Upcoming events

June 5, 2008

RFID as a discipline has now started to penetrate industries beyond retail including automotive, manufacturing, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, aerospace, homeland security, energy, utilities, transportation and logistics, airlines, etc. Implementing RFID within an application requires simultaneously answering the following questions:

i) What is the business case for the investment in RFID?
ii) Which RFID technology (readers, middleware, tags) is most appropriate?
iii) What type of re-engineering of the business processes is required? and,
iv) How would the integration of the RFID infrastructure with the existing infrastructure be performed (software, hardware)?

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October 15, 2008

RFID Business Forum

The mobile personal device aka cell phone is rapidly becoming the single most important source of consumption of entertainment/news/ad content. It is also starting to rapidly become the device of choice for content generation whether it be via video recordings, photographs or audio recordings. And finally, it continues to be the main device of choice for communication between users whether it be via voice, SMS, IM, or MMS/video, thereby creating communities of like-minded users who readily create, distribute and consume content. At one level Convergence implies the ability to have multiple functions (camera, video recorder, phone, TV, music player) within the same device and using the same 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.

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October 16, 2008

RFID Research Forum - Researching RFID for the future

The UCLA-WINMEC RFID Research forum will bring together academics, researchers, industry technologists and practitioners and business/I.T. personnel who are working on research and innovative ideas today that will impact the field of RFID tomorrow. Advanced research topics will be presented at this forum. Presenters at this forum will need to apply by sending in a title of their talk, their bio and an abstract. An on-line proceedings will be created for the forum. Accepted speakers will need to register for this forum.

	Previous Events
	Web 2.0 Forum- 2008 - May 7
	CIO & Green Tech Forum- 2008 - Feb 27
	RFID Executive Forum- 2007 - Oct 17
	Convergence 2007 - Mobile Web 2.0- 2007 - May 2
	CIO Impacts Forum- 2007 - February 21
	Wireless & RFID in Healthcare Forum - 2006 - October 10
	RFID Executive Forum - 2006 - October 10
	RFID hands on Workshop - 2006 - October 9
	WINMEC - 2006 - May 9
	RFID Hands On Workshop - 2006 - February 21
	CIO Forum 2006 - Feb 7
	RFID Industry Forum - 2005 - October 26
	RFID Hands On Workshop - 2005 - October 25
	RFID Hands On Experience 2005 - Jun 7
	RFID Forum 2005 - Mar 9, 2005
	Wireless Internet 2005 - Mar 8
	CIO Forum 2005 - Mar 7
	RFID Hands On Experience 2005 - Jan 25

	RFID Forum 2004 - Oct 12
	Wireless Internet 2004 - May 4, 5
	CIO Forum 2004 - Feb 18

	Wireless Internet 2003 - Oct 29-30
	Wireless Internet 2003 - May 19-20
	Wireless Internet 2002 - May 6-7
	Wireless Internet 2001 - Nov 8-9