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Corporate Backgrounder Copyright © VESA 2009
I. THE ORGANIZATION The Association: VESA ® , the Video Electronics Standards Association Headquarters: Organization: VESA is an international non-profit corporation led by a Board of Directors, which represents a voting membership of more than 150 corporate members worldwide.
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Strategy: VESA is an organization that supports and sets industry-wide interface standards for the PC, workstation, and consumer electronics industries. VESA promotes and develops timely, relevant, open standards for the display and display interface industry, ensuring interoperability and encouraging innovation and market growth.
II. THE MEMBERSHIP PROGRAM A. Membership: VESA’s members are hardware, software, PC, display and component manufacturers, cable and telephone companies, and service providers. Members join VESA to gain a number of key advantages that support their success in the high-tech industry.
B. Summary of VESA Member Benefits: Members are part of a leading organization dedicated to developing and promoting open standards for the high-tech marketplace, focusing on display and display interconnect developments that ensure interoperability and encourage innovation and market growth.
Each member company receives the benefit of being connected with industry specialists throughout the world via an online global network not available from any other source.
Voting representation is granted to each company formalizing equal participation that enables the foremost technology advances to take place and the highest standard of technology to be approved through committee consensus.
Marketing and public relations support are provided by VESA to promote published standards and enable participating companies to announce involvement in the organization, and incorporation of the approved technology into their products and services. Through conference presentations, sponsorship and tradeshow participation in key industry events. VESA communicates its activities and informs the public about current standards publications and upcoming proposals, as well as the value of involvement in open trade standards organizations.
World leadership has been attained by VESA since its inception in 1989 and its introduction of the VESA Local Bus (VL-Bus) standard.
Industry responsiveness is a major factor in VESA’s success. With an average of eight standards published annually, VESA proves its ability to address industry demands in the high-tech field in a manner consistent with the changing needs and requirements.
Technical Specialists involved in VESA are among the industry’s most qualified technologists and now form one of the largest and most extensive on-line membership outreach programs with over 800 company specialists actively participating.
III. THE STANDARDS INITIATIVES As one of the leading standards organizations in the electronics industry, VESA is committed to developing and promoting standards in the key focus areas dealing with displays and display interfaces.
All VESA standards are created by its task groups, which consist of hardware and software professionals drawn from high technology companies around the world. Each task group is structured into subgroups whose goals are to focus on specific technical requirements for developing a standards proposal.
The proposals are reviewed and, when approved, are submitted to the general membership for ratification. Each VESA parent member is given one vote.
IV. FUTURE OUTLOOK VESA is looking forward to an expanding base of new products designed to VESA’s market-driven standards. As in the past, VESA’s task group structure will continue to bring relevant standards to the marketplace in a timely manner. VESA’s established track record of creating and supporting standards for today’s video and electronics industry has provided the consumer with the confidence necessary to continue to explore new technology standards which will benefit the industry in the future.
The outlook for VESA is one of success. As more hardware, software, and systems manufacturers become VESA members and have a voice in standardization initiatives, more end-users will have the ability to take advantage of easy-to- use advanced hardware and software. Software applications will be able to run at higher resolutions without confusion or difficulty, manufacturers will be able to reduce development costs, and vendors will enjoy increased sales.
For years to come, VESA will be one of the foremost standards organizations emphasizing excellence and ensuring the maintenance and enhancement of video electronics industry standards.
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