Program Topics

The program will involve keynote presentations, plenary talks, and, panel presentations. The talks will begin at 8 a.m. and end at 6 p.m. There will be a small exhibition area where select vendors will exhibit the latest RFID hardware. The exhibition will start at 10 a.m. If you are vendor and are interested in the exhibition, please email sponsor@winmec.ucla.edu.

The topics to be covered include:

IMPACTS

- Business Process
- Finance and accounting systems
- Inventory management
- Asset and infrastructure management
- People management
- Product life cycle management
- Information technology management
- Operations management
BUSINESS ISSUES
- Business Process Modification
- RFID system modeling
- Impact of RFID on the I.T. infrastructure
- Return on Investment
- Advanced RFID technologies in tags, readers, networks, security
- How businesses are modifying their capability to obtain and utilize the large amounts of data that RFID produces
- How enterprises are integrating RFID within their ERP, SCM and Supply Chain systems.
- How businesses are requiring less inventory in their warehouses and developing more Just in time strategies instead of just in case.
- Novel web services created as a result of RFID
- Security and Privacy issues in RFID
- Effect of RFID on finance, accounting and auditing of business operations
- RFID infrastructures, management and scaling
- Premise control
INDUSTRIES
- Aerospace
- Agricultural and food tracking
- Airlines and shipping lines
- Animal and Livestock
- Building and construction
- Defense and Defense Logistics
- Healthcare
- Homeland Security
- Logistics and Supply Chain
- Manufacturing
- Medical devices and biotech industry
- Oil and energy infrastructure
- Pharmaceuticals
- Retail

Sponsors

WINMEC, Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science

HP, ITC Infotech Intel, Intelleflex, ISMB, Lucent Technologies, Microsoft Corp., Mobio Networks, Motorola Inc., QUALCOMM, Raytheon, Satyam, SIEMENS, Tata Consultancy Services

RFID Equipment Sponsors:
Impinj, RSI ID Technologies, Printronix, Symbol, Avery Dennison, Maxell, Zebra, Convergence Systems Limited, Magellan Technology (Australia)

Media Sponsors:
RFID World 2008, More RFID, RFID Switchboard, RFID Update, SkupinaRFID, Vandagraf International, BPCouncil, RFID Monthly, Silicon India Amritt, Inc

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