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SIIA, a Pioneering Convenor for the Edtech Industry, Scraps Its Conferences

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SIIA also created an “incubator” program in 2006 to support early-stage education companies, long before the idea became popular in the edtech industry. Broadband internet access and cloud computing made it easier to distribute educational software once sold on floppy disks and CD-ROMs.

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