation includes:
Mentor organizations through the IEEE standards development process
Participate in open forums to share and exchange real-world ideas, practices and insights
Leverage the IEEE global branding, distribution and publishing to support your standardization activity
Accelerate development and acceptance of industry specifications as IEEE standards
Opportunities to market collaborative outputs through joint events including, conferences, workshops and webinars
Access to other IEEE offerings:
Instantiate a certification mark through IEEE Conformity Assessment Program (ICAP)
Rapid not-for-profit entity establishment for go-to-market needs through IEEE’s Industry Standards & Technology Organization (ISTO)
Alliance Management Services (AMS) for turnkey operational support services
Connections to over 37 IEEE Societies & 9 Councils and relevant programs
Member & Geographic Activities (MGA) that provide access to the over 419,000 global professionals
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Organizations who are an industry association, alliances, consortium or forum, looking to formalize an existing specification to an IEEE standard are ideal candidates for IAN.
Organizations and their specifications can achieve IEEE standardization in as short as 6-months.
Interested in learning more about IAN or to become an IAN participant, please fill out the form to have an IAN representative contact you.
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