Get the Most Out of Your SIA Membership: Attend a SIA Committee Meeting at ISC West 2024

By Kara Klein, Associate Director of Marketing and Media Relations, Security Industry Association on March 20, 2024 | |

Calling all Security Industry Association (SIA) members! Want to get more involved and maximize your SIA membership? Join us for one or more of SIA’s committee, working group and advisory board meetings taking place April 9-12 at the Venetian Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada, during ISC West 2024. Here’s your guide to meetings going on during the show; we hope to see you there!

Interested in other ways to engage with SIA at ISC West? Attend one of our signature events at the show! Learn more here.

All Times PDT

The Advance – SIA’s Annual Membership Meeting

Join us for The Advance, the fastest 60 minutes of your day!

Objectives/Discussion Items: At this special event, you’ll review SIA official association business, meet the new SIA board members and participate in SIA elections, recognize volunteer achievements, exchange market intelligence and enjoy hearing expert insights on what it’s like as a startup in security from special guest speaker Rita Mounir, co-founder and chief operating officer at Allthenticate.

  • When: Tuesday, April 9, 10:30-11:30 a.m.
  • Where: Venetian 401 and 402

Preregistration is required; sign up here.

Utilities Advisory Board Meeting

SIA’s Utilities Advisory Board demonstrates thought leadership on compliance and technology topics of interest to professionals managing security at a wide spectrum of utility facilities.

Objectives/Discussion Items: Guide to NERC CIP compliance project; upcoming white papers and webinars

  • When: Tuesday, April 9, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
  • Where: Venetian 403
  • SIA Staff Contact: Ron Hawkins, director of industry relations (rhawkins@securityindustry.org)

Data Privacy Advisory Board Meeting

SIA’s Data Privacy Advisory Board provides information and best practices to help SIA members handle sensitive data in a safe and secure manner to protect the personally identifiable information of their employees, partners and customers from potential breaches. 

Objectives/Discussion Items: Access Control Privacy Code of Practice project; development of privacy certificate program

  • When: Tuesday, April 9, 1:00-2:00 p.m.
  • Where: Venetian 403
  • SIA Staff Contact: Ron Hawkins, director of industry relations (rhawkins@securityindustry.org)

Government Relations Committee Meeting

The SIA Government Relations Committee helps identify and advise SIA members regarding legislation, regulations and other policy trends or pending government actions affecting the security industry and makes high-level recommendations for related actions.

Objectives/Discussion Items: Briefing and discussion on policy developments that need industry attention, as well as SIA advocacy efforts at the state and federal levels

  • When: Tuesday, April 9, 3:00-4:00 p.m.
  • Where: Venetian 406
  • SIA Staff Contact: Jake Parker, senior director of government relations (jparker@securityindustry.org)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Advisory Board Meeting

SIA’s AI Advisory Board has a mission to engage regulators on emerging AI issues and provide recommendations, guide development of definitions and standardizations of AI behavior in the security industry, drive the adoption AI solutions balanced within a defined risk management framework and promote the ethical AI application for equitable outcomes. 

Objectives/Discussion Items: Definitions/nomenclature project; regulations update

  • When: Wednesday, April 10, 9:00-10:00 a.m.
  • Where: Venetian 403
  • SIA Staff Contact: Ron Hawkins, director of industry relations (rhawkins@securityindustry.org)

Intrusion Subcommittee Meeting

The SIA Intrusion Subcommittee maintains and promotes standards dealing with residential and commercial intrusion panels and communication between protected premises and monitoring stations.

Objectives/Discussion Items: IEC TC79 plenary meeting planning for those participating in June; webinar planning, discussion of remote guarding standard proposal

  • When: Wednesday, April 10, 9:00-10:00 a.m.
  • Where: Venetian 406
  • SIA Staff Contact: Cameron Walker-Miller, director of standards and technology (cmiller@securityindustry.org)

Standards Committee Meeting

The SIA Standards Committee serves as the guiding body of SIA standards programs. Its members work together to develop, promote and advocate industry standards in a coordinated effort with other standards and specification writing bodies. 

Objectives/Discussion Items: Updates from subcommittee; ideation planning

  • When: Wednesday, April 10, 10:00-11:00 a.m.
  • Where: Venetian 406
  • SIA Staff Contact: Cameron Walker-Miller, director of standards and technology (cmiller@securityindustry.org)

Built Environment Advisory Board Meeting

SIA’s Built Environment Advisory Board (formerly the SIA Proptech Advisory Board) was created to foster engagement between the proptech community and the global security industry through partnerships, education and thought leadership.

Objectives/Discussion Items: Leadership transition; plan for prioritized efforts

  • When: Wednesday, April 10, 1:00-2:00 p.m.
  • Where: Venetian 406
  • SIA Staff Contact: Cameron Walker-Miller, director of standards and technology (cmiller@securityindustry.org)

Architectural Graphics Working Group Meeting

The SIA Architectural Graphics Working Group focuses on the revision of AG-01 Architectural Graphics and CAD Symbols for the Security System Standard. 

Objectives/Discussion Items: Introduce industry partners to ways they can contribute to AG-01s update; planning and assignments for the effort to update AG-01

  • When: Wednesday, April 10, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
  • Where: Venetian 406
  • SIA Staff Contact: Cameron Walker-Miller, director of standards and technology (cmiller@securityindustry.org)

Counter-UAS Working Group Meeting

The SIA Counter-UAS Working Group was created to actively support the work needed to accomplish the recommendations of the Biden administration’s Domestic Counter-UAS National Action Plan and further educate and give authorities options to mitigate uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) attacks. 

Objectives/Discussion Items: Update on the status of federal legislation expanding authorities to use counter-UAS technologies; discussion on further collaboration/advocacy efforts by industry

  • When: Wednesday, April 10, 3:00-4:00 p.m.
  • Where: Venetian 403
  • SIA Staff Contact: Jake Parker, senior director of government relations (jparker@securityindustry.org)

Member Engagement and Experience Committee Meeting

The mission of the SIA Member Engagement and Experience Committee is to create and evaluate initiatives that increase member participation within SIA and guide the development of member engagement strategies.

Objectives/Discussion Items: Discuss new SIA member onboarding, the SIA Endowment Project, the 2024 SIA Member Satisfaction Survey, Member Accelerated Performance (MAP program), the mySIA app, SIA member briefings and member testimonial videos

  • When: Thursday, April 11, 10:00-11:00 a.m.
  • Where: Venetian 403
  • SIA Staff Contact: Ozzie Kocak, manager, marketing and member engagement (okocak@securityindustry.org)

Audio and Intelligent Communications Subcommittee Meeting

The mission of the SIA Audio & Intelligent Communications Subcommittee is to educate the industry to the importance of audio and communications and aid in growing this technology segment by providing business insights into the importance of audio for safety and security applications. 

Objectives/Discussion Items: Leadership transition; scheduling a content delivery plan to advance industry education of audio and intelligent communications throughout the industry; status of a related profile in development for ONVIF

  • When: Thursday, April 11, 10:00-11:00 a.m.
  • Where: Venetian 406
  • SIA Staff Contact: Cameron Walker-Miller, director of standards and technology (cmiller@securityindustry.org)

Perimeter Security Subcommittee Meeting

The SIA Perimeter Security Subcommittee guides SIA’s support for nationwide and international efforts to prevent hostile vehicle attacks. 

Objectives/Discussion Items: Finalization of committee documents and white papers

  • When: Thursday, April 11, 12:00-1:30 p.m.
  • Where: Venetian 404
  • SIA Staff Contact: Cameron Walker-Miller, director of standards and technology (cmiller@securityindustry.org)

Partner Alliance for Safer Schools (PASS) School Security Town Hall

If you’re passionate about school security, join the Partner Alliance for Safer Schools (PASS) for an open meeting on K-12 school security.

Objectives/Discussion Items: This town hall will provide updates on PASS’ efforts to increase the safety and security of K-12 schools. As part of recognizing the 10-year anniversary of PASS, the organization celebrates the incredible contributions of PASS’ volunteers and advisors, and welcomes anyone interested in future contributions to PASS’ mission.

  • When: Thursday, April 11, 2:00-3:30 p.m.
  • Where: Venetian 404
  • SIA Staff Contact: Geoff Kohl, senior director of marketing (gkohl@securityindustry.org)

Video and Vision Subcommittee

The SIA Video and Vision Subcommittee reviews, develops, promotes and advocates for the adoption of relevant industrywide standards relating to video. 

Objectives/Discussion Items: Leadership transition; finalization of committee documents and white papers; discussion of remote guarding standard proposal

  • When: Thursday, April 11, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
  • Where: Venetian 406
  • SIA Staff Contact: Cameron Walker-Miller, director of standards and technology (cmiller@securityindustry.org)

Open Supervised Device Protocol (OSDP) Technical Subcommittee

The SIA OSDP Technical Subcommittee is made up of access control manufacturers, integrators and end users implementing OSDP whose responsibilities include acting as the primary editors of the OSDP standard, coordinating and reviewing research projects related to OSDP, providing technical guidance on issues related to OSDP and more.

Objectives/Discussion Items: OSDP development updates; working group synchronization; plans for ISC East event

  • When: Thursday, April 11, 3:00-4:00 p.m.
  • Where: Venetian 406
  • SIA Staff Contact: Cameron Walker-Miller, director of standards and technology (cmiller@securityindustry.org)

View SIA’s full committee guide here. Employees of SIA member companies can make the most out of their memberships by getting more involved with the association. Volunteer opportunities include joining SIA committees or groups, lending expertise to SIA’s education and training programs, participating in SIA’s advocacy efforts, contributing to SIA’s publications and thought leadership and getting involved in SIA events. Learn more and get started as a volunteer.