To become a member, please complete and send in the application form. The document is available for download underneath this article. If you would like us to provide an estimate for your company’s membership fee, please contact our membership department. Alternatively, you might choose to complete the “Company Data” sheet, also available for download underneath along with the statutes and fee regulations.

What comes next after joining BITKOM?
Upon acceptance into BITKOM, you will receive a welcome kit that includes a list of the latest BITKOM issues. Corresponding to this list, you can select experts from your company to become involved with BITKOM' working groups. We enter the experts you supplied into our databases with specific attention to their area of expertise. When there are events covering their interests, we invite the experts.

BITKOM Card
Managing directors and members of the executive boards will also receive their own personal BITKOM card in the welcome kit. Benefits include free entry to the CeBIT tradeshow for the owner of the card and one guest as well as access to the BITKOM Lounge at CeBIT.

We offer discounted membership fees for start-up businesses. Members are entitled to the start-up membership fees as long as their ICT business has been established for less than twelve months or is on the verge of establishment. The membership fees depend on the stage the business is in:

• In the first year of establishment: 1000 €;
• In the second year if establishment: 1500€;
• In the third year of establishment: 2000€. (Please note that this is the minimum fee. If sales exceed two million Euros, the regular fees apply.)