About Membership

Smart Card Alliance membership includes organizations covering the full spectrum of industry suppliers, integrators and end user organizations. Members include participants in all active industry sectors – financial, government, enterprise, transportation, mobile telecommunications, healthcare, and retail – and suppliers of the full range of products and services supporting the implementation of smart card-based systems.

Membership Benefits

We invite you to join the Smart Card Alliance. Benefits to your organization are:

1. Visibility – Put your organization at the forefront of leaders in industry and government through active participation in meetings, conferences, news bulletins, councils, web resources and the organization’s outreach efforts promoting the industry and our members.

2. Networking – Establish valuable contacts that can help your organization improve and grow, using meeting facilities and events to maximize business opportunities.

3. Innovation – Work with peers to explore new ways of approaching common business goals and preparing the infrastructure and end users in different vertical markets for change. Stimulate and plan changes in multiple levels of the value and service chain to prepare for doing business with smart cards.

4. Lower research or implementation costs – Share work with peers from other organizations to reduce the time and cost needed to evaluate new business models, think through and plan complex implementation details, develop best practices and resolve industry issues.

5. Standards support – Influence standards bodies and contribute input as an industry organization into standardization efforts.

6. Information, research and learning – Gain priority access to new policies, technology advances, and legislative changes through meetings, conferences, exhibitions, council participation, white papers, and educational programs

7. Business and industry outreach – Promote the value of smart cards into many sectors, expanding business opportunities for industry providers and providing vendor-neutral information for end users.

8. Public opinion influence – Participate in an industry association that has a unified, credible voice that no single member can achieve alone to reach policy makers, media, analysts and other influencers.

9. Advance knowledge – Gain market advantage by getting information and acting on it before many “outsiders” even know it is happening.

10. Market growth – Work together with other organizations and end users to help to grow the size of the smart card market.

Membership Levels

The Smart Card Alliance offers several membership levels – Leadership Council, General, Government, University, Associate – to accommodate different types of organizations. Each membership level offers specific benefits for participation in the Alliance organization and activities.