The latest ISTO newsletter is out now
The March 2018 edition of Inside ISTO is now available. Read up on the latest ISTO member program happenings related to Smart Cities, Automotive Technology, and the Internet of Things to name a few. You [...]
Myron Slota Re-elected to ISTO Board of Directors
Myron Slota has been re-elected to the ISTO Board of Directors for a two-year term beginning 1 January 2018. Myron Slota has over thirty years in technology leadership that included silicon development, OEM business [...]
New ISTO White Paper Highlights Emerging Technologies and the New Face of Standards
ISTO recently published a new white paper: Emerging Technologies and the New Face of Standards. The purpose of this paper is to specifically outline activities outside of the traditional standards development path that have been [...]
ISTO Successfully Passes 2016 Financial Audit
The 2016 audit for ISTO and its programs have been successfully completed. For the 15th consecutive year, all entities received an unmodified or “clean” opinion. An unmodified opinion states that the financial statements present fairly, [...]
TALQ Consortium: The Smart City Protocol
The TALQ Consortium is establishing a globally accepted standard for management software interfaces to control and monitor heterogeneous smart city applications. This software protocol enables cities and municipalities to choose future-proof, interoperable and open solutions [...]
ISTO Welcomes New Staff With Expertise in Blockchain and Open Source
The IEEE Industry Standards and Technology Organization (ISTO) recently added two new resources, Maria Palombini and Joshua Gay, with vast expertise in blockchain and open source technologies respectively. Maria joined with a directive to build [...]
The Wireless Power Consortium Shares a Meeting Hack for Industry Associations
For industry associations, conducting meetings in a large room with many participants can prove to be a challenge; resulting in poor or no audio and endless echoes that can slow a meeting to a crawl. [...]
September 2017 ISTO Newsletter is Live
In case you missed it, the September edition of Inside ISTO is now available online. Read up on the latest ISTO Federation programs such as MIPI Alliance, Wireless Power Consortium, Fairhair Alliance and TagVault.org to [...]
Key Things Industry Alliances Need to Know about the GDPR
What is the GDPR? The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is designed to protect European Union (EU) citizens from privacy and data breaches in an increasingly data-driven world. Under the GDPR, individuals will have more [...]
ISTO and High-Performance Computing – The OpenCAPI Consortium
ISTO supports a wide range of industry technologies, including high-performance computing (HPC). The OpenCAPI Consortium is an open forum to manage the OpenCAPI specification and ecosystem. This initiative is being driven by the emerging accelerated [...]
The latest ISTO newsletter is now available
The June 2017 ISTO newsletter is now available. Read the latest news on TagVault.org, Wireless Power Consortium, and Digital Illumination Interface Alliance to name a few. You can also get the latest on the upcoming [...]
Motivations Behind Alliances white paper explores the value an alliance can provide.
Norman Shaw, director of new business and product development at IEEE, has authored a new white paper—Motivations Behind Alliances. The purpose of this paper is to outline the motivations behind the growth of alliances as [...]
DiiA acquires DALI trademarks
The Digital Illumination Interface Alliance (DiiA) has acquired the trademarks relating to DALI lighting products and systems via IEEE Industry Standards and Industry Organization (ISTO). These trademarks include the original DALI logo, the new DALI-2 logo, and the [...]
ISTO Presents service award to past director Mike Violette
Mike Violette (left) accepts his service award from ISTO Board Secretary, Roger Martin (right). Roger Martin, ISTO Board Secretary, recently presented Mike Violette with a service award for his time as an ISTO [...]
2017 Annual Member Meeting Recap
On 23 February, ISTO held its annual member meeting at the Hutchinson Island Marriott Beach Resort and Marina, Stuart, Florida. Delegates from each ISTO federation member alliance came together to share strategies, demonstrate accomplishments, identify [...]