3M is a global science company that never stops inventing. Using 46 technology platforms, our integrated team of scientists and researchers works with customers to create breakthroughs. Our inventions have improved daily life for hundreds of millions of people all over the world. With $30 billion in sales, our 90,000 employees connect with customers all around the world. Scientists, researchers and marketers work across countries and across subjects to solve challenges big and small.
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Founded in 1992, we are a nonpartisan seniors advocacy group with a free enterprise, less government, and fewer taxes view towards issues important to seniors.
The Alliance for Automotive Innovation is the singular, authoritative and respected voice of the automotive industry. Focused on creating a safe and transformative path for sustainable industry growth, the Alliance for Automotive Innovation represents the manufacturers producing nearly 99 percent of cars and light trucks sold in the U.S.
The Alliance for Transportation Innovation (ATI21) is a consortium of transportation technology innovators, subject matter experts, and researchers. The consortium is dedicated to increasing public and stakeholder awareness of the transformative safety, sociological, and economic improvements that can be realized through the accelerated development and deployment of ingenious transportation technologies.
ACC’s Automotive Team represents America’s Plastic Makers® and focuses on sustainable automotive polymers and composites that enable current and future mobility trends. Our member experts collaborate with the automotive value chain to provide innovative material solutions for the industry.
The American Council of the Blind strives to increase the independence, security, equality of opportunity, and quality of life, for all blind and visually-impaired people.
The American Highway Users Alliance is a nonprofit advocacy organization serving as the united voice of the transportation community promoting safe, uncongested highways and enhanced freedom of mobility.
The American Network of Community Options and Resources (ANCOR) is a national, nonprofit trade association representing more than 1,200 private community providers of services to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Combined, we service over 800,000 individuals with disabilities. ANCOR offers leadership and represent the needs and interests of private providers before Congress and federal agencies, continually advocating for the crucial role private providers play in enhancing and supporting the lives of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.
Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) opposes all tax increases as a matter of principle. We believe in a system in which taxes are simpler, flatter, more visible, and lower than they are today. The government’s power to control one’s life derives from its power to tax. We believe that power should be minimized.
Aptiv is a global technology company that develops safer, greener and more connected solutions, which enable the future of mobility.
Argo AI is building self-driving technology to improve the way the world moves. Since we began in 2016, we’ve partnered with leading companies in the automotive sector to make vehicles safer, more affordable, convenient, and accessible for everyone — regardless of age or ability to get behind the wheel.
Based in Palo Alto, CA, and Pittsburgh, PA, Aurora designs and builds self-driving technology, partnering with automakers to integrate, pilot and deploy advanced self-driving platforms into vehicles. Founded by Chief Executive Officer Chris Urmson, Chief Product Officer Sterling Anderson and Chief Technical Officer Drew Bagnell, Aurora is working to solve today’s most complex AI, automation and engineering challenges to improve transportation and positively impact our cities.
The Automotive Service Association is the largest not-for-profit trade association of its kind dedicated to and governed by independent automotive service and repair professionals. ASA serves an international membership base that includes numerous affiliate, state and chapter groups from both the mechanical and collision repair segments of the automotive service industry. ASA advances professionalism and excellence in the automotive repair industry through education, representation and member services.
AUVSI is the world’s largest nonprofit organization devoted exclusively to advancing the unmanned systems and robotics community. Serving more than 7,500 members from government organizations, industry and academia, AUVSI is committed to fostering, developing and promoting unmanned systems and robotics technologies. AUVSI members support the defense, civil and commercial sectors.
C_TEC (Chamber Technology Engagement Center) is the tech policy hub of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. C_TEC advocates for smart policy solutions that spur innovation and create jobs across public and private sectors. And we also tell the story of how technology is impacting every sector of our economy.
The Competitive Enterprise Institute is a non-profit public policy organization dedicated to advancing the principles of limited government, free enterprise, and individual liberty. Our mission is to promote both freedom and fairness by making good policy good politics. We make the uncompromising case for economic freedom because we believe it is essential for entrepreneurship, innovation, and prosperity to flourish.
Cruise is building the world’s most advanced self-driving vehicles to safely connect people with the places, things, and experiences they care about. Through partnerships with General Motors and Honda, we are developing all electric, zero emission self-driving cars with fully integrated manufacturing at scale that will help save lives, reimagine cities, reduce carbon pollution, redefine time in transit, and restore freedom of movement to help drive life in cities forward.
CTIA® represents the U.S. wireless communications industry and the companies throughout the mobile ecosystem that enable Americans to lead a 21st century connected life. The association’s members include wireless carriers, device manufacturers, suppliers as well as apps and content companies. CTIA vigorously advocates at all levels of government for policies that foster continued wireless innovation and investment. The association also coordinates the industry’s voluntary best practices, hosts educational events that promote the wireless industry and co-produces the industry’s leading wireless tradeshow. CTIA was founded in 1984 and is based in Washington, D.C.
Deepen, we build AI-powered tools that help today’s machines relying on vision to understand the world around them, down to the pixel and point level. Our cutting-edge solutions range from licensing IP and data annotation software, to end-to-end data integrity and labeling services.
Digital Liberty advocates for a consumer-driven market free from heavy regulation or taxation of the Internet, technology, telecommunications, video games, and media. We fight to prevent new onerous regulations that will stifle innovation and to eliminate antiquated regulations that hold back the development and adoption of new technology.
DuPont is a global innovation leader with technology-based materials, ingredients and solutions that help transform industries and everyday life. We see a future where tomorrow’s cars will be electric, autonomous, shared and connected to each other and the world. Today at DuPont, we’re bringing our long automotive heritage, expertise and materials capabilities together to meet the industry’s future needs. Through our AHEAD™ (Accelerating Hybrid-Electric Autonomous Driving) initiative, we partner with our customers, taking a holistic approach to deliver solutions to meet the new challenges that vehicle electrification is creating.
Designs and engineers connected products and solutions for automakers, consumers, and enterprises worldwide, including connected car systems, audio and visual products, enterprise automation solutions; and services supporting the Internet of Things. In March 2017, HARMAN became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Infineon makes life easier, safer and greener — with technology that achieves more, consumes less and is accessible to everyone. Semiconductors are essential to realizing key trends like electromobility, automated driving and secure, connected cars. We are the leading semiconductor partner in the fast-changing automotive world, based on our system knowledge coupled with our passion for innovation and quality. We are a key driver in the ever advancing pace of digitalization in the automotive industry.
The Intelligent Transportation Society of America is the nation’s largest organization dedicated to advancing the research, development and deployment of intelligent transportation systems.
Lyft was founded in June 2012 by Logan Green and John Zimmer to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. Lyft is the fastest growing rideshare company in the U.S and is available in more than 360 cities. Lyft is preferred by drivers and passengers for its safe and friendly experience, and its commitment to effecting positive change for the future of our cities.
Mobileye, an Intel Company is the global leader in the development of computer vision and machine learning, data analysis, localization and mapping for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems and autonomous driving. Our technology keeps passengers safer on the roads, reduces the risks of traffic accidents, saves lives and has the potential to revolutionize the driving experience by enabling autonomous driving. Our products are or will be integrated into car models from more than 25 global automakers and are also available in the aftermarket.
MEMA is the trade association for motor vehicle and mobility suppliers and parts manufacturers and remanufacturers. Our members supply both the original equipment and aftermarket segments of the light vehicle (car and truck) and commercial vehicle (on- and off-road) industries. MEMA serves the industry as the voice of the motor vehicle and mobility supplier industry, speaking out on behalf of the largest manufacturing sector in the United States.
Narcolepsy Network is a nationwide nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing early diagnosis of narcolepsy, advocating for and supporting persons with narcolepsy and their families, and promoting critical research for treatment and a cure. Whether you are newly diagnosed or have been living with narcolepsy for years, our resources and support can help you live well with narcolepsy.
The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) is the largest manufacturing association in the United States, representing small and large manufacturers in every industrial sector and in all 50 states. Manufacturing employs more than 12 million men and women, contributes $2.25 trillion to the U.S. economy annually, has the largest economic impact of any major sector and accounts for more than three-quarters of private-sector research and development. The NAM is the powerful voice of the manufacturing community and the leading advocate for a policy agenda that helps manufacturers compete in the global economy and create jobs across the United States.
The National Cued Speech Association supports effective communication, language development (international languages) and literacy in families with deaf, hard of hearing or learning disabled infants, children and youth through the use of Cued Speech.
The National Federation of the Blind knows that blindness is not the characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the expectations of blind people, because low expectations create obstacles between blind people and our dreams. You can live the life you want; blindness is not what holds you back.
National Taxpayers Union (NTU) is the Voice of America’s Taxpayers. NTU mobilizes elected officials and the general public on behalf of tax relief and reform, lower and less wasteful spending, individual liberty, and free enterprise. Founded in 1969, we work at all levels for the day when every taxpaying citizen’s right to a limited government is among our nation’s highest democratic principles.
The R Street Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, public policy research organization. Its mission is to engage in policy research and outreach to promote free markets and limited, effective government.
Rivian is an American automaker and technology company that produces emissions-free electric adventure vehicles. It currently has more than 2,000 employees, in seven U.S. and Canadian locations.
SAFE unites prominent military and business leaders to develop and advocate for policies that improve America’s energy security by significantly curtailing our dependence on oil and promoting responsible use of our domestic energy resources. SAFE relies on the knowledge and experience of four-star retired military officers, Fortune 500 CEOs, and its expert staff to produce high-quality, fact based analysis and policy recommendations for lawmakers, regulatory agencies, and the public.
Segs4Vets, a nonprofit organization, awards universally designed mobility devices to men and women of the United States military who have sustained severe injuries while serving our Nation in Operation Iraqi Freedom and/or Operation Enduring Freedom.
TechFreedom is a post-partisan think tank that seeks to advance public policy that makes experimentation, entrepreneurship and investment possible, and thus unleashes the ultimate resource: human ingenuity.
TechNet is the national, bipartisan network of technology CEOs and senior executives that promotes the growth of the innovation economy by advocating a targeted policy agenda at the federal and 50-state level. TechNet’s diverse membership includes dynamic startups and the most iconic companies on the planet and represents three million employees and countless customers in the fields of information technology, e-commerce, the sharing and gig economies, advanced energy, cybersecurity, venture capital, and finance. TechNet has offices in Washington, D.C., Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Sacramento, Austin, Boston, Olympia, Albany, and Tallahassee.
TIA is the leading association representing the manufacturers and suppliers of high-tech connectivity. TIA seeks to expand global investment opportunities and encourages innovation in the high-speed networks, and products and services that generate economic growth and empower communications across every industry and market.
The Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America (WSWA) is the national trade association representing the wholesale tier of the wine and spirits industry. It is dedicated to advancing the interests and independence of wholesale distributors and brokers of wine and spirits and promoting the responsible use of beverage alcohol.
Third Way is a public policy and advocacy organization whose mission is to create and promote transformational centrist ideas. Our agenda is focused on economic growth and opportunity; progress on social issues; deep decarbonization to battle climate change; an approach to national security that is both tough and smart; and electoral reforms that empower the middle.
The U.S. Tire Manufacturers Association is the national trade association for tire manufacturers that produce tires in the U.S. USTMA members operate manufacturing facilities in 19 states, employ nearly 100,000 workers and generate annual sales of more than $27 billion.
US Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce (USPAACC) Education Foundation, founded in 1984, is the most established and largest nonprofit organization representing the Pan Asian American business and professional community in the United States. It has regional chapters in California, Texas, Illinois, New York, Georgia, and Maryland-Virginia-Washington, DC. USPAACC Advocacy has developed relationships with policy- and decision-makers in Congress, the Executive Branch, national trade associations, and think tanks. Legislators, researchers and representatives of the media often seek our views on issues affecting the economy and international trade.
Via was founded with the goal of offering efficient, affordable, sustainable, and convenient shared rides to everyone, everywhere. Our technology enables multiple passengers headed in the same direction to seamlessly share their ride, rerouting vehicles in real time in response to demand. First launched in 2013, the Via platform provides over 1.5 million rides per month in New York City, Chicago, and Washington DC, and is growing rapidly. Via also licenses its revolutionary on-demand transit technology to transportation operators globally.
what3words is a really simple way to talk about location. We have divided the world into a grid of 3m x 3m squares and assigned each one a unique 3 word address. It means anyone can accurately find any location and share it more quickly, easily and with less ambiguity than any other system. A 3 word address is a human-friendly way to to input locations into platforms and machines such as autonomous cars. It is optimized for voice input and contains built-in error prevention to pick up on and correct mistakes. what3words can be used via the free mobile app or online map. It can also be built into any other app, platform or website, with just a few lines of code.