08:30-10:00

Registration and coffee

10:00 - 11:00

Keynote Presentations

- Mr. Fabio Colasanti, Director General Information Society, European Commission (BIO)
- Mr. Robert Cresanti, Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology and Chief Privacy Officer, United States of America (BIO)
- Prof. Zhang Zhiwen, Director for High-Tech Development & Industrialization, Ministry of Sciences and Technology (MOST), China (PRESENTATION)

11:00 – 12:30

RFID – An Enabler of Innovation

This session will provide a realistic overview of current RFID applications by key representatives of leading organisations engaged in RFID implementations. It will also provide a vision from a technology perspective of the innovations enabled by RFID.

Moderator:
- Prof. Duncan McFarlane, Institute of Manufacturing, Cambridge University (UK) (BIO)

Speakers:
- Dr. Gerd Wolfram, Managing Director, MGI METRO Group Information Technology (DE) (BIO)(PRESENTATION)
- Mr. Gregor Hackenbroich, Senior Researcher, SAP Research (DE) (BIO)(PRESENTATION)
- Dr. Ryo Imura, Chief Executive Managing Director Hitachi Ltd, Mu Solutions Division (JP) (BIO)(PRESENTATION)

12:30-13:30

Lunch

13:30 - 14:45

European Research Projects Forum

This session will bring together three European Union funded projects, BRIDGE, PROMISE and SMART, focused on RFID research and on Product Lifecycle Management. Short presentations on key findings and research perspectives will be followed by a panel discussion on the benefits and opportunities of EU sponsored research projects.

Speakers:
- Mr. Henri Barthel, Coordinator BRIDGE project, GS1 (BE) (BIO)(PRESENTATION)
- Dr. Dimitris Kiritsis, Scientific Coordinator PROMISE project, EPFL Lausanne (CH) (BIO)(PRESENTATION)
- Dr. Katerina Pramatari, Scientific Coordinator SMART project, Athens University of Economics & Business (GR) (BIO)(PRESENTATION)
- Mr. Guido Stromberg, Research staff expert, Infineon Technologies (DE) (BIO)(PRESENTATION)
- Prof. Rafael Pous, Universitat Politècnica Catalunya (SP) (BIO)(PRESENTATION)

14:45 - 16:00

The Requirements for Standards in the Future

This session will underline the importance of standards required to enable the RFID technology, communication systems and networks to get implemented massively and to interoperate globally.

Moderators:
- Prof. Hao Min, Fudan University, Shanghai (CN)

Speakers:
- Dr. Walter Weigel, Director General, ETSI (FR) (BIO)(PRESENTATION)
- Mr. Gao Linpeng, Chinese Electronics Standardization Institute (CN)(PRESENTATION)
- Mr. Chris Adcock , President EPCglobal (BE) (BIO)(PRESENTATION)

 

16:00 – 16:30

Coffee Break

16:30 - 17:30

Meeting the Needs for the Ubiquitous Information Society

This session will present forward looking perspectives on the ubiquitous information society using technologies such as RFID, embedded intelligent devices, information networks. It will provide views on the requirements and options for the future Internet of Things.

Moderator:
- Prof. John R. Williams, Director Auto-ID Labs, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US) (BIO)

Speakers:
- Mr. Roland Airiau, Responsible for the "Smart Environments" programme, France Telecom R&D (FR) (BIO)(PRESENTATION)
- Mika Lauhde, Director, Technology Management, Nokia Corporation, Heading Nokia device security and related Regulator Affairs (BIO)(PRESENTATION)

17:30-17:45

Announcement on the 25-26 June 2007 RFID Conference in Berlin

- Alfons Botthof, Deputy Head, Socio-Economic Issues, VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH (VDI/VDE-IT) (BIO)(PRESENTATION)

17:45

End of the First Day

08:30-9:00

Registration and Coffee

09:00 – 09:30

Welcome and Briefing

The academic stream is part of a series of meetings of the "RFID Academic Convocation", driven by the Auto-ID Labs at MIT and being organised around the world to build collaboration across academic disciplines, institutional and geographic boundaries.

Speakers:
- Prof. Duncan McFarlane, Institute of Manufacturing, Cambridge University ( UK) (BIO)
- Mr. Steve Miles, Research Scientist, MIT (US) (BIO)
- Mr. Michael P. Rose, Vice President Global Value Chain, Johnson & Johnson Corporate (US) (BIO)(PRESENTATION)

09:30-14:30
including lunch break

FOURTH RFID ACADEMIC CONVOCATION

Among the topics that will be addressed during the Fourth RFID Academic Convocation organised in the framework of 2007 EU RFID Forum are:

• New applications for secure RFID systems
• Privacy-enhancing techniques for RFID
• Ubiquitous Product Lifecycle Management
• Connecting the physical and virtual worlds
• SWOT analysis on the use of RFID in different applications
• Challenges of market-driven innovation
• Technology and application roadmap
• Societal issues

Two parallel sessions will present quality papers selected from the results of the call:

a) Technical Developments
b) Business and Policy

The complete programme is available here.

15:00 – 16:00

Closing Panel

The closing panel will present a summary of the conclusions from the 1st day of the event. Appointed Rapporteurs will give an overview of the papers presented during the Convocation sessions held on the second day. Following a short panel discussion, key conclusions and recommendations will be made.

Moderator:
- Mr. Henri Barthel, GS1 (BE) (BIO)

Panellists:
- Prof. Duncan McFarlane, Institute of Manufacturing, Cambridge University (UK) (BIO)
- Dr. Dimitris Kiritsis, scientific co-ordinator PROMISE project, EPFL Lausanne (CH) (BIO)
- Prof. John R. Williams, Director Auto-ID Labs, MIT (US) (BIO)
- Mr. Dieter Uckelmann, University of Bremen (DE) (BIO)
- Pr. Antonio Rizzi, University of Parma - Department of Industrial Engineering (IT) (BIO)
- Mr. Manfred Aigner, Technische Universität Graz (AU) (BIO)
- Hugo Lueders, Secretary General of the “European e-Skills Certification Consortium” (BIO)(PRESENTATION)

 

16:15

End