FOUNDING MEMBERSHIP

Become a Founding Member.

For practitioners, technology providers and ecosystem organisations bringing generative AI into connected systems.
Why join
Shape the category, exchange deployment lessons and contribute to practical guidance.
Connected infrastructure environment at the Verizon Innovation Lab for IoT Slam Live 2026.

Membership details

If you care about deployment reality more than hype, you’re in the right place.

Practitioners and operators

Teams running real systems and accountable for uptime, safety, and performance: operations, engineering, reliability, OT/IT, security, data/AI platform, field services

Technology and solution providers

Organisations building GenAIoT capabilities across: industrial IoT platforms, edge compute, connectivity, cloud, AI tooling, observability, cybersecurity, CMMS/ERP/ITSM

Ecosystem organisations

Standards bodies, research groups, and developer communities working on: interoperability, safety, governance, evaluation methods, lifecycle and assurance

Build GenAIoT with the practitioners deploying it.

GenAIoT moves fast, but adoption happens where latency, safety, reliability, cost and regulation matter.

Founding Members help shape a community-driven category and operating model grounded in what teams are building and running now.

Founding Members contribute deployment experience to practical guidance for the wider community.

Influence the definition and direction

  • Opportunities to join working groups on definitions, terminology and boundary conditions
  • Direct input into “what’s in / what’s out” for GenAIoT and how the category is explained publicly
  • Opportunities to propose or refine reference architectures and patterns

Visibility and working groups

Practitioner-grade visibility (credibly earned)

  • Potential Founding Member profile placement, subject to editorial review
  • Potential inclusion in ecosystem pages and community briefings
  • Optional case study participation: What you learned, what you changed, and what improved

Peer exchanges and working groups

Discuss real deployment decisions: operational retrieval, bounded agents, edge readiness, evaluation and governance.

Briefings and pilot-to-production support

Briefings that accelerate adoption

  • Opportunities to shape practitioner briefings and templates as they are developed
  • Ability to contribute examples and real constraints that make the guidance credible
  • Option to co-author community outputs (with review and editorial standards)

From pilot to production

Share what works in deployment: where AI helps, what needs human approval, and how to measure results.

You don’t need to share trade secrets. You do need to participate.

We ask for:

  • A primary point of contact (and optional SME bench for working groups)
  • A commitment to practitioner-grade contribution (patterns, lessons learned, deployment constraints)
  • Alignment with responsible adoption: safety, transparency, auditability, and measurable outcomes.
  • Optional (but powerful): share one use case (sanitised), contribute to a checklist/pattern review, or participate in a briefing interview.

Members can contribute across operational context, hybrid retrieval, model routing, tool integration, governance and deployment readiness.

The aim is clearer shared language, reusable deployment patterns and more measurable, accountable outcomes. Founding Members help shape that work through practical contributions.

We look for practitioners, technology providers and ecosystem organizations prepared to participate, provide subject-matter expertise and support responsible adoption.

01 · Short application

Tell us:

  • Your domain (manufacturing, utilities, mobility, built environment, etc.)
  • Your deployment maturity (pilot → production)
  • Your focus areas (context, RAG, agents/tools, governance, edge)
  • What you want to build / learn / influence

02 · Fit and alignment

We confirm:

  • Goals, contribution areas, and mutual value
  • Where you can plug into working groups and outputs

03 · Onboarding and contribution

Together we agree on a contribution plan, suitable working groups and any profile or briefing participation before publication.