As each wave of technology innovation moves society forward, calls to change this traditionally complex development cycle have emerged to speed up access to standards content or make it available in new ways. Read Dan Plofchan’s analysis here.

A global audience of Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) explored how collective licensing can support SDOs as they meet customer needs today and into the future.

For more than 100 years, technical standards have been understood as formalized statements, developed and maintained by a given community of interest, towards “standardizing” products and processes synthesized in the physical world.