Join Or Renew Your HIA Membership for 2021-2022 online
with a Debit or Credit Card
We are also providing Members with enhanced benefits and access for 2021 – 2022 for only $50. Benefits now include:
- Free access to all On-site and Online Open-door Meetings.
- Free access to videos of past On-site Open-door Meeting speaker presentations.
- Free access to On-site and Online “Confidential Special Help Meetings” where everyone signs a non-disclosure agreement and attendees can discuss their product/concept openly and receive one-on-one help and advice.
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If you prefer to pay by check, visit our website, download a membership form, and mail it in. For questions regarding your membership status, contact [email protected].
SCHEDULED SPEAKERS AND EVENTS
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Houston Inventors Association
Confidential Special Help Meeting
Wednesday, October 20, 2021 7:00 – 9:00 PM
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CONFIDENTIAL SPECIAL HELP MEETING for paid members only where everyone signs a non-disclosure agreement and attendees can discuss their product or concept openly and receive one-on-one help and advice on the next steps of pursuing their idea, concept or design, or overcoming a particular hurdle. (You can also join and pay your membership at this meeting). The meeting is moderated by Mark Peterson and held in the auditorium or in a smaller room (at the end of the lobby), and will have a smaller group of attendees than our 2nd Wednesday general meetings. Bring us your problem/questions, and we’ll try to get you to the next step!
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We are working on a special webpage on the Houston Inventors Assn website to help those inventors that live out of town and/or cannot attend meetings. It will have an image and brief description of all the recorded meetings and remote zoom meetings that are available with a link that allows them to join or renew their membership and download those they would like to watch at their convenience.
Watch our recorded Zoom Meeting with BOB PAYNE of SATOP
presented on June 16, 2021, titled:
“How you can receive up to 40 hours of FREE technical assistance“
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Bob Payne, Program Director, presented ” How you can receive up to 40 hours of FREE technical assistance” from the NASA and Educational Community through SATOP (the Space Alliance Technology Outreach Program). This is an excellent FREE resource and has helped many of our HIA members and other local inventors solve technical, design, and material selection, and other technical issues. Your invention does not have to be high tech or space related to receive assistance. SATOP has helped many small businesses and entrepreneurs with machine design, process engineering, material selection, and many other technical issues.
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Videos of Our Past Meetings
We are making videos of our past speaker’s presentations available upon request for free via email to paid members only, so even if you live too far away to attend our monthly meetings you can benefit by becoming a member. To become a member, Click the link above to pay online or download a Membership Form, fill it out, and mail it in.
Then contact [email protected] and request a video. You will also be added to our email list to receive monthly announcements regarding upcoming meetings and topics.
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VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
We are planning on having several great out of town speakers give presentations at some future meetings via Skype, Zoom, or other video conferencing program, and are seeking a volunteer who has a laptop and can handle the Skype or Zoom setup on our end. If you would like to volunteer, please contact Ken Roddy [email protected], or Mark Peterson [email protected]..
Speakers Needed
We are always looking for speakers. If you have licensed, or are manufacturing and marketing your product yourself, or know of someone who has, and can share helpful information with new inventors, please contact Ken Roddy [email protected], or Mark Peterson [email protected].
Importance of Attending Meetings
Our motto, “Inventors Helping Inventors”, expresses some of the benefits of membership and attending monthly meetings. We provide speakers having first-hand knowledge of the difficulties in getting from raw idea to marketable product that offer their success stories, and share tips on marketing your invention, and speakers that provide valuable information in technical areas, such as: protecting your idea, patent fundamentals, building prototypes, injection molding, manufacturing vs licensing, etc. At our meetings, we often connect inventors having a problem with other members who may be able to help to solve it. We take pride in being a trusted resource, and do our best to protect inventors from invention marketing/development scams.
Have you been to our Houston Inventors Facebook Group Page? The purpose of the Group Page is to provide an interactive forum or message board where members can comment on speakers, meetings, ask questions, make suggestions, provide feedback, receive help, etc. Bill Kopitzke and Mark Peterson are the main administrators. The “Group” page is different from a regular Facebook “Page”, in that you can’t get there by “liking” or being a “friend”…you have to “Join” the group to participate. Group members must be approved or added by other members. To “Join” the group, if you are logged in on Facebook, you can click the “Join” button at the top of the page.
On-Site Meetings are held at:
BAYLAND COMMUNITY CENTER
6400 BISSONNET (One block west of Hillcroft in Bayland Park)
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