The International Association for Technology Trade (IATT) is a

consortium A consortium (plural: consortia) is an association of two or more individuals, companies, organizations or governments (or any combination of these entities) with the objective of participating in a common activity or pooling their resources for ...

of information technology organizations, strategic advisors, government agencies and corporate members seeking to generate successful global business opportunities – with a key focus on

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

and

emerging economies An emerging market (or an emerging country or an emerging economy) is a market that has some characteristics of a developed market, but does not fully meet its standards. This includes markets that may become developed markets in the future or were ...

. IATT runs ongoing trade missions to developing regions, sponsors and co-promotes conferences and symposia, and provides strategic services to companies entering and expanding into

emerging markets An emerging market (or an emerging country or an emerging economy) is a market that has some characteristics of a developed market, but does not fully meet its standards. This includes markets that may become developed markets in the future or were ...

Events

2006 Guangdong Province Educational Technology Buyers' Summit

In June 2006, IATT hosted a high-level delegation from the

Guangdong Guangdong (, ), alternatively romanized as Canton or Kwangtung, is a coastal province in South China on the north shore of the South China Sea. The capital of the province is Guangzhou. With a population of 126.01 million (as of 2020) ...

Province Department of Education, visiting North America at summit meetings arranged by IATT in

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, ON;

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and

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. Highlights included meetings with representatives from

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, th
Oracle Education Foundation
and

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among other ISTE 100 companies. ISTE was a co-organizer of the summit, designed to introduce leading educational technology companies in North America to potential buyers in China.

First Sino-American Forum of Intellectual Property Rights

Efforts in 2005 to forge a partnership with the Patent Protection Association of China''
(PPAC)
under the direction of China’s

State Intellectual Property Office The China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA; ), also known as the Chinese Patent Office, is the patent office of the People's Republic of China (PRC). It was founded in 1980 as the Patent Office of the People's Republic of Ch ...

(SIPO) resulted in the first-ever ''Sino-American Forum of

Intellectual Property Intellectual property (IP) is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect. There are many types of intellectual property, and some countries recognize more than others. The best-known types are patents, cop ...

Rights'', held in China’s booming

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. Attracting more than 500 government officials, business leaders and academics from throughout China and North America, IATT and PPAC co-organized the event.

2005 China Educational Technology Conference & Expo

During the same timeframe, and with its EdTech association partner ISTE, IATT co-organized what was identified as the world's largest educational technology conference and expo in

Dongguan Dongguan (; ) is a prefecture-level city in central Guangdong Province, China. An important industrial city in the Pearl River Delta, Dongguan borders the provincial capital of Guangzhou to the north, Huizhou to the northeast, Shenzhen to the s ...

, attracting nearly 40,000 attendees in its first year with leading EdTech speakers and a small number of non-China exhibitors from the US, Canada and UK.editor
"Business Opportunities in China – Find Out More During The Heller Reports' July 15th Roundtable Discussion"
''The Heller Reports/Quality Education Data News Alert'', July 8, 2005

Notes

International trade organizations Business organizations based in the United States

Events

2006 Guangdong Province Educational Technology Buyers' Summit

First Sino-American Forum of Intellectual Property Rights

2005 China Educational Technology Conference & Expo

See also

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