You demonstrate technological leadership when you present at an SPIE conference, which helps you build visibility and strengthen your position in the marketplace. Plus, the resulting publication puts your work into the scientific literature of the world, which bolsters your intellectual property claims and helps potential collaborators and customers find you.
Find the meetings that match your markets, look for the "Call for Papers" and submit an abstract. SPIE encourages industry involvement. Benefits of presenting and publishing include:
- Visibility as a technology leader
- New connections with potential collaborators
- Ideas and feedback from other experts in the field
- Opportunity to be found by potential customers
Plus, the act of publishing your talk in the conference proceedings and SPIE Digital Library automatically places your work into the world literature with a definitive publication date and comprehensive indexing. This disclosure date helps patent examiners evaluate your material during their search for "prior art" - a key part of their decision to award a new patent.
In fact, papers presented with SPIE are cited more frequently in patent applications than any other publisher devoted to optics, photonics, imaging, etc. Over 34,000 papers published by SPIE are cited in nearly 20,000 patents - in the U.S.A alone! Thus, when you present and publish with SPIE, you are putting a "stake in the ground" that people around the globe will see, which helps you establish and protect your intellectual property.
Of course, being on-site at an SPIE conference provides authors with a fantastic venue to build contacts and develop the new ideas that fuel success. The networking and connections can be informative, inspiring and lucrative.
To gain the most benefit, many companies exhibit, become sponsors and have someone on their team present at the technical conference the matches your market focus. This combination provides unmatched visibility and credibility, two components of a winning business. That's why leading companies from Apple to Xilinx encourage their employees to present at appropriate SPIE conferences.
Contact information:
To discuss how your company can get involved, send an email to industry@spie.org and we will help you develop a plan.
