
The Conference is being jointly hosted by IDEEA and the British American Business Council of Los Angeles (BABC LA).
IDEEA has hosted conferences focusing on international defense cooperation and dual use of information technology for commercial and defense applications for the last 20 years. IDEEA provides strategic advice to governments, states and companies. IDEEA also implements targeted projects in the following areas: market access; offsets (industrial participation); teaming agreements; regional development and planning; base closures and realignment. IDEEA has representatives and associates in key capitols of the world.
The BABC LA has hosted award winning aerospace and defense manufacturing conferences. The BABC is the largest transatlantic business network, with chapters based in more than 30 major business centers throughout North America and the United Kingdom and 3,500 member companies. The BABC seeks to provide its members benefits to help grow their businesses, including providing a broader transatlantic business network, marketing and business intelligence opportunities. It recently assisted in brokering a memorandum of understanding between the Farnborough Aerospace Consortium and the California Space Authority aimed at stimulating, developing and promoting space enterprise trade and investment between California and the United Kingdom .