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Symposium Technologies' Horizon Collaboration Initiative

Definition: sym·po·si·um (sm-pz-m)
1. A meeting or conference for discussion of a topic, especially one in which the participants form an audience and make presentations

What Is The Horizon Collaboration Initiative (HCI)?

What Is The Underlying Principle?

How Does It Work?

Why This Type of Model?

How Does Everyone Benefit?

  1. They get to develop a better understanding of technology as it relates to their job which ultimately can make them more proficient in it.
  2. They develop more knowledge and skills which can aid them in potential career advancement opportunies.
  3. They get to leverage their current knowledge to better benefit their agencies and communities and the larger world in general. Currently Symposium systems serve well over a million people in North America and any ideas generated in these forums can potentially benefit that wider group of people as well.
  4. The users get technology that is better suited to their needs, helping them do their jobs better and more efficiently.
  5. Most of all these projects can be fun, engaging and challenging!


  1. Having more engaged and informed employees who are more knowledgeable and capable.
  2. Having the opportunity to be granted free licenses to technologies that emerge from projects that their employees participate in.
  3. Having a wider range of opportunities to leverage in house knowledge and expertise to benefit themselves directly and other agencies in other areas.


  1. Having access to a greater pool of ideas for forming our long term technology development strategies.
  2. Being able to develop products that we know will be useful to our clients - rather than having to guess what is needed next.