
MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS
There are many reasons to become an AIoT Canada member, and it varies depending on you involvement in AIoT. However, overarchingly, membership allows our members to
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Amplify their market-growth and operational effectiveness
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Reduce business, innovation, and societal risks
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Advance their international reach
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Influence national policies and strategies
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Contribute to Canadian economic growth and prosperity
What is your involvement in AIoT? Here are the benefits our members receive depending on their specific play in the AIoT space:


AIoT Providers
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Increased revenue by connecting with potential customers.
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Reduced operating and development costs by connecting and interacting with potential partners to co-develop or co-produce.
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Reduced time to market by connecting with and collaborating with potential partners.
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Reduced risk of potential product/service market misalignment by connecting and interacting with potential customers to learn about their real needs and interacting with other providers (competitors) to glean their product/market projections, successes, and failures.

AIoT Adopters​
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Reduced shorter-term operating costs and shortened time to operational efficiency by learning about AIoT solutions from provider members and other adopter members.
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Reduced longer-term operating costs by collaborating with other adopters to influence future product/service solutions and features by providers in the market.
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Reduced risks in operations solutions by interacting with other adopters to learn what worked or didn't work for them, and with a variety of provider members to learn about diverse solutions that best align with your operations.

AIoT Innovators
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Reduced risk in innovating in areas that may not have practical applications by interacting with AIoT adopters and providers who express real-world needs and insights.
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Reduced innovation time, iterations, and costs by interacting and collaborating with AIoT adopters and providers to potentially use their resources to validate and test your innovations.
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Find application, market, and revenue for your innovations.

AIoT Academia
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Reduced risks in researching areas that may not have practical applications by interacting with AIoT providers and adopters who may provide real-world needs and insights.
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Reduce research time, iterations, and cost by interacting and collaborating with AIoT adopters and providers to potentially use their resources to validate and test your innovations.
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Find or increase research funding by interacting and collaborating with industry AIoT adopters and providers interested in adapting or adopting your research.
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Find placement for students and researchers in industry and AIoT ecosystem members.
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Increase revenue and attendance in professional development programs and courses from AIoT ecosystem members interested in deepening their knowledge in AIoT or technology and business subjects.

AIoT Policy Makers
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Reduced time to develop public policies critical to leveraging technology for economic growth and mitigating economic and societal risks from technologies' harmful effects by learning about the AIoT technology, its benefits and impacts, and ecosystem challenges by interacting with the AIoT industry and ecosystem members
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Reduced risk of inadequate policies and governance and policy churn by interacting with industry and ecosystem members to learn their needs and challenges.
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Influence AIoT industry and ecosystem priorities to align with national economic and strategic sector growth objectives and de-risk potential policy ineffectiveness by vetting policy proposals through interaction with AIoT ecosystem members.

AIoT Investors and Accelerators
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Growing investment portfolio and return on investment by connecting with potential AIoT providers and innovator companies to invest in.
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Reduced time to market for existing invested portfolio companies by connecting with provider and innovator members to add critical complementary capabilities to portfolio company products or additional development resources.
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Reduced portfolio risk by connecting with other investor/accelerator members to share investment.
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Regional economic development (accelerator) members attract investment into a municipality or region by connecting and interacting with investor or provider members.
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Reduced risk and time to market by connecting with expert technology resources and advisors among our AIoT providers and professional services provider members for your portfolio.
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Reduced risk and time to market and/or increase your revenue by connecting with our AIoT adopter members for your portfolio companies' product proof of concept, pilot, or first-launch customers.

AIoT Professional Services Providers
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Grow professional services client base and revenue.
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De-risk your professional services offer and reduce costs associated with undesirable services churn by connecting and interacting with other members to learn their real needs.
