VENDOR ENGAGEMENT POLICIES

Our Approach to Vendor Engagement

At the IA FORUM, we are deeply committed to fostering a highly valuable peer-to-peer community, along with programs and content that are always end-user-centric and designed to help our members and their organization achieve technology and digital & business transformation excellence. To uphold this commitment, we maintain a vendor-free zone and enforce strict content neutrality and integrity protocols.

However, we also recognize its essential for our members to be informed about the vendor landscape in their particular focus areas. By doing so, this ensures they can stay aware of the tools available in the marketplace, select the best solutions for their initiatives, and collaborate with their peers to troubleshoot any roadblocks they may encounter with their current vendors or solution providers.

That said, the IA FORUM, members, and vendor and solution provider event or content sponsors must adhere to the below policies.

Policies

• Content Neutrality & Integrity: We uphold robust content integrity and neutrality protocols, excluding vendors from community activities to ensure that discussions remain free from commercial influence. We expect our members to adhere to these same core values and protocols.

• The IA FORUM is a Private Community: In turn, all community event videos, content, and insights are strictly for members’ consumption and are not shared outside the IA FORUM community. Members are also expected to adhere to this policy.

• Chatham House Rule: All IA FORUM programs follow the Chatham House Rule, ensuring open dialogue without attributing statements or information to any individual or organization. That said, the information and views expressed in IA FORUM events, presentations, and community discussions are those of the member and do not reflect the official position or opinions of the company they are employed by.

• Vendor-Free Zone: The IA FORUM community is a vendor-free zone. Vendor sales pitches/endorsements & member self-promotion are NOT permitted at anytime. If a member violates this protocol, their membership will be immediately cancelled and they will not receive a partial or full membership refund.

• Confidentiality & Data Security: The IA FORUM maintains stringent standards to ensure compliance with industry protocols for confidentiality, data privacy, and security. Members are required to uphold these same standards. We protect members' contact information and do not share it, except when necessary for coordinating peer partnerships and mentorships programs - or for coordinating event co-speakers' and Advisory Board meetings.

• 3rd Party Data Sharing: As an organization that highly respects our members' confidentiality, under no uncertain terms are our members' names, emails, phone #s, or any of their other information or membership details shared with 3rd parties, vendor or solution provider event or content sponsors, other vendors and solution providers, et cetera.

• Vendor or Solution Provide Sponsored Events & Content: Occasionally we allow vendors or solution providers to speak on IA FORUM events or share their organization's content within the IA FORUM community. Vendors must uphold the same no vendors sales pitches or self-promotion and confidentiality & data security protocols our members must adhere to. If a vendor or solution provider event or content sponsor violates this protocol, they will be banned from future IA FORUM partnerships opportunities.