Trade Associations

• AIM Global - General AIDC trade association.
  
  
• The Biometric Consoritum - a focal point for research, development, testing, evaluation, and application of biometric-based personal identification/verification technology.
  
  
• EPCGlobal - Electronic Product Code standards organization, a driving organization behind RFID.
  
  
• GS1 - Standards organization for the bar code industry (was UCC).
  
  
• IBIA - International Biometric Industry Association.
  
  
• ICMA - International Card Manufacturers Association, serves the dynamic plastic card industry
  
  
• Material Handling Institute of America - the leading non-profit trade association representing the material handling and logistics industry.
  
  
• Smart Card Alliance - A not-for profit, multi-industry association working to accelerate the widespread acceptance of multiple application smart card technology in areas such as banking, computers, telecommunications, healthcare, retail, and the entertainment industries.

Professional Organizations

• AIDC100 - a not-for-profit, self-sustaining, non-political organization of AIDC professionals.