# 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)