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Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP), formerly the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals, is a global non-profit best practice sharing community for experts from industry, academia, government, and non-profits in Strategic Intelligence: competitive intelligence, market intelligence, market research, strategic analysis, business intelligence, and strategy. SCIP is one of the only global membership organizations in the field of competitive intelligence (CI) and business strategy and organizes an annual international meeting and exposition. The last (2019) annual meeting was held in Orlando, Florida, US, and the 2020 Conference will be held May 11-13, 2020 outside Chicago, Illinois. It is called SCIP IntelliCon 2020.

SCIP is governed by a member-elected board of directors, who serve three-year terms. It also has a virtual staff of approximately five association professionals, led by a executive director, currently Cam Mackey. In 2019, SCIP started partnering with association management company Ewald Consulting in the areas of event management and marketing, membership, and sponsorships.

The organization hosts a CI career board on its web site, supports volunteer projects and Council groups, as well as releases Competitive Intelligence Magazine (quarterly, online publication), SCIP.insight (a monthly free newsletter), and monthly decision support deliverables. Also, SCIP produces various whitepapers and industry reports and grants industry certifications and CEUs. SCIP provides access to expert presentations and webinars on its website as well.

SCIP has chapters in the United States as well as in 16 other countries.

SCIP has held annual conferences for almost thirty years, as well as European summit meetings for almost twenty. While it did not hold a European Summit in 2018 or 2019, it will do so in 2020.