The first CAN and CANopen seminars take place on March 23 and March 24. To increase attendee’s safety in times of the coronavirus, the CAN and CANopen seminars are still scheduled in a web-based format.

On March 16, a free of charge webinar regarding the Subsea profile takes place. The CiA 443 CANopen profile for SIIS level-2 devices covers all simple sensors, multi-functional meters, & valves used in so-called Christmas trees.

CiA participates in the Embedded World conference 2021 (session wired fieldbus). H. Zeltwanger speaks about CAN XL (day 1), R. Zitzmann reports about CANopen FD USDO services (day 2), and Y. Yao talks about CAN FD Light (day 3).

The March issue of the CAN Newsletter magazine 2021 has been published.

This email service is free of charge. Next issue is available on March 1. It can be subscribe also by non-members, who are interested in CAN technology.

In 1986, Bosch presented the CAN protocol in Detroit on an SAE congress. More information on the 35^th anniversary is available in the CAN Newsletter Online.

The CiA general assembly has re-elected its board of directors: Uwe Koppe (Technical Director), Christian Schlegel (Business Director), and Holger Zeltwanger (Managing Director). Also the business committee (BC) and technical committee (TC) members have been re-elected.

On February 25, 2021, a free of charge webinar regarding CleANopen takes place. Anyone can attend.

To learn more about CAN in Automation, CiA has updated CiA's story and milestones.

Recently, the special interest group (SIG) subsea and the SIG truck gateway have been re-opened. They reviewed comments on CiA 443 respectively CiA 413 specifications and discussed new feature requests.