National Instruments Annual Investor Conference Held in Conjunction With Company's...

National Instruments Annual Investor Conference Held in Conjunction With
Company's NIWeek User Conference
Company Executives to Discuss New Products and Field Sales Expansion Strategy

AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 5, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NIWeek -- National
Instruments (Nasdaq: NATI) hosts its Annual Investor Conference in Austin,
Texas, today in conjunction with NIWeek, the company's annual customer and
premier industry event for graphical system design. NIWeek is a key event for
launching new products, and provides a forum for customers, members of the
press, strategic partners and exhibitors to learn about and discuss the latest
trends and technologies in test, control and design.
The investor conference begins with the keynote address Empowering
Innovation in Green Engineering by Dr. James Truchard, NI president and CEO.
Following the keynote, the NI management team will discuss the company's new
product R&D strategy and system level sales strategy.
"We are excited about the new opportunities created by the products we are
introducing this week, including LabVIEW 8.6 and new hardware for RF, wireless
data acquisition, and embedded FPGA deployments," said Dr. James Truchard,
National Instruments president, CEO and co-founder. "We believe continued
investment in new product R&D combined with an aggressive expansion in our
field sales force are key to accelerating our growth."
The event is scheduled to begin at 11:30 a.m. EDT. To listen to the live
webcast, please visit http://www.ni.com/nati.
About National Instruments
National Instruments (http://www.ni.com) is transforming the way engineers
and scientists design, prototype and deploy systems for measurement,
automation and embedded applications. NI empowers customers with off-the-shelf
software such as NI LabVIEW and modular cost-effective hardware, and sells to
a broad base of more than 25,000 different companies worldwide, with no one
customer representing more than 3 percent of revenue and no one industry
representing more than 10 percent of revenue. Headquartered in Austin, Texas,
NI has more than 4,800 employees and direct operations in nearly 40 countries.
For the past nine 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 nati@ni.com or visiting http://www.ni.com/nati.
LabVIEW, National Instruments, NI, ni.com and NIWeek are trademarks of
National Instruments. Other product and company names listed are trademarks or
trade names of their respective companies.
Contact: Veronica Garza
Investor Relations
(512) 683-6873

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Veronica Garza, Investor Relations of National Instruments, +1-512-683-6873