Chemical Industry webinar a big success

We held our first of three planned webinars on eBusiness in the Chemical Industry yesterday and it was a big success. The theme of the webinar series is, "Collaborate, Integrate, Participate".

The title of the webinar yesterday was, "EDI to Industry XML and Beyond".

We had 87 registered for the event and Tom Fannon, the Chair of the OAGi Chemical Industry Council was the featured speaker.

Watch this space for the announcement of the next in the series.

Up to 73 countries represented in registrations

Since our last post on this topic, we discovered two more countries registered. We are now up to 73.

The new breakdown is just below. It is always exciting to see the breadth of our community.

Continent	Number of Countries Represented
Africa	10
Asia	15
Australia/Oceana	3
Europe	29
North America	6
South America	10
Total Countries Represented	73

May Meeting Presentations now available

May 2010 Meeting a Success

Our May 2010 face to face meeting was a big success. Once again, our long-standing partner, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) hosted us at their headquarters in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

The keynote was entitled "Interplay between models in engineering and business domains" and was delivered by the new Chief of Manufacturing Systems Integration Lab, Vijay Srinivasan.

We had reports from all of our Councils, and a special report from our newest Council, our Metals Industry Council.

The day was concluded by a tremendous panel entitled, "What is the most important issue facing e-Commerce today?" with representatives from the High Tech, Chemical, Metals, and Oil and Gas industries.

Thank you to all for making this meeting such a tremendous success. You can download the presentations on our website here.