AUTO-ID Labs at MIT

May 1, 2006—Morning Plenary Session

7:30 a.m.

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30 a.m.

Welcome and Introduction

Introduction—Steve Miles, Conference Committee Co-Chair and Research Engineer, MIT Auto-ID Labs

Welcome From the Auto-ID Labs—John Williams, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Director, MIT Auto-ID Labs

8:45 a.m.

Opening remarks on the importance of standards for RFID sensors

Networked RFID and Sensors: Standards and the Standards Creation Process - J.T. (Tom) Cain, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Executive Director, Swanson Institute for Technical Excellence, University of Pittsburgh presented paper from Kang B. Lee, Leader, Sensor Development and Application Group, Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology

"EPCglobal Business Action Group Standards Creation Process", Ian Robertson, Director Global Industry Development, GS1 US

"Research Issues in the EPCglobal Community" Trevor Pierce and Giselle Ow-Yang, Global Standards, GS1

"Introduction to AIM Global and ISO/IEC SC31" Dan Mullen, President, AIM Global

9:15 a.m.

RFID Vendor Research & Development—Opportunities for Academic Research Collaboration

“Cross Industry and Cross Continent Opportunities for RFID Research Collaboration” – Chris Clauss, Business Manager IBM Websphere EPC Information Service, IBM

“Business Application Perspective on Auto-ID Technology”—Tao Lin, SAP Labs

HF/UHF  Research Roadmap— Alastair McArthur, CTO, Tagsys

IEEE 1451, ISO and EPC Research Collaboration with Philips – Michael R. Guillory, Director, Industry Relations Business Line Identification, Philips

Moderator—Mark Roberti, Editor and Founder, RFID Journal

10:15 a.m.

Break

10:30 a.m.

R&D Opportunities in the Aerospace Industry

“Introduction / Academic Engagement with the Aero-ID Programme,” - Alan Thorne, Associate Director Auto-ID Labs at Cambridge University,

“Update on the Aero-ID Programme,” - Victor Prodonoff,  Director Aero-ID Programme

“Impact of RFID on Aircraft turn around time,” - Dan Barrett, Research Student, Center for Distributed Automation & Control, Cambridge University

“The use of RFID on Airbus Universal Load Devices,” - Dieter Ucklemann, Ph.D. - University at Bremen.

11:00 a.m.

R&D Opportunities That Cut Across Industries and Geographies

“University Research in the Technology of RFID Tags, Readers and Applications;” —Marlin H. Mickle et. al., Professor and Director, RFID Center of Excellence, University of Pittsburgh

 “Privacy and Opportunity in Passive RFID: Authentication Using CDMA”—Daniel D. Deavours, Ph.D., Information and Telecommunications Technology Center, University of Kansas

“Engineering Asset Management Using Product Embedded Information Devices (PEID); The PROMISE Approach With Application to Assets of Intracom Telecom, Athens Greece”—Dimitris Kiritsis, Associate Director, Lab of Informatics for Design and Production, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

12:00p.m.

Lunch

1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Juried papers

Break

3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.

Panel discussion.

EPC Network Use Case Workshop and ‘Many to Many’ EPC-IS Data Exchange

“Building a Global RFID Network Simulator,”— John Williams, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Civil Engineering, Director, Auto-ID Labs at MIT

“End-User Perspective of a Fortune 50 Company Research Sponsor”—Brian Schulte, Altria IT Services

‘Grey Paper’ Working Session on a WS* Services Oriented Architecture for RFID systems

Moderator—John Williams, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Civil Engineering, Director, Auto-ID Labs at MIT

Tao Lin, Ph.D., SAP Labs, LLC

Christopher Clauss, Worldwide Auto-ID Leader, IBM

Mary Murphy-Hoye, Director of IT Research, Intel

Ajay Ramachandran, CTO, Raining Data

1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Juried papers

Break

 3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.

Panel discussion

Item-Level Tagging and Cold Chain Management for Health Life Sciences and Fresh Food industry

“RFID:  Keeping America Safe from Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals,”—Bill Roach, Teresita Levell School of Business, Washburn University, Topeka

“The Impact of RF Radiation on Protein Efficacy,”—Authors: Vikas Sharma, Bae-Ian Wu, Felicia C.A.I Cox, Alexander M. Klibanov, Daniel W. Engels, Auto-ID Labs at MIT

“RFID Applications in Hospitals for Positioning and Tracking,” -_Q.B. Chung, College of Commerce and Finance, Villanova

“Localization Interface for WiFi RFID Readers,”—Kaveh  Pahlavan, Ph.D., Professor and Director Center for Wireless Information Network Studies (CWINS), WPI

“Learning from Animal Identification with UHF RFID Technology,”—Gregory J. McCarthy, Ph.D., Professor and Director, Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering, North Dakota State University

“Smart Containers for an Autonomic Supply Chain,”—Dieter Uckelmann, Manager RFID-Application and Demonstration Center, BIBA-IPS, Institute for Production and Logistics, LogDynamics Lab, University of Bremen, Germany

Health Life Sciences and Fresh Food RFID Research Requirements

Moderators—Gisele Bennett, Ph.D., Director, Electro-Optical Systems Laboratory, Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Associate Director, Health Systems Institute, Georgia Tech Research Institute —Jean-Pierre Emond, Associate Professor Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Co-Director, Center for Food Distribution and Retailing, University of Florida

Ronald Bone, Sr. VP Distribution Support, McKesson

Dirk Rodgers, Sr. Systems Architect, Supply Chain Solutions, CardinalHealth

David Mitchell, RFID Project Manager, Johnson & Johnson R&D

Carol Coren, Community Programs Director, College of Agricultural Sciences, Oregon State University

1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Juried papers

Break

3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.

Panel discussion.

Supply Chain Research Breakout Session

“RFID and Business Strategy”—Chang E. Koh, Ph.D., Associate Professor & Associate Director of Research, Department of Information Technology and Decision Sciences, College of Business Administration, University of North Texas

“ROI Reality: Financial Analysis and Management of RFID Platform Investments”—Michael E. Thompson, Ph.D., Waterstone Group (research sponsored by Alien Technologies)

“Managerial Issues Related to the Adoption, Usage and Impact of RFID”—Fred Riggins, Ph.D., RFID Project Leader & Assistant Professor, Carlson School of Management, MIS Research Center, University of Minnesota

The future of the RFID-enabled supply chain and research needed to drive it forward

Moderator—Bill C. Hardgrave, Ph.D., Edwin & Karlee Bradberry Chair in Information Systems, Director, RFID Research Center, Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas

Bob Berg, Sr. RFID Program Manager, DHL Worldwide Express;

Lionel Lavallee, Senior Solution Architect,  Intel

Simon Langford, Director - RFID Strategy and Transportation Systems, Wal-Mart

Richard Lee, Group Manager - EPC Business Planning & Analysis, Procter & Gamble

Alan Melling, Symbol Technologies

Mike O'Shea, Director - Auto-ID Sensing Technologies, Kimberly-Clark Corp.