Ken Seddon
Happy New Year, everyone! Hopefully you are sticking with any personal resolutions you made for the new year. One resolution you all can be proud of is the commitment you made to protect innovation as part of the solution to the PAE issue. We are extremely grateful for the commitment each of our 195 members have made to be part of LOT Network and the impact we are having protecting our community from PAEs.
2017 was another record year for LOT, and more importantly, a truly global year for our community. We added 87 new members last year, including:
We also added leaders in the automotive supplier industry, software industry, financial services industry, chemical industry, cellular industry, and electronics industry, including Tesla, Oracle, eBay, Compal Electronics, Target, Covestro, Lyft, VTech, TCL, FIS, NetApp, TS Tech, and many more. Last year alone we added more than 179,000 assets to our community from new members. LOT Network can now permanently immunize our community from more than 820,000 assets in the hands of a PAE.
But we are just getting started. We are busy making plans to celebrate the company that will put us over the 1 million assets mark this year. We are also making final preparations for Bridge, LOT Network’s annual member meeting on May 10, 2018. We have already sold out of the sponsorships for LOT Network BRIDGE and only have about 65 member tickets left for the event. So please register before the event sells out. We are capacity-constrained by the venue this year.
The team at LOT Network is constantly trying to address the needs of our members and looking for ways to add value. After all, we work for you. One new program we are developing is a Women of LOT networking group. Please contact Daryl Wooldridge or Caitlin Gardner at JPMorgan Chase, Sandi Adam at LOT, or me if you are interested in spearheading or participating in this program.
We would like to wish all of you a great 2018!