Choose the participation route that matches your current role.
The distinction between categories is procedural, not a hierarchy of professional standing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
- Relevance to operational AI assurance
- Willingness to operate within ODA3 independence principles
- Absence of material conflicts that would compromise framework governance
- Commitment to respectful, evidence-based participation
- Demonstrated willingness to contribute constructively
Commercial size, market share and purchasing power are not admissions criteria.
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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