Membership Categories

Choose the participation route that matches your current role.

The distinction between categories is procedural, not a hierarchy of professional standing.

Individual Track

Affiliate Member

General participation for anyone with an interest in operational AI assurance. No professional-relevance review applies; identity, conduct, alignment and programme-capacity review still apply.

Year-One policy: Complimentary.

Individual Track

Practitioner Member

For active professionals in cybersecurity, AI security, governance, risk, compliance, standards or assurance. Applications are reviewed for professional relevance.

Year-One policy: Complimentary, subject to review.

Individual Track

Student & Early-Career Member

For enrolled students, recent graduates, researchers beginning their careers, career-transition participants and others at the initial stage of relevant study, research or practice.

Year-One policy: Complimentary.

Individual Track

Academic Member

For faculty and individual researchers with a current academic or research affiliation. Departments, laboratories, centres and universities seeking organizational participation should use Corporate Membership while no separate organizational academic category is operational.

Year-One policy: Complimentary, subject to review.

Organizational Track

Corporate Member

For organizations seeking structured participation in ODA3 research and community. Membership belongs to the approved organization and is exercised through named representatives.

Corporate review criteria

  1. Relevance to operational AI assurance
  2. Willingness to operate within ODA3 independence principles
  3. Absence of material conflicts that would compromise framework governance
  4. Commitment to respectful, evidence-based participation
  5. Demonstrated willingness to contribute constructively
Excluded from review

Commercial size, market share and purchasing power are not admissions criteria.

Admissions Philosophy

Curated but welcoming.

Anyone may apply. Approval is based on relevance, conduct, alignment and programme capacity — never prestige, organizational size or purchasing power.

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