Q:
What is TTI/Vanguard?
A: TTI/Vanguard is the advanced technology conference
series for senior-level executives. Five times annually, we come
together to introduce,
discuss, and
evaluate emerging and breakthrough technologies
on the two-to-five-year horizon.
Q: What’s unique
about TTI/Vanguard to warrant membership?
A: Organizations join TTI/Vanguard for early warnings about
breakthrough and potentially disruptive technologies; a
challenging vision of
the future; and the power of our network.
Q: Who are the
members of TTI/Vanguard?
A: TTI/Vanguard member organizations represent global private, public, and academic sectors. Members include: brand-name manufacturers, cutting-edge software and hardware developers, aerospace and defense companies, financial and investment institutions, insurers, retailers, pharmaceutical and healthcare groups, telecommunications firms, corporate and government labs, service providers and consulting groups, energy and chemical companies, broadcasters, startups, universities, and top advisors in global government agencies. This diversity brings an unequalled richness of perspective and experience to our forums.
Q: Who are the speakers?
A: Every TTI/Vanguard conference includes a group of guest speakers—entrepreneurs, inventors, scientists, business practitioners, technologists, academicians, authors, journalists, commentators and futurists, creative artists, and policymakers. These content experts offer perspectives on future technologies and their impacts on business, scientific, and sociological disciplines.
Q: What are the sessions
like?
A: Sessions are highly interactive. Microphones are available at attendees' tabletops. Speakers typically receive a 20-minute "head start" before members begin to ask questions that "test" ideas being presented. The result: dynamic and collaborative sessions where debate is stimulated and new ideas flourish.
Q: What is TTI/Vanguard’s
business model?
A: TTI/Vanguard is a private membership organization. Membership is subscription-based, and fees are determined by the number of seats contracted during each term, which includes five consecutive conferences.
Q:
What are some of the deliverables an organization gets
from membership?
A: Within days of each meeting, audio and slide presentations from each session are posted in the Member Archives of TTI/Vanguard's website. (Materials are also available through RSS feeds.) Organizations have access to this multimedia knowledge-base, which archives and indexes materials, preconference readings (Reconnaissance Papers), conference notes (Highlights and Citations), and postconference reports (Reinforcement Papers) on the proceedings going back to 1998. In conjunction with each session, members also receive recently published books which are chosen to expand on ideas and topics being addressed in our sessions. The aggregate of these books and readings provides members with additional perspectives and resources for understanding critical technology issues.
Additionally, members can also participate in TTI/Vanguard's private LinkedIn group wherein members can extend discussions around content initiated in conferences. This group encourages members to explore issues that are pertinent and relevant to the work they are doing. Our LinkedIn group is intended as a "place" for members to ideate, collaborate, and communicate outside our conference venues throughout the year. Members can add articles, questions, and comments, including links to blogs, that they feel would be of interest to others within TTI/Vanguard's community. These could include postings about advanced technologies, current work they are doing, updates and extensions about topics presented at TTI/Vanguard conferences, and/or new ideas/approaches in science, technology, engineering, etc.
Q: Are there activities offered other than the conference
sessions?
A: Yes. In conjunction with our conferences, TTI/Vanguard offers field trips to leading research and development laboratories that are often inaccessible without invitation. Additionally, TTI/Vanguard runs executive workshops facilitated by leaders in their respective fields.
Q: Can an organization
or an individual attend one session only for
a fee?
A: No. TTI/Vanguard subscribes to the belief that continuity of attendance allows an organization to dive deeply into the world of unanticipated sources of change. Further, we believe that it is only by attending sessions over time, that the full value of our discussions and community can be measured.
Q:
Does TTI/Vanguard’s membership work
on a calendar year?
A: Membership begins whenever an organization signs up for
the five consecutive conference term.
Q: Can different people
attend from an organization or does it always
have to
be the same person
who goes to the sessions?
A: Attendance is designed
to be flexible. We encourage organizations
to match their internal content
experts
with the topics we offer.
Q: What level
of participant attends the sessions?
A: Sponsors of TTI/Vanguard memberships
are typically serving at the CXO level.
Attendees
from organizations are senior-level executives within an organization
who have responsibility for strategy,
infrastructure, architecture, engineering,
research
and development, innovation, etc. While there is
no official “level” that
is mandatory for an organization’s
sponsorship, attendees should be
those who can significantly influence
an organization’s
future technology direction.
Q: How does an organization
join?
A: Please contact Ann
Cheslaw, Executive Vice President, at +1 310.394.8305, ext. 246.
