Program

Tuesday, October 12, 2004
7:30
8:00		 Registration via WINMEC-RFID Software / Continental Breakfast
8:00
8:30		 Opening Speech: Rajit Gadh, Director - WINMEC; Professor, Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science - UCLA
'Introduction to UCLA's Wireless Internet for Mobile Enterprise Consortium - WINMEC'
8:30
9:30		 Session 1: Solution Selection - Technology, Standards, Architectures and Compliance  
Perry Luzwick, Director, Business Development , Northrop Grumman Information Technology
'Combining Technologies to Create Operational Solutions'
Paul Drzaic, VP Advanced Development , Alien Technology Corp.
'The advent of high performance, low cost RFID'
Tim Harrington, Vice President, Product Strategy , WhereNet Corp.
 
Rob Glidden, Senior Director, Engineering and Operations , Impinj, Inc.
 
9:30
9:45		 Break
9:45
10:45		 Session 2: Mandates and Compliance Status  
Jeff Holmes, EVP and President of Worldwide Sales Op. , Manugistics
'Unleashing the Real Value of RFID'
Cliff Horwitz, Chairman and CEO , SAMSys Technologies Inc.
'"Mandate Compliance - An Opportunity to Learn"'
Martin Hubert, CEO/President , Freightgate
 
Jon Kirkegaard, President , DCRA Inc.
'Order and Inventory Comitment with or Without RFID ?'
10:45
11:45		 Session 3: Supply Chain via RFID, Logistics and Warehouse Management
Chair: Yuval Bar-Gil, CEO and Co-founder , AeroScout, Inc.
Gautam Deora, Sr. Technical Engineer , Tata Infotech Inc.
'RFID over 802.11: Applications for Tracking High Value Assets'
Stephen Lambright, Vice President - Marketing , Savi Technology
 
Shridhar Mittal, Senior Vice President , i2 Technologies
 
Phil Mattox, senior vice president , Defense System Inc, A WFI company
 
11:45
12:00		 Lunch Starts
12:00
12:30		 Luncheon Speech:  Rajit Gadh, Professor & Director , UCLA - WINMEC
'WINRFID - Middleware research and technology development in UCLA's RFID@WINMEC Research Program'
12:30
1:00		 Luncheon Keynote:  Jens Sode, CIO , Maersk Logistics Inc.
1:00
2:00		 Session 4: RFID in Pharmaceutical Supply Chain, Healthcare, Cold Chain Distribution  
Irwin Thall, RFID Manager , Precision Dynamics Corporation
'RFID for Positive Patient ID and Safety'
Daniel Munyan, Principal AIT Scientist , Computer Sciences Corporation
 
Ronnie Hise, Director, Enterprise RFID Integration , MeadWestvaco
'A Safe & Secure Supply Chain AND Economic Returns via Item-Level Inventory Visibility'
Charles Rice, Vice President, Technology , R4 Global Solutions
'Laying the RFID Foundation in the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain'
2:00
3:00		 Session 5: Industry Vertical Case Studies, RFID Business Case Studies
Chair: Osie Cook, Executive Vice President , Pacific CMA
Joe Dunlap, Project Director , Siemens Business Services
'Industry Vertical Case Studies, RFID Business Case Studies'
Chris Bierbaum, Sr. Manager, Business Development , Sprint
'Sprint and RFID: The Connection'
John Parkinson, Chief Technologist, N. American , Capgemini
 
Al Voels, Sr. Director Business Development , Checkpoint Systems Inc
'How leading retailers are leveraging the value of RFID'
3:00
3:15		 Break
3:15
4:15		 Session 6: Integrating RFID with Enterprise IT - the CIO Forum, Advanced RFID Technologies  
Prasad Raju, Regional Director-Midwest, USA , Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
 
J. Douglas Martin, Executive Consultant , IBM Global Services
'RFID Deployment Experiences- Lessons Learned'
Andrew Carlson, Vice President of Product Marketing , PeopleSoft
'Integrating RFID with Enterprise IT'
Tom Roberts, VP of Industry Solutions and Global Alliances , webMethods
 
4:15
5:15		 Session 7: RFID and Complementary Support Technologies and Services - Location, Industrial Sensors, Biometrics, Biosensors, etc
Chair: Tapas Majumdar, Vice President of Professional Services , SeeCommerce
Asad Madni, President and COO , BEI Technologies, Inc.
'Smart Configurable Wireless Sensors for Motion Control Applications'
Colleen Fitzpatrick, Manager, Retail Solutions Group , Cisco Systems, Inc.
 
Richard Seelig, Vice President, Medical Applications , VeriChip Corporation
'Enhanced Access Security Utilizing Subdermal RFID Microchips'
Phillip Henry, Solution Specialist , intel
 
5:15
5:30		 Break
5:30
6:30		 Session 8: ROI in Solution Implementation, Lessons Learnt through Early Adopters
Chair: Nissim Ozer, Executive VP and CIO , RF Code, Inc.
Shahram Moradpour, Sr. Director of Market Development , Sun Microsystems
'RFID: Finding the Needle in the Haystack'
Rishi Sood, Vice President, Government , Gartner Dataquest
'Government & RFID: Innovation in Action'
Timothy McGilloway, RFID Specialist , Printronix Inc.
'Automated RFID Labeling'
Rob Cushman, Associate Partner , Accenture
 
6:30
7:30		 Round Table Panel - Looking through the Crystal Ball  
Prateep Misra, RFID Sr. Technical Architect , Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
Gavenraj Sodhi, Product Manager , Computer Associates
Uday Karmarkar, Research Director - CMIE, Professor , UCLA - Anderson Business School
Tammy Stewart, EPC Business Development Specialist , Texas Instruments RFid Systems
Osie Cook, Executive Vice President , Pacific CMA
Keith Dierkx, Senior Vice President of Operations , Embarcadero Systems Corp.
Nissim Ozer, Executive VP and CIO , RF Code, Inc.
Mario Gerla, Professor, CS , UCLA
Tapas Majumdar, Vice President of Professional Services , SeeCommerce
7:30
8:30		 Cocktails and Networking
8:30

 Conference Ends
*Conference Program Subject to Change