Today, at the Philadelphia Member Meeting, we officially launched OGC Individual Membership.
I’ve truly been looking forward to this moment.
OGC has always been powered by remarkable professionals — engineers, system architects, researchers, and developers from around the world who participate through our organizational members. The depth of expertise and global character of this community are among our greatest strengths.
Individual Membership builds on that foundation.
It creates a more direct pathway for practitioners — including independent developers, consultants, professionals and students — to participate directly in working groups, code sprints, testbeds and ongoing collaboration inside Agora, OGC’s exclusive member collaboration platform
For me, this is about connection as much as participation. Interoperability improves when more implementers share what they’re seeing, more builders surface edge cases, and more perspectives help shape the direction forward.
It also gives us an opportunity to strengthen our geographic reach.
OGC has long been global, but participation is stronger in some regions than others. For example, there is tremendous talent across Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia, and we want more of those voices shaping this community. Broader geographic participation makes the work more resilient and more relevant.
Alongside Individual Membership, we introduced the Industry Builders Sponsorship, providing organizations with a simple way to sponsor developers or university cohorts and help widen access even further.
This launch isn’t about changing who we are. It’s about widening the circle — technically and geographically. More practitioners. More perspectives. More places represented in the room.
If you’re ready to join as an Individual Member, you can learn more and sign up here.
To encourage early participation, we are offering 25% off Individual Membership through April 30 using promo code OGC25.
If your organization would like to sponsor developers or university cohorts through the Industry Builders Sponsorship, please contact me at re*******@*gc.org to discuss how to get involved
I’m excited to see who joins us next — and from where.
