# NENA Industry Collaboration Event
**Entity class:** Multi-vendor interoperability testing series
**Aliases:** NG9-1-1 ICE
## Definition
The **National Emergency Number Association Industry Collaboration Event (ICE)** series brings vendors together in a neutral environment to test implementations of Next Generation 9-1-1 standards across products. Begun in 2009, the events test location, routing, media, incident-data, cybersecurity, and end-to-end interoperability. Participation is not NENA product certification.
## Relationships
- **sponsor:** [[wiki/National Emergency Number Association|NENA]].
- **technical domain:** [[wiki/Next Generation 9-1-1|NG9-1-1]], emergency call routing, location validation, multimedia, and Emergency Incident Data Objects.
- **host network:** later events use Illinois Institute of Technology’s Real-Time Communications Lab.
- **disambiguation route:** [[wiki/ICE|ICE disambiguation]].
## Sources / Provenance
- [NENA — NG9-1-1 Industry Collaboration Events](https://www.nena.org/page/ng911_ice)
- [NENA — ICE 14](https://www.nena.org/page/NG911_ICE14)