Hannover, Germany – April 21, 2008

ODVA announced today that it will host its 13th Annual Meeting of Members in February 2009 at the Mission Inn Resort and Club in Howey-In-The-Hills (Orlando), Florida, USA. Open to both ODVA members and nonmembers, the Annual Meeting will be part of a multiple day event that will feature technical paper presentations, developers’ training, workshops, and networking social events.

“The ODVA Annual Meeting of Members is a cornerstone event for the association and its members, drawing attendance from leading automation suppliers, OEMs, and users who come to learn the latest business and technical trends in CIP Networking technologies,” said Katherine Voss, Executive Director of ODVA. “It is not surprising that the 12th Annual Meeting attracted attendees from 60 companies from over a dozen countries: the ODVA Annual Meeting is a unique venue that allows executives, technical experts, and marketing professionals to collaborate and share best practice implementations and technical knowledge in an open, vendor-neutral forum. ODVA welcomes anyone interested in learning more about CIP Networks to come to this important event.”

ODVA’s 13th Annual Meeting of Members will be held from 8.00 am to 12.00 pm on Thursday, February 26, 2009 and will be supported by multiple days of presentations and training related to the Common Industrial Protocol (CIP™). CIP and its network adaptations EtherNet/IP™, ControlNet™, DeviceNet™, and CompoNet™, along with the CIP Safety™, CIP Sync™, and CIP Motion™ application extensions, are managed by ODVA. 

For more information about the 13th Annual Meeting or to add your name to the mailing list for future updates, visit www.odva.org or contact odva@odva.org.  

About ODVA
ODVA, founded in 1995, is an international association comprised of members from the world's leading automation companies. Collectively, ODVA and its members support network technologies based on the Common Industrial Protocol (CIP™). These currently include the network adaptations of CIP—EtherNet/IP™, ControlNet™, DeviceNet™ and CompoNet™—and major application extensions to CIP—CIP Safety™, CIP Motion™ and CIP Sync™. ODVA manages the development of these open technologies, and assists manufacturers and users of CIP Networks through tools, training and marketing activities. In addition, ODVA offers conformance testing to help ensure that products built to its specifications operate in multi-vendor systems. ODVA also is active in other standards development organizations and industry consortia to drive the growth of open communication standards. For more information, visit its web site at www.odva.org.  

For more information, contact:

Adrienne Meyer
Manager, Marketing Communications
ODVA
4220 Varsity Drive, Suite A, Ann Arbor, MI 48108-5006 USA
tel +1 734 975 8840; fax +1 734 922 0027; email ameyer@odva.org  

or

John Jackson
ODVA Communication Officer EMEA
43 Quarry Bank, Tonbridge, Kent TN9 2QZ UK
tel: +44 (0) 1732 352 371; email jjackson@odva.org  

CIP, CIP Motion, CIP Safety, CIP Sync, CompoNet, ControlNet, DeviceNet and EtherNet/IP are trademarks of ODVA. Other trademarks are property of their respective owners.

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