The International Association for Technology Trade (IATT) is a
consortium of information technology organizations, strategic advisors, government agencies and corporate members seeking to generate successful global business opportunities – with a key focus on
China 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
Toronto
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, ON;
Washington, DC
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and
San Jose, CA
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. Highlights included meetings with representatives from
Discovery Communications
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, th
Oracle Education Foundationand
Adobe Systems 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
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Rights'', held in China’s booming
Pearl River Delta. 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 ...
, 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.
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"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
See also
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China–United States trade war (2018–present)
The China–United States trade war () is an ongoing economic conflict between the People's Republic of China and the United States of America. In January 2018, U.S. President Donald Trump began setting tariffs and other trade barriers on Chi ...
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Intellectual property in China
Intellectual property rights (IPRs) have been acknowledged and protected in China since the 1980s. China has acceded to the major international conventions on protection of rights to intellectual property. Domestically, protection of intelle ...
Notes
International trade organizations
Business organizations based in the United States