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ANTITRUST STATEMENT
As participants in this meeting, we need to be mindful of the constraints of antitrust laws. There shall be no discussions of agreements or concerted actions that may restrain competition. This prohibition includes the exchange of information concerning individual prices, rates, coverages, market practices, claims settlement practices, or any other competitive aspect of an individual company’s operation. Each participant is obligated to speak up immediately for the purpose of preventing any discussion falling outside these bounds.
Agenda
Antitrust Statement and approval of minutes
CAPIS Avatar Contest – share entries
CIECA’s Marketing Strategy: new member engagement
CIECA CONNEX Conference – attract more business analysts/CTOs
Meeting Minutes
The antitrust agreement was read and the minutes were approved.
CAPIS Avatar Contest: The Architecture Committee suggested creating a unique avatar/icon/image that we could use for the CIECA API Standards initiative and we are currently holding a contest for ideas. We will forward them to the Marketing Committee to look over at the close of the contest.
Member Engagement: Paul shared information about our 2022 member engagement initiative. This included the types of members and their tenure. In order for CIECA to grow and retain members, it’s important for the organization to remain relevant. The various industry segments have different needs: networking, standards, education, etc. We are currently looking at ways to create engagement products and make them easier to understand and utilize. Paul explained that the EMS was created for the Estimate. BMS is very complex so we are finding most companies are using EMS.
Melissa suggested putting together a flyer similar to the video that was created to show ROI. Paul compared it to a CIECA starter kit.
Paul mentioned that we are looking at developing CIECA training as well as a developer community. Chad asked about the developer community and Paul explained it is a user’s forum on Slack, which will be introduced to the industry in the fall after it gains momentum. We will create a communications plan to launch it to potential users. Rick suggested reaching out to developers to share information about CIECA.
Rick liked the presentation Paul shared.
Chad was asked what Allstate uses for standards and he replied that it is a multi-step approach and they partner with other companies that use the standards.
Melissa suggested implementing a “CIECA approves” feature.
Rick asked why members join and suggested focusing on those who need to be members to have access to the standards rather than the industry as a whole.
Great meeting! 
Up Next
Antitrust Agreement and Meeting minutes acceptance
Action items
Decisions
Participants
Chad Sulkala
Melissa Kwiatkowski
Rick Palmer