High-quality RFID investment opportunities and perspectives
This summit brings together leading pure-play RFID companies that are gaining traction and substantial revenues today, as well as hidden gems with enormous potential. Attendees will also have access to industry thought-leaders, valuable quantitative and qualitative research, and one-on-one meetings with RFID CEOs. Program highlights include:
20 CEO presentations from leading RFID companies
The companies are broken down into the following panels:
- RFID Hardware & Systems
- RFID Software, Networks & Services
- Real Time Location Solutions
- Emerging Sectors
Personal meetings and group break-out sessions
These will follow the company presentations so that investors can have more direct, personal contact with the companies of their choice.
An expert panel of strategic investors, leading end-users, and industry luminaries
Leading-edge, un-biased research
Including difficult-to-find RFID company and industry financial data, market adoption data, competition matrix, discussion of RFID opportunities and issues… all encapsulated in an RFID Investment report for attendees.
Interactivity and Networking
Leading RFID venture capitalists, CEOs, industry experts in Q&A panel discussions, personal meetings, as well as a networking lunch. You will not only be at the conference, you will be part of the conference.
Who is attending?
In addition to many solution providers adn industry analysts, registered investor companies include 3i, Polaris Ventures, 3M, Added Value Capital Partners, Alloy Ventures, Ascent Venture Partners, Blueprint, Commonwealth Capital Ventures, Duchossois Technology Partners. Flagship Ventures, GCP Gamma Capital Partners, General Electric, GTCR Golder Rauner, Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Highland Capital Partners, Leader Ventures, ONSET Ventures, Quan Ventures, SAP Ventures, Trident Capital, Valhalla Partners and many others.
This conference should be especially appealing to venture capitalists and other investors, RFID companies that may need future funding, investment bankers, industry analysts and other RFID solution providers looking to better understand the competitive landscape.
RFID Investment Summit is organized by a unique analyst-investor collaboration between IDTechEx and Quan Ventures – companies with extensive experience in RFID investments. IDTechEx, an independent RFID analyst, has provided due diligence and benchmarking for venture capital firms investing in RFID companies for over six years, in addition to profiling companies to help them raise funds. Quan Ventures was an early investor in RFID companies with subsequent RFID exits, and is well-known for presentations at RFID events.
Attendees can learn even more by also registering for the two-day RFID Smart Labels USA conference that begins the following morning. This large-scale industry event brings together international RFID vendors and customers in one venue, providing education and networking opportunities.
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now or for more information contact Sarah Lee s.lee@idtechex.com
or call +44 (0) 1223 813 703.
The RFID opportunity
In 2016, IDTechEx forecast the value of the total market for RFID including systems and services to reach $26.23Bn from $2.77Bn in 2006. This includes many new markets that are being created, such as the market for Real Time Location Systems using active RFID. Being an enabling technology and not just a product, the opportunity for RFID is incredibly diverse.
RFID Investments and M&A
The appetite for funding for RFID technology is growing rapidly but is still well below what the market demands. With about 1000 companies doing something significant in the RFID value chain and mergers being less than the rate of formation of new RFID companies, there is scope for much more M&A activity and for the weak to disappear. Attend this event to learn more.
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RFID Investment Summit hours and registration fees
Tuesday February 20 2007; Marriott Copley Hotel in Boston, MA, USA
Registration from 07:30; Summit hours 08:15-18:00
This one day summit precedes the 2 day RFID Smart Labels and Active RFID conference on Feb 21-22. Register for both and save.
- Access to the one day RFID Investor Summit, including meals and RFID Investors report... $699
- For those that cannot attend the summit, to be delivered after the summit: RFID Investment Summit report ... $499
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RFID Investment Summit
Agenda:
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8:15 - 8:30
Opening Remarks
Ed Schneider, General Partner, Quan Ventures
Raghu Das, CEO, IDTechEx
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8:30 - 9:15
Experts/Investors panel
Jamshed Dubash, ex EPC Director for Procter & Gamble/Gillette
Andrew Price, IATA
Enrique Patrickson, Assa Abloy
Roger Stewart, Independent Consultant, ex CTO Alien Technology and Intelleflex
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9:15 - 10:45
Hardware & Systems Panel
Elie Simon, CEO, Tagsys
Evan Fein, VP of Finance and Administration, Impinj
Rich Bravman, CEO, Intelleflex
Tom Grant, CEO, ThingMagic
Martin Payne , CMO, Skyetek
10:45 - 11:15
Hardware & Systems Companies Break-out sessions, and general Coffee Break
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11:15 - 12:45
Software, Networks & Services Panel
Ed Flaherty, CEO, Trenstar
Ashley Stephenson, Chairman, Reva Systems
Michael George, CEO and Sanjay Sarma, CTO, OAT Systems
Dean Frew, CEO, Xterprise
Robert Locke, CEO, Vue Technology
12:45 - 14:00
Lunch (with Software & Integrators Companies Break-out sessions from 12:30-13:00)
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14:00 - 15:30
Real Time Locating Systems Panel
Tuomo Rutanen, CEO, Ekahau
Mike McGuinness, CEO, PanGo Networks
Chris Bishop, CEO, Wavetrend
Robert Kowalik, Ubisense
Abraham Menkes, CEO, Sandlinks
15:30 - 16:00
RTLS Companies Break-out sessions and general Coffee Break
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16:00 - 17:30
Emerging Sectors
Edward Zeng, CEO, Sparkice
Remy de Tonnac, CEO, Inside Contactless
Michael Mullagh, CEO, ViVOTech
Adam Button, CEO, Vubiq
Gary Johnson, CEO, Thin Battery Technologies
17:30 - 18:00
Emerging Sectors Companies Break-out sessions
18:00
Summit ends
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