Association for Materials Protection and Performance (AMPP) members, you are not alone.
At the recent AMPP Annual Conference + Expo 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, like-minded representatives of organizations that share AMPP’s mission gathered for the Sister Society meeting to discuss ways to collaborate on tackling the corrosion problem around the world.
“We all have the same focus, and that's to mitigate the effects of corrosion globally to help sustain our planet, our environment, and our assets around the world,” AMPP CEO Alan Thomas told the crowd. “That job is bigger than any one of us in this room. There's no way we can move the needle individually. It will only happen if we do it together and work collaboratively.”
Thomas spoke at the Sister Society meeting on Sunday, April 6.
Rebecca Griebe, AMPP’s Senior Director of User Experience, told the audience that AMPP is improving its member engagement through three pillars:
- Community—“People want to feel like they belong. They want to feel like they're a part of the community, and that's what we're building here. They want to feel when they walk into a room that there are people there just like them facing the same challenges.”
- Personalization—A one-size-fits-all approach no longer works, and members need a low barrier to engagement with the association. “You really have to understand and appreciate the journey that individuals have in the organization. They are looking for different experiences.”
- Impact—Members want a return on their time and investment, whether through seeing a standard adopted if they work on a committee or seeing a class they took make a difference in their careers.
Members of affiliated associations such as the Taiwan Corrosion Engineers Association, World Corrosion Organization, and Australasian Corrosion Association then broke up into small groups to share their ideas on membership engagement, technical standards, and advocacy.
Source: 2025 AMPP Show Daily, showdaily.ampp.org.
