Affiliates and Partners




The Illinois Technology Association (ITA) is committed to developing an environment in which information technology (IT) companies can flourish in an increasingly competitive marketplace. The ITA is a regional industry trade association headquartered in Chicago and serving all of Illinois. The ITA provides members with access to connections, information and promotional opportunities to improve business locally, regionally and nationally.
Already more than 500 members-strong, the ITA connects technology organizations that focus on travel, data management, telecommunications, navigation, sales enablement, and much more.





Millennium Business Services, Inc (MBSI) is an organization of finance professionals dedicated to provide high-quality and cost-effective Finance and Accounting Outsourcing (FAO) services to our clients. Their services shall consist primarily of accounting and bookkeeping, preparation of financial and management reports and schedules including presentation thereof, account analysis and reconciliations, payroll processing and related services, tax compliance services, treasury services, receivables and payables processing and administration, budget  monitoring and analysis, and other  finance and accounting related services. In this field, their aim is to be the Business Process Outsourcing company of first choice.





The European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (ECCP) is a service-oriented organization whose main goal is to foster close economic ties and business relations between the Philippines and Europe. The ECCP does this by providing a wide range of business services and by creating linkages between companies, organizations and individuals with existing or potential business interests in Europe and the Philippines.
The ECCP sees itself as the stepping stone for Europeans into the Philippine market and for Filipinos into the European market.








The Philippine Software Industry Association (PSIA) aims to promote the growth and global competitiveness of the Philippine software industry.
It has more than 110 members ranging from leading multinational firms to small-to-medium local enterprises which make up roughly 90 percent of the country’s software sector.
Through the years, the PSIA has been an active partner of the government and academe in implementing programs that benefit the industry.







The German American Chamber of Commerce of the Midwest (GACCoM), headquartered in Chicago, was founded in 1963.
GACCoM is an integral part of the network of German Chambers of Commerce Abroad (AHKs) with 120 offices in 80 countries around the globe. Our continuing mission is to further, promote and assist in the expansion of bilateral trade and investment between Germany and the United States, especially the Midwest.
Our organization combines the elements of a trade commission, a membership association, and a professional consultancy - quite a unique concept in international trade promotion.
GACCoM's territory covers 14 U.S. states: the 13 states of the Midwest (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin) and Colorado, comprising together approximately one quarter of the nation's geographical area, its population and its GDP. GACCoM's office which we share with Invest in Germany is located in the heart of downtown Chicago on Chicago's Magnificent Mile.


The Great Lakes offer vast tracts of open area unimpeded by terrain, vegetation or urban development. That creates certain shoreline regions that are excellent for the development of wind power such as shown on this wind atlas of the province of Ontario. A great way to examine the average wind speeds blowing across the Great Lakes is via the Canadian Wind Atlas, which covers all but a small portion of southern Lake Michigan - http://www.windatlas.ca And for a paper that examines the wind energy potential of each lake, and all the lakes, see "A Great Potential: The Great Lakes as a Regional Renewable Energy Source" at http://greengold.org/wind/documents/88.pdf. Given the huge potential (which may or may not be realized), so much electricity COULD be produced that uses such as renewable ammonia and fuels made by reduction of carbon dioxide could arranged, freeing the region from outmoded and now expensive (as of 2008) oil and natural gas dependency for such materials. Anyway, hopefully it will give the reader some new views on this topic, or at least get some thinking to occur. If nothing else, it is an example of thinking big with respect to renewable energy.