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EIDX History - Do You Remember When?
In celebration of EIDX 10th Anniversary in
1997, we started sharing some of our memories of our history, and we've kept on going
since then. If you can suggest any additions, changes, comments or remembrances that you'd
like to share, please do!
Electronics Industry Data Exchange, Inc.
Upcoming Conferences |
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Dates |
Location | Host |
| November 2002 | Raleigh-Durham, NC | IBM |
| February 2003 | San Jose, CA | CompTIA-EIDX and OAGI |
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| In the Beginning ... | ||
| Dates | Location | Hosted by |
| February 23, 1987 | Scottsdale, AZ |
Our
Charter meeting was February 23, 1987 in Scottsdale, AZ (ASC X12 conference) so we are 10
years old! I think our first president was Jim Carmon of National Semiconductor and the Vice-Chairs were Sandy Whitson of Hewlett Packard and ?. We held our meetings during the ASC X12 conferences for the first year or so, usually on Monday and Wednesday evenings and sometimes at lunch. The EIDX meetings that were held during ASC X12 were from February 1987 through February 1989. |
| May 11-14, 1987 | Columbus, OH |
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| August 10-14, 1987 | Washington, DC |
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| November 16-20, 1987 | San Francisco |
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| February 22-26, 1988 | Dallas |
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| August 8-12, 1988 | Atlanta, GA |
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| November 14-18, 1988 | Los Angeles |
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| February 13-17, 1989 | Dallas |
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the birth of an idea..... |
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| During this period, we had some meetings outside of ASC X12. The first was a one-day meeting at Hewlett-Packard in April or May 1988, we think. The rest were: | ||
| April or May 1988 | Palo Alto, CA |
Hosted by Hewlett Packard |
| July 19-21, 1988 | San Jose, CA |
Hosted by AMD |
| January 16-19, 1989 | Phoenix, AZ |
Hosted by Motorola |
| March 21-23, 1989 | Natick, MA |
Hosted by Prime |
led to our ideas for the good of the industry..... |
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| And then we decided we had so much to do that we needed our own meetings. So, we scheduled separately from ASC X12 and some of us tried to go to both ASC X12 and EIDX until our bosses asked us when were going to get some work done. | ||
| August 15-17, 1989 | Portland, OR |
Hosted by Tektronix |
| November 14-16, 1989 | Austin, TX |
Hosted by 3M |
| March 27-29, 1990 | San Jose, CA |
Hosted by NEC Electronics |
| August 14-16, 1990 | Westminster, CO |
Hosted by Storage Tech |
| November 6-8, 1990 | Irvine, CA |
Hosted by Toshiba |
| February 12-14, 1991 | Milpitas, CA |
Hosted by Sun Microsystems |
| August 13-14, 1991 | Sacramento, CA |
Hosted by Intel |
| November 12-14, 1991 | Marlborough, MA |
Hosted by Digital |
| February 11-13, 1992 | Manhattan Beach, CA |
Hosted by Xerox |
| May 18-21, 1992 | Dallas, TX |
Hosted by Texas Instruments |
| August 10-13, 1992 | Monterey, CA |
Hosted by Hewlett-Packard Co. The Tuesday Social was a beach party. |
| November 9-12, 1992 | Huntsville, AL |
Hosted by AVEX |
| March 1-4, 1993 | San Diego, CA |
Hosted by Hitachi America |
| May 17-20, 1993 | Washington, DC |
Hosted by EIDX. Tom M. will never forget the Sunday shopping excursion and how to save $2 on parking. |
| August 16-19, 1993 | Schaumburg, IL |
Hosted by Motorola |
| November 1-4, 1993 | Atlanta, GA |
Hosted by Murata Electronics |
| February 8-10, 1994 | San Diego, CA |
Hosted by Brooktree |
| May 17-19, 1994 | Hershey, PA |
Hosted by AMP Inc. The dinner at Groff's Farm hasn't been topped yet. |
| August 22-25, 1994 | Santa Clara, CA |
Hosted by Advanced Micro Devices. The Tuesday Social was at the Gaslighter Theater. |
| November 14-17, 1994 | Secaucus, NJ |
Hosted by Panasonic. We took Manhattan. We began holding theme days - the theme for this conference was "Forecast/Planning Processes". |
| March 6-8, 1995 | Newport Beach, CA |
Hosted by Toshiba. We had dinner aboard the Queen Mary. The theme was "Information Sharing." |
| May 22-25, 1995 | St. Louis, MO |
Hosted by MEMC. The Mississippi River was above flood stage when we started and had receded by the time we left. Didn't know what a thirsty lot we are, did you;-) It was hot and humid. Forecasting was so hot that it was once again the conference theme. |
| August 21-25, 1995 | Minnetonka, MN |
Hosted by Seagate. We dined on roasted pig and then were dined upon by the mosquitoes. The theme was "Introduction to the Internet". |
| November 6-9, 1995 | San Diego, CA |
Hosted by EIDX. Gary E. got lost at Sea World! We continued the "Internet" theme. |
| February 12-15, 1996 | Scottsdale, AZ |
Hosted by Motorola. Bob K. took the bull by the horns. The theme was "International EDI". Our guests included leaders of our sister organizations, EDIFICE, EDIMAN, and EIAJ. |
| May 5-8, 1996 | Princeton, NJ |
Hosted by Lucent Technologies. We toured the campus so we could all say we'd been to Princeton. The theme was "Financial EDI". |
| August 5-8, 1996 | Lexington, KY |
Hosted by Avnet with clog dancing at the horse park. Temp was 90ยบF, humidity was 90%. The theme was "About EIDX" - a recap of what the organization has been doing and future strategies. |
| November 3-7, 1996 | Hilton Head, SC |
Hosted by Solectron. Dave W. almost became 'gator bait. The oyster population was almost put on the endangered list afterwards. The theme was "Contract Manufacturing". |
| February 3-6, 1997 | Arlington, VA |
Hosted by EIDX. The theme was "Preparing for the Year 2000". We've always been ahead of our time. |
| May 12-15, 1997 | Huntsville, AL |
Hosted by AVEX Electronics. Attendance at Space Camp was optional! The theme was "Trends in Inventory Management". |
| August 10-14, 1997 | Bloomington, IN |
Hosted by EIDX at Indiana University. We posed for a class of '97 group photo. The theme was "Information Technology and the New Business Enterprise". |
| November 3-6, 1997 | Newport Beach, CA |
Hosted by Wyle Electronics. The theme was "Distribution's Role in the Supply Chain". The Tuesday Social was a real gamble but everyone turned out a winner. |
| February 9-12, 1998 | Colorado Springs, CO |
Hosted by Hewlett-Packard. The theme was "Alternatives to Traditional EDI". Dinner was a real whodunit. We revived our alliance with CompTIA. |
| May 1998 | Nashville, TN |
Hosted by Sterling Commerce. A tornado hit downtown Nashville one week then EIDX hit town the following week. The theme was Optimum Uses of EDI/EC. |
| August 1998 | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
Hosted by Future Electronics. The Tuesday social was a dinner cruise on the river. The theme was Customer and Supplier Data Access. |
| November 1998 | Napa, California |
Hosted by ECRC. The theme was Supply Chain Management. The weather was cool but Bob K. got roasted anyway! |
| February 1999 | Arlington, Virginia |
Hosted by the Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA). The theme was Making Different EC Strategies Work Together. Lucille R. helped the Tuesday night band out by lending her vocal talents. |
| May 1999 | Denver, Colorado |
Hosted by Arrow Electronics. The theme was "Beyond EDI: What's the Future of EC?" |
The dawning of a new age ... joint EIDX/CompTIA ECSB Conferences |
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| August 1999 | Houston, Texas |
Hosted by Compaq. Our first joint conference with CompTIA's Electronic Commerce Standards Board, something we had looked forward to for a long time. |
| November 1999 | Austin, Texas |
Hosted by 3M. The theme was Web eCommerce. The Tuesday social was at Esther's Follies, where Elias started his acting career. It was the third conference Bob Kokko attended since we gave him his farewell roast in November 1998. We want the keys to the Volvo back;-) |
| February 2000 | San Jose, California |
Hosted by Nortel Networks. The theme was "The XML Files". If you didn't know something about XML by the time you went home, you weren't paying attention! |
| May 2000 | Seattle, Washington |
Hosted by Microsoft. All our years of experience with maps ... got us lost. But when we finally found the restaurant, the food was great! The theme was "eBusiness Standards - What are they and why should you care." |
| August 2000 | Newport, Rhode Island |
Hosted by APC. The little yacht everyone wanted to buy only cost $9.2 million. Anyone who booked United Airlines had really memorable travel. Theme was "Components and Computers: eTools of the Trade." |
November 2000 |
Cambridge, Massachusetts | Hosted by ChannelWave. If you went to the bar at the top of the hotel, you found yourself goint 'round and 'round in circles. The theme was "Extending the Enterprise: Integrating with Partner Systems." |
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February 2001 |
Santa Cruz, CA |
Hosted by Sun Microsystems. Who'd have thought that we could get snowed-in on the California coast? The theme was "Emerging eBusiness Methods and Models." |
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May 2001 |
Colorado Springs, CO | Hosted by Compaq. The snow followed us ... 75F during the day Sunday, then snow and 80MPH winds in the evening! Bill's airline tried to route him from SJC to COL via Lima, Peru! The legend of Room 210 began. And we learned about "Incorporating XML Into Your eBusiness Toolkit." |
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August 2001 |
Santa Fe, NM | Hosted by EIDX and CompTIA. No snow this time, but hail ... which still counts (ice is ice!) Our president got room 210 this time. We learned about "The Missing Link in the Supply Chain: Backend Integration." |
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November 2001 |
Scottsdale, AZ | Hosted by Cyclone Commerce. We were pleased to have the leadership of EDIFICE in attendance. The theme, "Business Value of Process Integration," was a follow-on from the August theme. |
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February 2002 |
Palo Alto, CA | Hosted by CompTIA and the Open Applications Group. And you guessed it ... in Palo Alto, where it snows once every 30 years, we got snow on the night before the conference started. At least all the speakers were on the correct side of the Santa Cruz mountains this time ;-) The theme was "Latest Trends in eBusiness: Web Services." |
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May 2002 |
San Jose, CA | Hosted by EIDX/CompTIA. The theme was "Partner Implementation from Qualification to Production." |
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August 2002 |
San Jose, CA | Hosted by EIDX/CompTIA. The theme was "E-Commerce: An Update on the State of the Industry." |