Coming soon - October 15-16, 2008, for information, email:info@wnimec.ucla.edu

RFID Integration - Enterprise 2.0

Today RFID applications are appearing in almost every industry. By tracking of assets, equipment, supplies and personnel, enterprises are now beginning to experiment with new business models to integrate RFID within their enterprise. We believe this is rapidly giving rise to the next generation of the Enterprise - Enterprise 2.0 - one that leverages a new "Internet of Artifacts". The applications of this new Internet of Artifacts are manifold, and the industries adopting it are wide and diverse. For example, retailers are starting to use RFID to automate shelf replacement to prevent dissatisfied customers. Hospitals are using RFID to track critical devices that save patients' lives. Pharmaceutical firms are using RFID to help prevent counterfeit. Grocers are using RFID to prevent food from going bad. The forum will bring industry practitioners to discuss industry-specific modality of use of RFID and the application of RFID in their industry.

In response to a demand for verticalization of RFID within each industry, standards, technologies, protocols, and middlewares have been tailored appropriately. For example, while Retail industry's supply chain application has adopted EPC Gen 2 at ultra high frequency with passive tags, healthcare industry's asset tracking application has refined active RFID operating at several different frequencies. Increasingly specialized industry specific hardware is rapidly appearing in the marketplace. The forum will invite key technology vendors and researchers to discuss the progress to date and challenges to move the technology to the next level of specialization.

Each industry has found its own valuable application for RFID. RFID by itself only provides the identity, location and time-stamp, but in combination with other information sources such as images, video, motion detection, temperature/ humidity/chemical sensing, GPS location, RFID data can be used to provide actionable decisions that the enterprise can use. Integration of such technologies with RFID is resulting in opportunities and challenges. Integration experts, application developers and consultants will be invited to address developments and new and creative business applications that employ and integrate RFID.

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Other forums :

RFID Hands On Workshop October 16, 2007
RFID Executive Forum Oct 2006
RFID & Wireless in Healthcare Forum Oct 2006

Scott Andersen

Technical Director - Smart Packaging

International Paper

Cindy Braun

General Manager

Maersk Logistics

Charles Cash

Sr. Industrial Systems Engineer

NCR Corporation

Fred Christensen

Marketing Executive

IBM

Tony Galli

Principal - Portfolio Mgmnt.

EDS

Ross Hall

CEO, Auto-ID Services

British Telecom

Ed Jones

Director - RFID Product Dev.

Tyco Safety Products

Ajit Kapoor

Director and Chief Architect

Lockheed Martin

Adam Kiesel

Sr. Manager, Global Visible Commerce

Unisys Corporation

Phil Lazo

VP& GM RFID Infrastructure

Symbol Technologies

Jim Ligotti

VP Maritime Solutions

Ingersoll-Rand

Melissa Miller

Predictive Tech Branch Mgr, ATOS

Navy

Salil Pradhan

Hewlett Packard