Bottom line: AOIA is here to help you grow your business.
Attend AOIA meetings and events
- Great networking opportunities.
- Meet prospects, suppliers and new joint venture partners.
- Hear speakers on subjects of interest to the industry.
- Tour leading Arizona optics companies.
Learn and research
- Learn about business opportunities from other industry associations.
- Receive information on current optics research in the state, and get help contacting researchers and developing grants.
Develop your workforce
- Participate in local job fairs and intern opportunities.
- Get information on graduating students from associate, undergraduate and graduate programs within the state.
- Influence the educational programs in Arizona that provide trained technicians and people with skills pertinent to the optics industry.
- Develop programs aimed at improving the skills of corporate employees.
- Make resumes of potential optics employees available.
- Find outplacement assistance and other employee transitional help.
Publicise your company
- Directly link your company’s home page to the AOIA website, for corporate members and sponsors.
- Target your press releases and events directly to the local optics industry.
- Obtain free publicity.
- Benefit from the AOIA presence with a booth in the Arizona Cluster at the SPIE Photonics West show and other major optics and technology events.
- Gain visibility through AOIA public relations on the industry, which helps all companies’ access to the press.
- Achieve higher visibility and discounted booth rates, where applicable, with a great location at major trade shows such as SPIE Photonics West.
Help the optics industry grow in Arizona
- Access programs and funding from city, county, state and federal government agencies.
- Participate in AOIA efforts to promote the Arizona optics industry.
- See the results of AOIA initiated surveys on the optics market.