Company Executives to Outline Key Drivers of Long-Term Growth
AUSTIN, Texas -- NIWeek -- Aug. 16, 2005 - National Instruments hosts its Annual Investor Conference today in Austin, Texas. This event is held in conjunction with NIWeek, the company's annual user conference that serves as a key event for meeting with customers and strategic partners and for launching new products. The investor conference kicks off with a new products keynote address by Tim Dehne, senior vice president of R&D. Following the keynote, Dr.
James Truchard, president and CEO, and other company executives will outline the key drivers to long-term growth and give an update on the business strategy for the future. Investors will also hear how customers are using virtual instrumentation to build and deploy high performance solutions for design, control and test applications." At NIWeek this year, we are pleased to welcome a record number of customers, exhibitors, alliance partners and distinguished members of the academic community," Truchard said. "Our increased investment in R&D the past few years has led to strong new product output, and I am looking forward to seeing how our customers have successfully deployed our new products in a diverse set of applications."
In addition to Truchard, other company presenters include Alex Davern, CFO and senior vice president of manufacturing and IT operations, Pete Zogas, senior vice president of sales and marketing, and John Graff, vice president of marketing and customer operations. For information shared at the investor conference, please visit www.ni.com/nati/factsheet/calendar.htm .
About National Instruments
National Instruments ( www.ni.com ) is a technology pioneer and leader in virtual instrumentation - a revolutionary concept that has changed the way engineers and scientists in industry, government and academia approach measurement and automation. Leveraging PCs and commercial technologies, virtual instrumentation increases productivity and lowers costs for test, control and design applications through easy-to-integrate software, such as NI LabVIEW, and modular measurement and control hardware for PXI, PCI, USB and Ethernet. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 3,600 employees and direct operations in nearly 40 countries.
In 2004, the company sold products to more than 25,000 companies in 90 countries. For the past six years, FORTUNE magazine has named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America.
Readers can obtain investment information from the company's investor relations department by calling (512) 683-5090, e-mailing [email protected] or visiting www.ni.com/nati .