National Instruments Hosts Annual Investor Conference at Company's NIWeek User Conference

AUSTIN, Texas -- NIWeek -- Aug. 8, 2006 - National Instruments hosts its Annual Investor Conference in Austin, Texas, today in conjunction with NIWeek, the company's annual user conference that serves as a key event for launching new products and meeting with customers and strategic partners. The investor conference kicks off with a keynote address by NI President and CEO Dr. James Truchard. Following the keynote, the NI management team will discuss the company's expanding market opportunity, product strategy and future opportunities in design, control and test. Investors also will hear about key drivers of growth, including new products such as LabVIEW 8.20 and the increasing performance and ease of use of commercial technologies such as PXI Express and USB.

"This year, I will kick off NIWeek with a keynote address outlining the success of LabVIEW over the past 20 years, the current success of graphical system design in the industrial space and our future opportunities in RF and high-speed digital test," Truchard said. "With the introduction of LabVIEW 8.20, we set the stage for the expanded role of LabVIEW in virtual instrumentation and embedded applications."

In addition to Truchard, company presenters include Alex Davern, CFO and senior vice president of manufacturing and IT operations; Pete Zogas, senior vice president of sales and marketing; Tim Dehne, senior vice president of R&D and John Graff, vice president of marketing and customer operations.

For a copy of the presentations shared at the investor conference, please visit www.ni.com/nati/factsheet/calendar.htm.

About National Instruments
For 30 years, National Instruments (www.ni.com) has been a technology pioneer and leader in virtual instrumentation - a revolutionary concept that has changed the way engineers and scientists in industry, government and academia approach measurement and automation. Leveraging PCs and commercial technologies, virtual instrumentation increases productivity and lowers costs for test, control, and design applications through easy-to-integrate software, such as NI LabVIEW, and modular measurement and control hardware for PXI, PCI, PCI Express, USB and Ethernet. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has 4,000 employees and direct operations in nearly 40 countries. For the past seven years, FORTUNE magazine has named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America. Readers may obtain investment information from the company's investor relations department by calling (512) 683-5090, e-mailing nati@ni.com or visiting www.ni.com/nati.