The momentum for the RFID summit being held in London on May 10 continues to build, with major speakers and sponsors committing themselves to the event.
RFID Solutions 2006 will be supported by a number of high-profile industry players, as well as the Packaging Federation and the UK e-commerce, barcoding and RFID organisation, GS1UK, with whom RFID Solutions – Packaging Today's sister publication – co-hosted a successful RFID conference last Summer. The 2005 event attracted over 250 delegates and 27 exhibitors, making it Europe's largest RFID-dedicated conference and exhibition.
This year's programme comprises two high-level plenary sessions and three streams - Manufacturing and Packaging, Supply Chain Management and Asset Tracking, and Retailing. The focus will be on how RFID implementation can improve your business, with a number of "hands-on" case studies involving high profile adopters.
Among key topics discussed in the manufacturing and packaging stream will be the challenges facing the packaging sector and brand owners as they gear up for RFID adoption, how tags can be successfully incorporated into different packaging types to provide maximum performance and how label converters are meeting the challenge.
Other topics to be discussed on the day include transforming warehouse operations, improving traceability, RFID in the retail store, winning consumers' hearts and minds and getting suppliers behind RFID.
In the plenary sessions, the topics covered include: where's the ROI in RFID?, the integration of RFID with legacy systems, implementing pilot trials, how to effectively use the data collected and where next for RFID?
For the first time the event will also include a special workshop providing an introduction to RFID for those new to the technology.
In total there will be 26 speakers and a selection of those who confirmed their participation at the time of going to Press can be seen in the panel on the left/right?
The event will also provide an excellent forum for networking and discussing solutions with suppliers at the accompanying exhibition.
To ensure your "early bird" discount – available until March 6 – or for more information visit www.wilmingtonconferences.com and click on RFID Solutions 2006. For more information on the exhibition or sponsorship opportunities email mkirk@wilmington.co.uk or telephone +44 (0)208 269 7775.
Speaker update
Robert Clark, associate professor, MSU School of Packaging, Michigan State University
John Garrett, Radio Barcode architect, Tesco Stores
Peter Jordan, director of international business to business strategy, Kraft Foods
J Aaron Graham, vice-president and chief security officer, Purdue Pharma LP
Philip Foster, principal investigator University of Warwick Manufacturing Group*
Ian Dent, chief executive, The Packaging Federation
Ross Hall, chief executive officer, BT Auto ID Services*
Andy Shaw, business manager, Auto-ID Laboratories
Tony Walsh, European business development manager, Domino UK*
Cyrus Gilbert Rolfe, managing director, EMEA OAT Systems
Nigel Woodland, RFID director UK, Oracle
David Evans, senior guidance and promotions manager, Information Commissioner's Office
David Morgan, consultant ENT surgeon, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital
Chris Ranger, head of safer practice, National Patient Safety Agency.
Others confirming their participation in the speaker programme include the US retail major, Target, logistics specialist Trenstar*, the world's largest chip maker, Intel, and RFID standards body, GSIUK.
