If you are a former employee of an acquired company or

If you are a current or former employee of a spinoff...

...but never were on the HP payroll

(Some examples: 3Com, Agilent, Apollo, Avago, Bluestone, Compaq, DEC, EDS, Indigo, Lumileds, Mercury, Palm, Tandem, VeriFone...)

Sorry – students, customers, contractors, and employees of resellers, distributors, and joint ventures do not qualify. 

1. Join the HP Connections group on LinkedIn

The Groups feature on LinkedIn lets you search and reach those in the same group without a paid membership.

Use the 50,000-member "HP Connections" group to find exHPers at a specific company, or by industry, title, or city ...or reconnect with a former co-worker ...or just to answer "Whatever happened to?"

2. If EDS, join the "EDS Alumni" group on LinkedIn. (Independent of HPAlumni)

(Allow 48 hours for that group's volunteers to approve your request.)