Hot RFID Sectors, Full Technology Analysis, Market Insight

There will be over 60 in-depth presentations with time for discussion at each. Each speaker has been carefully selected based on their significant work with RFID, such as covering the World's largest implementations, lessons learnt and needs for adoptions. In addition, we feature RFID companies with ground breaking technologies.

IDTechEx is careful to select and cover the real RFID situation and outlook. For over eight years we have tracked and analyzed the RFID industry. This premium content event analyzes who is making money, what is failing and what is to come. Don't follow the crowd - here you will learn the situation and understand the bigger picture.

Please refer back to this list for the latest speakers, or click here to stay updated with the event. Speakers include:

 

Retail, Consumer Goods and Item Level RFID
Coca-Cola	Dr Michael Okoroafor Technology Director - Fizzion	"RFID Deployment in the CPG Industry"
Kimberly-Clark Corporation	Mr Brian Carey Scientist - RFID/Supply Chain Laboratory	"Kimberly-Clark's RFID Story"
Boekhandels Groep Nederland (BGN)	Mr Jan Vink Director ICT	"Full Item Level RFID Roll-out: Why, Challenges and Paybacks"
Aviation
IATA	Mr Nicolas Bondarenco RFID Deputy Manager	"Simplifying the Business - IATA RFID Inflight Services"
SITA	Mr Yemmi Agbebi Global Director, Portfolio Marketing	"Integrating RFID with Existing Air Transport Industry (ATI) Systems"
Boeing	Mr Kenneth D Porad Associate Technical Fellow	"Progress on Commercialising RFID for Aerospace and Defense"
Postal
International Post Corporation (IPC)	Mr Ross Hinds Director Operation and Technology	"A Worldwide RFID Network: 10 Years of RFID in Postal Services"
Delivery Management Ltd	Mr Richard Wishart MD	"An Introduction to the Postal RFID Programme"
Manufacturing & Logistics
BP	Mr Jason Freebern Project Manager	"Active RFID in Oil and Gas"
CHEP	Mr Puneet Sawhney Global Program Manager, RFID	"Benefits of Asset Tracking: How CHEP is Helping Its Customers in Consumer Package Goods (CPG), Automotive and Fresh Produce Business by Providing RFID Enabled Reusable Assets and Tracking Solutions"
Pepperl+Fuchs	Dr Helge Hornis Manager Intelligent Systems Group	"Auto-ID: Advances in Industrial ID Solutions for Automotive Applications"
Major Sectors and Developments
Toppan Printing	Ms Heidi Graham New Business Development	"Successes and Difficulties with RFID in Japan"
Kovio Inc	Mr Amir Mashkoori CEO	"Bringing Intelligence into Everyday Things"
Alien Technology	Mr George Everhart CEO	"Momentum Building Year for RFID"
Digital Angel	Mr Zeke Mejia CTO	"Worldwide Status of RFID for Animal Applications "Progress & Challenges""
UNS/UTN-FRBB	Mr Ernesto A Castagnet Partner	"RFID in South America"
Healthcare & Pharmaceutical
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)	Ann Ferriter Office of Surveillance and Biometrics	"Identification Technology in Healthcare: An FDA/CDRH Perspective"
DePuy Orthopaedic	Mr Dave Johnson Director Distribution and Logistics	"How Automating DePuy's Replenishment Process with RFID Drove A 6x Improvement"
ODIN technologies	Mr Patrick Sweeney CEO & President	"How Automating DePuy's Replenishment Process with RFID Drove A 6x Improvement"
Hospital Corporation of America	Dr In K Mun VP, Research & Technology	"Active RFID in Hospitals"
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center	Dr Paul Frisch Director of Biomedical Engineering	"Application of RFID in an Integrated Healthcare Environment"
The Compliers Group	Mr Jos Geboers Director	"Smart Medication Blister - Anatomy and Prognosis"
Military & Secure Logistics
US Army	Mr Joseph Zagursky	"Available Technologies and Updates to Improve Global Supply Chain Integration and Total Asset Visibility"
Eigent Technologies	Mr Robert Warner President	"Security: The Next Global Supply Chain Frontier"
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	Dr Yao-Hua Tan Professor of Electronic Business	"How Smart Container Seals can make International Trade more Efficient and Secure: Lessons from the ITAIDE Project"
Cellphones & Services
LG Innotek	Dr Young-Bin Cho Senior Research Engineer	"RFID at LG: The RFID Cellphone Revolution"
Near Field Communication (NFC) & Contactless Cards
Keesing Reference Systems / Collis	Mr Rudie Lion Senior Consultant	"Beyond Documents - Developments in the E-Passport Industry"
IDTechEx	Mr Trevor Crotch-Harvey Business Development	"Near Field Communication and RFID Enabled Mobile Phones - Global Situation and What Comes Next"
RATP Paris	Mr Michel Barjansky Consultant	"Transit Ticketing Back to The Old Days with NFC"
Gemalto	Joe Mendoza Director of Marketing	"Opportunties in NFC Mobile Payments"
How to Manufacture RFID
bielomatik	Mr Max Golter VP, Sales	"Accelerating the Widespread Use of RFID Through Newly Developed & Simplified Converting"
Delo	Mr Stephan Tremmel Regional Sales Manager	"ACP/ NCP Solutions for High-Speed Assembly of RFID Chips"
Hanita Coatings	Mr Gal Wollach Director of Business Development	"RFID Tag Antennas - The Creative Process"
Muehlbauer	Mr Albert Maiolino Smart Label Sales	"Cost effective RFID converting"
Stork Prints BV	Mr Ben Robesin Sales Manager	"The Benefits of Rotary Screen Printing for Your Antenna"
Datacon	Mr Hugo Pristauz Director Advanced Technology & RFID Bus. Dev.	"Process Monitoring for RFID Inlay Assembly"
Arjo Wiggins	Manuel Deloche eID Marketing Product Manager	"Technical Substrates for Contactless Products"
Beltronics	Dr Robert P Bishop President	"RFID Process Control System for Yield Improvement and Prevention of Defects"
Active RFID & RTLS Innovation
Savi, a Lockheed Martin Company	Mr Albert Nardelli Vice President	"Convergence of Technologies and Standards to Push Critical Mass in Active RFID Adoption"
TagSense	Dr Rich Fletcher President	"Combining Active RFID and Passive RFID for Retail and Point of Sale"
Time Domain Corporation	Mr Adrian Jennings CTO	"Applications for Local Positioning Systems Based on UWB RFID"
Ekahau	Mr Antti Korhonen CEO	"Wi-Fi Based RTLS for Asset and People Tracking - Customer Examples and ROI"
AwarePoint	Mr Jason Howe CEO	"Active RFID - Real-time Location Systems (RTLS) - Emerging Technology for the Healthcare Sector"
PowerID	Mr Robert Kowalik Director of Sales, Americas	"Battery-Assisted, Passive (BAP) Case Studies: Tamper-Proofing and Paper Reel Tracking"
Sonitor Technologies Inc	Mr Terry Aasen CEO	"USID: The more Accurate Alternative to Active RFID based RTLS/IPS"
Chipless & Printed RFID
RF SAW	Mr Clinton S Hartmann President	"Passive Global SAW Tag RFID - An Alternative to Active RFID & RTLS"
Inksure	Mr Don Taylor Vice President, Global Marketing	"Developments in Chipless RFID Technology"
Nano ePrint	Prof Aimin Song Founding Director	"Organic Electronics Made by a Single-Step Printing Process"
PolyIC	Mr Klaus Ludwig Product Manager POLYLOGO	"Roll-to-roll Printed RFID - Status in Applications"
University of Glasgow, Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering	Professor David R S Cumming Sr Lecturer	"Chipless Smart Labels for Brand Protection"
University of Glasgow, Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering	Dr Tim Drysdale Lecturer, Electronics Design Centre	"Smart Labels for Brand Protection"
TempTime Corporation	Mr Nicholas Puro President	"Intelligent Analog Labels"
Passive Tag & Reader Breakthroughs
NXP	Mr Tim Newsom Marketing Manager RFID	"The chip, Heart of an RFID Tag: Cost and Progress from the World's Highest Volume RFID Chip Maker"
Motorola	Mr Thomas Racette Director, Business Development - RFID Tags	"Quantifying Success: The Retail Metrics of RFID"
Fractal Antenna Systems	Dr Nathan Cohen CTO	"Longer Range, Higher Performance Passive Tags Using New Antenna Options"
Verayo, Inc.	Vivek Khandelwal Director of Marketing	""Unclonable" RFIDs for Anti-Counterfeiting and Security"
Ground Breaking Progress at HF
TAGSYS EUROPE	Mr Alastair McArthur CTO	"EPCglobal HF Gen2: Development of the Standard"
Magellan Technology Pty. Ltd.	Mr Steve Halliday Business Development	"How to Identify, Read and Write to RFID Tags Reliably Even When Stacked"
Cambridge Resonant	Dr Nick Hill Founder	"OnTune(TM) Technology: Auto-Tuning for Readers and Tags"
Middleware & Systems Integration
TrenStar	Ed Roberto COO	"Track. Manage. Optimize. How to Find the Payback in Your Asset Tracking Initiatives"
Shipcom Wireless	Mr John Shoemaker President	"The Future of RFID: Hybrid Solutions"
Omnitrol Networks	Mr Raj Saksena President & CEO	"RFID for Work-in-Process Visibility"
GS1 UK	Mr Henri Barthel Director Global Partnerships and Projects	"RFID Standards in Action"
MIT Auto-ID Labs	Prof John Williams Prof Information Engineering	"Understanding EPCIS and Middleware: Strengths, Weaknesses and How It Will be Adopted and Evolved"
The Global RFID Scene
IDTechEx	Dr Peter Harrop Chairman	"RFID - the Global Situation"
Zebra Technologies	Phil Gerskovich SVP of Corporate Development	"Building a Global RFID End-To-End Solutions Business"
Robert W. Baird & Co.	Mr Reik Read	"State of the RFID Industry"
IDTechEx	Mr Raghu Das CEO	"RFID Developments"
RFID Investment Opportunities & Perspectives
Quan Ventures	Mr Edward Schneider Managing Director
	Mr John Gloekler CEO
Time Domain Corporation	Mr Adrian Jennings CTO
Ekahau	Mr Tuomo Rutanen VP Business Development
PowerID	Mr Robert Kowalik Director of Sales, Americas
TwinLinx	Mr Jacek Kowalski CEO
TAGSYS EUROPE	Mr Elie Simon CEO
Intelleflex	Mr Richard Bravman CEO
Kovio Inc	Mr Amir Mashkoori CEO
VubiQ	Mr Adam Button CEO
Chipsensors Ltd	Mr Tim Cummins CEO
RF SAW	Mr Clinton S Hartmann President
Reva Systems	Mr Tom Schuster CEO
Omnitrol Networks	Mr Raj Saksena President & CEO
OATSystems	Michael George CEO
True Demand Software Inc	Mr Eric Peters CEO
PUFCO Inc	Tom Ziola CEO