The meeting was held on 4/5/2011 and it
was attended by 16 of our 20 members with
19 total people in attendance:
Bristol ID— Keith and Matt
Identiphoto— Geoff
Identisys— Deb and Joe
Idesco— Gabriel S.
CI Solutions— Mark
XPress— Joe
ID Edge— Lori
Jolly— Sandeep J
Datacard— Dan H
Credential Consulting— Rob
E Card ID— Les
Plasco— Christian
Smarttech-Bob
Team Nisca— Andrew
Card Imaging-Steve
P3 — Mike
Meeting Highlights
This year’s meeting dealt with a concurrent
meeting by HID which took many principles
out of our meeting. The word is that HID will
continue this in future years and we may have
to adjust our meeting schedule
so all can attend ISDA.
With Pamela not present Rich
presented the finances (of
course he could not uphold the
high standards of Pamela but he
tried). It looks like this year will
be a break even year for ISDA,
the first in the last 3.5 years. However some
of the revenue is one time revenue (initiation
dues) and it seems we will need about 25
members to break even year after year. Right
now we have 20 with an additional one inac-
tive and another one voted in but not yet final-
ized. With a bank balance of $26000 at the
end of 2010, our financial situation is solid.
It was announced that our partnership with
SIF had been finalized and details will be
emailed in the next couple of weeks.
Also our Certified Facility Manager Training pro-
posal has been given to Rod Wheeler in con-
cept format and we await his group’s commit-
ment to move forward. It will result in getting the
ISDA name and expertise in front
of many prospective buyers.
This meeting ample time was al-
located for roundtable discus-
sions. This included 2 hours for
all the members where the future
of the plastic card was discussed
and it was felt while there will be
challenges in certain areas it was
agreed that for photo ID and
many other markets, the card has its place. The
dealers met In the afternoon as was agreed to
in the Fall 2010 meeting. This included opportu-
nities for Sponsors to talk to this group and
Datacard and Jolly did indeed do that. Some
discussion occurred throughout concerning old
items like the Strategic
direction of ISDA. The
Exec group will address
these to preclude the
need for precious meet-
ing time. This includes
how to promote the
ISDA brand.