News and Events
January 27, 2026
For Immediate Release
Geneva, Switzerland – January 27th, 2026 – OSTERA, the Open Standards and Technology Engineering and Research Association, today announced its public launch as a new global nonprofit standards development organization (SDO). This new SDO is designed to modernize and accelerate the creation of open standards and technology that are essential to enable a modern and interoperable world.
Founded in Geneva, Switzerland, OSTERA aims to address long-standing challenges in traditional standards bodies, which often struggle with slow timelines, high participation costs, and outdated processes. By contrast, OSTERA offers an agile, cost-effective, and contributor-friendly environment that enables global collaboration across critical domains such as cybersecurity, AI, PQC, digital identity, networking, and other emerging technologies. This new ecosystem and standardization model, built from nearly a century of combined expertise in international standards, will enable industry to innovate and standardize while keeping up with the speed of business.
OSTERA’s mission is to create an environment that is industry-driven and that reflects the realities of today’s global technology ecosystem and the urgent need for interoperable and standardized solutions.
One of the key aspects of OSTERA is that it is by members, for members.
"Standardization is essential to global innovation, security, and economic growth, but the legacy standards organizations were not built for the world we live in today," said Bret Jordan, Co-Founder of OSTERA. "OSTERA was created to provide a modern home for open standards: one that is fast, inclusive, and aligned with how technology is actually developed in the 21st century. We built OSTERA to be by members, for members."
"Interoperability doesn’t happen by accident, it’s the result of deliberate, open and well-governed collaboration", said Gershon Janssen, Co-Founder of OSTERA. "OSTERA is designed to enable contributors and implementers to participate in the global standards development process, all while lowering the barriers of participation and maintaining transparent governance."
Join the Movement
OSTERA invites organizations, companies, governments, researchers, startups, and individuals interested in joining and contributing to OSTERA’s mission to explore membership opportunities at www.ostera.org.
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