Overview

Helping to get our new members or their new colleagues that join their organization up to speed and quickly leveraging what COVESA has to offer is a high priority to get the most value out of your membership.  Starting with knowing what is available, where to go for what and points of engagement are essential in beginning your long collaborative journey with COVESA.  This onboarding checklist is a living and ever changing wiki page that should be visited and reviewed from time to time. After you JOIN COVESA and complete your online membership application in addition to the membership agreement (two separate documents found at https://www.covesa.global/join, you will be ready for your 1st on-boarding call and formal introduction to the COVESA Alliance.

Help with On-boarding Questions:

If you have some general questions you can send an email to help@covesa.global or to MikeNunnery@comcast.net or PBoyes@covesa.global.  Currently both Mike Nunnery and Paul Boyes are conducting the initial onboarding discussions with new members and both are available to help with any questions you might have.

Areas of Validation and then Discussion

1. Making sure you have completed all your paperwork and identified your key representatives within your organization for future contact by COVESA staff.
2. Informing you as part of the "Welcome Kit" the basics functional areas of COVESA, who to contact for what, where to find key information like teams, groups, projects, events, etc.
3. Learning about your organization and what you expect to be able to obtain from collaboration with COVESA
4. Sharing deep insights into COVESA based on your expectations above and helping you get started down the right path including any additional introductions or sharing of information that will make your journey with COVESA both successful and highly valuable as quickly as possible (collaboration and engagement).

Components to the Checklist and Onboarding Discussions

1. Completing your on-line membership application and membership agreement
2. Sharing your corporate logo to be displayed on COVESA.global and member events
3. Registering with the HELP DESK to get your personal ID/Password to access the COVESA membership Wiki which also provides you distribution of blog posts, newsletter, membership notices, upcoming events and other important information that is sent out from time to time.
4. "Why COVESA" and "How COVESA works" white papers available ("Why" in multiple languages) here: https://covesa.global/about-covesa/#resources
5. About COVESA (membership levels, website, wiki, how COVESA works, collaboration and engagement)
6. Who does what at COVESA and how do you contact all the key contributors or leaders in COVESA
7. Working groups, teams, initiatives and projects
8. How to join mailing lists both project specific or general lists
9. COVESA All Member Meetings and Technical Summits you should know about
10. Other COVESA hosted networking events like TU AutoTech, CES, Connect2Car, and other 3rd party affiliations 
11. Discounts to look for as a COVESA member (3rd party event discount codes, etc)
12. Sponsoring events for brand visibility and additional networking opportunities
13. Speaking or Panelist opportunities
14. Blog or Article authoring opportunities
15. The COVESA Marketing Team (what it is, how to join, other)
16. Opportunity to bring your challenges and projects (BoF) into COVESA if they would benefit from "collaboration" and how the process works
17. COVESA pptx pitch deck (COVESA Member Value and Projects/Groups/Initiatives)
18. Meeting and networking with other COVESA community members
19. Recent and Upcoming Events you should know about
20. COVESA LinkedIn Community (where it is and how to join the COVESA LinkedIn Group)
21. COVESA twitter and social media accounts (follow and help each other to tweet, retweet, and promote what is planned or happening)
22. How to grow in COVESA (base camp example graphic walk through that Paul and I are working on updating)