We meet on the 2ND Wednesday and the 4TH Wednesday of each month, except in November when we meet the week before Thanksgiving, and in December there are no meetings. Meetings are held at the Bayland Community Center, (in Bayland Park) 6400 Bissonnet at the corner of Hillcroft & Bissonnet. The doors open at 6:30 p.m. and meetings begin at 7:00 p.m. We have networking before and after the speakers, so you are invited to come early. Admission is free for members and $5.00 for non-members. Annual dues for HIA membership are $45.00 (pro rated for new members) and everyone with an interest in new technology is cordially invited to join and learn more about inventing.
Since our beginning in 1983, HIA has become one of the strongest voices in America for the independent inventor, but we also include academic and corporate innovators. Our motto, "Inventors Helping Inventors", expresses our purpose, which we accomplish by sharing our experience in technical areas and our first-hand knowledge of the difficulties in getting from raw idea to marketable product.
Expert speakers at our monthly meetings offer their success stories, give briefings on important technical areas, or share tips for making money from innovation. HIA also helps its members by providing workshops on special topics, such as patent fundamentals, injection molding, etc. At our monthly meetings, we connect inventors having a problem with other members who can help to solve it. We do our best to protect our members from the multifarious scams targeted at them by companies that charge an up-front fee for worthless invention development.
Chief among all of the benefits of membership is conversation with some of the most interesting, well-informed, and positive people in Houston, who are at the frontier of emerging technologies.