The next international meeting of the Global Standards Collaboration Machine-to-Machine Standardisation Task Force (GSC MSTF) will be held from 20-21 September 2011 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Participants will be coming from North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Africa. The theme of the meeting is “M2M Standards as Growth Enablers”.
Created last year in Beijing at the Global Standards Collaboration (GSC)-15, a forum centred on the International Telecommunication Union, the GSC MSTF was tasked with facilitating global coordination and harmonisation in the area of M2M standardisation.
The Atlanta event will be broken down in two parts. The first day takes the form of a conference at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) auditorium where experts from a wide range of industries will present their views on the impact of M2M standards on their vertical markets. The second day will feature a roundtable at the Georgia Tech Technology Square Research building focussed on summarising the findings of the GSC MSTF meetings, and drafting suggestions and recommendations regarding the direction of global M2M standardisation. Both the conference and roundtable are free of charge.
Numerex, in collaboration with the GTRI, is organising the meeting, which will be hosted by the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA).
“Numerex is honoured to have been chosen to organise this important event in the global M2M arena, which will feature international standards development organisations, various standards alliances focusing on specific vertical markets and companies that are leaders in their field,” said Stratton Nicolaides, chairman and CEO of Numerex. “The effective collaboration with TIA and Georgia Tech, in particular GTRI’s information and communications laboratory, has contributed to make this premier international M2M gathering a required stop for any M2M player interested in keeping current with the latest M2M developments.
“TIA’s leadership in M2M provides the right momentum in the M2M standards world at a critical time for the whole industry, which is rapidly expanding and searching for new frameworks.”
While the conference should be of interest to anyone wanting to learn about general M2M capabilities, the roundtable will appeal to individuals having a direct involvement in M2M standards.
